Knives Out - why so popular?

Hated the first film, excluding Jamie Lee Curtis. Hate.

I enjoyed it. In fact I liked it better than Glass Onion.

Eh it was fine - I honestly don't remember much about it

The first one really caught the national mood somehow. For some reason it was just what everyone wanted to see right then, even though it wasn't any good.

I don't get it either. It didn't look remotely interesting, but I almost watched it because everyone was talking about it.

If it were made by anyone other than Rian Johnson, I would have caved and streamed it. But, I refuse to support that clown, not enough to cut off my nose to spite my face, I mean, I'm not going to forego an enjoyable experience. But, as he's proven, he doesn't really create high quality movie experiences and is a very limited director.

There are a number of films whose popularity are head scratchers. Neither film is particularly good but the first one is slightly better. Maybe it's because they're l.rss bad than Branagh's Poirot movies.

Ana de Armas is definitely sucking somebody's dick. Her Marilyn Monroe performance and the movie were both shit.

Thought it was silly and derivative. Didn't understand the fuss. People just seem to like what they're told to like.

One of the few films I have walked out of in my life. It was just so BORING.

Thank you guys, I thought I was being dense and missing something! I mean it wasn't a terrible movie but it was neither funny, particularly clever nor memorable.

Plus Ana as the lead, she had so little personality it made no sense the smart old patriarch would want to leave her everything. She had zero charm.

Daniel was fine in his role but again he did nothing special.

I feel tricked!

I didn't like it at all and I also don't like the type of movie that it was supposed to be a spoof of/homage to.

Daniel serious thespian Craig did a godawful accent that was indecipherable.That accent he chose to use was distracting. I knew who done it by the costume the doer wears in the film. Easy to figure out, bad accents and lousy costumes. Waste of time except for Jamie Lee.

I enjoyed Chris Evans in that tight sweater.

R13 A lot of us enjoy him in anything, or nothing for that matter. THOSE pics. 🥵

And the nurse is sick every time she lies? Is that meant to be funny? And didn't the old goat think they'd perform an autopsy as he didn't leave a note?

And he seriously spends his last minutes on earth thinking up a way she doesn't get charged with his murder?

So dumb, r15. That girl is a hot number but stars in the worst projects

The original is better than the sequel. Why doesn't anyone call out Chris Evans for his bad wigs?

Don Johnson looks great for his age. Jamie Lee Curtis doesn't, but she was funny in that part.

It had so much potential but was really disappointing. I hated they left behind the great supporting cast to focus on bland de Armas in the second half of the movie. I thought Glass Onion did a better job incorporating the entire cast throughout. Unfortunately it was a much weaker supporting cast than Knives Out.

Still I’d watch either of these again over the turgid Branagh Agatha Christie remakes

I liked the first one, but that's probably because I'm a sucker for drawing room mysteries. The only thing that bothered me was the car chase sequence, which felt bizzarely out-of-place.

Wasn't able to finish the second one. Too many meta jokes and annoying pop culture references (which are gonna age the film like fine milk). I read the plot synopsis on wikipedia afterwards and realized I was fortunate not to finish it. What a messy plot.

Did everyone get it all out of their system? Feel better now?

Definitely overrated. Revealing the twist halfway through deflated all the tension and made the rest of the film pointless.

Knives Out was a decent popcorn flick, entertaining enough and then forgettable. Glass Onion was dreck - turned it off after 40 minutes because noting engaging had happened yet.

It got pushed super hard by streaming services which will kill movie theaters very aggressively and very quickly over the coming years.

R17 I love them

I enjoy a large, big-name cast and a whodunnit with an impossible resolution. And a Chris Evans.

I don't 'get' it either. I figured that maybe people who like comedy get it?

R27 but it wasn't funny?

Unlike the sequel, Knives Out had atmosphere. I thought most of the actors were perfectly cast and did a great job. My only complaints: the puking thing -- couldn't it have been sneezing or coughing? That struck me as juvenile. Daniel Craig's accent didn't fit him or his character. If Jeff Bridges were doing it, then yes, but not DC. It just didn't work.

Someone upthread wondered why Harlan spent his last moments trying to figure out a way for ADA's character to get away with his accidental death. I just assumed he was quietly in love with her. Sure, the film framed it as a nurse/patient-turned-father/daughter friendship but... nah. They were more than that. They confided in each other, he asked her advice on family matters, etc. The gap in age and (perceived) social status probably prevented him from ever making a move, but had he survived the murder attempt I think he would have said 'fuck it' and professed his love for her. Instead, he made her his sole heir. He wanted to take care of her. He sure as hell didn't care much about his grifter family members, can't blame him.

R29 I could buy Plummer being in love with his nurse or even having a lot of affection for her if She Armas had played the character with more charisma and personality. She came off like a limp dishcloth