Everything Everywhere All At Once

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

An hour of this was enough for me.

Me too. At a certain point the fun wears off and it starts to feel a little bland.

the range of responses has really surprised me, we were super dialed in, devouring every scene etc. different strokes i guess.

I've watched it no fewer than 10 times this year, probably more, and I'd happily watch it again if someone who hadn't seen it came over. Easily my favorite film of the 21st century.

For context, I fucking HATE The Matrix.

The 3rd-best film of the 21st Century for me, that's how much I loved it.

The multiverse aspect of it is <1% of the interest for me. Favourite part is the relationship between the husband & wife which is almost exactly the relationship between me & my wife.

sorry bro!

for folks who just couldn't with this, how much was the hype? i cannot wrap my head around going into this cold and finding it bland!

I fucking HATE The Matrix.

I don't think I've ever known anyone who feels this strongly about it.

the Matrix is Woah-Dude-Camp, I for one am very fond of Woah-Dude-Camp, but it really rubs some people up the wrong way.

What finally prompted me to watch this was seeing some of The Daniels' pretty good choices for their upcoming film series at Lincoln Center; particularly Mister Lonely, which I saw for the first time recently and thought got a raw deal when it came out.

The great actors carry this intermittently until the pacing and the flying spaghetti monster-level writing just exhausts any goodwill with which I approached it. The sheer number of Bjork album cover versions of the cast that flash by are impressive but otherwise this doesn't even rise to the level of a Tom Robbins novel, philosophically or creatively. The part with the telepathic rocks in particular made me feel like I was browsing cards at a boutique stationary store. I had no idea before watching that the Russo Brothers, kings of paying fraudulent lip service to great auteurs, were executive producers until the end credits, but that makes sense.

I thought this was really interesting for the first twenty minutes or so and then was exhausting. I can't recommend it to anyone who would not be on board after that.

It was redemptive in the end though, which kind of made up for the chaos and incoherence of the story in between

Okay getting some Oscar noms was always going to be kinda neat if it happened...LEADING them? In double digits? Cool.

probably bcz they entered the speed force

Very happy for this film and its creators

The Daniels just made everyone of the #DGA nominated directors and the entire audience do a theatre warmup. This is a first, and a delight! #dgaawards pic.twitter.com/op3il6bts0

— Paris Barclay (@Harparbar) February 18, 2023

The backlash is nearly here.