The 3rd-best film of the 21st Century for me, that's how much I loved it.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 26 December 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
The multiverse aspect of it is <1% of the interest for me. Favourite part is the relationship between the husband & wife which is almost exactly the relationship between me & my wife.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 26 December 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
sorry bro!
― Nhex, Monday, 26 December 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
for folks who just couldn't with this, how much was the hype? i cannot wrap my head around going into this cold and finding it bland!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 26 December 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
I fucking HATE The Matrix.
I don't think I've ever known anyone who feels this strongly about it.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 26 December 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
the Matrix is Woah-Dude-Camp, I for one am very fond of Woah-Dude-Camp, but it really rubs some people up the wrong way.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 26 December 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
What finally prompted me to watch this was seeing some of The Daniels' pretty good choices for their upcoming film series at Lincoln Center; particularly Mister Lonely, which I saw for the first time recently and thought got a raw deal when it came out.
The great actors carry this intermittently until the pacing and the flying spaghetti monster-level writing just exhausts any goodwill with which I approached it. The sheer number of Bjork album cover versions of the cast that flash by are impressive but otherwise this doesn't even rise to the level of a Tom Robbins novel, philosophically or creatively. The part with the telepathic rocks in particular made me feel like I was browsing cards at a boutique stationary store. I had no idea before watching that the Russo Brothers, kings of paying fraudulent lip service to great auteurs, were executive producers until the end credits, but that makes sense.
― Chris L, Monday, 16 January 2023 02:06 (one year ago) link
I thought this was really interesting for the first twenty minutes or so and then was exhausting. I can't recommend it to anyone who would not be on board after that.
It was redemptive in the end though, which kind of made up for the chaos and incoherence of the story in between
― Dan S, Monday, 16 January 2023 02:24 (one year ago) link
Okay getting some Oscar noms was always going to be kinda neat if it happened...LEADING them? In double digits? Cool.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link
probably bcz they entered the speed force
― more crankable (sic), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
Very happy for this film and its creators
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
The Daniels just made everyone of the #DGA nominated directors and the entire audience do a theatre warmup. This is a first, and a delight! #dgaawards pic.twitter.com/op3il6bts0— Paris Barclay (@Harparbar) February 18, 2023
The backlash is nearly here.
― Chris L, Monday, 20 February 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link
there's been grumbling all year on the internet. probably in this thread!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
Backlash, what backlash:
Between winning the top honors at the Directors Guild Awards last weekend and the Producers and Screen Actors Guild awards this weekend...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2023 06:13 (one year ago) link
I still don't love it, but I agree that it would be an interesting Best Picture winner.
in case i wasn't already convinced that EEAAO would be one of the most fun & formally unbound Best Picture winners ever — an ecstatic nail in the coffin of the Oscar movies that have ossified Hollywood for so long — it's making all the right people utterly shit their brains out. pic.twitter.com/4GN3zFOZ0o— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) February 26, 2023
― jaymc, Monday, 27 February 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
who is he quoting?
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 27 February 2023 14:15 (one year ago) link
Jeff Wells
― groovypanda, Monday, 27 February 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
All I know about this film is that my sister hated it and I mean HATED it.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 27 February 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link
Where would the movie realm be right now if Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert had never dreamt and maneuvered their way into a certain A24 orbit that has strangely transformed itself into a Millennial consciousness brand that is darkening many more brows than just my own?Hard to say but boy, my heart is not only bleeding right now but staining the wood floors and certainly the carpets. And for some reason a lyric from a mediocre Jimmy Webb song is filling my head…”I don’t think that I can take it ‘cause it took so long to bake it, and we’ll never have that recipe again.” The bad guys are winning!There are few events presently unfolding on the global stage that deliver more in the way of moral clarity than Ukrainians fighting tooth and nail against the rank evil of Vladimir Putin. If you can’t or won’t put aside peripheral matters and grasp which side is with the angels in this conflict, I don’t know what to say to you. Except that a certain moral fiber or awareness is clearly missing deep down — that your sense of humanity is minus an essential component.Either you understand that Everything Everywhere All At Once represents not just an aesthetic pestilence but a terrible forced banality…a film that’s a good deal less about verse-jumping and spiritual dreamscapes and a lot more about pulp Marvelism and the relentless drumbeat of identity politics (Asian + queer), or you don’t. Or you do get this and you don’t care, in which case we’re all fucked anyway.We all understand, sadly, that a certain either-or mindset, born of a certain malevolent social-media logic, has settled into award-season consciousness.Last year at this time a fundamental shift of allegiance among the Academy middle-grounders happened…a moment when it became clear that a weird 1920s western about repressed queer desire and a refusal to bathe and an anthrax murder scenario just couldn’t be the Best Picture standard bearer, and that a generally decent but underwhelming family fable about singing, destiny and deafness had to replace it…my God, what a totally myopic, solitary confinement prison–cell choice that was!But it happened, sadly, and what were we left with at the end? Nothing…nothing but a feeling of being surrounded and enveloped by mediocre minds (i.e., the degraded identity-politics principles that flooded the delta when SAG became SAG-AFTRA).And this year and right now, we’re back in that same dank prison cell with a choice between a multiversian IRS audit-meets-queer politics Marvel film that has stymied and suffocated people of taste and perspective in every corner of the globe and certainly among the storied 45-plus community…a choice between a film by the makers of a metaphysical fart movie called Swiss Army Man and a smart, crafty, populist-pleasure machine that saved the film industry’s ass (in the view of no less a personage than Steven Spielberg).God help us but the SAG-AFTRA philistines have apparently decided to choose, for the fifth time since the 2017 Oscar ceremony, identity politics symbolism over other considerations…again. Moonlight, Parasite, Nomadland, CODA, EEAAO.Talk about The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant or The Bitter Tea of General Yen. Or, you know, anything using the word bitter.Friendo: An Academy voting member passed this along: “One could state with absolute clarity that this year’s Oscar race is a spiritual tug–of–war for the Academy’s soul. Choose quality or choose woke. And it looks like the proverbial ‘they’ are going to choose No Academy for Older White Men and Their Wives.“Henceforth we will be swimming in a sea of mediocrities at the Oscars from now on. The Salieris of the film world have now officially taken over. Let the virtue-signaling continue. It’s appalling. I can’t believe they’re going to give a BP Oscar to these pseudo-artiste clowns who made a film about a farting corpse. Jesus wept.”
Hard to say but boy, my heart is not only bleeding right now but staining the wood floors and certainly the carpets. And for some reason a lyric from a mediocre Jimmy Webb song is filling my head…”I don’t think that I can take it ‘cause it took so long to bake it, and we’ll never have that recipe again.” The bad guys are winning!
There are few events presently unfolding on the global stage that deliver more in the way of moral clarity than Ukrainians fighting tooth and nail against the rank evil of Vladimir Putin. If you can’t or won’t put aside peripheral matters and grasp which side is with the angels in this conflict, I don’t know what to say to you. Except that a certain moral fiber or awareness is clearly missing deep down — that your sense of humanity is minus an essential component.
Either you understand that Everything Everywhere All At Once represents not just an aesthetic pestilence but a terrible forced banality…a film that’s a good deal less about verse-jumping and spiritual dreamscapes and a lot more about pulp Marvelism and the relentless drumbeat of identity politics (Asian + queer), or you don’t. Or you do get this and you don’t care, in which case we’re all fucked anyway.
We all understand, sadly, that a certain either-or mindset, born of a certain malevolent social-media logic, has settled into award-season consciousness.
Last year at this time a fundamental shift of allegiance among the Academy middle-grounders happened…a moment when it became clear that a weird 1920s western about repressed queer desire and a refusal to bathe and an anthrax murder scenario just couldn’t be the Best Picture standard bearer, and that a generally decent but underwhelming family fable about singing, destiny and deafness had to replace it…my God, what a totally myopic, solitary confinement prison–cell choice that was!
But it happened, sadly, and what were we left with at the end? Nothing…nothing but a feeling of being surrounded and enveloped by mediocre minds (i.e., the degraded identity-politics principles that flooded the delta when SAG became SAG-AFTRA).
And this year and right now, we’re back in that same dank prison cell with a choice between a multiversian IRS audit-meets-queer politics Marvel film that has stymied and suffocated people of taste and perspective in every corner of the globe and certainly among the storied 45-plus community…a choice between a film by the makers of a metaphysical fart movie called Swiss Army Man and a smart, crafty, populist-pleasure machine that saved the film industry’s ass (in the view of no less a personage than Steven Spielberg).
God help us but the SAG-AFTRA philistines have apparently decided to choose, for the fifth time since the 2017 Oscar ceremony, identity politics symbolism over other considerations…again. Moonlight, Parasite, Nomadland, CODA, EEAAO.
Talk about The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant or The Bitter Tea of General Yen. Or, you know, anything using the word bitter.
Friendo: An Academy voting member passed this along: “One could state with absolute clarity that this year’s Oscar race is a spiritual tug–of–war for the Academy’s soul. Choose quality or choose woke. And it looks like the proverbial ‘they’ are going to choose No Academy for Older White Men and Their Wives.
“Henceforth we will be swimming in a sea of mediocrities at the Oscars from now on. The Salieris of the film world have now officially taken over. Let the virtue-signaling continue. It’s appalling. I can’t believe they’re going to give a BP Oscar to these pseudo-artiste clowns who made a film about a farting corpse. Jesus wept.”
― groovypanda, Monday, 27 February 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
And that friend’s name…was Mel Gibson. I’m Paul Harvey.I honestly can’t tell what the other film Wells is positing as an alternate choice. Top Gun: Maverick? Avatar 2?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
Assumed it was Spielberg's?
― groovypanda, Monday, 27 February 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
Nah, the Spielberg reference is clearly not to his own film. (And _The Fablemans_ wasn’t a massive blockbuster.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
Jeffrey Wells=Movie Lefsetz
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 February 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
Although maybe I misread the brackets bit as I'm guessing he's quoting Spielberg talking about another film? xp
― groovypanda, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
It's TG Maverick:
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/steven-spielberg-tom-cruise-saved-hollywood
― groovypanda, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 February 2023 15:03 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah he’s terrible. I honestly expected that Ukraine paragraph to be about how poor Vlad is just misunderstood
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
wow that whole thing is many magnitudes worse than what ehrlich quoted. i am not tuned in enough to know much about wells but sounds like this is basically his m.o.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
putin's name in gossip-rag bold like he's rumored to be in talks to helm something is v funny
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
This was fine. Not my thing but totally fine, in the end. Stephanie Hsu not too surprisingly the MVP for me.
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Monday, 27 February 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
And Jeffrey Wells and Sasha Stone are in some kind of race to the bottom rn
Wells has been sort of an anti-woke wannabe edgelord reactionary for decades at this point.
This movie is Not My Thing x 10. It's like a movie made to impress people that have not seen a movie for 20 years. Though of course people legit love it, so who am I to say, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 February 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
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
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 27 February 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
Now that rules.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
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
― jaymc, Monday, 27 February 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
Well worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DJjaB-xuY
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Monday, 27 February 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
Good profile I thought https://www.vulture.com/article/daniels-daniel-kwan-daniel-scheinert-oscars-everything-everywhere-all-at-once.htmlAnd 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.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
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
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
bc acting oscars often reward lifetime achievement instead of actually good performances?
― na (NA), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
dunno seems pretty obvious to me
Except when they don't (e.g. Lauren Bacall, Sylvester Stallone, Ruby Dee, Mickey Rourke).
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
that nepo baby article really broke JLC's brain. every time she talks now she opens with NOT BAD FOR A NEPO BABY!!! lol
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 17:20 (one year ago) link
Hahah this is VERY true.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
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
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
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
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link
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.)
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:48 (one year ago) link
Freaky Friday maybe. I would've nominated her for Wanda.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:50 (one year ago) link
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
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 2 March 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link
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
― H in Addis, Thursday, 2 March 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link