Everything Everywhere All At Once

[diffrentcolours]

(I seem to be failing at playing catchup or talking about anything nontrivial on here, so here's what I did this afternoon)

cosmolinguist and I went to the cinema for the first time since the ongoing pandemic started. It was a quiet screening (Tuesday 5:10pm) for a film that's been out a while, and we wore our FFP2 masks throughout. One of the attendants made a point of telling us how the air cycling rate has been increased in the auditoriums, to above the standard required in hospitals. For some reason this wasn't mentioned on Cineworld's "covid precautions" webpage, which I might try to get them to fix as it may encourage more business for them.

The film, "Everything Everywhere All At Once", is excellent. It has real heart tied in with fantastic action and very silly comedy. Michelle Yeoh is amazing, Jamie Lee Curtis is great and Stephanie Hsu is a real break-away star. To say much more would risk spoilers; it's not a film where that would ruin the entire thing, but I'd much rather people went into it relatively unprepared because it's the best way to process the sheer batshit wholesome awesomeness of it.

Comments

[apiphile]

The film, "Everything Everywhere All At Once", is excellent.

I'm glad someone agrees with me on this! I've had so many nerd dudes stamping their feet and mumbling about how they think it's trying too hard or "isn't as good as Multiverse of Madness" (excuse the FUCK out of me?) whereas I think it's unimprovably brilliant.

[diffrentcolours]

I expect it's a very different thing to Multiverse of Madness, and directly comparing the two makes no sense...

[apiphile]

Having seen both, they do actually have some significant thematic similarities, but Everything Everywhere is a MUCH more intelligent film, and despite MoM having significantly more narrative time to create a sympathetic protagonist (like, multiple movies) it fails to do in the course of them what EEAAO does in one, and REALLY doesn't pull of the combination of pathos and humour, frustration and enlightenment in the same way or anything like as well.