Everything Everywhere All At Once

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.

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— 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?