Everything Everywhere All at Once

[PuppyMonkey]

I’m an hour in. it’s a struggle.

I’m baffled at all the Oscar nominations.

Help me. I want to turn it off.

This is honestly baffling to me, it left me completely cold.

I had the best afternoon nap ever between the opening and ending credits...!

I found it really saccharine, but I know lots of people who cried etc. It seems to be quite divisive.

I love Sci Fi.

Love HK cinema.
Love Michelle Yeoh.

Hated Everything, Everywhere all at Once.
Bits of it were ok, but I'm also baffled at all the Oscar noms etc.

I would much rather watch any other Michelle Yeoh film.

I thought it was phenomenal

I loved the way pressure to conform is translated across the generations, fracturing relationships and identity

The mother's breakdown into a paranoid state of mind is so brilliantly depicted

I am not really into sci fi, but I am into psychoanalysis proper...not pop psychoanalysis iykwim

You are probably quite fortunate if you don't get it tbh

We then watched Turning Red, which is actually strangely similar in some ways! A cultural moment.

And there was me thinking I was going to click on another Saturday evening thread where somebody's DH had gallantly offered to cook tea and she was ranting about the state of the fucking kitchen.

It was a pile of pretentious old tosh. Not quite in Jodorowsky’s league but still utter shite.

Saw the trailer and it looked good definitely my type of film.

I fell asleep multiple times as did dp. It's v rare that both of us fall asleep during a film.

Absolutely loved it but it didn't make me cry or anything.

I enjoyed it - though thought the butt plug bit wasn’t particularly funny or necessary. But I think if you go expecting sci-Fi multiverse genre you’ll be disappointed. It’s quite clearly a film about a menopausal woman who is on the verge of a mental breakdown as she has to do everything everywhere all at once whilst dealing with elderly parent, troublesome teen and useless husband. The multiverse is her imagining all the other lives she could have lived “if only”. Even the sausage fingers universe had a certain alternative appeal.

I watched it because my 19yo said it was amazing.
I spent the whole time completely confused. It was like car crash TV. I think I liked it? I loved the costumes. But I have no idea what it was about. I'd like to watch it again, just to see if I can make more sense of it!

that about sums it up.

Me too, teaplease, that aspect of it made me sob too and may have squeezed my teenaged daughter's knee while I did, because we watched it together. We both loved it.

It must be another Marmite nomination, OP, I am similarly baffled by the love for The Banshees of Inisherin.

I really liked it except for the ending which I thought was too schmaltzy and ruined it. Was surprised by the Oscar nomination because if that tbh.

Loved it!

I can't stand Sci fi and liked it. I wonder if that's the key, lots of Sci fi nerds I know didn't like it either

Awful film. The only reason I would cry is because I wasted over 2 hours of my life watching it.

What on earth are you all talking about?!

Michelle Yeoh is one of her interviews said that the younger generation gets with from the start. Also Evelyn Wang's mind is like what is it with ADHD

Loved it. It's about nihilism and parent-relationship. Better multiverse that Dr. Strange.

Daughter: nothing matters (self destruction, suicide)
Mother: nothing matters (few specks of time, empathy and kindness)

I also didn't particularly like it. Everyone else banged on about it so much I watched to the end but wouldn't bother again.

I enjoyed it but don’t understand the Oscar nods (though I’m frequently a bot surprised at what nominated).

I love sci-films and am a film buff. And I cry at everything.

I was so desperate to see this film I dragged my mate to a lovely independent cinema about an hour and a half from home to go and watch it the week it was released.

Was absolutely bored shitless.

3 people upped and walked out during the film.

Left me cold. So disappointed.

I just felt like it made its one point about mother daughter relationships and sexuality/mental health about a squillion times. Like, we get it 😅

3 people upped and walked out during the film.

I was thinking about what I would have done if I’d gone to see it in a cinema. I definitely wouldn’t have made it to the end without my comfy sofa and MN.

This is one of the things I loved about it- the sci fi story line as an extended metaphor for human relationships, with Michelle Yeah’s character heroically trying to save the multiverse/connect with her daughter. I thought it was incredibly moving and clever.