trappedslider
Legend
I'm already tempted to get a netflix sub so i can binge power rangers,this might push me over the edge.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
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Watched this last night, and it was brilliant. Just a very fine mystery in itself (quite solvable) but also a homage to Agatha Christie, especially Marple village mysteries, and to G K Chesterton and Father Brown.
Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, and Daniel Craig are excellent (and the other cast are great, though I think it’s a bit of a waste of Andrew Scott). Glenn Close apparently filmed all her scenes in two days when she was ill, which is very impressive.
Also, if you were at all unclear about how Rian Johnson might feel about the intersection between right wing politics and social media, well, wonder no more. As with the characters in Glass Onion, the circle of suspects are very clearly based on types of people drawn into certain political cults.
(Johnson is just superb at conveying archetypes in characters succinctly this way - it’s also very noticeable in Poker Face, which of course has to deal with a shorter TV episode format.)
Random note about filming - the story is set in a small town in upstate New York which happens to have a neo-Gothic 19th century church. And that’s all very convincing while also looking a lot like an English village. But in fact it’s all filmed in an English village in Essex, apparently.
Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, and Daniel Craig are excellent (and the other cast are great, though I think it’s a bit of a waste of Andrew Scott). Glenn Close apparently filmed all her scenes in two days when she was ill, which is very impressive.
Also, if you were at all unclear about how Rian Johnson might feel about the intersection between right wing politics and social media, well, wonder no more. As with the characters in Glass Onion, the circle of suspects are very clearly based on types of people drawn into certain political cults.
(Johnson is just superb at conveying archetypes in characters succinctly this way - it’s also very noticeable in Poker Face, which of course has to deal with a shorter TV episode format.)
Random note about filming - the story is set in a small town in upstate New York which happens to have a neo-Gothic 19th century church. And that’s all very convincing while also looking a lot like an English village. But in fact it’s all filmed in an English village in Essex, apparently.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
My university has a bunch of Gothic architecture, so that works for me.
And Andrew Scott is so good, it's hard to have him not be wasted to some degree in anything he's in. (Well, maybe not in a one-man play.)
And Andrew Scott is so good, it's hard to have him not be wasted to some degree in anything he's in. (Well, maybe not in a one-man play.)
How did you manage that, if it’s coming out on the 12th? (Not doubting you, just curious.)
Ryujin
Legend
Theatre release first.
Yup, saw it in the cinema, which I’d recommend if you like that sort of thing.
Craig always sounds like he’s very happy to be out of the Bond business, I don’t think he enjoyed it much.
(Unless you mean Rian Johnson, who I don’t think has ever made a Bond film but whom I wouldn’t mind seeing giving it a go.)
Ryujin
Legend
Craig has positively gushed about playing Benoit Blanc in a way that he never did about Bond, though he has become my favourite Bond.
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