ExpandKong
Banned
It is what it is, my wife watches The Family Stone every year around Christmas and every year I leave the damn house coz that movie is straight up uncomfortable for me to watch, hahah.
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So what was the verdict on Knives Out? (movie)
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It is what it is, my wife watches The Family Stone every year around Christmas and every year I leave the damn house coz that movie is straight up uncomfortable for me to watch, hahah.
DonJorginho
Banned
Films like Uncut Gems, The Lighthouse, Pain & Glory, Midsommar, The Last Black Man in San Francisco and many more are FAR more deserving of a Best Picture nomination and aside from Parasite were all better than the nominees and would had won most likely.
Doom85
Member
Fair enough. For me, it's only too much when it's actual people being pieces of shit, which is why I can't stomach reality TV with all its drama and backstabbing. In a fictional series, I at least know everything is pretend and no one is actually being this way.
Alter_Fridge
Member
Craig kept on falling out of his foghorn leghorn accent back into British that it was part of the comedy of the movie
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MastaKiiLA
Member
Strange necrobump. It was an enjoyable movie. As noted, Craig's southern accent is pretty fucking terrible. He did a better one in Logan Lucky, but that's mostly because it kinda fit his cartoonish character Joe Bang. In Knives Out, everyone else was playing more authentic roles, so his accent stood out. My Floridian ear couldn't ignore it.
mcjmetroid
Member
Besides Daniel Craig's bad American accent. I thought it was decent.
TastyPastry
Member
i'm seriously not a rian johnson hater. i don't think any of his movies are great but even TLJ i thought was a decent movie (the problem was more that it didn't fit the ST) but i couldn't handle knives out for more than 15 minutes before turning off. something about the way the characters talked was such a huge turnoff. nobody talks like that. i had the same problem with gone girl. not even ana de armas could save that movie for me.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
I watched it being fully aware of REE’s infatuation for RJ and the SJW buzztalk around the movie.
First 20 minutes I was thinking, this is the stupidest whodunit movie I’ve ever seen. “Alt-right” and similar buzzwords being dropped here and there, the family’s latent racism, the immigrant being the obviously innocent suspect were all a bit too in-your-face.
But! I actually enjoyed the movie, quite a bit. Nothing spectacular, but I’d watch it again.
First 20 minutes I was thinking, this is the stupidest whodunit movie I’ve ever seen. “Alt-right” and similar buzzwords being dropped here and there, the family’s latent racism, the immigrant being the obviously innocent suspect were all a bit too in-your-face.
But! I actually enjoyed the movie, quite a bit. Nothing spectacular, but I’d watch it again.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Woke garbage.
trikster40
Member
If you like murder mysteries, watch it. Not sure I’d buy it if you can stream it for free somewhere. Great movie, don’t let other people convince you not to watch if it interests you. Worse case scenario: you don’t like it but I’m sure you’ve seen way, way worse movies.
INC
Member
Not really a mystery when you instantly know who its gonna be, as soon as you see them, you're like yep its them, and low and behold it was
Its one of the worst murder mystery films I've ever seen, since there was 0 mystery
HellforLeather
Member
Its like Clue but not as good.
MastaKiiLA
Member
Seriously? Clue couldn't even get Knives Out's craft service. No offense, but that just reeks of Rian Johnson hate. My apologies if it's not, because everyone is entitled to their own opinion. However, Clue wasn't anything special, even for its time. KO is a pretty damn good mystery film. It sews enough doubt in the viewer's conclusions to keep you engaged to the end.
Billbofet
Member
I had heard rave about how amazing this movie was, and when I watched it, I thought it was just okay.
Rian Johnson is essentially critic-proof for the rest of his career.
It's got a great cast - looks beautiful, but if you've seen more than one murder mystery in your life, you'll figure it out within 10 minutes.
Clue is 10X the movie this is. Clue is actually funny. Knives Out thinks it's funny and oh so witty. It's not.
It's like a well-done episode of Law and Order, where, spoiler alert: anyone rich is evil!!!
That said, my 13-year-old daughter thinks it's the greatest movie of all time..... well, behind Clue.
Rian Johnson is essentially critic-proof for the rest of his career.
It's got a great cast - looks beautiful, but if you've seen more than one murder mystery in your life, you'll figure it out within 10 minutes.
Clue is 10X the movie this is. Clue is actually funny. Knives Out thinks it's funny and oh so witty. It's not.
It's like a well-done episode of Law and Order, where, spoiler alert: anyone rich is evil!!!
That said, my 13-year-old daughter thinks it's the greatest movie of all time..... well, behind Clue.
HellforLeather
Member
epicnemesis
Member
Love the avatar in response to the necro.
Cockles & Whelks
Banned
Was alright. No Clue or Sluth.
But there can be only one king.
But there can be only one king.
daveonezero
Banned
Shit.
I didn’t like it at all. Couldn’t even watch till the end.
I didn’t like it at all. Couldn’t even watch till the end.
Fbh
Member
Was an ok time waster.
I have no idea how it turned into a $500 or whatever million franchise. There was literally nothing unique about the concept, characters or format.
I don't know what buying Knives Out gives you, it's obviously not the concept of a murder case with multiple suspects and a detective trying to figure out who is guilty. Is Daniel Craig doing a bad accent worth $500mill?
I have no idea how it turned into a $500 or whatever million franchise. There was literally nothing unique about the concept, characters or format.
I don't know what buying Knives Out gives you, it's obviously not the concept of a murder case with multiple suspects and a detective trying to figure out who is guilty. Is Daniel Craig doing a bad accent worth $500mill?
Bombolone
Gold Member
Didn't like it as much as I thought I would have.
It was missing something. (keep it short)
The whole plots twists, with quirky characters is a type of movie I enjoy. This one felt a little shallow.
I thought of movies like Snatch, Oceans Eleven, Lock Stock, Smokin Aces, The Departed etc.
Films that are character driven with a lot of back and forth. That frenetic energy. (Guy Ritchie, Scorsese)
This one looked charming and the characters looked interesting.
Again, it just felt flat. Like an imitation of those great films.
It was predictable (which is a bad thing in these types of movies)
I actually looked up who the director was afterwards. Did not know it was Rian, but after knowing this, and seeing his Star Wars, I said "ooohhhh"
(I liked Looper though)
It was missing something. (keep it short)
The whole plots twists, with quirky characters is a type of movie I enjoy. This one felt a little shallow.
I thought of movies like Snatch, Oceans Eleven, Lock Stock, Smokin Aces, The Departed etc.
Films that are character driven with a lot of back and forth. That frenetic energy. (Guy Ritchie, Scorsese)
This one looked charming and the characters looked interesting.
Again, it just felt flat. Like an imitation of those great films.
It was predictable (which is a bad thing in these types of movies)
I actually looked up who the director was afterwards. Did not know it was Rian, but after knowing this, and seeing his Star Wars, I said "ooohhhh"
(I liked Looper though)
sol_bad
Member
It's a beautifully crafted film with great actors. You could think of it as a reverse murder mystery really.
The more I think about it, the people who say they guessed the culprit in the first 10 minutes are full of shit. The movie doesn't present anything as a murder at the start, it presents the proceedings as intentional.
The more I think about it, the people who say they guessed the culprit in the first 10 minutes are full of shit. The movie doesn't present anything as a murder at the start, it presents the proceedings as intentional.
Billbofet
Member
Not bullshit. It's easy to determine by the tone of the film as the characters are introduced and how hard RJ tries to be "subversive." I still enjoyed the movie, but I genuinely had it figured within minutes, just not the "how" of the murder's execution - pun intended.
Cockles & Whelks
Banned
Say what you will about modern Star Wars movies, it's the school of failing upwards. I choked on my cornflakes when I read that $500 million figure. Fuck you subscription increases Netflix if you have that shit to throw around.
Only person to write a decent half script (with the shit he inherited) was Colin Trevorrow and get he got booted off the movie.
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sol_bad
Member
You see the old guy kill himself, how are you meant to guess any culprits from that?
trikster40
Member
Mysteries aren’t all about WHO it is. It’s how and why, and I thought it was all pretty clever. My wife hates it when I watch a hallmark mystery movie with her before I always guess who it is in the first 5 minutes. Still gotta figure out motive and method!
El Pistolero
Banned
Well, I immediately knew who had done it, though my guess regarding the how fell flat, so I'll give them that. As for the film? Entertaining, if a bit too theatrical -Clue could get away with it given the overtly comedic tone-. For some reason, I honestly did not care that much about the stakes. Just like so many of the overly praised movies of late, it was overrated, imo, but provided much needed escapism when I sat down to watch. I still think Brick is Ryan's best work to date...
INC
Member
Unfortunately the characters are so poor, you don't give a fuck how or care why.
The mystery is that anyone would care how and why with this dumpster fire