Everything Everywhere All At Once

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

Think this thread needs more Stephanie Hsu love.

really can't see that role being Awkwafina and not her, as much as I like Awkwafina

So curious what the Awkwafina version would've been like, but she was outstanding, as was Quan

Hsu is great on Awkwafina's show. Can't wait to see this.

I hid behind my hands during the papercuts (and at a few other moments)

The Raccooncoie (or whatever) payoff blew the roof of my showing and was shockingly satisfying, I was laughing hard

Despite how much fun I had with this I may never see it again. 10% of this movie was too much for me (papercuts, creatively repurposed IRS awards, finger reality [not for sexual orientation reasons]) though the other 90% was enough to win me over.

Have to wait til June, maybe July or longer, why are we going backwards, are we going back to the days when it taken forever for films to come to UK unless its Disney?

Some good stuff

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) is known:

- in Mainland China as 瞬息全宇宙 (In an Instant, the Entire Universe)
- in Hong Kong as 奇異女俠玩救宇宙 (Weird Woman Warrior Fucks Around and Saves the Universe)
- in Taiwan as 媽的多重宇宙 (So Fucking Many Universes) pic.twitter.com/SRkh00vQyi

— Jeremy Tiang (@JeremyTiang) April 20, 2022

I need to also point out that 媽的 literally translates to “mother’s” and that the tagline next to the release date says “more mother bodhisattva than the mother bodhisattva” and I love that daniels is translated as 棒棒丹丹 (excellent Dans), this whole poster is *chef kiss* https://t.co/Ae36BoWxxb

— S. Qiouyi Lu 🧧 陸秋逸 (@sqiouyilu) April 20, 2022

Didn't laugh much and I thought it was overall weirdly claustrophobic (dozens of universes from the perspective of office buildings and the interior of a van). But I loved this. Some of my wife's family is in "please meet my daughter and her very good friend Jane" territory and I liked how that was handled here.

People wondering what sad Awkwafina would even look like, definitely check out "The Farewell".

I also kinda resisted the set-bound "we're still at the IRS building?" quality. But I feel like it might play different for me on rewatch... knowing that's where we're staying, maybe I won't be antsy to see "more."

And thematically, I think there's something to it... seems like exactly the right place to catch yourself, at 60, wondering what the hell happened, how you ended up here talking to this functionary about the tax audit on your laundromat. To the extent that the movie's about a kind of generalized FOMO angst (which I think is only one very rich slice of its metaphors), the staggering banality of the settings works for me. I'm sure it also has to do with the $25 million budget - put the dollars into all those shots and setups, not flying around to locations and building (and trashing) more sets.

I mean that's also the thing about it, it generates a legit sf feel on the relative cheap, and it works. I really like that!

Agree. I just didn't know what I was getting into and was a bit surprised. fwiw I've seen next to no comic book movies. The performances were just great

so I have a question.

how is it that Yeoh's 'home universe' at the end is one in which she went home to do the taxes, didn't do them, and then got an extension due to her husband.. and not the one in which she assaulted the IRS agent and her "husband" assaulted a bunch of cops.

good point, as apparently she has still smashed the place up. There's a lot you're just kind of asked to roll with i figure. Like in hotdog finger land we use our feet for so much and yet interior design is unchanged

but then all conceivable combinations are happening 😳

I figured it was because she was so bad at everything and therefore could do anything , she actually healed some of the rifts between universes with her off the map jumping. Really want to watch this again.

i ended up concluding that that final exchange ISN'T about with the Evelyn we've been following all movie, but rather the one we met partway through, from the very similar but slightly different universe... the one where she leaves the IRS building peacefully after the meeting with JLC, but blows the 6 pm extension and turns all cynical at the laundromat party. in this interpretation, the "main" Evelyn's story concludes with pulling kiddo out of the bagel at the top of the stairs, and we don't see the immediate aftermath, only the ways it resonates across the other universes where Jobu Tabacky's nihilism had previously been poised to triumphant. i def don't have this all tidily worked out and might be reading it completely wrong, especially as it is a very odd way to conclude a story! but i kinda like the idea that if all the Evelyns equally matter, then it doesn't matter where we finish.

yup, i think that's right

“All Evelyns Matter”

lol definitely not what i was going for there! just trying to invoke the nihilist vs. existentialist takes on 'nothing matters' at the core of the philosophical dispute at the film's climax

something else i wanna watch for next time is the circle motif. I'm sure smarter people have already more thoroughly unpacked this, but it seems really intentional that the black bagel is formally the inverse of the lone googley eye (obvious i know, they're even similarly displayed on the forehead)... and yet both could also be derived from staring long enough at the washing machine. would be inclined to look for some more black circles next time. also seems significant that Evelyn's totem is something that actually comes from Waymond and which she rejects early on - she does have to go on a complete journey to get to where she can answer back to the void. all character arc 101 stuff but nicely done i thought. movie is overall so good at seeding things in small ways, in passing, then making a real meal out of it later.

that explanation makes sense. thanks all.

Think this thread needs more Stephanie Hsu love.

Yeah i just ADORED haute couture dripping w attitude Jobu

Film of the year.

I dunno, it seems like RRR is giving it a run for its money. (Haven't seen either yet.)

― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:34 (two weeks ago)

I've seen both twice now, and RRR beats EEAAO in terms of audacity, scope, action, comedy, emotion, songs, dance, sound mixing and kickflipped motorcycles. However, it is set in only ONE alternate universe. (They're about on par in terms of range of fighting styles.)

Saw this last night. It could easily have done everything it set out to do in 30-45 fewer minutes (there was SO MUCH switching back & forth between universes that didn’t advance the plot an iota. Still, so very worthwhile. Corny and completely surprising, manipulative and heartfelt, obvious and deep, fast-paced and drawn-out, cartoony and true: all dichotomies existing simultaneously & not needing to be resolved. The rock scene was perfectly timed to give the viewer a much-needed break. Loved how the final fight posited radical love instead of violence as the winning approach, obviously not a new concept but framing in a way that I’ve never quite seen a movie do before.

Very post-Nolan but also so many other things & not just another tediously “deep” high-concept SF philoso-venture. V much enjoyed. Might watch again (but probably not more than once).

Would have fallen HARD for this movie as a younger me & re-rented it weekly for months, I’m sure.

what is RRR?

^^

RRR was the #1 film at the global box office a few weeks ago, written and directed by S.S. Rajamouli. (My local American multiplex was showing it on three screens in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi.) It’s a joyous action epic about the emotion of platonic brotherhood, the pain of hiding one’s true self, and the eternal dichotomy of whether to overthrow the British through a violent nationwide revolt, or through direct assassination of Ray Stevenson. In a passing moment during an attempt to carry out the latter, one Brit gets whipped in the face with a leopard.

(RRR is the whole name: it was a working title for the project, which stars Rama Rao Jr and Ram Chan in a Rajamouli film; eventually they went “fuck it” and ran with it, working in a variety of semi-jokey intertitles that justify it.)

EEAAO playing in IMAX in USA this week BTW