Everything Everywhere All at Once

[metirish]

What did I just watch? I thought this movie was pure tripe.

[Frayed Knot]

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.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

The first time they went kung-fu it was fun, the next 25 weren't as fun.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: 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.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I'm the only one who dug it.

[MFS62]

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.



Later

[Lefty Specialist]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: I'm the only one who dug it.

No, you're not. I loved it; my wife hated it.

[kcmets]

Lefty Specialist wrote: I loved it; my wife hated it.

Opposite here in our household polling.

[metsmarathon]

i gotta get around to seeing it...

[MFS62]

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.



Later

[Frayed Knot]

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.

[A Boy Named Seo]

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.