Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

And rightly so 😋

They ARE early. Out in December? I do like the schedule they have. Every couple of years or so around Christmas. Good for post Christmas dinner vegging in front of tele with a glass (or two) of wine.

I don't usually like "Whodunits" but really enjoyed the first one. The second one, not so much. Enjoyed Janelle Monàe in it but thought they played up the farce a little too high. Just a smidge. (Although Hugh Grant's TINY cameo made me genuinely laugh out loud. He is REALLY loving his career right now). And Bautista's mother barely paying attention and solving the box riddle without effort.

So (simply IMHO of course), I think they should dial back the farce a bit. I get it, most of the people in the sequel were supposed to be idiots but just a wee bit back please. At least they are keeping the main parties consistent: Star of course and Rian Johnson. Give them the space to do what they want. MAYBE rein them in a little is they are losing control (Like a good producer).

However the problem with streamers is that they have all the money they want to create "content". It doesn't matter if it's good or not. To them it's just X amount of minutes/hours. Look at the success of K-Pop Demon Hunters. To them it was just another 110 mins or so. Can sell it as "The animation studio behind Spiderverse". And it totally caught them offguard. And on the other hand you have that cynically crafted "Christmas Classic With An Edge" movie "Red One". Huge cast. quarter of a BILLION dollar budget and it came across as soulless corporate filler without any genuine heart or creativity at all. (I suppose it could have been worse. Could have been basically an ad like that War of The Worlds "movie". "Hey Santa, why don't you just Amazon Prime gifts to kids?")