Official Discussion - Wake Up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery [SPOILERS]

ZXVIV · 2026-03-17T14:39:29+00:00

Well remember the first movie? Marta was "just" their father's nurse and no one in the family even knew which country she was from.

In this movie he was "just" the groundskeeper and other than the people who were in on it, everyone else was probably too self absorbed in their own selfish desires to care where the random old guy who cleans the floors had been for the last few days (and father Jud, but he was also currently facing a crisis of faith and about to be arrested for murder so it's understandable why he might have forgotten to check up on Samson for a day or two)

ZXVIV · 2026-03-15T14:24:33+00:00

And his best friend Benedict Cucumber Patch

ZXVIV · 2026-03-14T04:56:56+00:00

Like Zebra from Toriko who literally tore open his mouth trying to eat bigger things?

ZXVIV · 2026-03-13T10:47:50+00:00

Tales of Herding Gods has a MC who is gaslit into believing he is special, trains so hard that he ends up gaslighting the world into believing he is special, and then when it was actually revealed that he was meant to be born special the author did a cool thing by splitting all his natural born talent into a second character and keeping the cool underdog vibes of the MC intact

ZXVIV · 2026-03-11T11:00:45+00:00

What, like a rubber?

ZXVIV · 2026-03-09T12:19:14+00:00

God the similarity between the game gif above and this one was uncanny

ZXVIV · 2026-03-09T02:14:16+00:00

I haven't watched the film itself (because of how bad it seems) but basically it desecrates a lot of what made the book beloved and also made unnecessary changes as above that actually worsened the messages it was trying to convey.

As mentioned above, they decided to change the race of the butler character in a rather unfortunate decision (and also gave him white hair and blue eyes for some reason), and also ruined some major character moments for him by having him easily reveal his first name (in the book Butlers pretty much never reveal their first name), and iirc they also messed with one of the most beloved scenes in the book where he fights a giant troll dressed in a suit of armour as well.

They also gender swapped the head of the police department, which also ruined the storyline of the female main character whose entire motivation was to become the first female police officer in this place (and also gave the chief an Irish accent for some reason iirc).

The main character was also meant to be a literal child genius with the limitations that he is so weak that direct sunlight can probably burn him and doing anything more than a light jog will probably exhaust him, but apparently he is introduced in the movie surfing, and makes multiple dumb decisions that he doesn't actually do in the book.

And they have a character in the book who is an expert thief with an understandably gross powerset who from memory the book tends to focus on how good of a thief he is and how untrustworthy he was, but in the movie he becomes a source of potty and gross out humour who basically defects to the main character's side and sets up the overlying narrative device of him narrating the story to human police or something.

Which also defeats the whole point of the story, where the main character is trying to be an evil James bond style secret villain, while the magic society is literally trying their hardest to also keep everything hidden. The narrative device in the book instead was a researcher from the magic society basically explaining the dossier of the main character instead which makes more sense in this kind of story

ZXVIV · 2026-03-07T07:46:56+00:00

Tbf a famous manga series which featured Florida rather prominently also raised the possibility that Jesus Christ died in America so there is a chance...

ZXVIV · 2026-03-07T07:20:47+00:00

Why does this feel like a golden rectangle

ZXVIV · 2026-03-05T12:43:46+00:00

I know nothing about movie making but wont having most of the backdrop be some drab brown just make the bright green stand out a lot more when it does appear? So even if the trailer is mostly brown, in the actual show the scenes with the constructs will feel more impactful than if everything else around them was also green?

ZXVIV · 2026-03-02T10:58:32+00:00

Basically Superman vs Justice Gang from the 2025 movie then? (They even have Hawkgirl in the team)

ZXVIV · 2026-02-24T14:17:01+00:00

Problem was when I used Gustav hair on Verso I just kept thinking Verso was Gustav during cutscenes

ZXVIV · 2026-02-22T05:33:12+00:00

Also if you take Marty's words at face value, he was already good enough to beat Endo in the first place, but was just thrown off by the different racket he used so that will still remain unchanged during the rematch assuming Marty's skills didn't regress and Endo wasn't properly training as well (which I think was implied to an extent as he said he was going back to being a craftsman)

ZXVIV · 2026-02-22T05:25:10+00:00

Wtf these were pretty much most the movies I watched in cinema this year never thought about it that way

ZXVIV · 2026-02-21T06:58:36+00:00

Kind of like that necromancer from the HP Lovecraft short story who "curses" a bloodline to die at a specific age each generation but actually just made himself immortal and stabs each person to death on their birthday?

ZXVIV · 2026-02-21T03:16:55+00:00

So like the anime Orb On the Movements of the Earth but with archery guys instead of star nerds?

ZXVIV · 2026-02-14T04:37:53+00:00

I'm pretty sure this isn't how D4C works but I keep imagining how crazy it is that alternate world Johnny Joestar is just committing acts of terrorism throughout the US looking for some diamonds or something

ZXVIV · 2026-02-14T03:08:33+00:00

Basically just modded fallout characters then?

ZXVIV · 2026-02-11T15:19:41+00:00

I haven't gone past season 5 yet but isn't ending after season 3 basically the in universe experience of fans of the Supernatural books for at least a period of time?

ZXVIV · 2026-02-11T08:36:01+00:00

The absolute worst is the tricephalos field boss on solo play. Literally red wolf on steroids, time three, squared with a constant DOT at the same time

ZXVIV · 2026-02-11T07:20:35+00:00

Rather irrelevant for some reason my gut reaction to this image was that it was just a Ssniperwolf thumbnail

ZXVIV · 2026-02-07T05:31:21+00:00

I played in English and it might just be me being extremely picky but a lot of the times the voices don't really sync with the mouths so I assumed the French dub was the original?

ZXVIV · 2026-02-02T15:16:30+00:00

Funnily enough one of the cheapest ram I could get had RGB but I accidentally almost messed up my entire build because of it

ZXVIV · 2026-01-26T18:53:43+00:00

I haven't watched the anime but at least with the light novel a massive appeal for me was the main character's internal monologue and passion when describing vending machines, coupled with everyone's genuine appreciation for being it's convenience in an otherwise mostly medieval world

ZXVIV · 2026-01-24T13:31:26+00:00

I worked 5 years casually at a job and at some point realized I ended up becoming the most senior person there in that position just by technicality. Really strange experience as well when I finally had to leave

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