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

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.

450 ... million ... ?

It's all Bitcoin uh wait

Netflix continually makes decisions whose only goal seems to convince competitors to leave the market because they have less money.

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) March 31, 2021

Very happy they got the deal, worried they won't even bother with a theatrical release.

Yeah, the first one was such a success theatrically - a) financially, b) maintaining a long-tail extended run, and c) as a delight to hear audiences reacting to gags and twists - that even a "standard" Netflix two-week theatrical window would be a terrible letdown.

That much money for two murder mystery movies? And Rian Johnson has a spotty track record. I dislike his first two movies, and his Star Wars entry has some big problems.

and that's just for the rights aiui. throw in another $100M to actually make them.

If the first movie made $311M in worldwide box office, and that's before video/streaming sales, $450M for two sequels actually sounds kind of reasonable + basically acquiring Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig's goodwill and a legit franchise for Netflix. I am assuming the $450M includes production costs, though.

Yeah me too.

And Rian Johnson has a spotty track record. I dislike his first two movies, and his Star Wars entry has some big problems.

I love his first feature, and his Star Wars entry is the only good Star Wars film after 1983.

I will gladly watch any number of Benoit Blanc mysteries written and directed by Rian Johnson, director of the best Star Wars movie and the best Benoit Blanc movie.

I love his first feature, and his Star Wars entry is the only good Star Wars film after 1983.

afaic there are no star wars movies after 1983 but eh obligatory comic store guy rogue one actually

i have no energy for star wars and will not die on this hill lol

silby OTM

I won't watch his Star Wars movie either, but I definitely know it's the only not awful Star Wars film since 1980.

not watching it allows you to be perfectly impartial

c) as a delight to hear audiences reacting to gags and twists

Yeah, this was a really fun movie to watch in a packed movie theatre. I suspect that I would not have enjoyed it nearly as much if I just watched it at home. I am hoping I get a chance to watch the sequels in a theatre.

look I liked this movie a lot as well but the fact that Netflix is willing to throw half a billion dollars at the one recent movie that was A) actually good and B) not based on an existing property is kind of depressing

Did you dislike Parasite?

Or, speaking of Netflix, The Irishman?

tbf that one benefits heavily from knowledge of the Scorsese Cinematic Universe

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I hope this feature Insane Clown Posse