I’ll say this about EEAAO, it was Weird. Very Weird. I loved it, had a great time watching it, and am thrilled of how many awards it pulled in, but boy it is a weird movie.
If you’re not invested in the characters, I think the movie falls flat. It actually had me interested in a scene involving two stones, because I was invested in the characters represented by the stones.
I just find it refreshing that comedy and/or action films can win Best Picture now. I think that’s a big reason it doesn’t seem worthy to many people.
I’ll just chime in that after I saw EEAAO I told Mrs Cad that Ke Huy Quan deserved an Oscar for his performance. I was a little surprised by the two actress winner - not because they didn’t deserve it but I really thought it would be Michelle Williams for Best Actress and if you told me someone from EEAAO would win Best Supporting Actress I would have put my money on Stephanie Hsu.
Not even close, if they meant Oscars. (LOTR:ROTK won 13, if memory serves). If they meant every possible critic and viewer award around the world…maybe, who knows.
EEAAO does have the distinction of being one of only 3 films to win 3 acting Oscars. I’ll give you a minute to come up with the other 2…
Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Network (1976)
I’m just guessing since you only allowed 1 minute, but was it
I don’t think anyone has done this. What several posters have said – and that includes me – is that they started watching it, didn’t enjoy it, and quit watching it. That’s it. Nothing more.
I checked back on the page and they’ve updated the language to provide the reasoning.
According to calculations made by IGN prior to the Academy Awards, Everything Everywhere All at Once received a total of 158 accolades to date from major critics organizations and awards bodies, making it the most awarded movie ever, beating out the 101 awards received by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). Its Oscar wins increased its tally to 165 wins.
EEAAO is not only critically acclaimed and award winning, it has connected with people on such a deep emotional level it has left them sobbing (see YouTube examples here.) It does not deserve to be abandoned part way through just because the fight scenes are silly.
But that has happened before. Rocky won in 1976, Annie Hall infamously won in 1977, Shakespeare in Love even more infamously won in 1998 (a comedy-drama)… it just tends to be a one off, and I don’t think EEAAO is going to change that really.
Would it have been better with less silly fight scenes? I don’t know the answer to that. I was really put off by the hot dog fingers. Others might have felt differently.
You could equally well express that as “the flimmakers should not have compromised the breadth of appeal of a great movie with 90 minutes of silly fight scenes”.
Whereas I loved that someone came up with something as incredibly bonkers as that. And that even thought it started as a sight gag, even that world ended up having a really moving storyline. The weirder the film got, the more I enjoyed it. I mean damn, a silent still shot of two rocks was able to make me emotional. That’s incredible.
Yeah, I loved the movie. (just not the hot dog fingers)
Yes, I actually teared up at the rocks….
I liked the rock interludes mainly because they were not doing comic-kung-fu like every other universe.
I wonder what planet they shot those scenes on?
It’s funny, there’s a movie called Take This Waltz (2011) that stars. . .
I’m trying to figure out what this has to do with the thread. . . I mean no offense. . .
I imagine it’s because Michelle Williams and Seth Rogan star in The Fabelmans (nominated for Best Picture), where their characters have an affair with each other, and Sarah Polley won an Oscar for best Adapted Screenplay for Women Talking.
^this
No disagreement. But it’s also hard to offer any authoritative criticism on something one hasn’t seen either. It’s fine to say, “I watched half an hour and it wasn’t for me,” but not so cool to say “I watched half an hour and now I’m going to give my opinion on the film as a whole by extrapolating.”
Was Charlbi Dean a member of the Academy? It’s not required but I don’t doubt it’s taken into account.
I don’t have anything quantitative to show but I have the feeling that they gave many more names in the past. Having a live performer means they have to show that performer at least some of the time. Although the viewer is interested in their favorite actor that’s not all that the Academy is about. Actors are the biggest group but IIRC they make up about 20%. In the memorial scroll they make sure the other 80% get equal representation. Given the fact that some studio executive is up there it might knock out Paul Sorvino.
Unlike the past they can now provide a full list online. There was a QR code at the end of the segment to go to the full list. Or you could just look at our Death Pool.