Everything Everywhere All at Once

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How many multiverse stars ?

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Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by metirish » Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:03 pm

What did I just watch? I thought this movie was pure tripe.
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Re: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by Frayed Knot » Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:07 pm

Doesn't seem like my cuppa either.
I've made no attempt to see it despite it being all over cable and winning a boat-full of awards.
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Re: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:28 am

The first time they went kung-fu it was fun, the next 25 weren't as fun.
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Re: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by batmagadanleadoff » Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:58 pm

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:28 am The first time they went kung-fu it was fun, the next 25 weren't as fun.
Yeah. I bailed out at about the 45 or 60 minute mark.
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Re: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by A Boy Named Seo » Tue Mar 21, 2023 12:58 pm

I'm the only one who dug it.
great googly moogly!
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Re: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by MFS62 » Tue Mar 21, 2023 5:09 pm

Started and couldn't get through it.
I like action.
I like sci-fi.
I like family stories.

But they couldn't make chicken salad from this chopped up chicken.

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Re: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by Lefty Specialist » Wed Mar 22, 2023 10:09 am

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Tue Mar 21, 2023 12:58 pm I'm the only one who dug it.
No, you're not. I loved it; my wife hated it.
Even duct tape can't fix stupid. But it can sure muffle the sound.
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Re: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by kcmets » Wed Mar 22, 2023 2:22 pm

Lefty Specialist wrote: Wed Mar 22, 2023 10:09 amI loved it; my wife hated it.
Opposite here in our household polling.
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Re: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by metsmarathon » Thu Mar 23, 2023 8:55 am

i gotta get around to seeing it...
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Re: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by MFS62 » Wed Mar 29, 2023 7:52 pm

From reviews and discussions of the movie since it first came out, I get the impression that that how well people liked it is inversely proportional to their age - the younger the reviewers, the higher the rating and vice versa.

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Re: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by Frayed Knot » Wed Mar 29, 2023 9:28 pm

Using 'Rotten Tomatoes' as a gauge, both the critics and the audience reviews were very high.

I got about a half hour in recently and was totally lost, both because i had trouble understanding the dialogue due to accents and very rapid fire delivery, and also lots of trouble following the plot.
Maybe I'll give it another shot, maybe not.
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Re: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Post by A Boy Named Seo » Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:25 pm

It's super weird and very challenging (in a good way, like pretty much all A24 films are). It puts a middle-age female immigrant as the bad-ass hero figure, which is a late change to the script and central to the whole thing. Jackie Chan was originally supposed to be the protagonist and it would've been a completely different (less successful IMO) movie if they'd stuck with him instead of Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn. There's also a queer daughter storyline and some hilarious Georgia O'Keefe-like vagina imagery that helps drive a "strong women bossing shit" message underneath. When it ended, I was like "what the fuck was that???" but wanted to watch it again right away.
great googly moogly!
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