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I just watched it too the other day. Great movie.

BTW, also coming this month to Prime are Guns Akimbo, led by Daniel Radcliffe playing a video game developer who ends up in a real life kill-or-be-killed game (Samara Weaving is also in it).

Also Crawl, the 2019 hurricane horror in which a woman searches for her dad in the storm and ends up stalked by a GIANT ALLIGATOR. Now before you start replying "WTF?!", it got great critic ratings and audience reviews! So... maybe there's something there?

And because I have a soft spot in my heart for the MI movies, the (IMNSHO) best one, Ghost Protocol, directed by Brad Bird, is also showing up on Prime later this month.

Guns Akimbo was surprisingly enjoyable

BadKen wrote:

Knives Out showed up on Prime, so I watched it last night.

Let me tell you, it earned that 97% RT rating.

Ana de Armas is a standout in this movie. It's the first of her roles that I've seen in which her character has some depth and is much more than a prop, and she acquits herself brilliantly. Many of the other fantastic cast members are playing their somewhat formulaic roles to the hilt, but de Armas plays it straight, managing to be both suspect and sincere.

And the running gag with her character Marta's country of origin is hilarious.

BadKen speaks truth, people!

I nearly lost it with the "CSI: KFC" line.

Mario_Alba wrote:
BadKen wrote:

Knives Out showed up on Prime, so I watched it last night.

Let me tell you, it earned that 97% RT rating.

Ana de Armas is a standout in this movie. It's the first of her roles that I've seen in which her character has some depth and is much more than a prop, and she acquits herself brilliantly. Many of the other fantastic cast members are playing their somewhat formulaic roles to the hilt, but de Armas plays it straight, managing to be both suspect and sincere.

And the running gag with her character Marta's country of origin is hilarious.

BadKen speaks truth, people!

FWIW, this movie is polarizing. For me, few of the jokes landed right, Craig's performance was near unwatchable, and the whole thing just felt unsatisfying and inconsequential. It was one of those odd experiences of seeing something that lots of people love, seems like something that you should like, and just not getting it.

I'm not a Rian Johnson hater. I thought Looper was a great movie.

I don’t have a fully formed opinion of Knives Out, but we bought it when it came out and my wife and I watched the first half over a month ago and neither of us have turned it on again to watch the second half. I guess that speaks for itself. When I see the near universal praise for it, it makes me wonder if there is like a twist ending that saves the movie.

It seemed like something we would really like and the actors and set design were great. I think we were hoping for more of a modern day Clue because the trailer we watched made it seem to have more comedic elements than it really does.

My wife and I both loved Knives Out, but I totally understand the sense of puzzlement when most people love something that leaves you cold. It happens to me quite often, as well as the opposite phenomenon --enjoying something most people hated. I can think of three recent examples of that, all from last year: Hellboy, Shaft, and Dark Phoenix. All of them widely derided, but I had a blast with all three. So don't sweat it --you like what you like, and you enjoy (or don't) what you enjoy. If Knives Out does nothing for you, it doesn't. And if you don't even feel like finishing it, then don't. I did that with The Lighthouse recently --I had read so much praise for that movie, but an hour in I couldn't take it any more and stopped it. And the world didn't end!

On paper, Knives Out seemed like something I would love but in reality my partner and I had to read a synopsis the next day because we both tuned out during the last half hour. Everything just felt forced.

It might just be his style. Brick didn't do much for me either.

People who didn't like it -- you are not alone. I read several articles wondering why Knives Out was such a critical darling. Maybe it's the clash of tone: the story seems to be serious, touching on privilege and what money can do to a family, while at the same time nearly every actor is hamming it up to the hilt. The production design is elaborate. Some thought far too elaborate, being more of a distraction than a setting. Some people hated Daniel Craig's accent. Even the musical score is, for some people, far more intense than is warranted by the action.

Knives out is a very specific take on a well-worn genre. How it lands for you is dependent on what you want from a movie, maybe even what you want from this kind of movie.

Y'all are weird. Knives Out was awesome, start to finish. Best thing I saw from 2019. Although I didn't see Parasite.

Stele wrote:

Y'all are weird. Knives Out was awesome, start to finish. Best thing I saw from 2019. Although I didn't see Parasite.

Right now it is my favorite movie I've seen this year... and I watched it back in January or so.

My second favorite behind Parasite of 2019

Knives Out was the last movie I saw in the theater before... all this... and it was a great choice. Not that I knew it would be the last movie I could go to for a while, but it was a lot of fun. I do love classic mysteries, so it was great to see one so well done, set in modern day and with a few tricks up its sleeve that I’d never encountered in any other mystery.

Tscott wrote:

Knives Out was the last movie I saw in the theater before... all this... and it was a great choice. Not that I knew it would be the last movie I could go to for a while, but it was a lot of fun. I do love classic mysteries, so it was great to see one so well done, set in modern day and with a few tricks up its sleeve that I’d never encountered in any other mystery.

Same here. I took Mrs Sorb to see it on a rare day off when Mini-Sorb was at School. We thoroughly enjoyed it, it was massively entertaining with some superb performances across its entire ensemble.

Watched Knives Out tonight and had fun with it.

Sometimes watching a movie you know is highly rated is a bad thing, this was my experience with Knives Out. It didn't live up to the hype and I just thought Craig was awful. He is a good actor but that was too far outside his range, it really made me dislike his character more than I should have done.

We just watched Knives Out over the weekend and I had a blast with it. My wife sat through it, but was not nearly as enamored of it as I was. But, my wife liked Highlander 2, so her taste in movies is clearly not to be trusted.

ThatGuy42 wrote:

We just watched Knives Out over the weekend and I had a blast with it. My wife sat through it, but was not nearly as enamored of it as I was. But, my wife liked Highlander 2, so her taste in movies is clearly not to be trusted.

This not only condemns her, but immediately makes suspect everyone else in this thread who did not like Knives Out. We've gone from a 'different tastes' scenario to something much more troubling.

I’m pretty sure Knives Out was the last movie Teresa and I saw in a theater. We loved it.

ThatGuy42 wrote:

We just watched Knives Out over the weekend and I had a blast with it. My wife sat through it, but was not nearly as enamored of it as I was. But, my wife liked Highlander 2, so her taste in movies is clearly not to be trusted.

That is quite the iconoclastic movie opinion. To be fair one of my friends can beat it, he prefers the Fly 2 to the Fly. I am amazed we still speak.

Jayhawker wrote:

I’m pretty sure Knives Out was the last movie Teresa and I saw in a theater. We loved it.

I know it was for me.

LeapingGnome wrote:

I don’t have a fully formed opinion of Knives Out, but we bought it when it came out and my wife and I watched the first half over a month ago and neither of us have turned it on again to watch the second half. I guess that speaks for itself. When I see the near universal praise for it, it makes me wonder if there is like a twist ending that saves the movie.

Sigsbee and I watched it last week, after rave reviews from a number of friends. You should finish it.

I hope I like this season as much as I did the first one:

They do such a fantastic job with casting on The Boys. Antony Starr steals every f*cking scene. But in the clip above I flipped out when I heard Aya Cash's (from You're the Worst) voice. She seems like she will be a major thorn in everyone's side if she is an influencer and potentially could be taping all the shady sh*t that The Seven are getting up to. Aya Cash is so dynamic, it's great.

Stormfront. From Portland. Hoo boy.

Rat Boy wrote:

Stormfront. From Portland. Hoo boy.

Pretty on the nose, isn’t it?

The Boys has never been subtle.

Garth wrote:

The Boys has never been subtle.

On the other hand most of the people who will watch it probably aren’t aware of Oregon’s history.

Yeah tbh that did not hit me at all until I read it here even though I'm familiar with the history.