Friday Night Gin-Buzz. Ask me anything. Anyone still up?

[Aristus]

I know it's late.

Just finished watching "Knives Out".

Fun...

[emmaverybo]

1. Hi. Wishing you to stay well!

[Aristus]

2. Thank you. You too.

[yonder]

3. Not that late, did you like the movie?

We did, but not as much as we thought we would.

Speaking of booze, we bought a bottle of Everclear a couple of weeks ago. Infection control system investigation purposes only.

I get a bit queasy looking at it.

[cilla4progress]

4. Gin and what, Aristus?

We are on the same boozy wavelength!

I bought a tiny Tanqueray last week, tonic and a lime, for dinner with a friend at my place.

I love it, but it doesn't love me!

Just a little glass of delicious Pra Vinera white tonight!

And water. Lots of water. Helps fend off viruses, I hear.

[LisaM]

5. I liked "Knives Out".

I watched it a couple of weeks before I saw "Parasite". I thought they covered some of the same themes.in different ways, but of course, comedies never get the same accolades.

[RockRaven]

6. What did you think of it (Knives Out)? I'll share some non-spoiler thoughts below...

I liked it like I do a good who-done-it novel -- in the moment a lot, but once it was over I was done with it. Not the sort of film I feel like I'd enjoy nearly as a second time. But everyone should give it a try and enjoy that first viewing, imo.

The whole enjoyment in the first watching is in the crafting of the "who-done-it" and, ultimately, as usual the reveal is not earth-shattering -- as necessitated by the law of economy of characters (whereby the "who" must be some character introduced in the first portion of the story, so cannot be outside a handful of suspects). And since there is no cheating, the climax is both satisfying (b/c you are not cheated) and unsatisfying (b/c you saw all the evidence already).

I kind of liked or admired (bravery-wise from the film-makers) that they unabashedly made it contemporary -- of this time and this political/social moment -- in terms of dialogue which framed many of the interpersonal conflicts, and one aspect which specifically hung over one character impinging upon how every single character in the story interacted with that person.

[lillypaddle]

7. I'm here

I just cooked two perfect soft boiled eggs. I even made a thread about it.

tequila buzz.

Skinner needs to get us an elbow bump emoji and do away with the hug one - it's safer.

[Aristus]

8. I enjoyed "Knives Out'. It was fun to see Daniel Craig in a non-Bond Film.

He played a character who, by his name, seems to have been from Louisiana. But Craig's Southern accent jumped from Texas to Georgia and back several times. But at least he made it sounds like he wasn't trying too hard. A lot of British actors, speaking with an American accent, hit everything a little too hard. "Hye thiRR! I'm 'n' uhmEERRican. You kin tell becozz I'm tocking in an uhmEERRican aksint!"

[In_The_Wind]

9. Ok. I'll look for it.

[Aristus]

10. It's enjoyable. Great cast.

Most of whom are playing hissably-bad, right-wing parasites.