Everything Everywhere All At Once

Yeah enjoyed this very much. Clever and not afraid to be silly. Interesting to see it shortly after I saw Encanto — both use fantasy-film trappings to interrogate intergenerational family trauma.

fuckabees

saw this today, what a blast. deserves to become the major movie phenomenon of the year IMHO.

saw this today & holy shit
fucking brilliant
felt so good to watch w an audience, like a feelings purge but w ecstatic joyful what the fuck is happening laughter

For darn sure. That advance showing I caught was rollicking

It was a blast even in a half-full theater. I can’t imagine seeing this for the first time on a laptop or something- wouldn’t be the same.

there were a group of teens in the back row & one of the girls was scream-laughing hysterically at almost every line & it was v funny

great movie. usually i'm turned off by the level of heavy-handed emotional manipulation that was going on in this movie but it worked for me this time. it made me cry a little and i almost never cry at movies.

saw the adult Ke Huy Quan in Finding 'Ohana a few months ago and while he basically had about sixty seconds of screen time in that I was like "damn he is super charismatic as an adult" so I'm glad he got a chance to really get a role he could sink his teeth into.

The climactic fight scene is one of the greatest things I've ever watched.

Last two posts otm

I've spent the last week looking at random things and saying "even this _________ could be kung-fu!"

everyone otm. I fucking hate papercuts though, that scene was worse for me than any horror/gore/squickfest

same. i have never squirmed so hard in my life

for a minute i thought the challenges were only going to escalate from there and the movie would turn into a mindblowing version of jackass

papercuts were fkn ~horrifying~

xp: I mean, it kind of did! Or did you not see buttplug-fu as escalation?

i have to say, i did not. that part got a little cartoony for me, but the papercut scene actually made my neck nerves tighten and i couldn't look at the screen - i can't remember the last time i could not look at a screen

plus, i have very vivid, active dreams with mostly strangers, and never remember anything. i'm sure at some point i've seen or done some buttplug-fu in my dreams, so i may be emotionally primed

first Chekhov's Buttplug in history?

depends what kind of movies you're watching i guess

lol chekhov's buttplug

Racocoonie was killing me

omg that was hysterical

Juju Chewbacca ftw

the cast is so weird: an international superstar, a former child star who hasn't been in a movie in 25 years, a new young actress, an iconic actress who hasn't done much of note lately and who is playing way out of type, an elderly character actor who has been working consistently for like 50 years, and a surprise cameo from ... jenny slate

and yes, santa claus

apparently Slate was going to have an extra scene later in the movie but they cut it, so her last moment is finding her yeeted dog

lol I yelled Biff Wiff at the screen before realizing only wee on ILX would probably be excited about him

I was sitting there going "wait WHO IS THAT" every time he was on screen until I read this thread

I also was like "wait that's the dude from Glee" during the Racocoonie scenes

so sad that Wiff didn't say "everything has sucked lately"

Biff Wiff is in this? christ, now I have to see it

Agreed overall about the cast... a reminder that things can be so much more interesting when you don't just pick a bunch of recently-popping names. I do think Jamie Lee Curtis's profile is higher than it's been in a long time - the 2018 Halloween was a very big hit (top 20 for the year in the US box office - just a few slots below Crazy Rich Asians, which obviousky did a lot for Yeoh). And then Knives Out finished pretty close to that spot in 2019... I'd guess more young people probably know her than would have 10-15 years ago.

xpost not for a LONG time mind you, but small cameo yeah, in a few different scenes.

lol somehow I completely forgot Jamie Lee Curtis was in Knives Out

i went to see this totally blind not know anything about it at all. damn i thought this it was dumb as hell! yeoh was amazing but not enough to save it from the try hard script. the fight scenes were either sped up super fast or reallllly matrix-y slow. not ONE just straight up fight scene filmed normally with awesome choreography. butt stuff and dildos was hella stupid! also goddamn its long!

(but also i aint mad this is getting hype i get it! it just not for me. i hated the farting corpse movie too.)

I really hated this, wayyyyyy too twee for me, with the plot playing out like the back cover summary of a middling immigrant tiger mom late 90s early 00s book and not really getting past the surface of whatever that means, plus the teenage huckabees what the bleep do we know philosophy bits. Some nice visual moments at times, but I wasn't expecting to have this overwhelming negative reaction the whole time. It also had a B or C tier marvel movie vibe

I had a good time sitting in a theater watching a movie

feel like short round was really terrible at acting!

loathed swiss army man but love the turn down for what video so idk where that leaves me. going to catch this soon & trying to stay optimistic despite the ominous runtime & strong "ultimate epic bacon" vibes.

oh good, didn't want to be the one to break the "shitting on an overwhelmingly well regarded movie" seal but now that it's been broken, i'm with the posts above although i liked it a bit more than them

Yeoh and Quan were fantastic, movie itself was merely okay, that i thought it wasn't nauseatingly awful with its suffocating amount of zany is a testament to the movie i suppose

Loved this so, so much.

the characterizations, emotional beats, and life lessons (or whatever) are all pretty simple and trope-y, but simple and trope-y doesn't necessarily mean "bad." and you have to simplify some things when you're dealing with a high-concept plot and so much visual stylization.

feel like short round was really terrible at acting!

I don't get this at all, I thought dude was outstanding in every scene he was in.

yeah i have more than a few qualms with this movie but he def isn't one of them

imho Quan killed it across the board, as supportive weenie, interdimensional badass, and wistful Wong Kar-Wai guy. What was terrible???

ok ok sorry to be a h8r but you asked! i would describe his line reads as "sloppy" esp when switching between alphaworld guy and sadsack tax office guy.. but yes he is very likable and im rooting for him in general as a human

and it was VERY VERY apparent when next to yeoh and hong who are very good with silly dialog

<3

lol I'd like to see this movie inspire a whole bunch of shitty knockoffs a la "Pulp Fiction." Imitators, start your engines! (Not you, OGs Spike Jonze/Michel Gondry, just keep doing whatever it is you are up to).

Get Morty

Wrong supporting actress won

Good title for what's happening now.

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— Mr. Bedtime (@InternetHippo) March 13, 2023

I liked this piece by Justin Chang, who's ambivalent about the movie but happy for its success: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-03-12/oscars-2023-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-best-picture

Yeah I liked that as well. Obviously I feel much differently about the film but that’s a thoughtful disagreement there instead of whatever screed Wells has.

Good piece, sticks the landing with a quality Dad-pun. In theory I like the idea that more than prestige Oscar-bait films can win best picture; they don't need to because people can already tell they're prestigious. So while I can't imagine ever seeing this movie a second time and struggled with it the first, I like the idea of it winning more than I like the movie itself. Even if somewhere in the multiverse murk I feel it moves us one step closer to Pomplamoose winning an Oscar.

Wrong supporting actress won

I agree with this on paper but ... seeing Hsu unabashedly cheering for JLC's victory was a nice consolation

Even if somewhere in the multiverse murk I feel it moves us one step closer to Pomplamoose winning an Oscar.

LOL, they're totally going to EGOT now

Meantime most of the core cast is in this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAeemjfVvM0

speaking of fwiw I've seen next to no comic book movies.

Good thread

I liked EEAAO a lot, think it’s the best action comedy since Hot Fuzz etc. but I also think it’s an interesting adaptation of the fantasy of fixing our problems by exploiting another land that we see in things like The Tempest and earlier 20th c sci fi.

— Isaac Butler (he/him) (@parabasis) March 13, 2023

I was hoping that someone would have thanked Kathleen Malone of the 2005 Cincinnati IRS office.

_Still need to read that multiverse book mookieproof recommended.

― Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, April 5, 2022 1:38 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink_


which book Mookie?