You’ve got to see Everything Everywhere All at Once - it’s an awesome movie! I used to avoid it, thinking it was just another sci-fi film that got popular in theaters, but boy, was I mistaken. The story is really well-crafted, the visuals are stunning, the acting is top-notch, and it even tugs at your heartstrings unexpectedly. I watched it last night and was blown away. Seriously, don’t make the same mistake I did. Go ahead and give it a watch. I’d easily rate it 8.5/10, heck, maybe even a 9!
And it was only made on a roughly $20M budget! Truly my favourite film of last year, so I’m glad it blew your expectations away!
It was fantastic! And 20 million dollars is an immense amount of money!
For a film of this scope, $20M is tiny! They manage to save quite a lot by filming the entire thing within a short window, and keeping the number of VFX shots needed to a minimum.
It was fun and creative and done on a (relative) shoestring budget. But I’m honestly shocked at the high praise and awards. For me, it was a solid 7 or 8 / 10. From the way people have been speaking about it they made it sound like it was a 10 / 10 perfect movie.
It is a movie of its time whose themes resonate with a lot of people.
It is also well acted, filled with challenging parts for a lot of the actors.
Same, what’s stranger is the volume of downvotes people receive from criticising it either here or previously at the other place.
The concepts were pretty standard multiverse stuff but they kept trying to shoehorn some kind of overly ambitious meaning into it. I found the juxtaposition between “literally anything can happen” and “family love crosses dimensions” particularly difficult to swallow.
Decent special effects on a tight budget though.
I found it extraordinary- I’m unsure if another movie has made me feel the whole gamut of emotion like this one did, and each heartstring was tugged differently. Skillful stuff.
YUP!! I was on the same boat, but it’s 100% worth the hype. It’s an absolutely incredible movie!!!
nah i watched about 50% of it and it was pretty lame - especially after the stupid forced jokes about butt anal sex. just stupid.
Great movie. I enjoyed it as well!
I agree, this movie was quite brilliant and refreshing.
Didn’t it win an Oscar as well?
Ya this post is a prime example of why “awards shows mean nothing” is a dumb take – EEAAO was an incredible movie with loads of great cast interviews, high profile reviews, analysis of themes etc that came out as a result of the oscar campaign and Best Picture win and yet OP somehow missed out on it for like a year and a half
Just like the best movie of all time, Suicide Squad 🥰🥰
Oh, I believe it did win an Oscar! But you know what? Awards don’t always tell the whole story. There are plenty of fantastic movies that didn’t receive awards, and on the flip side, some not-so-great films have somehow managed to snag lots of awards. So, it’s best not to put too much emphasis on awards alone! Enjoying a movie is what really matters in the end.
High-profile awards like the Oscars are not given for excellence. They are just an advertisement for a movie that the producers can buy. It says nothing about the movie other than that it was made by a big and rich studio.
I felt the same way, that this was another overhyped Hollywood circle jerk, but it was pretty good. At a surface level the story isn’t anything amazing. The action sequences were good but nothing revolutionary. For me it was the acting and the core of the story, which to me was about relationships, making the best of your choices, and kindness to others and yourself. For some reason the kindness part really hit me. How they represented it was cheesy as hell, but that didn’t stop me from taking that to heart.
I’m mostly in agreement but the end ruined it for me. I’m sorry, people with that much trauma just don’t react that way. There was “change” for a short period of time (positivity) but that doesn’t undo the past.
It’s hard to say what I’m trying to without spoilers.
True, but at that point I suspended my disbelief. Hollywood movie needs Hollywood ending.
I watched it on a long flight and started crying at the end of the movie. Glad the plane lights were off and everyone was sleeping.
I loved this movie to pieces but I have a complicated-but-ultimately-loving relationship with my mom so maybe that’s the piece that’s missing for all the people who don’t quite understand the appeal. It felt very universal though?
Definitely one of my faves.
Yes! Absolutely loved this movie and felt like it was showing me and my parents.
I said to myself wtf multiple times during the movie and the end was the biggest ‘wtf did I just watch?’
I loved it
I concur with the first part.
There was just nothing enjoyable about it for me.
The weirdness is what compelled me. Being more experimental was fun and unexpected in a lot of moments. Story wise it wasn’t so groundbreaking, but I enjoyed it in general as well.
I haven’t seen another movie quite like it. I really enjoyed it.
i started crying at the stairway claire de lune moment, and i still don’t know why… it’s that kinda movie
It’s a very polarizing movie for some reason. I really enjoyed it, so much that I’ve rewatched it a few times.
What I can’t understand it that some people absolutely fucking loathe the movie, just visceral hatred, and I’ve never seen a good explanation as to why this is.
Honestly, I loved the movie but certain hotdog related scenes were horrondous.
I didn’t get that, why were they horrendous?
They just made me super uncomfortable in a body-horror way.
Ah, got it, thanks!
A few of the relationship moments felt a bit jarring to the background and some people just bounced really hard off of that contrast. It wasn’t what they were expecting, and that can be very polarizing.
I enjoyed it, but wish some of the relationship moments were a but less hamfisted. Like the evil doughnut black hole thing was a clever idea, but it would have been more fun for me if it was revealed to be a doughnut in a less direct way. Someone I know hated that part enough to say "it was just a blatant relationship movie with a sci fi veneer’ which is accurate.
Not sure I would watch it again even though I liked it as there doesn’t seem to be more depth to discover on a rewatch.
First of all, it suffers from what TV Tropes would call the Eight Deadly Words: “I don’t care what happens to these people”. I won’t fault the acting; I feel the actors did the best they could with the writing they had. It’s just that I thought the writing was extremely uncompelling and there was nothing about the characters which made me want to learn more about them or their troubles.
Secondly, I don’t like the structure of the film. It’s a melodrama, a type of story that I do not enjoy by default, with some plot points that are so heavily telegraphed that it sucked the energy out of the film. The multiverse structure that the film relies on was uncompelling to me. The action scenes lacked any sort of visceral impact to bring them back down to Earth; they were so obsessed with flashiness that there was nothing for me to connect with.
And thirdly, while I can enjoy absurdist humour, this film felt like it thought it was cleverer than it was throughout. I’ve heard a description elsewhere of this film as “nicecore Rick & Morty” and while that’s awfully reductive, it still gets to the root of some of the problems I had with the film.
Because people who want to watch a movie to escape from their daily lives don’t want to spend 90 minutes in the closet of a tax office.
That’s a pretty big mischaracterization of the movie.
Well then I guess my enjoyment of the movie was mischaracterized as boredom and discontent.
I don’t understand the praise this movie gets. Sure there are some fun gags, but overall it was just a mess that could not keep me interested.
I do like movie creators that step outside the Hollywood mold, that is how we get great movies. But this wasn’t great, it was just weird for the sake of being weird.
Yah. I didn’t understand this movie and didn’t think it was good.
