Ciao, cinemaphiles! Please join Ian and Dave as they don their Inverness capes and deerstalker caps, and whip out their over-sized magnifying glasses to examine the clues and solve the mystery: Is Rian Johnson’s Knives Out any good?
Well, we’ll let Ian and Dave fansplain it for you.
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The complexities of this film’s plot preclude any understanding of spoilers in your narrative – so I’m going to dive into the popcorn and enjoy. Being over 50 as well, you could tell me everything anyway, and I’d forget it all completely after the trailers and commercials were done, if not the name of the movie itself (something that started happening to me about the time Xanadu hit the screens, but that’s probably for another reason).
At times, it sounded as if you were describing the plotline of “Murder by Death,” but that had more to do with pinkies than naloxone.
Were you aware that Andrew Carnegie had initially planned to do something similar with his own children in his will, but was talked out of it by his lawyers? (you may have touched on it, but my mp3 locked up just before the exciting climax of your episode)
Sorry you missed the ending, David sang his alternate endings as a series of musical numbers. You’ve made me want to watch Murder by Death again.
Now I have to run Clue for those alternative endings. Knives Out was rather fantastic, and your commentary enhanced things, as always. There were no throwaway lines in any of it, even if they seemed to be, and even the dogs were repeated contributors to the convolutions. I like feeling warm, satisfied, and dizzy at the end of such experiences. Hope Benoit Blanc makes a return to the screen some day…
My sister and I finally got around to seeing the movie and also enjoyed it a lot. I was a bit worried off the top that the whole movie was going to consist of those rather static-looking interviews and flashbacks, but then the movie really kicked into gear when we see what happened from Marta’s POV and when Blanc asks her to accompany him around the scenes of the crime. I deduced whodunit well before the denouement, but I loved the twists in the set-up so much, it didn’t matter. A well-constructed intelligent plot with great comic moments. I don’t think I’ve seen a murder mystery where I cared so much about a “suspect.” The other characters were so despicable and deserving of their comeuppance. I thought Toni Colette’s skewering of Gwenyth Paltrow was particularly hilarious. She was her co-star in Emma so I’m sure it was done with affection.