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Post by Trurl on Apr 8, 2022 17:45:50 GMT -5
Just some thoughts
- could any actor radiate such heartbreak at the dissolution of a relationship as a hotdog-fingered Jamie Leigh Curtis grabbing her rolling luggage with her foot and dejectedly hopping out of their home? I want a feature length movie about that couple.
- the idea that the IRS would give awards that looks that look like butt plugs to auditors seems a bit on-the-nose.
- yeah, a whole subplot is basically a Wong Kar Wai homage
- the whole Racocoonie subplot feels like a throwaway gag that they circled back and quadrupled down on and it works.
- de-aging James Hong must have been a breeze since you could probably pick any adult year of his life and have literally hours of film to work from.
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Post by ganews on Apr 20, 2022 9:23:36 GMT -5
I stopped reading the review at Polygon about halfway through because I knew at that point I really wanted to see the movie, which I finally did last weekend. I thought it was brilliant. I encouraged my mom and sister to see it together (they won't be doing that). I would like to think that this movie would make a big splash, but looking at the slim pickings of local showtimes doesn't get my hopes up.
Ke Huy Quan was great. It's very funny to me that he still has such a high voice. The nunchuk skills cannot be denied, though I think we will need Nudeviking's expertise.
Actually everybody was great. It was somewhat less of a martial arts movie than I expected for Michelle Yeoh, more like a movie with some martial arts.
I haven't seen hair design like that since The Phantom Menace.
Just how many direct movie scenes were referenced? Definitely The Matrix and 2001, I can't remember what else.
Most of the people left during the credits, but Marvel has trained me to always stay to the end. The production company copyright named on the last line? "Hotdog Hands, LLC"
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 20, 2022 19:02:50 GMT -5
I stopped reading the review at Polygon about halfway through because I knew at that point I really wanted to see the movie, which I finally did last weekend. I thought it was brilliant. I encouraged my mom and sister to see it together (they won't be doing that). I would like to think that this movie would make a big splash, but looking at the slim pickings of local showtimes doesn't get my hopes up.
Ke Huy Quan was great. It's very funny to me that he still has such a high voice. The nunchuk skills cannot be denied, though I think we will need Nudeviking 's expertise.
Actually everybody was great. It was somewhat less of a martial arts movie than I expected for Michelle Yeoh, more like a movie with some martial arts.
I haven't seen hair design like that since The Phantom Menace.
Just how many direct movie scenes were referenced? Definitely The Matrix and 2001, I can't remember what else.
Most of the people left during the credits, but Marvel has trained me to always stay to the end. The production company copyright named on the last line? "Hotdog Hands, LLC"
I'll have to wait for it to come to theaters in my neck of the global woods and/or streaming and/or until someone puts out a supercut of ALL THE NUNCHUCK SCENES FROM EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE before I can pass judgement on his skills (though from what I've seen in trailers and the like it seems pretty solid). |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Apr 20, 2022 19:54:34 GMT -5
Holy shit, this movie was filmed for only $25 million???
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Apr 20, 2022 20:07:34 GMT -5
Just how many direct movie scenes were referenced? Definitely The Matrix and 2001, I can't remember what else. I think those opening titles were spoofing Enter the Void, unless those effects are just shorthand for glitching a la Spiderverse. Have we reached that tipping point where that visual effect is just accepted shorthand rather than homage/ripoff, in the same way we don't call first-person shooters " Doom clones" anymore? |
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Post by ganews on Apr 20, 2022 22:08:18 GMT -5
Holy shit, this movie was filmed for only $25 million??? I haven't seen the "Turn Down for What" music video for a decade, wonder if I would have recognized that it's the same director had I not already known. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 21, 2022 8:57:00 GMT -5
I stopped reading the review at Polygon about halfway through because I knew at that point I really wanted to see the movie, which I finally did last weekend. I thought it was brilliant. I encouraged my mom and sister to see it together (they won't be doing that). I would like to think that this movie would make a big splash, but looking at the slim pickings of local showtimes doesn't get my hopes up.
Ke Huy Quan was great. It's very funny to me that he still has such a high voice. The nunchuk skills cannot be denied, though I think we will need Nudeviking 's expertise.
Actually everybody was great. It was somewhat less of a martial arts movie than I expected for Michelle Yeoh, more like a movie with some martial arts.
I haven't seen hair design like that since The Phantom Menace.
Just how many direct movie scenes were referenced? Definitely The Matrix and 2001, I can't remember what else.
Most of the people left during the credits, but Marvel has trained me to always stay to the end. The production company copyright named on the last line? "Hotdog Hands, LLC"
I'll have to wait for it to come to theaters in my neck of the global woods and/or streaming and/or until someone puts out a supercut of ALL THE NUNCHUCK SCENES FROM EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE before I can pass judgement on his skills (though from what I've seen in trailers and the like it seems pretty solid). You probably know this, but he quit acting in the 2000s to become a martial arts choreographer in Hong Kong and an assistant to Wong Kar-Wai. |
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Post by Trurl on Apr 21, 2022 16:50:29 GMT -5
I'll have to wait for it to come to theaters in my neck of the global woods and/or streaming and/or until someone puts out a supercut of ALL THE NUNCHUCK SCENES FROM EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE before I can pass judgement on his skills (though from what I've seen in trailers and the like it seems pretty solid). You probably know this, but he quit acting in the 2000s to become a martial arts choreographer in Hong Kong and an assistant to Wong Kar-Wai. I did not know he worked with Wong Kar-Wai - I wonder if he had any input in the "In The Mood For Love" pastiche |
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Post by Trurl on Apr 21, 2022 16:51:09 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 21, 2022 18:52:16 GMT -5
I'll have to wait for it to come to theaters in my neck of the global woods and/or streaming and/or until someone puts out a supercut of ALL THE NUNCHUCK SCENES FROM EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE before I can pass judgement on his skills (though from what I've seen in trailers and the like it seems pretty solid). You probably know this, but he quit acting in the 2000s to become a martial arts choreographer in Hong Kong and an assistant to Wong Kar-Wai. I knew that he did some stunt coordination stuff on one of the 2000s X-Men movies (maybe the first one?) but didn't know he also plied that trade with Wong Kar-Wai. |
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Post by ganews on Apr 22, 2022 12:30:44 GMT -5
I don't remember the fingertip ends having that little pucker in the movie, which takes it from funny to gross.
I saw this movie at the local arthouse, and apparently they sell last year's posters, so I'm going to keep an eye out.
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Post by Trurl on Apr 23, 2022 8:00:18 GMT -5
My daughter pointed out that the googly eyes are the inverse of the Everything bagel - white on the outside, black in the middle.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 23, 2022 19:42:32 GMT -5
I just saw the movie today. I loved it! Wow, it is tons of fun! Great stunt work. The actors look to be having a blast. Hotdog fingers! Sooooo many film homages. Ke Huuy Quan with a deadly fanny pack!
Wow, it really is so much fun.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 23, 2022 19:58:31 GMT -5
- the whole Racocoonie subplot feels like a throwaway gag that they circled back and quadrupled down on and it works.
This may have ended up my favorite gag in the movie. I am amazed they got this to work so well.
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Post by sarapen on May 9, 2022 10:35:23 GMT -5
I was actually rather lukewarm on this. I expected a martial arts movie and I got a story about the conflict between an immigrant Chinese mother and her Americanized daughter (plus some divorce stuff). I was going to make a joke about it being the Joy Luck Club with kung fu (or a film adaptation of The Woman Warrior with more violence) but the version I'm imagining in my head is more gonzo and over the top like the classics of Hong Kong movies for working class men.
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Post by pantsgoblin on May 24, 2022 11:12:01 GMT -5
Finally hefted myself off the couch to see this (I liked it).
My major take is something I've been mulling for decades since being a music-obsessed teenager in the late '90s (aka the nu-metal years): why do the major corporates throw all the money and promotion behind anguished, bleak, flattened-out crap that makes you want to kill yourself, while the relative underground is doing bright, complex fun stuff? It's not like I see a ton of MCU or DCEU stuff but the stuff that gobbles all the money seems relentlessly grim and pointless. Meanwhile, you have Everything, which is a zippy, colorful, absurd film that never wears out its 2 1/2 hour runtime. I know that the Russo brothers (they of Avengers: Endgame) produced it, so my dichotomy gets muddy, but why not actually entertain people?
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Post by Celebith on May 24, 2022 22:15:47 GMT -5
I want Dunc to be my favorite movie of the year, but it's so much this. Waymond's monologue made me realize that this was the martial arts 'A Wrinkle In Time' I never knew I was missing.
ETA: I guess Dunc came out last year, but it doesn't really feel like it.
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Post by Celebith on May 25, 2022 8:18:07 GMT -5
Just some thoughts - could any actor radiate such heartbreak at the dissolution of a relationship as a hotdog-fingered Jamie Leigh Curtis grabbing her rolling luggage with her foot and dejectedly hopping out of their home? I want a feature length movie about that couple. - de-aging James Hong must have been a breeze since you could probably pick any adult year of his life and have literally hours of film to work from. I avoided spoilers and was not expecting so many feels. Like, I expected some of the generational drama, but even the Easter Eggy sorts of things were such a delight. He's been in so many things, but I always think of him as Lo Pan so it didn't even occur to me that they'd digitally alter him. Figured it was all makeup and practical effects. Dude is probably some sort of sorcerer IRL anyway. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Aug 10, 2022 13:59:39 GMT -5
I finally saw it and can only say "what the fuck was that, it was awesome". I spent the entire movie trying to figure out the actor playing Waymond and was both happy and sad to see it was Ke Huy Quan -- happy because he was amazing in the role and it's good to see him getting work, and I loved him in The Goonies and tolerated him in Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Dumb Ideas, and sad because he was starting to come to signing conventions just before the world ended, and now he was in a great movie and his lines and prices will go up.
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