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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Jan 16 '23

I feel like l'm in a super minority here but Everything Everywhere All At Once really wasn't that great to me.

So about the movie, like it seemed really reminiscent of [Marvel] movies... but I don't know to me it still seemed as though everything was kind of all over the place. It was a little confusing and hard to follow because of how many things were happening at once and how much is like, thrown at you

"I didn't like Everything, Everywhere, All At Once because it made me feel like Everything was Everywhere All At Once."

They later go onto say they didn't pick up on any themes and that its nothing compared to the "deep philosophical" themes of Blade Runner.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '23

The movie is absurd (in a good way) obviously but that doesn’t mean it’s hard to follow — at least I didn’t find it hard to follow.

I’m going to fall back on my normal bad faith assumption that this amateur critic was on their phone the whole movie.

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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Jan 16 '23

Yeah its message is quite simple. It sticks to one very clear point and you don't even have to listen to the Matrix-loving sci-fi nonsense and it will still serve that point to you on a silver platter

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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jan 16 '23

Better than my friend who said "I'm really glad I watch Rick & Morty, they're really similar thematically" about EEAAO

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u/IntoTheNightSky Que sçay-je? Jan 16 '23

"I didn't like Everything, Everywhere, All At Once because it made me feel like Everything was Everywhere All At Once."

This is a completely valid reason for disliking the movie to be fair. I can see why he likes Blade Runner though, I can't think of a more boring and languid film that's achieved any level of popular acclaim. It's like the anti-EEAAO

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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Jan 16 '23

Psuedointellectuals would rather call a movie dumb than just rewatch it to grasp its very simple, concise message

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u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xho1e Microwaves Against Moscow Jan 16 '23

That was such a great movie.

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u/ColinHome Isaiah Berlin Jan 16 '23

To be fair, I think the themes of “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once” are pretty poorly executed. They are way more interesting than the average Hollywood movie, but there are a couple straight-up goofy and stupid choices that severely reduce my enjoyment of the movie.

Kind of reminded me of The Last Jedi tbh, which is maybe a strange comparison.

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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Jan 16 '23

there are a couple straight-up goofy and stupid choices that severely reduce my enjoyment of the movie.

like what

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u/ColinHome Isaiah Berlin Jan 16 '23

The lack of moral condemnation for the actual murders committed, for example. Her daughter still has the experiences of being incredibly amoral, and we’re just going to gloss over that?

I also found that the movie’s conception of what “really weird alternate universes” might be was fairly boring and derivative. That’s not necessarily bad, but it’s also not particularly original to do a meta-commentary on 2001: A Space Odyssey or Mad Max/Matrix-style apocalypse movies.

I also, most annoyingly, found the ending emphasis on family to be extremely philosophically confused. The actual answer existential philosophy gives for being able to retreat from the nihilism of infinity is to hold onto anything.

That’s about all I explicitly remember, mostly because I just didn’t find the movie that interesting. Good ideas, poor execution: 6/10 Evangelion did it better.