That was actually quite sweet. He seems happier these days.
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Looking at how much work Johnson to talk about the film in every way, i think another podcast commentary is inevitable.
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I liked the film. It starts out a little slow but the last 30 minutes is very good.
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Now more people have had the chance to see it, what are people thinking?
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I have it marked for today, will let you know about my thoughts.
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Tremendous fun, my favourite Benoit Blanc so far. I remember the pieces of this puzzle being on the table fairly soon and thinking ‘what? this goes another 90 minutes?’ - but then there’s really no slack in it. We move so effortlessly from one detail, one strand to another that it’s simply a joy. As these ensemble flicks go it’s giving them all a scene or two to shine and have fun with the format.
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For the next one, I think they should go the “Blanc stumbles into a murder on holiday” route. Granted, that’s a bit Christie/Peroit, but done in the KO vein, and very clever, it could work. IMO of course, but put Blanc in an enviroment that he has to catch up with while also disrupting his own plans could potentially be kind of fun. Give him some kind of vast expanse to deal with.
EDIT: Just an additional notion: Australia. Put him both in the city and outback in someway.
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Very intriguing.
I also thought, because of that scene in which he mentions his mother and the complicated family, that a whole film about Blanc‘s whole family would be interesting, and one of them gets murdered during a celebration of a holiday like Thanksgiving or Christmas.
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I was mostly struck by Blanc’s mother being homophobic because of her religion. It’s definitely much darker than its predecessor.
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I will admit that while I watched the film in one sitting, I was underwhelmed. I enjoyed it, and wanted to find out whodunnit/howdunnit, but my interest was academic.
The film was true to its John Dickson Carr inspiration–the clues are there, and the solution is a stretch–but the movie seemed drawn out, and the religious/faith material left me cold (which may be part of the problem).
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Interesting.
I saw it again on Sunday and marveled at the intricacy of the plotting, how even the smallest details are all laid out right from the start, how the lighting is so precise and every character gets to shine.
Josh O‘Connor anchors the film so magnificently, and Daniel Craig gets to play a much more sinister, ego-driven and yet understanding and caring Benoit Blanc.
It all adds up. Which is surprising since the plots of all the Knives Out films are sprawling constructions.
But it really all comes together.
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Whilst i dont agree, my partner does. She thought the other suspects are underused and thought the sheriff was unnecessary. I disagree, i think this host of badguys with actual motive makes it more of a guessing game and the sheriff adds a threat against the, at times, dim witting Judd that wouldnt exist. She is to Judd what Blanc was to Marta in the first one.
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I will say that I immediately suspected Close’s character to be the culprit - though I’m not sure that’s due to the casting or the blind religious fervour her character displays. But I quite enjoyed the setting and theme itself and thought Judd was giving a great performance of a believably challenged priest trying to do the right thing. It started out as a Don Camillo skit but rapidly turned into something much more serious.
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That is my only complaint about the movie. Close was the first one to register as a real contender/culprit and I discounted that as being a red herring so early on. When it all came down to her I was disappointed. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie overall and will happily lap up more, but I genuinely wanted to be surprised at the reveal, not affirmed with my first nascent suspicion, which I dismissed as having arrived at far too soon.
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I‘m so gullible, I did not see the solution coming.
Then again, I think the story is not about who did it but why was it so understandable and in the end healthy for the others that this guy had to go…
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