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In the follow-up to Rian Johnson's Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects. Starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline with Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista.

 

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i'm excited but seems very different from the first.  half of the fun of the first was just getting all that cast up on a modern script.  don johnson and jamie lee curtis as leads was great.  this one the cast seems less amusing.  still tho, i expect it to be better than 99% of movies.

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In!

Also, I could have sworn I saw an ad last night for another movie like this coming out (but IIRC the cast was different).  When I saw the ad I assumed it was Knives Out 2 but didn't see Daniel Craig in the preview).  Wish I could remember the cast members I did see.

 

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2 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

In!

Also, I could have sworn I saw an ad last night for another movie like this coming out (but IIRC the cast was different).  When I saw the ad I assumed it was Knives Out 2 but didn't see Daniel Craig in the preview).  Wish I could remember the cast members I did see.

Wasn’t Death on the Nile or whatever was it?

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5 hours ago, Pablo said:

Knives Out was great.

Hope he stays in that lane and doesn't pull some Last Jedi shit with this franchise 

You do realize that Knives Out was exactly in the same lane as Last Jedi? Deconstructions of the genre?

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7 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

You do realize that Knives Out was exactly in the same lane as Last Jedi? Deconstructions of the genre?

He certainly deconstructed the Star Wars franchise and shit out a bad movie.

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I enjoy you saying you hope he stays in his lane and doesn't pull some Last Jedi shit with the franchise he created. He has every right to do that with his franchise. 

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Just now, mdmost said:

I enjoy you saying you hope he stays in his lane and doesn't pull some Last Jedi shit with the franchise he created. He has every right to do that with his franchise. 

You're right there, I didn't realize he wrote it.  I assumed it was adapted from a book.

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Wasn’t Death on the Nile or whatever was it?

No definitely was not a reboot of an Agatha Christie title. 
 

I had drunk a couple martinis so it’s very possible I just misremembered the cast. 

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5 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

No. We did not realize knives out was exactly the same as the last Jedi. 

Some directors have the same theme in all their movies. Ang Lee is one; Rian Johnson is another. Ang's movies are all about unspoken/hidden passions. Rian's are deconstructions of genre; taking well-known tropes and reversing them.

In the Last Jedi, you have a bitter old hero and a sympathetic villain. In Knives Out, it's a murder mystery where you know who the murderer is right from the start.

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18 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

He definitely reversed the well-known trope of Star Wars movies being fun and popular with audiences.

$1.3 Billion box office says it was a small, insignificant part of the audience that felt that way. 

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This will be a cool movie. I’ll be there opening night for this. I really enjoyed Knives Out and suspect I’ll like all the movies to come in this franchise. Good on Daniel Craig for doing more movies as Benoit Blanc!

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On 9/8/2022 at 2:32 PM, DDD Dad said:

In!

Also, I could have sworn I saw an ad last night for another movie like this coming out (but IIRC the cast was different).  When I saw the ad I assumed it was Knives Out 2 but didn't see Daniel Craig in the preview).  Wish I could remember the cast members I did see.

 

 

On 9/8/2022 at 5:11 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Wasn’t Death on the Nile or whatever was it?

 

On 9/8/2022 at 6:55 PM, DDD Dad said:

No definitely was not a reboot of an Agatha Christie title. 
 

I had drunk a couple martinis so it’s very possible I just misremembered the cast. 

Figured it out. See How They Run. 
 

 

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On 9/11/2022 at 8:56 AM, DDD Dad said:

 

 

Figured it out. See How They Run. 
 

 

Watched this last night (streaming on HBO Max). It was entertaining, light fare. Had a little Wes Anderson vibe (probably helped having Saiorse Ronan in the cast). 

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On 11/8/2022 at 7:44 AM, DDD Dad said:

Watched this last night (streaming on HBO Max). It was entertaining, light fare. Had a little Wes Anderson vibe (probably helped having Saiorse Ronan in the cast). 

I liked this movie (see how they run) quite a bit.  

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On 9/9/2022 at 4:02 PM, Herpa Derpa said:

$1.3 Billion box office says it was a small, insignificant part of the audience that felt that way. 

The Highest-Grossing Star Wars Movies, Ranked (Adjusted For Inflation) (screenrant.com)

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There isn't much of a difference between The Rise of Skywalker's original box office intake and the gross profit adjusted for inflation, as it's the newest movie in the franchise and only three years old. But regardless of which way fans look at it, it's still an overall disappointment and a relatively uneventful release that Disney would rather forget.

 

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On 9/8/2022 at 12:41 PM, Augustus said:

Me, too.

Knives Out was really good.

Still don't know why you ask a British actor to affect a southern drawl, but whatever.

 

How Craig did his West Virginia accent as Joe Blast in Logan Lucky was entertaining as hell. The fact he didn’t do it exceptionally well is strangely what made it work. 

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Saw Glass Onion at a film festival a few weeks ago.   It was great.  Craig still hasn't nailed the southern accent.  But just took it as some more of the jokes.  

No need to see Knives Out first.  It's in the same universe, but the story is completely separate.

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Saw it in theaters tonight.  Very fun movie.  It managed to keep the spirit and fun of the first movie with completely new characters in a much different setting, so it doesn't feel like you're just watching an identical clone of the first flick.  I could watch several of these if they kept going.

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I’m in for several more as well. I watched it tonight on Netflix. I still like the first one better but enjoyed this one. I could however watch Janelle Monáe all day and all night long. Interesting that close to the beginning you see Stephen Sondheim on a zoom meeting. Interesting that One, he died a year ago so was he dead then or was this filmed a year or two ago? AND, two, Sondheim co-wrote with Anthony Perkins one of my all-time favorite old movies The Last of Sheila. A similar kind of feel as the Knives Out movies and so were these movies influenced by that movie? I can see it. 

 

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Watched it tonight. Enjoyed it, but felt like there was a huge script rewrite at some point.
Perhaps it was the editing, but it really felt like they tried to fix something after they shot it. 

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Watched last night.  Really enjoyed it.

Blanc was little more cartoonish than in the first one, but it was still fun.

Hadn't seen Norton in anything since Birdman so enjoyed that, too.

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11 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

I enjoyed it. It was several orders of magnitude better than the usual shit they throw up on Netflix. 

Agree with this.

Blanc's conclusions about Miles' genius were hilarious, especially with regard to the lights going out for a bit.

The more I recall different moments from the film, the more I realize how thoroughly enjoyable it was.

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Forgot an apostrophe. Inexcusable.

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