Everything Everywhere All At Once

Don't miss James Hong's SAG awards acceptance speech

FOUND IT. Here is #JamesHong's full #SAGAwards speech. he was all LET ME DO MY TIGHT 5! this guy knows! part 1...@allatoncemovie pic.twitter.com/rs6xgws7eB

— Jenny Yang (@jennyyangtv) February 27, 2023

Now that rules.

Yeah, that was fun. His list of credits is insane--IMDB lists 456. The Clark Gable movie he mentioned as his first role was Soldier of Fortune (1955). The same year, he was in Blood Alley with John Wayne and Lauren Bacall.

#tbt to one of my very first roles, acting with Lauren Bacall in "Blood Alley" in 1955 pic.twitter.com/lCyeibGdfz

— James Hong (@IAmJamesHong) August 24, 2017

Well worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DJjaB-xuY

Good profile I thought

https://www.vulture.com/article/daniels-daniel-kwan-daniel-scheinert-oscars-everything-everywhere-all-at-once.html

And this was fun too.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/02/28/jamie-lee-curtis-oscar-nomination/

Still think Hsu should win it but I won’t be surprised or disappointed if it’s Jamie Lee.

Both my editor and I are absolutely perplexed how Hsu is the least likely of the four to actually win an Oscar when she's so clearly the MVP

bc acting oscars often reward lifetime achievement instead of actually good performances?

dunno seems pretty obvious to me

Except when they don't (e.g. Lauren Bacall, Sylvester Stallone, Ruby Dee, Mickey Rourke).

that nepo baby article really broke JLC's brain. every time she talks now she opens with NOT BAD FOR A NEPO BABY!!! lol

Hahah this is VERY true.

Hsu deserves it, but at least she's young and she'll have more chances. Also, counting her as a "supporting" actress is a bit of an award shenanigan anyway

Hsu is memorable, but Jamie Lee Curtis has been a film icon for my entire adult life, with many memorable roles starting with Halloween, and at age 64 this is her first nomination

I love Jamie Lee Curtis, and she's been an enjoyable part of some fabulous films, but I can't think of a single one of them that would be award worthy. Maybe A Fish Called Wanda, but would you have moved her in ahead of any Best Actress nominee from the class of 88? I wouldn't.

Deirdre in EEAAO was a good role. Joy/Jobu in EEAAO was a STUNNING role. My heart is with Stephanie Hsu, even though she'll have more chances in the future for her work to get noticed. (Also, really liked Kerry Condon, but I'd be surprised if she has an Oscar chance, BAFTA award notwithstanding.)

Freaky Friday maybe. I would've nominated her for Wanda.

would you have moved her in ahead of any Best Actress nominee from the class of 88?

i haven't seen anna and the cher and holly hunter performances are both v good but sure i'd be happy to sub in JLC's flawlessly timed screwball for glenn close as a rubber monster or meryl streep being Utterly Transformed

oh wait that's not how years work

on nepotism - love Lena Horne's comment during her '81 one woman show Lady & Her Music re allegations that she was only cast as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wiz, cos her son-in law Sydney Lumet was directing it "nepotism, nepotism, nepotism - if you got it - use it"

its how world works - everyone uses whatever links they have to get ahead (and obv lena horne wasn't cast in The Wiz just coz of her son-in-law) but there are so many more serious issues for ppl to think about (esp in Hollywood)

of course deeply amused by all the people falling over themselves denying they had no easy access/step-up - just acknowledge it

that said there is no excuse for, say, brooklyn beckham

oh wait that's not how years work

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, March 1, 2023 4:03 PM bookmarkflaglink

clicked forward to the 1989 oscars to start all over again and imagine my surprise there at meeting glenn close and meryl streep

she'll have more chances in the future for her work to get noticed

I would've nominated her for Wanda.

And it's worth remembering Kline got his Oscar for supporting actor there.

Anyway less than a week to go until it hopefully wins everything (I can dream), and this is the most detailed interview with Hsu I've read yet:

https://ew.com/movies/stephanie-hsu-profile-everything-everywhere-all-at-once/

The Daniels did the opening for tonight's Colbert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23sRimLcTBk

awesome

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?

i'm not really into this movie, representation politics can be kinda ridiculous, and i love JLC, but if JLC ends up being the only one to win from a movie with a predominantly asian/asian-american cast, that will not be a good look.

Good thing then that won't happen as Ke Huy Quan is as close to a lock as anything this year.

KHQ seems like a lock, and Yeoh has a decent chance. The movie is a enough of a success story and has given such visibility to the cast/crew/directors that even JLC wins a legacy Oscar (essentially) it's NBD

I was kind of surprised that the "directors who worked up from doing creative music videos" to movie pipeline ended up making a film so similar to the Spike Jonze/Michel Gondry era of twenty years ago

but it was a pleasant surprise

Roll on Sunday. Meantime:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-10/queer-movies-parents-family-coming-out-identity-sexuality

As I said on FB: I can sense that for those for whom the film didn't work it may seem that these kinds of pieces read as trying to force you into liking it, but I've seen plenty like this and heard similar and sometimes a piece of popular art just hits harder.

I tried to watch this with my most respected movie friend this past summer, and when the first action sequence at the IRS office came around he wanted me to turn it off.

I then watched it by myself and was somewhat put off by all of the chaos and cheesy effects, but saw that there was a story behind it

Watched it again recently and the story became much more clear and poignant. The movie is still a TikTok/Youtube/video game obfuscating mess, but I can now see how it is groundbreaking and has a very distinct aesthetic point of view

:-)

Ya. Glad this did well.

<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.

https://t.co/Y7WfQgfoU6 pic.twitter.com/VwRHMFWlsj

— 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?