Everything Everywhere All At Once - Michelle Yeoh but there's dozens of her

I am still not sure what I thought of this movie.

The performances were great, I loved the first act, lost a bit of steam during the second act, but the third act, what in the fuck happened? It dragged on forever and I found myself wishing the movie would just hurry and wrap itself up, I thought it was nice, but there is only so much of mother/daughter bonding dialogue I can take before I feel like I am being hit over the head with a tree trunk.

Costuming, sets and visuals were great, they really captured a cluttered lived in home well.
 
I saw EEAAO in theaters and enjoyed it. The movie seizes on the "parallel universe" trope and runs with it in a fun way. The acting, cinematography, visual effects and, most importantly, the editing are fantastic.

The problem comes from the movie's fan base. Many idiots on Twitter/Facebook are calling it "the best movie ever," with the top reason being the movie is "unapologetically Asian."

Yes, the movie focuses on an Asian woman juggling her taxes and her family --
Michelle Yeoh trying to divorce her husband (Short Round from Indiana Jones) and a fighting an evil, trans-universe diety inside her daughter (whether that's a metaphor for teenage angst or her literal gayness is up to the viewer to decide)
-- but that, by itself, doesn't place it in the high echelon of filmmaking. It's the same when Black people heralded Black Panther as the best film of 2018 on the grounds that it was a movie "made for and by Black people" and lobbied the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create a Participation Trophy (Best Popular Film) at the 2019 Oscars.

Thankfully, that didn't happen, and, in a hilarious case of irony, the movie lost to Green Book, a movie about segregation across the southern United States in the 1960s and the most mediocre film of the year, for Best Picture.

EEAOO will get Oscar nominations for the 2023 show, no doubt. However, be prepared for the rabid fans to demand the film win for its "representation" instead of its technical and narrative merit.
 
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I liked it, but goddamn, did I hate hot dog finger universe. It was funny the first time it appeared, but any time a serious moment took place there, it reminded me of Marvel's joke-undercut bullshit. I just can't take hot dog finger universe seriously. Other than that, pretty good!
 
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Loved it. Laughed particularly hard at the fight against Jenny Slate and her dog.

I would like to read about movies, even talk about them, but it seems incredibly rare to find a place that doesn't focus on idpol. I didn't give a shit that the film is mostly Asian characters and has a strong Asian sensibility, because it was part of the story. It wasn't about being diverse for its own sake, and it has so much more to offer than just 'Asian representation'.

And yeah, the sycophantic over-praising of a film can really dampen my enjoyment. I actually liked Black Panther a lot, but it wasn't the Oscar-worthy masterpiece the idiots made it out to be because they saw black people and it turned off their critical faculties. Fortunately, I managed to avoid most of that for this movie, but that's because I've given up on finding anywhere that doesn't aggressively politicise my escapism.
 
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Watched it last week at the suggestion of a friend, didn't know much about the plot and figured I'd find it mostly boring, turned out to be quite the opposite. Great acting and I laughed my ass off several times.
 
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The fight choreography was courtesy of the Martial Club stunt team, a group of self-taught martial artists who have for the past some years been posting tutorials, parodies and short films (and behind the scenes videos) to their Youtube channel, along with encounters with people like members of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team or British actor/martial artist Scott Adkins.




Seeing their style of action on the big screen was an experience. Between them, and other stunt players and fight choreographers like Brian Sloyer, Vlad Rimburg, etc., seeing members of this grassroots generation of action talent, posting their work to Youtube, Vimeo, etc. and making their mark on Hollywood and modern film action is rather neat.
 
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I saw this movie because some alcoholic Wisconsinites on YouTube said it was good, and I loved it.

Awesome film, solidly entertaining and easily the best movie I've seen since Sonic the Hedgehog :)

There's a lot to talk about with this movie, that's one of the great things about it. Mostly good, and a little bad.

The bad
It was made by hipster soyboys
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and it shows... a little. It's a 'clever' movie (this is not a bad thing) but it gets a little too clever for its own good. Clever boys on Reddit, and probably also the directors, mistake this for intelligence. While the movie does have a lot to say, it's not really profound or anything. The second half is 20 minutes too long, and it's here the cleverness can get a little overbearing.

The good
This movie is a wonderful explosion of talent, imagination, creativity, emotion, humor and fun. Michelle Yeoh is amazing in the lead role, but everyone else is inspired too. Jamie Lee Curtis, Short Round, Lo Pan and the fat lesbian chick are note perfect.

It draws from the Matrix, Stephen Chow movies, Scott Pilgrim, Katamari Damacy, Pixar, pinatas, but somehow manages to be its own weird thing, an action-comedy-scifi-philosophy101 adventure starring a dowdy middle aged Chinese woman but it's actually about the hurt parents and children inflict on each other. And people fighting with dildos. And it works.

Sexual Chocolate recommendation: see this movie or you're a FAGGOT.
 
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Jar-Jar Fanboy said:
I liked it, but goddamn, did I hate hot dog finger universe. It was funny the first time it appeared, but any time a serious moment took place there, it reminded me of Marvel's joke-undercut bullshit. I just can't take hot dog finger universe seriously. Other than that, pretty good!
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Yeah the Hot Dog universe is probably the worst part of the movie and is not as funny/touching as the film makers think it is, it doesn't help the Jamie Lee Curtis character overstays her welcome (Like I rewatched it recently, and I swear she consistently drags the movie down.)

However, the movie itself is a really fun watch and has some great performances. I'm honestly surprised by the guy who used to play Short Round, he was the best part of the film and I hope he gets involved in more projects since he was consistently entertaining and I'm glad he played a major role in the climax since I thought he'd just be "Funny Husband" and nothing else.
 
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UnKillShredDur said:
Didn't see it.
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It's not really for everyone. At its core it's a story of an Chinese immigrant woman struggling to cope with a life that hasn't turned out the way she wanted, with a large part of the story being focused on the rift between the mother and her lesbian daughter.
There's some multiverse stuff, and some cringe comedy like people kung-fu fighting with dildos up their asses, but at the core of it it's a family drama and I'm personally not really into that sort of thing.
 
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I enjoyed it. I did my best to go in blind and only really knew that it had something to do with multiple universes and googly eyes. I'm inclined to watch almost anything with Michelle Yeoh in it and the fact that it turned out to also have James Hong in it was an unexpected delight. I didn't know the actor who played her husband (yes, yes - everyone keeps saying he's the kid from the Indiana Jones movie, still don't know him, leave it) is great. Outside of those particularly enjoyable performances it's not like anybody else in the movie isn't good.

Certainly a movie I enjoyed and would recommend (to the right people). Like others here I found the hotdog universe off-putting. In my case I simply found it physically gross more than I was put off by silliness of it.

The lesbian daughter aspect - it's sad how much decades of aggressive idpol have affected me despite my best efforts. Once I wouldn't have cared that the daughter was lesbian and would have reacted to the story of coming out to her grandfather sympathetically. Would certainly have been on her side. Nowadays, though of course I'm not against it, there's a negative to seeing it in the movie simply out of counter reaction to LGBTQ politics. It feels like you can't have a character just be a lesbian without feeling you're being lectured and judged, even though this film does neither. Decades of being shouted at about tolerance have brought me to the point where if a "minority" group appears on screen it feels artificial. Once I wouldn't have even noticed.

The film wasn't quite as good as I'd hoped. It was really strongly recommended to me. It was great in the first third. Not quite as good in the rest but I liked the message of the film at the end. Of her "learning to fight like you [her husband]".

I felt sad at the part were Racacoonie was being taken away.
 
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