Everything Everywhere All At Once

Found all the wacky shit and second-half speechifying very very grating but in the end liked this, maybe mostly for Yeoh and Quan.

like the tagline was “her real superpower was…. unconditional love” or some shit

what worked the best for me was the glimpse of other lives, the regret for paths not taken, all the wong kar-wai stuff, which is difficult to resolve, maybe impossible.. i would have liked the movie to move around in that difficult area more

So, less dumb stuff, more serious stuff?

no. there's an unresolvable difficulty about paths not taken that, when it was front and centre, was compelling. how did michelle yeoh end up in this shit universe doing thankless, backbreaking work, when she has it within her to be a star, a badass? is she going to do something about it? what about her husband? is a life with HIM worth giving up all this OTHER stuff? it can be serious or silly or both but to me it's interesting. much more so than, i dunno, figuring out how to say "i love you" to her daughter

To me there's plenty interesting here though... The Evelyn who saves the day is the one who never excelled at anything, and is so lost in the struggle to support the family in general, that she doesn't really see or hear its individual members (including Joy but also Waymond). The Joy she needs to reach is the one whose mother excelled beyond all prior human experience by pioneering dimensional travel... but saw her daughter as a tool or sacrifice in that project. And now this Evelyn has experienced all this multiversal potential of herself, but maybe because she's exactly who she is, she's able to come to some new conclusions and engage evil Joy in a way nobody else could. Idk. It's not a completely worked out reading obv.

The final 45 minutes of this, it felt like every shot in every scene was in slow motion. First time I’ve ever been tempted to watch a movie at 1.5x.

Film’s getting re-released with an extra 8 minutes of outtakes

watched this at home but would be tempted to see this in a theater now with 8 minutes of additional stuff. This movie was long but didn't feel long at all to me.

how did michelle yeoh end up in this shit universe doing thankless, backbreaking work, when she has it within her to be a star, a badass? is she going to do something about it? what about her husband? is a life with HIM worth giving up all this OTHER stuff?

There are a LOT of women out there you could put this question to. Maybe it resonates more being a woman but yeah women do give up lives of stardom and badassery because they have to be mothers. It wasnt odd to me at all!

otm that was maybe the throughlone that made the most sense lol

throughline ffs

i loved this

lol Michelle Yeoh herself stopped working for years to have a family with her husband, so obv it is worth giving up the other stuff for some people

Yeah if anything the point is that ANYONE chooses responsibility/obligation over full indulgence of their capabilities, or of stardom, in 99.9% of possible universes

Film’s getting re-released with an extra 8 minutes of outtakes

It’s still going in first run here!

Is this thread about this video?

This whole video stressed me bad. pic.twitter.com/PTBHbjenog

— Andrew Tate is a d1ck3ater (@CreamBlanco) July 28, 2022

sic i’m not sure anyone needs to mansplain “the point” of this movie to anyone else

i think that’s me Trayce is quoting there and i agree that was the most interesting theme in the movie and i kinda wish we’d had a bit more of it

is agreeing mansplaining now?

i leave that as an exercise for the reader

She's doing great across the multiverse if that's the worst version of her.

I hope The Daniels make more films with fighting in them.

this is the exact level of information you should know about this movie going into it, 13/10, excellent work airplane synopsis copywriters https://t.co/qgjILcJElx

— Ben Smith (@BenMSmith) July 30, 2022

Incidentally the extended version is being shown at the Curzon Bloomsbury in goode olde London. I was tempted to go, but it's a teeny-tiny screen:
https://i.imgur.com/29Z6z0e.jpg

I remember seeing Barry Lyndon there a few years ago and thinking "that is a teeny-tiny screen" and "I am uncomfortably close to Leonard Rossiter" and "what is tow?" and "can you shoot someone with your toe" and "did Stanley Kubrick hang out with Leonard Rossiter" and "did they go drinking" and "that's a nice-looking house".

The Prince Charles has it, presumably on a bigger screen

The airplane synopsis is directly from the Daniels if I recall correctly - it's only recently been slightly expanded on the A24 website https://a24films.com/films/everything-everywhere-all-at-once

finally watched this; liked it a lot; can't imagine that inspecting the details too closely will be worthwhile; michelle yeoh is incredible

only caveat is that initial waymond is far too weak. there's no way that guy a) wanted to leave hong kong or b) could persuade evelyn to join him in leaving

I think informational rewatches are only rewarding once or twice. If you're rewatching for feels, it never gets old.

xp Watch it again someday; even the original Waymond is far from weak. His strength is one of the great things about the film! Especially when you realize so much of his persona, while genuinely sensative and caring, is still deliberate

Saw it sometime ago but have to agree with that. It is a bit of a cliche to describe it this way but his character has that “I’m secure in who I am so I don’t need to seem tough“ kind of persona

Cosigning the bewilderment at reading Waymond as weak

tbh I can't believe how little Stephanie Hsu has been talked about here and elsewhere. Like, every moment Joy or Jobu was on the screen I was completely captivated.

I think it’s a given that all three leads in this were stellar

I liked this, although not quite as much as everyone else, maybe because I only saw it last week so am a little late to the party. Saw it in the same theater I saw the Elvis movie in, wonder what the next movie could possibly be to complete my American Trilogy.

Prey obv

Prey was initially jarring watching 18th century Comanche speaking modernly structured, 21st century styled English, but I mean this IS a Predator movie

if you want to get hardcore you can watch the Comanche dub with English subtitles

that's probably what i'm going to do honestly.

i used to be the guy that avoided the hilarious cheesy English dubs in kung fu cinema because I preferred hearing Mandarin dubs with English subtitles

Subs over dubs, always

About the rerelease, when they say “outtakes” do they mean deleted scenes edited back into the film or like… an 8-minute gag reel? Have to think the former cause how can the latter really be a draw but it’s unclear in the stuff I’ve seen about it

The latter.

Oh I can’t believe I haven’t chimed in yet to say that the score for this is a monumental achievement and Son Lux deserves every kudo that exists

Oh yeah! I was surprised and happy to see that credit.

Yes, totally agreed

I didn't mind watching the 8 minutes of bloopers after a first viewing but can't imagine that really being a draw for a second viewing.

Loved this the first time I saw it, but felt it didn't hold up as well on second viewing.

xp lol yeah I’ll wait for the dvd never

Feel like a second viewing might be a bit of a slog

it's hard for me to wrap my head around the idea that people would want to watch this a second time. but then again i was having a hard time accepting that ppl found a lot of the humor in this movie funny. you guys were really going up for that raccoon bit like 2 hours and 20 minutes into this? the butt plug thing... like......

i do think there was a good movie in here somewhere... i actually thought it might end after chapter 1, which made me think fondly of "kill bill." that would've been a great movie cut off at that point imo, but the further it developed the more it lost me & by the final 30ish minutes i was one of the ppl who was just praying for it to end.

when the credits rolled and it showed that the Russo brothers produced this, it really clicked for me as to why i was increasingly finding the movie to be grating and childish and then ultimately a non-tenable experience for me. so at least that helped

So what you're saying is

Honestly can't remember the last time a single thread made me dislike so many ilxors.