My wife keeps wanting to see this. We keep watching episodes of Halo or new Star Trek stuff anyway.
OP seconded. Probably my favourite new film since Parasite.
I'm really excited about it. I didn't make it to the theater, but I have it on hold at the library (my primary source of movies these days), and I've enjoyed reading the coverage: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/13/i-told-jackie-chan-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-gave-michelle-yeoh-the-role-of-a-lifetime
I don't see how it comes off as a more defining movie for her than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
I loved this movie so much. At some point early in the film I started laughing, and realized I was actually crying. I cried for most of the rest of the time. It was incredibly moving.
MILDLY SPOILERY:
It felt a bit like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, if BtVS had been made about middle-aged Asian Americans instead of teenaged white girls.
I know that the filmmakers had originally intended Jackie Chan as the star, but Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan felt like perfect casting. The film did a little bit for Michelle Yeoh what Shang-Chi did for Tony Leung -- a mini retrospective on her career, as though each of her iconic roles was a real life she lived in a different universe. And in one of the universes she's actually Michelle Yeoh, the movie star. For KHQ, it's even sweeter, as his acting career was derailed when he came to realize there were almost no viable roles for Asian Americans in the 80s and 90s. So, his alternate lives are all the could-have-beens: the action star, the romantic lead, the TL role in In the Mood for Love. (I didn't know until recently that KHQ worked as an assistant director for WKW for a long time. The ItMFL part was another moment when I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.)
Yes, echo the love for it. Surprisingly, my parents didn't like it.
Also good that it doubled its cost in domestic box office. That's what you hope for with small original films, right?
The only way to watch it is to sit in a room with a bunch of disease vectors? But looks like you can purchase to stream starting this week?
Surprisingly, my parents didn't like it.
I'm sure my parents wouldn't like it. I think you have to be young enough to have had your brain at least partially shaped by extremely fast, chaotic, and multisensory 21st century media -- the movie really is a lot. (But you also have to be old enough to have middle-aged regrets. Basically I felt like this movie was made exactly for me.)
I never saw Swiss Army Man, but the Daniels' video for DJ Snake's "Turn Down For What" is still one of my favorite mvs ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU
Loved it! Any film that makes you think "Chekov's buttplug" is going to be a good time. I read an interesting interview with one of the Daniels talking about how the movie is about the process of disbelieving in god.
It reminded me a lot of both The Matrix and Being John Malkovich.
I mostly go to movies that other people want to see because that's what you do when you have small children and I haven't switched mindsets yet. But mostly I'd really rather just not bother, so I'll probably keep going to movies only when someone else wants to see that movie. Which will probably make me even more want to not bother.
I hadn't seen 10 before this movie, but it really does give you the Daniels thing very quickly. The boner in that video is real effects puppetry.
The only way to watch it is to sit in a room with a bunch of disease vectors?
ST and I cut work one afternoon and saw it at Kendall. We were masked in a giant theater with only two other individual disease vectors.
I wanted to see it, but couldn't talk the wife into it. I'm sure I'll get another chance.
I really liked Yeoh in Star Trek Discovery. I hope she had as much fun with that as it looked like she might be having.
I did enjoy the movie and it made me nostalgic for the couple years I watched HK action movies every Thursday night at the University Theater. But I have to admit I found it a little exhausting.
Movies got longer and I don't know why.
19: Yes, it's annoying! If I may gloat for a moment, there's a Leslie Cheung/Tony Leung/WKW double feature playing in LA this weekend (Happy Together and Days of Being Wild, two of my favorite films of all time, in 35 mm), and at first I was like, can I really sit through two movies? But, these films are from the 90s, and the two movies together are only a little longer than one modern movie. The 90s were a better time in so many respects.
Lady Bird is 94 minutes. Yet another reason it's the best film since Mad Max: Fury Road.
5: I think other than a couple of the sight gags*, the In the Mood for Love homage was my favorite part of the movie. (It's possibly my favorite movie of all time, and of course it should come up given how heavily cinematic Evelyn's untaken paths all are.)
* And Enppnppbbavr.
The only way to watch it is to sit in a room with a bunch of disease vectors?
In my local theater, Cassandane and I were the only people there. Same for The Lost City. I have no idea how this place is still in business, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts.
It's next on the list. Went to see "Maverick" at the weekend which was very much "here are all your favourite bits of Top Gun again" but highly enjoyable, with much more emotional range than the original and far better flying scenes (which is what we were both there for anyway).
I agree with Upetgi that it's no "Fury Road".
Yeah, second ajay, if you think you might like Top Gun:Maverick, absolutely go see it. It's exactly what you'd want in a Top Gun movie while also being better than you'd expect in just about every dimension. I mean if the idea of the best possible Top Gun movie doesn't appeal to you then you're not going to like it, but is the Platonic Ideal of a Top Gun movie.
Can't wait to see this and the new Cronenberg next week
Did they bring back Anthony Edwards as a force ghost?
Can't wait to see this and the new Cronenberg next week
Top Orifice.
I saw this movie and enjoyed it a lot. I'm realizing that I probably didn't love it quite as much as other people, because I haven't seen most of the movies it's referencing.
I watched Everything Everywhere last night, and was the only person in the theater. I didn't see anyone else in the multiplex, even, but the popcorn-seller told me she was pretty sure someone else was watching one of the movies.
I liked it. I like Yeoh a lot, and she really gets to play a very considerable part of her range in this thing. I think my daughter will like it even more, and encouraged her to find a way to see it in a theater. (I'm in San Diego visiting her for a couple of days.)
Further to 31, I think we had a thread a few years back about which film we'd like to see remade by as many different directors as possible, and I can't believe no one realised that the obvious answer was "Top Gun". Who wouldn't want to see Werner Herzog's "Top Gun"? Wes Anderson's? Spike Lee's? Terrence Malick's? Guillermo del Toro's?
Ken Loach's? (If only for the knowledge that he would have directed it through gritted teeth, as it were)
I would also like to have seen Tony Scott's Little Dieter Needs To Fly.
34.last: Like Michael Apted directing James Bond?
This reminds me that I forgot to watch Herzog narrate that guy getting eaten by a bear.
He only let the bear eat him because he lost a bet with Errol Morris.
36: good point and I definitely think that "007 Up" is the way to reboot the Bond franchise. Find 10 or 20 child actors, do a documentary-style film about them (in character as various British children), leave the audience guessing which of them is going to be the next Bond. Seven years later, do another one where they're all teenagers. Seven years after that, when the suspense is unbearable, then you cast one of them as Bond. The others appear in subsequent films, either as recurring characters or just one-offs.
Obviously the characters remain anonymous otherwise it would be very obvious which one will go on to be the next Bond, i.e. the one called "James Bond". The mock-documentary just has them as child 1, child 2 etc.
40-41: Just don't cross it with a public participation t series, or Her Jubilant Maj will wind up with James McBondyface.
42 actually this is completely the way to go. Combine the two greatest inventions of UK pop culture in the last 70 years - James Bond and reality TV. You can fill in the seven year gaps between films with other media; tie-in books, animation, web content, etc. Make it into a giant ARG to keep everyone engaged in the question of which kid will turn out to be Bond. Drop clues and hinds and so on.
Maybe asking the public to vote is how they got "Pussy Galore"?
45: I know that we all revere the wisdom of crowds, but there is also such a thing as individual genius.
46: Maybe even I was ashamed to put my name on this.
The UK invented reality TV? Is that with Big Brother? I always think The Real World should be counted as the first, but maybe not because it didn't have a winner.
Also, in the non-competition reality tv division, there was American Family way back in 1973, which inspired Albert Brooks' Real Life which I would be curious to see how it holds up.
I'd always thought reality tv was a symptom of the collapse of western civilization not a cause and yet here we are.
52: And soon heebie will come along to tell us how it's obversive.
40 would be much, much better than what he actually did.
48, 49: quite right, I am stealing the blame from the Netherlands.
40 is brilliant, and just to make clear what I was referencing (much less brilliant): https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/interview-bond-girls-denise-richards-sophie-marceau-director-michael-apted-tribute?id=04825
Would love to see an embittered middle-aged Bond at 56, or older.