KNIVES OUT -- dir. Rian Johnson; Daniel Craig, Michael Shannon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans, etc. etc.

I think it's just anything you can stream is prime video

To clarify, I paid $6 for the rental - I said it was on Amazon Prime because that's where I rent movies, as opposed to YouTube or wherever else.

amazon, like everyone else, has fucked up their branding again

My pet theory is they are eventually going to drop the name “Amazon” and the whole consumer business will just be “prime”

tbh they should make a parent company called “donkey sauce” and amazon is the retail thing. then then AWS will be “clusterfuckers inc.” and the video thing will be “AmazingWood”

going to workshop these names

clusterfuckers inc. is very accurate

that is the only one I feel rings true

just saw this, about as much fun as I've had with a movie in a long time

she says where she's from but I can't remember now

Nope, she doesn't -- it's very intentionally left up in the air.

This is pretty cool - one of our producers just thought to check the email address we show for Marta in Knives Out pic.twitter.com/EudBIPbGly

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) March 4, 2020

cute

I'm also not sure it's something we're supposed to consider about her character? It sort of runs counter to Meg's function in the story; to demonstrate how someone will call out Nazis until it's their neck on the line, and then they'll leverage the same power they previously admonished.

I also watched this last night :)
Ransom looked realllly plasticky
I kind of want a trick window now

Yes I forgot to say! Was the makeup and the plastic looking skin a deliberate choice or has Chris Evans overdone the treatments? Either way, it worked.

Parasite > Knives Out > Ready or Not

Alternately,

Clue > Knives Out > Murder by Death

Everything > Murder By Death, in fairness

murder by death > the cheap detective, from what little I remember about it

Where does without a clue fit into this lineup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFZgYxHjgo

I watched Knives Out last night on DVD. The key to the success of the script, imo was that Marta was believably likeable as a character, so that the viewer was lured into a relatively uncritical attitude toward the dozens of highly artificial plot twists, if for no other reason than to find out how her fate would develop. Her presumed inability to tell a lie without vomiting was so preposterous that once you accepted that premise, nothing else was too lurid or crazy to balk at. However much Daniel Craig may have been the star for the purpose of box office, this was entirely Ana de Armas's film to make or break. She carried it from start to end.

As for whether the film was 'good', yeah, sure it was silly, but it carried it off and I was never dissatisfied with my following along on its journey to its chosen end. As for meaning or weight, it was so lightweight as to practically levitate by virtue of its fluffy inconsequentiality.

do movies have consequences?

yes. some can make you think about their themes and characters for weeks afterward.

sounds fancy!

apparently you've never noticed that you learned anything or had any new thoughts inspired by sitting and watching any films. seems hard to believe.

you got it

This thread is proof that no living human has not thought, nor will ever think about the themes and characters of Knives Out for weeks after viewing it.

not

Hmm, that changes what you said...

The donut hole in the middle of the donut hole... why would he correct his typo, if his typo had changed the meaning of his sentence?

This turned out to be a good way to spend part of a very rainy Saturday night. Now I will read posts about it.

OMG https://t.co/JOR5KamquE

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) November 8, 2020

this film was so boring! felt like a cinema version of that oscars picture w/ ellen degeneres.

I need this immediately (also plax (ico) is wrong)

i just want an adaptation of knives out where everyone is played by muppets except daniel craig

— betsy (@betsywash) December 22, 2020

Wow, would I love to see a Muppet Knives Out.

really enjoyed it, even though it felt like it lost some momentum once the action moved out of the house. also wish the house itself was utilised more, what with it being a picture perfect mystery house. ransom did an internship with harlan, i could picture the two walking around the house and plotting how its various features could be used in a murder mystery (i guess this is implied by ransom and marta using the same route).

i need to watch it again, but i'm confused as to why marta had to walk down the stairs again dressed as harlan? i get that it's to establish that harlan was seen after marta left, but then wouldn't he have to walk up the stairs again, with JLC hearing it? which is never mentioned when they're discussing the timeline.

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.

when don johnson breaks into harlan's desk to retrieve the letter, he throws the ball out the window. eventually the dogs bring it inside, where JLC notices it and puts it back - which is when she finds the letter. which means the only reason she found out about the cheating was because of the ball!

I think it's fine that 'he' goes back up to the room, that's where the body will be found.

but that's where the inconsistency is for me - they make such a big deal out of "JLC is a light sleeper and wakes up whenever somebody uses the stairs", but then if she didn't hear him going back, why not assume that it's possible somebody else did too and she didn't hear them?

Walt tells "Harlan" to go back to bed as soon as Marta reaches the bottom of the stairs - he's already seen Marta leave the house and drive away earlier, so there's ostensibly no way that she could have been upstairs when Harlan goes back upstairs, still alive.

rewatched that moment again and i see where my confusion is from - initially we are told that "linda was woken up for the 3rd and final time" when "harlan" goes downstairs, and when we later see marta doing it she does head back upstairs immediately. it was that "3rd and final time" that threw me off - as technically linda heard the stairs being used 4 times, but she was only woken up 3.

Strangely this movie was not really memorable to me at all although being my type of thing.

^ same, I wanted to like it way more than I actually did. I would watch a sequel though

I enjoyed this well-enough, although there was definitely a stage in it when I felt quite deflated, the narrative thrust having stalled for me at that juncture, and everything having came to seem quite inexorable and uninteresting.

not to get too Tumblr-brained but having a spaniard play a latina, daughter of an undocumented immigrant, is surely a bit "off" in the trump era, representation-friendly liberal Hollywood

Wait until you hear about Daniel Craig. (also, Cuban-Spanish)

I didn't realize she was cuban. I should have been more specific that the "issue" - more a quibble - was that she is white

I'm not touching that with a ten-foot pole, but I'll note that Marta was originally going to be definitively Cuban until they realised that this removed the whole plot motor - her mother would have automatic citizenship of the US.

it's a fairly innocuous quibble. the latinos who end up on screen tend to be on the whiter side for obvious reasons which are bad

im a white latino btw

when don johnson breaks into harlan's desk to retrieve the letter, he throws the ball out the window. eventually the dogs bring it inside, where JLC notices it and puts it back - which is when she finds the letter. which means the only reason she found out about the cheating was because of the ball!

omg this is a great catch, ty

Works for me!

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/netflix-buys-knives-out-sequels-450-million-1234941995/

Whoa, excellent! Had no idea that we'd gone right onto sequels, plural, until now. But the more, the better.