literally this. i watch maybe 3-4 new films every year, after hard and thorough vetting. this one is loved by unironical redditors and rlmtards and has that le whacky asian feel. HARD PASS!
I watched the whole thing. Wish I had switched it off, it doesn't get any better and fails to justify its obnoxious runtime. I will say it was an actual movie, and I'd be interested in seeing these guys do more and get better.
Don't know anything about the movie but this thread stink of Cinemaphile contrarianism because normies ate it up or something and it's actually probably pretty good. Anyway, I guess I'll find out when I watch it a couple of months from now or whatever.
Lmao like what? Vast majority of posts praise the movie. Not only is there barely any actual real complaints, but among the actual complaints the only one that's actually a genuine criticism is that it has too long of a run time.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Have to agree with the posters saying the fights are weak and that the humor is childish. You have SEVERE confirmation if you’re reading through this thread and walk away thinking there aren’t any “real” complaints, which means nothing anyway, whether you think they’re real or not, pseud.
2 years ago
Anonymous
*confirmation bias that is
2 years ago
Anonymous
Let me spell it out for you. The reason why this movie is ultimately midwit is because it utilizes art as a therapeutic mechanism instead of actually challenging the audience and suggesting bold ideas. Self-pitying millennials and zoomers who also have conservative family members, generational trauma, entitlements about their identities, existential despair, etc are supposed to watch this movie and see it as a source of comfort. This is not what art is supposed to be. It's supposed to challenge the audience, invite contemplation and show unique dimensions of the human condition. This film however is designed to answer the audience's expectations, and the expectations of our era is endless dopamine and quirky ironic humor that rejects dramatic sincerity.
So what you get is a movie that is actually very cowardly. When confronted with the infinite bliss of creation and universal grandeur, it instead tells people that they're better off retreating inwards and staying inside their own mediocrity since the universe is pointless and "confusing" anyways. It conditions people to not aspire towards higher values and instead accept the destitution of our current world. The directors themselves have described the film as a cathartic experience. Overall this movie is a temporary ailment to numb you from despair but it provides no concrete solutions, which is why the bloated screenplay literally explains the message several different times in multiple different climax sequences. As the movie concedes, nothing matters and the universe is too confusing to solve, so don't even bother. Just be a nice person (and accept your gay genetic-dead end daughter). Peak McDonald's arthouse.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nailed it. For a movie that’s oh so quirky and silly and full of infinite possibilities it plays it VERY safe and sticks to things that are very familiar for laughs; dildos and everything bagels. Two things every Redditor/New Yorker is very familiar with. No new message.
It's not so much Cinemaphile contrarianism, because even normies didn't go see it (it didn't even make $100mil), but it's more likely Cinemaphile's anti-left policy going a bit unchecked. I don't buy into all this lefty shit either, but I gave it a chance and despite the lesbian daughter and the Chinese protaganists, it's actually pretty funny.
The only thing that bugged me was trying to remember where I'd seen the dad from before, turned out he was the Chinese inventory kid from Goonies.
for me it’s nothing to do with leftism. I actually have a ton of leftist beliefs. I just find it to be emblematic of modern spiritual/ philosophical poison that impacts everyone, not just the left or right
no it isn’t if you’re a non midwit. it’s about sugar coating nihilism with pointless, meaningless platitudes that don’t in any way challenge the actual fundamental claims of nihilism about reality. it’s a dishonest little cope lie basically asking people not to really think about it and putting some saccharine popsci pabulum on top of nothingness hoping you won’t notice what’s underneath. modern society in a nutshell.
The movie was about putting family first, how is that poisonous?
>saccharine popsci pabulum on top of nothingness hoping you won’t notice what’s underneath. modern society in a nutshell.
Holy shit you sound like a midwit Moviebob fan yourself.
2 years ago
Anonymous
except that fat homosexual probably loved this movie because it’s capeshit tier audience wank that tries to pretend nothingness and meaninglessness is actually heckin wholesome if you just turn your brain off and consume and don’t think about it. heckin multiverse dude
Despite your wordy paragraph you were filtered. The movie is about finding in meaning in meaninglessness. Living for the good while dealing with the overwhelming bad, this is existentialism 101. Just confirms that I share this board with dunces.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>The movie is about finding in meaning in meaninglessness.
Nah you're just easily manipulated by superficial sentimentality and sad music.
2 years ago
Anonymous
No it isn’t. Kierkegaard is the father of existentialism and didn’t just spurt out midwit platitudes about “finding meaning”. You have no idea what you are talking about. Existentialism means philosophy to do with the fact of existence, and taking your existence seriously. It doesn’t mean sentimental copes trying to cover up your horrible empty view of reality.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>The movie is about finding in meaning in meaninglessness
thats literally what he said
I don't think most people need to think about these questions seriously, for someone living from day to day with constant problems a little affirmation of their hardship is all they need. Someone who knows you need to read books instead of watching movies to learn something also can still have a good time with the movie.
2 years ago
Anonymous
There’s nothing life affirming about the movie if you actually think for more than a second about what it fundamentally espouses.
>no it isn’t if you’re a non midwit. it’s about sugar coating nihilism with pointless, meaningless platitudes that don’t in any way challenge the actual fundamental claims of nihilism about reality. it’s a dishonest little cope lie basically asking people not to really think about it and putting some saccharine popsci pabulum on top of nothingness hoping you won’t notice what’s underneath. modern society in a nutshell.
glad I didn't even need to watch this movie to know that would be case. Hollywood doesn't want you to come to real conclusions, they want you to ignore them.
The green ear pieces let your mind travel to a different version of yourself in a parallel reality. Which reality you go to is directed by the action you do (or your mental state) at the same time as you press the green button on the headset.
Normally you'd be sent to a 'neighboring' reality as happened when Evelyn insincerely said 'I love you' which just shot here onto the close-by alternate path where instead of punching the IRS lady she left and got in the car to go finish her taxes.
Doing something 'weird' is explained as doing a specific statistically unlikely action will allow you to catapult past the nearby realities and end up in a specific reality where you could tap into knowledge/skills you need (ex. deciding not to run away to America leads you on a path to learn martial arts and become a movie star). Doing random shit without a plan does work at catapulting you to a far away reality but with no control over where you'll end up (peeing yourself = 100k years of evolution with hotdog fingers, swallowing a frog ornament = bird language, chugging orange soda = benihana chef in world with talking raccoons)
No, because i have no idea what it is. No one ever named the pic, despite being posted for some time now. And i am not searching for a chink, the algorhythm will think i am gay.
Watched it all the way through. Interesting concept, some good moments, decent acting, but could’ve used some serious editing to trim it up and cut a few jokes and plot lines that were unnecessary or beaten to death.
>This year’s fallen movie standards match the disappointment felt everywhere — in style, messaging, and leadership. Fanboy favorite Everything Everywhere All at Once epitomized the faithlessness at the heart of comic-book culture.
> Unconcerned about the existence or nature of God, Evelyn is caught up in a materialistic world of new beliefs (her beta-male husband, lesbian daughter, and feminist IRS inspector). The film’s writing-directing team the Daniels (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, respectively Asian and Caucasian) challenge the real world by surrounding Evelyn in a circus-like multiverse — the new atheist box-office utopia. Evelyn’s journey toward self-empowerment comes down to tortured Buddhism — just as the Daniels make tortured, semi-jokey art films.
>Unschooled Marvel addicts who never heard of Kafka, Buñuel, or Chuck Jones easily fall for the entropy farce. The Daniels refuse narrative convention in order to represent our culture’s gradual decline into disorder. Their millennial solipsism — Evelyn against the world, through various dimensions — celebrates autism as insight.
>The film’s ultimate message: “Be Kind,” spoken by two rocks. It’s a childish palliative, unlike the recent self-critical protest songs by Van Morrison and Bob Dylan that insist on responsible personal choices. Yeoh brings adult stability to the blackout-skit chaos and cast of “stupid human” clowns. But the Daniels reduce life to “just a statistical inevitability, it’s nothing special.”
Marvel addicts who never heard of Kafka, Buñuel, or Chuck Jones easily fall for the entropy farce. The Daniels refuse narrative convention in order to represent our culture’s gradual decline into disorder. Their millennial solipsism — Evelyn against the world, through various dimensions — celebrates autism as insight.
>dude you are just a temporary collection of meaningless mathematically pre determined spasmatic particles and you will suffer and cease to exist as well as every other conscious being and all the art and poetry we make is a meaningless lie that doesn’t actually indicate any fundamental truth >but le family and le love 🙂 so it’s actually good
I find this stuff actually evil
>NOTHING MATTERS OR HAS ANY FUNDAMENTAL MEANING ITS ALL A CRUEL JOKE THAT OCCURRED FOR NO REASON >but be kind
Why should I lol?
reverse of this is the point of De Sade. Nothing matters so torture and kill as much people as possible for your own pleasure, cause your pleasure matters and their not. Read Juliette
You would think that for a movie that takes so many liberties with its approach to story telling, what with the whole Rick and Morty bullshit/Reddit multiverse thing, it wouldn’t be so god damn BORING. The lead actress carries but it’s not enough
>its not for you and that's alright
Translation: stop criticizing this thing I liked
We’re allowed to criticize and point out what we didn’t like about this movie, thank you anon, kindly take a seat.
hey man, thats your headcanon
whatever criticism you have with this movie is valid and has a reason for why you have such opinions
all im saying is that its fine to not like it
in the end, what matters is what you love and what you're doing to remember it
so keep doing what makes you happy anon
I liked it and laughed out loud to the point of tears a couple of times. Sure, the constant reliance on dildos, and the lesbian shit, and the big existential threat just being a bagel could've been cut and made the film much better, but it was the funniest film I've seen for a while.
Simply amazing film. Strange to me how Cinemaphile would unequivocally love Swiss Army Man, about a lonely loser, and yet despise this film, about an Asian family, so much. Same writers and directors, and arguably a better film overall.
Was in the theater so I couldn’t turn it off. Started with some interesting ideas and got progressively worse. Eventually I just wanted it to be over. Still a better multiverse movie than Dr Strange 2.
>I liked it and laughed out loud to the point of tears a couple of times. Sure, the constant reliance on dildos, and the lesbian shit, and the big existential threat just being a bagel could've been cut and made the film much better, but it was the funniest film I've seen for a while.
I find it strange how hard people get filtered by this. I agree it's too long. And I agree it's only "ok" but the film plays out as "babby's first nihilism counter argument." And people either find it mind boggling and unearthing some universal or write it off as trite pseudo-capeshit. Aesthetically it was pretty fun. And thematically it was simple but optimistic. It's really just a mid movie. Brainlets beware.
yeah that really is the dumbest post in the thread. >Cinemaphile GOT FILTERED even though the movie sucks. It should win an award for moronation right after End Game gets its Oscar for CGI
It's not sincere though, because the majority of the movie presents it in association with wacky irony and meta humor. It doesn't take itself seriously until it suddenly does, and the soundtrack is what convinces most people that it works. It doesn't.
It was -okay-
It abused the "lol random" humor. Even though it made sense it, and the idea of doing a random thing to connect to an alternate reality was fun at first, it overstayed its welcome
The message is great but the execution made me cringe multiple times
The zooming in their still faces was annoying.
It was obvious that the girl was too unathletic to pull off the moves she was trying to do and it looked awkward.
The everything bagel concept was awful. It's a "omg so relatable" type of idea only for 20-something-year-old white girls.
Conceptually interesting, but ultimately it was just okay
People will say it's good for the concept only
I don't regret watching it, but I do agree that people overhyped it. The trailer had me hoping Hollywood was going to recognize Michelle Yeoh's Hong Kong days, instead of the boring drama actress she's been over here. Perhaps I'm too fricking old and didn't cotton to the lel so random humor in the movie. It's not awful, but I'm hard pressed to recommend it to friends when it's full of deviant absurdity like nunchuck dildos and butt plugs.
Bobby Lee did turn in an impressive role as Joy. Hope he wins the Oscar.
>le RLM video comes out and says they like this movie, that means i must come onto Cinemaphile and talk shit about how it sucks
>THERES NO WAY ANYONE COULD DISLIKE THIS THING THAT I LIKED NOOOOOOO
What was fine about it? It has a good opening 10-15 minutes, lead actress and the husband carry it HARD, but it’s just vapid and the humor is childish. The fight scenes didn’t look good, the hits didn’t look heavy and satisfying, the choreography itself was boring.
The theme of even in a multiverse of possibilities, accepting your circumstances in the universe you live in was neat. However I do agree that the humor was weak, and the fight choreography and filming was typical Hollywood faux Hong Kong cinema action. Short Round was trying very hard to be Great Value Jackie Chan. Michelle Yeoh, Brian Le, and Andy Le probably could have pulled off something competent by themselves; but that's not what this movie is about and Hollywood movie goers are fine with this level of fight choreography and wide hit filming. This is an industry that has settled on video game cutscenes as the standard for action...
Those were exactly my thoughts on the fights. Which is a shame because if the fights were better, it could have overcome its juvenility which it sounds like we both identified. It IS a fight movie, or at least purports to be. I would put its approach to the multiverse concept in that category as well. I’m not saying this just to meme it to death, but it really did feel like Rick and Morty level potty humor/multiverse.
It had a very strong performance from the Waymond actor, the story is unique, and it was refreshing to have optimistic themes championed unironically in the cesspit of misery that is modern Hollywood. I also apparently didn't hate the fight scenes as much as you did.
Most of the attempts at humor were too puerile for my tastes and some of them were frustratingly repetitive. It also did get overexpository at times. But overall I thought it was a good watch.
Agreed that Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan are excellent actors. They are the only reason I finished it
It had a very strong performance from the Waymond actor, the story is unique, and it was refreshing to have optimistic themes championed unironically in the cesspit of misery that is modern Hollywood. I also apparently didn't hate the fight scenes as much as you did.
Most of the attempts at humor were too puerile for my tastes and some of them were frustratingly repetitive. It also did get overexpository at times. But overall I thought it was a good watch.
I really loved this film. I can say this can become my favorite if I watch 2-3 more times and really appreciate the aesthetics of it. I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at some parts of it, because I did, but that's not the reason why it's good for me. I liked it because it feels like it doesn't take itself seriously but at the same time, it kinda does. And sure, you can call Waymond beta male, but his character, imo, is good, albeit a bit shallow. I really love this film. The style, the theme. I don't mind the lesbian stuff and the mostly asian cast stuff because that is not what makes a movie.
If you all have any good or favorite movie recommendations with the same themes (like I Heart Huckabees, in that other reply), I would like to know
The daughter actress is terrible and ruins the whole fricking movie
I have hardcore yellow fever and even I couldn't find her attractive or charismatic
No energ, no charisma, terrible voice
Playing a "monotone" character is very hard and requires an actor with very good voice for it, because it's hard to showcase a character while speaking in the same tone that's flat and she couldn't pull it off at all
also it uses slow mo a bit too much, it could've been a bit faster but maybe it would've been too confusing to look at
I don't turn off films but it was truly shit movie.
I dislike calling things Reddit but it would be most appropriate way to describe this steaming pile of shit.
Holy shit every single one of those posts literally just says >i didn't like the fights >i thought the humor was childish
Wow incredible complaints. Very valid points. Top notch criticism i mean really, how can anyone ever retort that?
If i just state my opinion that the fights and comedy were both great, then what?
Stop being moronic.
Hey man, some people REALLY like eating shit. If I were to point out that shit isn’t a good source of food, and you tell me you like eating shit, I guess it’s settled then.
>skips the armond whote review
not a surprise
leftists thrive on dishonesty
Let me spell it out for you. The reason why this movie is ultimately midwit is because it utilizes art as a therapeutic mechanism instead of actually challenging the audience and suggesting bold ideas. Self-pitying millennials and zoomers who also have conservative family members, generational trauma, entitlements about their identities, existential despair, etc are supposed to watch this movie and see it as a source of comfort. This is not what art is supposed to be. It's supposed to challenge the audience, invite contemplation and show unique dimensions of the human condition. This film however is designed to answer the audience's expectations, and the expectations of our era is endless dopamine and quirky ironic humor that rejects dramatic sincerity.
So what you get is a movie that is actually very cowardly. When confronted with the infinite bliss of creation and universal grandeur, it instead tells people that they're better off retreating inwards and staying inside their own mediocrity since the universe is pointless and "confusing" anyways. It conditions people to not aspire towards higher values and instead accept the destitution of our current world. The directors themselves have described the film as a cathartic experience. Overall this movie is a temporary ailment to numb you from despair but it provides no concrete solutions, which is why the bloated screenplay literally explains the message several different times in multiple different climax sequences. As the movie concedes, nothing matters and the universe is too confusing to solve, so don't even bother. Just be a nice person (and accept your gay genetic-dead end daughter). Peak McDonald's arthouse.
never watched it never will
literally this. i watch maybe 3-4 new films every year, after hard and thorough vetting. this one is loved by unironical redditors and rlmtards and has that le whacky asian feel. HARD PASS!
epic Cinemaphile moment bro
Unironically a good heuristic
Good call. I watched the whole thing. It was shit.
turned it off after -1 minutes
>People like this exists
Really tired of idiots writing “I CRIED” in reviews as if that was some indicative of quality or something. b***h, you are just depressed.
You don't cry from depresssion. You cry when you're sad. Depression is when you don't feel anything at all for months.
I miss when movies made me cry. Now I'm a cynical adult who shitposts here.
I watched the whole thing. Wish I had switched it off, it doesn't get any better and fails to justify its obnoxious runtime. I will say it was an actual movie, and I'd be interested in seeing these guys do more and get better.
Don't know anything about the movie but this thread stink of Cinemaphile contrarianism because normies ate it up or something and it's actually probably pretty good. Anyway, I guess I'll find out when I watch it a couple of months from now or whatever.
It’s very good, Cinemaphile is full of angry virgins.
what a convincing argument
Almost as convincing as saying "dude i turned it off after 30 mins it sucks"?
I think there’s a lot of people in this thread alone posting very valid criticism of the movie but sure dude.
Lmao like what? Vast majority of posts praise the movie. Not only is there barely any actual real complaints, but among the actual complaints the only one that's actually a genuine criticism is that it has too long of a run time.
Have to agree with the posters saying the fights are weak and that the humor is childish. You have SEVERE confirmation if you’re reading through this thread and walk away thinking there aren’t any “real” complaints, which means nothing anyway, whether you think they’re real or not, pseud.
*confirmation bias that is
Let me spell it out for you. The reason why this movie is ultimately midwit is because it utilizes art as a therapeutic mechanism instead of actually challenging the audience and suggesting bold ideas. Self-pitying millennials and zoomers who also have conservative family members, generational trauma, entitlements about their identities, existential despair, etc are supposed to watch this movie and see it as a source of comfort. This is not what art is supposed to be. It's supposed to challenge the audience, invite contemplation and show unique dimensions of the human condition. This film however is designed to answer the audience's expectations, and the expectations of our era is endless dopamine and quirky ironic humor that rejects dramatic sincerity.
So what you get is a movie that is actually very cowardly. When confronted with the infinite bliss of creation and universal grandeur, it instead tells people that they're better off retreating inwards and staying inside their own mediocrity since the universe is pointless and "confusing" anyways. It conditions people to not aspire towards higher values and instead accept the destitution of our current world. The directors themselves have described the film as a cathartic experience. Overall this movie is a temporary ailment to numb you from despair but it provides no concrete solutions, which is why the bloated screenplay literally explains the message several different times in multiple different climax sequences. As the movie concedes, nothing matters and the universe is too confusing to solve, so don't even bother. Just be a nice person (and accept your gay genetic-dead end daughter). Peak McDonald's arthouse.
Nailed it. For a movie that’s oh so quirky and silly and full of infinite possibilities it plays it VERY safe and sticks to things that are very familiar for laughs; dildos and everything bagels. Two things every Redditor/New Yorker is very familiar with. No new message.
It's not so much Cinemaphile contrarianism, because even normies didn't go see it (it didn't even make $100mil), but it's more likely Cinemaphile's anti-left policy going a bit unchecked. I don't buy into all this lefty shit either, but I gave it a chance and despite the lesbian daughter and the Chinese protaganists, it's actually pretty funny.
The only thing that bugged me was trying to remember where I'd seen the dad from before, turned out he was the Chinese inventory kid from Goonies.
for me it’s nothing to do with leftism. I actually have a ton of leftist beliefs. I just find it to be emblematic of modern spiritual/ philosophical poison that impacts everyone, not just the left or right
The movie was about putting family first, how is that poisonous?
>emblematic of modern spiritual/ philosophical poison
You haven't watched the movie have you. It's literally about fighting nihilism.
no it isn’t if you’re a non midwit. it’s about sugar coating nihilism with pointless, meaningless platitudes that don’t in any way challenge the actual fundamental claims of nihilism about reality. it’s a dishonest little cope lie basically asking people not to really think about it and putting some saccharine popsci pabulum on top of nothingness hoping you won’t notice what’s underneath. modern society in a nutshell.
see above
>saccharine popsci pabulum on top of nothingness hoping you won’t notice what’s underneath. modern society in a nutshell.
Holy shit you sound like a midwit Moviebob fan yourself.
except that fat homosexual probably loved this movie because it’s capeshit tier audience wank that tries to pretend nothingness and meaninglessness is actually heckin wholesome if you just turn your brain off and consume and don’t think about it. heckin multiverse dude
Despite your wordy paragraph you were filtered. The movie is about finding in meaning in meaninglessness. Living for the good while dealing with the overwhelming bad, this is existentialism 101. Just confirms that I share this board with dunces.
>The movie is about finding in meaning in meaninglessness.
Nah you're just easily manipulated by superficial sentimentality and sad music.
No it isn’t. Kierkegaard is the father of existentialism and didn’t just spurt out midwit platitudes about “finding meaning”. You have no idea what you are talking about. Existentialism means philosophy to do with the fact of existence, and taking your existence seriously. It doesn’t mean sentimental copes trying to cover up your horrible empty view of reality.
>The movie is about finding in meaning in meaninglessness
thats literally what he said
I don't think most people need to think about these questions seriously, for someone living from day to day with constant problems a little affirmation of their hardship is all they need. Someone who knows you need to read books instead of watching movies to learn something also can still have a good time with the movie.
There’s nothing life affirming about the movie if you actually think for more than a second about what it fundamentally espouses.
>no it isn’t if you’re a non midwit. it’s about sugar coating nihilism with pointless, meaningless platitudes that don’t in any way challenge the actual fundamental claims of nihilism about reality. it’s a dishonest little cope lie basically asking people not to really think about it and putting some saccharine popsci pabulum on top of nothingness hoping you won’t notice what’s underneath. modern society in a nutshell.
glad I didn't even need to watch this movie to know that would be case. Hollywood doesn't want you to come to real conclusions, they want you to ignore them.
i only made it until they started with the ching chong talk. i'm not reading a movie ffs.
I don't watch tv or film.
i saw dildos posted here so i never turned it on
Too bad, you're missing out on the funniest shit ever!
short round in the back there is not happy about it
I don’t understand why this happened. How does being weird give you strength?
The asiatic explained it, are you not familiar with the Infinite Improbability Drive? It's kinda like that
Don't try to think about it. It's not supposed to make sense.
The green ear pieces let your mind travel to a different version of yourself in a parallel reality. Which reality you go to is directed by the action you do (or your mental state) at the same time as you press the green button on the headset.
Normally you'd be sent to a 'neighboring' reality as happened when Evelyn insincerely said 'I love you' which just shot here onto the close-by alternate path where instead of punching the IRS lady she left and got in the car to go finish her taxes.
Doing something 'weird' is explained as doing a specific statistically unlikely action will allow you to catapult past the nearby realities and end up in a specific reality where you could tap into knowledge/skills you need (ex. deciding not to run away to America leads you on a path to learn martial arts and become a movie star). Doing random shit without a plan does work at catapulting you to a far away reality but with no control over where you'll end up (peeing yourself = 100k years of evolution with hotdog fingers, swallowing a frog ornament = bird language, chugging orange soda = benihana chef in world with talking raccoons)
No, because i have no idea what it is. No one ever named the pic, despite being posted for some time now. And i am not searching for a chink, the algorhythm will think i am gay.
Literally same, made it just long enough for the first fight scene with the Fanny pack. Do the fights get better or is it just more of the same ?
It's just "look how fricking wacky and random we are" for nearly two hours. You made the right choice by turning it off.
Watched it all the way through. Interesting concept, some good moments, decent acting, but could’ve used some serious editing to trim it up and cut a few jokes and plot lines that were unnecessary or beaten to death.
it was alright, could've been 14m shorter though. Hate the fans, not the movie.
>fat lesbian daughter tries to destroy the universe with a donut
dumb, but agreed that it should have been called multiverse of madness
You guys have really sad lives
>projecting
Wasting 2h15m of my life on this movie, that would be sad
>This year’s fallen movie standards match the disappointment felt everywhere — in style, messaging, and leadership. Fanboy favorite Everything Everywhere All at Once epitomized the faithlessness at the heart of comic-book culture.
> Unconcerned about the existence or nature of God, Evelyn is caught up in a materialistic world of new beliefs (her beta-male husband, lesbian daughter, and feminist IRS inspector). The film’s writing-directing team the Daniels (Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, respectively Asian and Caucasian) challenge the real world by surrounding Evelyn in a circus-like multiverse — the new atheist box-office utopia. Evelyn’s journey toward self-empowerment comes down to tortured Buddhism — just as the Daniels make tortured, semi-jokey art films.
>Unschooled Marvel addicts who never heard of Kafka, Buñuel, or Chuck Jones easily fall for the entropy farce. The Daniels refuse narrative convention in order to represent our culture’s gradual decline into disorder. Their millennial solipsism — Evelyn against the world, through various dimensions — celebrates autism as insight.
>The film’s ultimate message: “Be Kind,” spoken by two rocks. It’s a childish palliative, unlike the recent self-critical protest songs by Van Morrison and Bob Dylan that insist on responsible personal choices. Yeoh brings adult stability to the blackout-skit chaos and cast of “stupid human” clowns. But the Daniels reduce life to “just a statistical inevitability, it’s nothing special.”
Can someone please morph Armond White and a Chad image
I agree with him but I unironically think RRR was better than Batman, Topgun, and EEAAO and an objectively great movie.
People say he’s contrarian but he’s spot on with this
>NOTHING MATTERS OR HAS ANY FUNDAMENTAL MEANING ITS ALL A CRUEL JOKE THAT OCCURRED FOR NO REASON
>but be kind
Why should I lol?
Marvel addicts who never heard of Kafka, Buñuel, or Chuck Jones easily fall for the entropy farce. The Daniels refuse narrative convention in order to represent our culture’s gradual decline into disorder. Their millennial solipsism — Evelyn against the world, through various dimensions — celebrates autism as insight.
rlm btfo
finally someone with more than 2 brain cells
watch I Heart Huckabees if you want existentialist kino
I know we call him 'based' at every opportunity, but this is unquestionably good analysis.
>dude you are just a temporary collection of meaningless mathematically pre determined spasmatic particles and you will suffer and cease to exist as well as every other conscious being and all the art and poetry we make is a meaningless lie that doesn’t actually indicate any fundamental truth
>but le family and le love 🙂 so it’s actually good
I find this stuff actually evil
reverse of this is the point of De Sade. Nothing matters so torture and kill as much people as possible for your own pleasure, cause your pleasure matters and their not. Read Juliette
more like de sade is the honest, non disingenuous version
Turned it on after 30 minutes. Anyone else?
You would think that for a movie that takes so many liberties with its approach to story telling, what with the whole Rick and Morty bullshit/Reddit multiverse thing, it wouldn’t be so god damn BORING. The lead actress carries but it’s not enough
>he tried to actually watch live action Rick and Morty
i turned it off after 30 seconds.
>DUDE SUPER CLEVER ARTHOUSE MIRROR CAMERA SHOT LMAO XD
>its not for you and that's alright
Translation: stop criticizing this thing I liked
We’re allowed to criticize and point out what we didn’t like about this movie, thank you anon, kindly take a seat.
hey man, thats your headcanon
whatever criticism you have with this movie is valid and has a reason for why you have such opinions
all im saying is that its fine to not like it
in the end, what matters is what you love and what you're doing to remember it
so keep doing what makes you happy anon
based positivity homosexual
hope u have a fantastic day man.
same here bro
you get yours and let not the world beat you down
I thought the Ratatouille joke was really funny.
I liked it and laughed out loud to the point of tears a couple of times. Sure, the constant reliance on dildos, and the lesbian shit, and the big existential threat just being a bagel could've been cut and made the film much better, but it was the funniest film I've seen for a while.
Simply amazing film. Strange to me how Cinemaphile would unequivocally love Swiss Army Man, about a lonely loser, and yet despise this film, about an Asian family, so much. Same writers and directors, and arguably a better film overall.
Its sense of humor is childish and the fights sucked. Simple.
Was the casting call for this movie asking exclusively for the ugliest chinks?
Was in the theater so I couldn’t turn it off. Started with some interesting ideas and got progressively worse. Eventually I just wanted it to be over. Still a better multiverse movie than Dr Strange 2.
>I liked it and laughed out loud to the point of tears a couple of times. Sure, the constant reliance on dildos, and the lesbian shit, and the big existential threat just being a bagel could've been cut and made the film much better, but it was the funniest film I've seen for a while.
I find it strange how hard people get filtered by this. I agree it's too long. And I agree it's only "ok" but the film plays out as "babby's first nihilism counter argument." And people either find it mind boggling and unearthing some universal or write it off as trite pseudo-capeshit. Aesthetically it was pretty fun. And thematically it was simple but optimistic. It's really just a mid movie. Brainlets beware.
>go to least intelligent forum ever created
>find it strange that everybody gets filtered
epic
It's not just here, it's everywhere man.
>just turn off your brain and consoom the mid-media
I love freckles 🙂 <3
>mid
kys
yeah that really is the dumbest post in the thread.
>Cinemaphile GOT FILTERED even though the movie sucks. It should win an award for moronation right after End Game gets its Oscar for CGI
>the film plays out as "babby's first nihilism counter argument.
nihilism only exists in the minds of people who are scared of their belief system deteriorating.
school shooters and drug addicts don't do stupid shit because of NOT having beliefs, they do it because of having harmful beliefs.
they have those harmful beliefs because society doesn't have proper foundational beliefs
>RLM finally posts a review of "it's okay"
>suddenly half the posts in these threads are "it's probably okay you guise calm down"
I haven't seen it. Never will. I don't fall for the new movie meme where everyone talks about this new media that I should see to fit in.
That's funny. I turned it on and missed the first 30 minutes.
The merging of sentimentality and vulgarity is bad for culture.
>sincerity bad
Take that stick out if your ass.
It's not sincere though, because the majority of the movie presents it in association with wacky irony and meta humor. It doesn't take itself seriously until it suddenly does, and the soundtrack is what convinces most people that it works. It doesn't.
I don't blame you. The movie fricking sucked.
Do not, I repeat, do NOT watch this movie under ANY circumstances.
It was -okay-
It abused the "lol random" humor. Even though it made sense it, and the idea of doing a random thing to connect to an alternate reality was fun at first, it overstayed its welcome
The message is great but the execution made me cringe multiple times
The zooming in their still faces was annoying.
It was obvious that the girl was too unathletic to pull off the moves she was trying to do and it looked awkward.
The everything bagel concept was awful. It's a "omg so relatable" type of idea only for 20-something-year-old white girls.
Conceptually interesting, but ultimately it was just okay
People will say it's good for the concept only
I regret watching this movie. People hyped it up too much
i dont regret watching it but I agree that it was waaaaaaaay overhyped
I don't regret watching it, but I do agree that people overhyped it. The trailer had me hoping Hollywood was going to recognize Michelle Yeoh's Hong Kong days, instead of the boring drama actress she's been over here. Perhaps I'm too fricking old and didn't cotton to the lel so random humor in the movie. It's not awful, but I'm hard pressed to recommend it to friends when it's full of deviant absurdity like nunchuck dildos and butt plugs.
Bobby Lee did turn in an impressive role as Joy. Hope he wins the Oscar.
Haven't watched a new movie since 2012 (dark knight rises with my friends) because I'm too intelligent and based
Went to see it at the cinema, if I wasn't with my Dad, I'd have walked out before they even left the laundromat.
I never walk away a theater no matter how bad the movie is.
But yeah, It was an insufferable piece of crap that didn´t deserve the praise .
Started watching the movie with this girl but after the fanny pack i started having sex so i don't know if the movie get better
Probably not and that seems to be right around where it lost a lot of people. For a kungfu movie the fights sure are shit
Nah, I turned it off way earlier. Looked like a movie exclusively made for twitter using americans.
Same. The moment i realized it wasnt ironic, but actually about multiverse bullshit i stopped.
>le RLM video comes out and says they like this movie, that means i must come onto Cinemaphile and talk shit about how it sucks
Cinemaphile always hated EEAAO.
My personal opinion? The movie was fine, but it was about 15 minutes too long. I might’ve enjoyed it more back in my 20s.
>THERES NO WAY ANYONE COULD DISLIKE THIS THING THAT I LIKED NOOOOOOO
What was fine about it? It has a good opening 10-15 minutes, lead actress and the husband carry it HARD, but it’s just vapid and the humor is childish. The fight scenes didn’t look good, the hits didn’t look heavy and satisfying, the choreography itself was boring.
The theme of even in a multiverse of possibilities, accepting your circumstances in the universe you live in was neat. However I do agree that the humor was weak, and the fight choreography and filming was typical Hollywood faux Hong Kong cinema action. Short Round was trying very hard to be Great Value Jackie Chan. Michelle Yeoh, Brian Le, and Andy Le probably could have pulled off something competent by themselves; but that's not what this movie is about and Hollywood movie goers are fine with this level of fight choreography and wide hit filming. This is an industry that has settled on video game cutscenes as the standard for action...
Those were exactly my thoughts on the fights. Which is a shame because if the fights were better, it could have overcome its juvenility which it sounds like we both identified. It IS a fight movie, or at least purports to be. I would put its approach to the multiverse concept in that category as well. I’m not saying this just to meme it to death, but it really did feel like Rick and Morty level potty humor/multiverse.
Agreed that Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan are excellent actors. They are the only reason I finished it
It had a very strong performance from the Waymond actor, the story is unique, and it was refreshing to have optimistic themes championed unironically in the cesspit of misery that is modern Hollywood. I also apparently didn't hate the fight scenes as much as you did.
Most of the attempts at humor were too puerile for my tastes and some of them were frustratingly repetitive. It also did get overexpository at times. But overall I thought it was a good watch.
I can't watch this because it has lesbian themes. I turn off any film with lesbianism
I really loved this film. I can say this can become my favorite if I watch 2-3 more times and really appreciate the aesthetics of it. I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at some parts of it, because I did, but that's not the reason why it's good for me. I liked it because it feels like it doesn't take itself seriously but at the same time, it kinda does. And sure, you can call Waymond beta male, but his character, imo, is good, albeit a bit shallow. I really love this film. The style, the theme. I don't mind the lesbian stuff and the mostly asian cast stuff because that is not what makes a movie.
If you all have any good or favorite movie recommendations with the same themes (like I Heart Huckabees, in that other reply), I would like to know
globohomosexual coming after the chinese
i wonder if china will be happy with this degenerate bs
Hated her character. I get that's the story, but man it's hard to care when she just seems kind of like a whiny b***h about life.
I got 29 minutes in before turning it off or whenever the asiatic started flailing the fannypack was
>I just saw this movie and am enlightened enough to take the high road
I watched the entire thing and regret it.
The daughter actress is terrible and ruins the whole fricking movie
I have hardcore yellow fever and even I couldn't find her attractive or charismatic
No energ, no charisma, terrible voice
Playing a "monotone" character is very hard and requires an actor with very good voice for it, because it's hard to showcase a character while speaking in the same tone that's flat and she couldn't pull it off at all
also it uses slow mo a bit too much, it could've been a bit faster but maybe it would've been too confusing to look at
I watched until the end but it was total horseshit.
I don't turn off films but it was truly shit movie.
I dislike calling things Reddit but it would be most appropriate way to describe this steaming pile of shit.
me? didnt care for it but will assert that it is the best movie of 2022 just to trigger chuds
Holy shit every single one of those posts literally just says
>i didn't like the fights
>i thought the humor was childish
Wow incredible complaints. Very valid points. Top notch criticism i mean really, how can anyone ever retort that?
If i just state my opinion that the fights and comedy were both great, then what?
Stop being moronic.
Hey man, some people REALLY like eating shit. If I were to point out that shit isn’t a good source of food, and you tell me you like eating shit, I guess it’s settled then.
based armond white gave the best points in the thread, sorry your capeshit was trashed wang
>skips the armond whote review
not a surprise
leftists thrive on dishonesty
holy shit what a curbstomp
>I watch movies to be challenged
t. Mentally challenged.
This shit is just """"""""""indie""""""""""" capeshit
This was capeshit with reddit humour disguising itself as ((deep))
Very enjoyable film with a good message at the end.
What movies have bad messages at the end? None
See how dumb you are?
Dr. Stranger in the Mommy verse, but for reddit
You are a stronger man than me, I couldn't even watch 5 minutes of the red letter media review.