Everything Everywhere All At Once

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.

ridiculous

come on, man

the humor in this movie seems like a logical heir to zucker/abrahams/zucker filtered through a couple generations, i loved it

it is overloaded with a deeply convoluted plot and too many action sequences, clever editing and special effects - all of which already look dated as I’m watching it - but I really like that it ultimately is about a mother and daughter struggling to stay connected to each other. I like what sic said, that it was about choosing responsibility/obligation over full indulgence of capabilities or of stardom

Just saw it, not in the best setting. But it hit me the same way when I saw “Eternal Sunshine”way back when that was released, only now I’m that married person with a family. Yeah was obviously amazing, but as the movie sped toward the end I thought Stephanie Hsu and Ke Huy Quan brought out some beautiful moments of their own. Quan giving the leading man speech in the back alley of the theater was touching.

So mote it be

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/movies/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-oscars.html

An hour of this was enough for me. Ke Huy Quan is very good, but this is just the wrong kind of exhausting.

i liked this well enough, not really my thing. all the onscreen gags / music video style cutting reminded me of scott pilgrim.

story ultimately being about family set in a sci-fi multiverse made it feel like a children's/young adult novel, maybe something bruce coville would have written?

not sure why they needed to speak mandarin at all in this, both yeoh's and quan's are so bad.

We tried watching this yesterday and stopped after 45 minutes, don't really need a second Matrix even though the dramatic build-up had me intrigued. I'd probably have watched a bit more if alone.

Having a multiverse and a prophecy doesn't make a movie a Matrix knockoff. Not as if the Wachowskis invented that

Getting the sense that this movie has more DNF ratings than any other movie in ILX history

I gave it a Walked Out rating