'Knives Out' kicks off Thanksgiving weekend box office new releases with $6.2 million on Thursday

[masterofmystery]

Box Office: ‘Frozen 2’ Dominates Thanksgiving Day, ‘Knives’ Sharp https://t.co/AN5rGMCHMy
- Variety (@Variety) November 29, 2019
This isn't your typical weekend box office, of course, but there were a couple of new releases. The critically-acclaimed whodunit 'Knives Out' started off the Thanksgiving weekend box office with $6.2 million on Thursday

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[pennyinthecity]

I’m curious if any of the early showings for Knives Out count? I saw it last weekend but if I need to go see it again to help boost it, I guess I can make that sacrifice.

[mz_prodigette]

Your icon!!

[pennyinthecity]

Your icon!!!

[shannenb]

[shangri__la]

Knives Out was excellent and Ana de Armas should be getting all the attention Chris Evans and his white sweater is getting.

I liked Queen and Slim except for the three or so scenes I hated.

[redkay23]

Can I ask which scenes you hated?

[shangri__la]

Of course!

[Spoiler (click to open)]1. The sex scene intercut with the black lives matter rally, it felt both gratuitous and awkward. I think I got what Melina Matsoukas was trying to do, but I don't think it landed.

2. Queen and Slim accidentally hitting the kid's dad scene- the humor was really try-hard and out of place and kind of watered down the message of people taking Queen and Slim's trauma and making of they will with it. It was another scene where I can understand what Lena was going for but it didn't go.

3. The interlude of Queen's uncle arguing with his girlfriend again felt gratuitous and again contained some misplaced humor?

Of course, opinions vary but the script felt VERY first draft, very unfinished. IMO, the phenomenal performances of Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith and the direction/cinematography/music elevated a weak script. I liked it but I wanted to love it, you know?

[chase65]

I think I agree with this. I liked a lot about it, but not sure I liked it overall and your conclusion might be why.

[mz_prodigette]

Watched Knives Out last night in theaters and loved it. Ana de Armas was amazing and she deserved some awards!

[houndooms]

Saw Frozen 2. [Spoiler (click to open)]IDK I liked it better than the first one but... a lot of it just didn't make sense. I feel like a lot of things (especially WRT to the mom) got cut or rewritten. I hated things being revealed through ice sculptures instead of proper flashbacks. I actually liked Olaf and Anna a lot more this time around, I think they listened to the criticisms towards Anna's "quirkiness" and found a good way to make Olaf an actual character while still being the funny guy. They could've done more with Kristoff IMO but I like that he never took out his frustration on Anna but he got over his conflict with one song and then just disappeared from the movie until the very end. I thought they were gonna reveal he was from the tribe too because I remember something about him being an orphan? I can't remember lol. I like Anna becoming Queen but I think Elsa was supposed to like... IDK, change more, maybe become more of a spirit and their separation was gonna be like Sam and Frodo's at the end of RotK, but maybe test audiences didn't like it? IDK

[sandstorm]

[Spoiler (click to open)] The whole point of Show Yourself being Elsa finds out....what? I still don't know. That she's herself? "I finally get to see why I was born." because ???? idk. It was a beautiful sequence though.

[houndooms]

[Spoiler (click to open)]LOL yeah there really should've been another character there to explain wtf just happened after Elsa stopped singing. Another person summed it up as Elsa going through all that trauma and struggle just to be told by the magical equivalent of a video recording of a dead relative that they don't need anyone to be happy and I kind of agree. Was Idunna even a memory? A ghost?? What is going on Disney??

[ishumy]

[Spoiler (click to open)]Someone here called it Frozen: The Last Airbender and I couldn't help but laugh at the accuracy.

I actually liked it a lot, more than the first one, and will rewatch it in Spanish, but I agree with all your comments. The end, or everything related to Elsa imo, felt like a cop-out. I get that it is a children's movie, but Arendelle is completely fine, Elsa gets to live with her mom's tribe but still live a completely normal life and go to charades? The treason never gets brought up again?

I loved Anna's character development and Kristoff's everything. Groff killed that 80's power ballad, my theater was in stitches. Olaf was cute and not too much. Overall, I liked more of the original songs, but I feel like the music was better paced this time around and Idina sounded less rough in her two big songs than in Let It Go.

[g_lovesbb]

I'm going to see Knives Out tomorrow on my Bday hopefully is good. I love murder mystery movies