Noah Segan was very good in his role, but I couldn't entirely concentrate due to his resemblance to Elon Musk.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 30 November 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
I thought he looked like the SNL cast member that plays Eric Trump.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 November 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
loved this
― gbx, Saturday, 30 November 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
Even better the second time. Two new takeaways: Daniel Craig does hint that he knows about the blood drop when he chats with Marta on the patio. He gives the "Gravity's Rainbow" monologue, which more or less ends with him knowing where the projectile is going to land, just following its arc until it "lands at your feet" (or something like that), which implies he knows the blood is there, it's just a matter of figuring out how and why.
Other takeaway was Ransom. It's stated he and his grandfather were very similar, which is how his plan comes to him instantly, just like the stories game to Harlan. And then later, when he notes he was his grandfather's researcher for a summer, that indicates how he knew about the slayer rule. Not that these things were big reveals, just little touches that made more of an impact the second time around.
Oh, and one last thing I thought was funny was how the family was constantly using Harlan's clearly prized baseball to play fetch with the dog. Jamie Lee Curtis even puts it back in its perch dripping with slobber.
(And to tie it in with my apparently misbegotten post on another thread, this movie, with this cast, reportedly cost $40 million, which makes the $200 million price tag of certain mob epics seem even more nuts, since there's no way that one offers more bang for five times the bucks.)
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 November 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
Great movie and I loved that they didn't have Marta in any of the advertising. Reminded me of Raiden in Sons of Liberty...
― flappy bird, Saturday, 30 November 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
xp No one had to be de-aged in Knives Out dude
― flappy bird, Saturday, 30 November 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
is Scorsese and Marvel going to come up in every thread now that is about movies of any kind
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 November 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
All of the teeth in Knives Out were CGI, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 November 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
This was good! Happy that the plot was played relatively straight - I thought they might go somewhere like Daniel Craig accuses the wrong person, or everyone confesses but nobody was guilty. Ransom having dunnit was on the cards as soon as he started "helping" Marta, but they didn't make it too obvious.
Strangely covetous of some big suspended eyeballs to hang in my study.
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
one Chekhov's gun that went unfired was the vomit in the big gulp cup - I was sure Blanc was going to sip on some of that liar puke, and the theater reacted to a very obvious setup that quickly evaporated.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
In a way it had to be Ransom of all of the Thrombeys just because, as well written and enjoyably acted as they are, it would have been odd to single one of them out.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
yeah I figured it was either going to be none of them or Marta
― flappy bird, Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
Felt like the original family member suspects sans Ransom got pushed to the back in the back half of the film, aside from that brief Shannon scene outside Marta's apartment, that up until the end it felt like it was either going to be Marta or Ransom.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 1 December 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
It's almost as if when they're written out of the will they're written out of the movie, too. But really, that back half is all about Marta, there's really no more role for those other jerks she's escaped.
And yeah, two broad jokes I never expected but that the movie avoided anyway: the barf in the big gulp payoff and, when Blanc is talking to grandma and he asks her what she is thinking, I thought a lesser film would have had her pass gas for a quick gag.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
This ruled
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 1 December 2019 05:30 (four years ago) link
yeah I was missing the ensemble for a lot of the movie
I wonder how intentional obscuring Marta from the advertising was. it just strikes me as a deliberate, possibly subversive move to sell a film with an ensemble cast of stars that actually revolves around a relative unknown, and however that might relate to its well intentioned but on the nose political commentary.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 1 December 2019 06:46 (four years ago) link
the best character was secretly the fanboy deputy cop
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Sunday, 1 December 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
Def. provided one of the best gags at the end, when Blanc finishes his monologue and starts to say "Trooper Wagner ..." and Marta immediately goes "Trooper Wagner killed Harlan?!" and Blanc just turns to her incredulously and drawls out "no."
Thing I didn't catch on two viewings: that was Frank Oz as the lawyer!
Funny thing I did catch: this is the second thing this year that featured Edi Patterson and M. Emmet Walsh as supporting actors.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
I thought this was ok, not great. Benoit Blanc feels like a franchise character set up for Craig post-Bond.
― WmC, Sunday, 1 December 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
wasn't apt to see this, NYT pan was death blow
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 December 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
The Times panned it? Lane's New Yorker review was positive in the end but pretty ambivalent, too. I can't imagine anyone outright panning this.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
Eh, Morbs, that Dargis review is no pan. It sounds as if she, like Lane, just thought the movie a little smug, and for that reason is intentionally (if transparently) keeping it at arms' length, as if reluctant to concede its merits without a vague counterbalance of sorts.
I didn't know Ricky Jay was supposed to play the Walsh role, and that's why his photo as a fleeting cameo.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
the house had incredible Ricky Jay vibes, almost felt like a tribute
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 1 December 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
can't imagine reading more than six words of any given Anthony Lane review, I get angry within seconds of glancing at any random sentence, the horny shmuck
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 1 December 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
Heard an interview with Rian Johnson on the Unspooled podcast and came away really impressed the three movies he would add to the AFI list were Modern Romance, The Master and Meek's Cutoff.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Another in-joke I just realized. The movie ends with the Stones' "Sweet Virginia" ... a British band pretending to be an American country band, sort of a musical analog to Brit Daniel Craig pretending to be a Kentucky fried detective.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
feels like a stretchif they wanted to that, Faraway Eyes would have been a better choice
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 December 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
It's def. a stretch! But I can still see them doing it for their own amusement. I mean, they must have picked that song for a reason.
Ha, I just found this: "The closing credits of KNIVES OUT feature The Rolling Stones' "Sweet Virginia." During the Q&A, someone asked how Rian Johnson picked that song. "Expensively," he said."
But here's the "sometimes a cigar is just a ... " explanation I found from Johnson: "Ultimately, I wanted it to end not in a cynical place, and that’s a part of the reason why I picked the Rolling Stones song, “Sweet Virginia.” I wanted the audience leaving the theater bobbing their heads and feeling good."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
this was very enjoyable. though the marta storyline was just a little too close to my own personal nightmares for comfort.
i wanted to know more about the house, but apparently it's a private residence that the filmmakers aren't supposed to disclose much about.
― circles, Sunday, 1 December 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
my dad noted the use of the Stones song, "a deep cut from Exile, they were never better"
― flappy bird, Sunday, 1 December 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
xp Whoa! yeah the house was incredible - I figured this is a shoe-in for a production/art design Oscar
― flappy bird, Sunday, 1 December 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
https://ew.com/movies/2019/11/27/knives-out-production-designer-crazy-house/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/11/30/the-story-behind-massachusetts-mansion-knives-out/4LHnGPZKcw4JiNz4V0BuTN/story.html
they make it sound like the first floor and exterior were mostly used as-is, but the upper floors were sets and the library room is from a different old mansion.
― circles, Sunday, 1 December 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
Not much to say that hasn't been said, but this was SO MUCH FUN. I could watch a gif of Toni Collette dancing to Roxy Music forever, on an infinite loop. I saw it at the Capitol, an old, restored theater in Cleveland, and the audience just loved it. Tons of laughs throughout.
YES.
Also, Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown" playing while Marta and Ransom were talking in the diner . . . . so great.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
Loved this. Daniel Craig singing in the car, oblivious to the ambulances behind him, was great.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
yeah loved all the goofy elements of Blanc's character, the odd haplessness underlying his Gentleman Sleuth persona
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
"I read a tweet about a New Yorker profile about you!"
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
it was a pleasure to watch a mystery-comedy in which the mystery actually drives the plot from start to finish and the comedy doesn't hinge on stupid parody or gags ... I suppose the casting gives it a little youth appeal, but this felt like a throwback to an era when Hollywood made and marketed comedies for grown people of all ages
even the meta elements and the topical satire, fresh as they are, are in classic Golden Age mystery style
this movie is very old-fashioned and I want to see it again
― Brad C., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
Yeah it was really refreshing to see them sidestep the winking that was probably tempting, and that it remained grounded, though over-the-top enough when it needed to be.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
Outrageous accent duel between Craig and Branagh’s Poirot
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
Have you ever watched the John Malkovich Poirot? Ooof!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
the ILX love for this unbelievably shitty director continues to baffle me
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
Hardly limited to ILX fwiw.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
bruh you were just stanning the Lindsay Lohan sentient Volkswagen movie, go sit in the corner
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
Herbie: Fully Loaded >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Brick >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Looper
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
Are u postin about another movie u ain't seen?
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
I have seen all three movies
ok full disclosure, I couldn't finish Looper.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
Speaking of Fully Loaded
― Typo Netagive (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
(I have no skin in this game tbrr but wiseacres gonna wiseacre.)
― Typo Netagive (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
ILX love for this unbelievably shitty director continues to baffle me
This conflates the movie with the director, which is usually a mistake, imo. Good material, good actors, and good editing can overshadow the effect of a poor director. You say you saw it, what was it, other than the identity of its director, that you thought was unbelievably shitty?
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
I didn't like Looper, thought the Brothers Bloom (saw it on a plane) was fine but a misfire, liked Brick at the time but don't remember anything beyond that, and The Last Jedi was what it was. But this was really good. Sometimes it happens!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link