What does “Jobu Tupaki” mean? I’ve read it translates as “Pocket Gun”-is that because she’s short but powerful?
There’s an interview with Stephanie Hsu on the Roger Ebert site where she says it’s basically nonsense sounds. And that’s also what Evelyn says early in the movie - it’s just made up sounds.
It’s very possible there’s some language out there where it has some meaning that some viewers have latched onto, but it wasn’t something intended by the filmmakers.
Finally saw it. Didn’t like it. Was not moved by it. Was very confused by what the message was supposed to be.
Oh well, not everything is going to resonate with everyone.
I didn’t get it either. I wanted to get it, but, alas, no. Interesting premise, and I like the lead actors. But I think the two Dans got a little ambiguous for their own good here.
Same, but I did understand the message was about immigrant children (being one myself) as well as finding meaning in the midst of a random world. It just was an overly complex and not all that interesting (IMO) way to do it. The review posted early references Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but I loved that movie, and this one I find merely meh. I started playing with my phone about an hour and 15mins into it.
It’s a somewhat amusing action sci-fi. I’m a bit baffled about the Best Picture buzz… It seems to me more like it would have ended up as a cult classic sort of film (interestingly which is exactly what Eternal Sunshine is)
I am also confused by the best picture buzz, mainly because Everything Everywhere All at Once was a film I liked, and I rarely see anything but a bunch of stuffy overblown crap nominated.
I actually had an argument with some good friends of mine back in November. I told them that I thought EEAAW would be nominated for a whole bunch of Oscars. They said, “It’s a great film, but do you really think a movie with pantsless martial artists fighting to insert a butt plug will be nominated for anything? It won’t happen,” and I said, “You’ll see”. And they did.
I still can’t believe RRR was overlooked. It was my personal favorite movie of the year and I thought it had a real shot at a Best Picture nomination.
My wife and I saw it on DVD the other day. We both thoroughly enjoyed it and hope that the Oscar world recognizes this, especially over pictures like Tar, which had many of the same themes and delivered them with the verve of laying mortar on a load of bricks.
Trying to throw everything into a movie, even with the spoilers in the title, is always dicey. We too thought that it went on too long. I was internally screaming enough endings already for a long time before the final credits. This version had about a half hour cut out. I’m not of the crowd who lives for More; I think the theatrical slogan of “always leave 'em wanting more” is a good one and applies here.
For no special reason, we’ve been watching the revived Doctor Who after never having seen any episode ever. Watching Everything was a little like watching a season of David Tennant crammed into outtakes. You have the alternate worlds, the nutty villains, the cartoonish over-the-topness, even “the humans are small but they are glorious” philosophy. The feeling of endless possibilities brought down to human level is what science fiction should aspire to, what the best has done throughout the ages. About 50 years ago a spate of such fiction arrived, some written by friends of mine. Not all of it worked. I remember saying “If you are writing a story in which anything can happen, what does happen had better be pretty damn special.” Much of Everything is special enough to be worthy, and that’s always rare.
What do you mean it had half an hour cut out? There is only one version of the film and it runs 2 hours 19 mins.
I’m really pleased that EEAAO has become the front runner for the Oscars. It was easily my #1 film of 2022!
In an interview the editor said that their first cut ran about 2:45 because they tried to finish off everybody’s story, including those of the minor characters.
Paul Rogers: The first cut was two hours and forty-five minutes, I think, so we cut around half an hour of movie out of it. Some of the characters who pop up early in the film or the fight scenes popped up again at the end, and they had their stories very cleanly and nicely wrapped up. We realized that our ending was forty-five minutes long, just her trying to get up the stairs at the end to keep Joy from getting into the bagel. I’m probably exaggerating, but it was very long. And [we realized] that people didn’t really need to see all the stories wrapped up. They didn’t need to see Jenny Slate’s character on a Zoom call with her baby at a birthday party.
The theatrical release is 139 minutes.
That’s not a half hour that was cut.
That’s the usual practice of editing. Almost every movie films more material than will appear on screen, except perhaps as outtakes or Blu-Ray bonuses, if those even exist anymore. Most films are better without it.
I think it was Taika Waititi who said that recently - that all that stuff on the cutting room floor ended up there for a reason and he doesn’t believe in “director’s cuts” to restore any of it.
I finally saw the movie this weekend. I was unspoiled. I haven’t yet read this thread.
First impressions. It was way too violent. Beyond the violence, the silliness and drama was perfect. The acting was all-around great. The storyline and character development was great. Definitely deserving of all the awards it’s received.
The violence was somewhat redeemed by the message that violence and nihilism are dead ends, and that kindness is what gives meaning to existence. I loved the depiction of the literal ending of the violent movie–very meta and self-critical. But the level of violence used to get to that point is an unnecessarily large barrier.
… posted in May, 2022:
Good job!
Pointless nitpick about the movie: the scene with the two rocks in a lifeless universe has a clump of grass next to the daughter rock.
I am pretty out of the loop when it comes to film these days so I had never heard of the movie before it won the Academy Award. I bought it on Amazon Prime and watched it with a date a few days ago. I went in completely cold. My date and I absolutely loved it. I hadn’t enjoyed a movie so much in years.
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I was very happy with the wins I asked for 10 months ago.
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RRR was, of the movies I saw, the best movie from 2022. The fact India did not submit it for foreign film or really push for it at all at the Oscars was foolish. It was a crowd-pleasing hit.
I noticed that, too.
We just saw this movie last night, so very late to the party, obviously. Even though I knew it won an oscar I honestly had no idea what to expect (I saw John Stewart’s gag about Uncle Sam with missile fingers referencing this movie, but I’d never have guessed it was referring to hot dog handed beings from another universe!)
The humor was awesome, stuff like the cutaway gag to the hot dog handed apes beating the last regular hominid to death with a nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey was awesome to see.
I noticed this too, and I agree, it bugged me!