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It’s rare for a movie to make me cry in the theater…forgot how good of a feeling that can be.
“You loved Doctor Strange 2 that much?”
Aren’t you a funny bitch?
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE RATING: 10/FUCK YOU.
DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS RATING: IT’S ANOTHER ONE/10.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is another Marvel movie. Before I continue I will link to a journal of my thoughts on previous MCU films. As well as my review of Avengers: Infinity War and my review of Avengers: Endgame. Keep that in mind going forward when I share my thoughts. To be fair some of these opinions may have changed a bit. I fully acknowledge I may have been a bit too cynical with Doctor Strange and Thor: Ragnarok and may rewatch both of those films at some point in the future. But overall, this is how I feel about all the MCU films I’ve seen so far. Anyway, back to this.
Everything Everywhere All at Once is the latest film by the Daniels. Basically it’s a movie about a middle-aged Chinese immigrant named Evelyn Wang who has a very hectic life. She left her parents to be with the man she loved—Wayland—and spurned them in the process. She runs a laundromat and is heavily in debt. Her daughter, Joy, is a lesbian—something she’s seemingly iffy about, and something she knows her father won’t approve of. And even worse, because of how hectic and demanding her life is, her husband is having thoughts about getting divorced. Anyways, while doing her taxes on day, she finds out that she may or may not have the ability to experience an alternate version of herself in another universe…
Okay! Now let’s segway into how Doctor Strange 2 starts.
AW SHIT! LOOKIT ALL THIS CGI! MUTHAFUCKA LOOKIT ALL THIS SHIT! LOOKIT ALL THIS SHIT! AAAAWWWWWWWWWW MAH GOD. AWWWWWWWWWWWWW MAH GAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWD!!!
All right anyway, this movie takes place…in the future. After the whole Avengers: Endgame thing. It actually starts off kinda interesting, with Doctor Stephen Strange having to accept the fact that he chose to be a superhero protecting Earth from malicious threats as opposed to being with Christine, his love interest. It’s actually a bit compelling, seeing him at his former lover’s marriage—
AW FUCK MAH TITTIES! OCTOPUS ALIEN! FUCK MAH ASS! AW MAH GAWD! AW MAH GAWD-DAMN! LOOKIT ALL THIS SHIT! LOOKIT ALL THIS CGI SHIT! MOTHER FUCK MAH TITTIES! AWWWWWWWWWWW MAH GAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWDDDDDDD!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch is evil now and she wants to kidnap some chick named America Chavez to get her powers.
…Oh there’s a bovine-headed sorcerer. He looks cute.
This is…going to be interesting. Because I’m not gonna say much about Everything Everywhere All at Once because I don’t wanna spoil anything. You need to see this film at least once in your life. It starts off as being this fish-out-of-water story where a woman has to switch to alternate universes of herself in order to gain certain skills—skills she must use to stop this dreaded evil that threatens to destroy all alternate universes across the cosmos. But by exploring these universes, she sees alternate versions of her life…better versions of her life. A version where she’s rich and famous, but unmarried. A version where she becomes a skilled and renowned chef. A version where she has hot dogs for fingers. XD And it’s…it’s very thought-provoking. Because you reflect on your current life and realize it’s a similar concept, where there are thousands—millions—of versions of yourself that have gone down a different path.
But are you happier in these alternate lives? Are you okay knowing that you gave up something in your current life to achieve your other life? …Is your other life better than the one you’re current living? Do you believe any forms of happiness can occur in your lives or is it all some façade? Is it possible to be happy just by choosing to be happy, by being a kind and helpful person in spite of what universe you’re in?
Did I mention this movie’s very funny? It’s very funny. XD There’s a kickass scene involving a fanny-pack I’m not gonna spoil. There’s a parody of Ratatouille. Except…it’s not. XD There’s a scene involving trophies. You will understand what I mean when you see the film.
You see I went into Everything Everywhere All at Once expecting to see this incredibly trippy-ass sci-fi film! And that’s what I got! I was not expecting all the surprisingly well-choreographed action sequences and the improvised use of scenery people used to attack others with (including a SPOILER XD). I was…not expecting the film to be as emotional as it was. I was not expecting the film to be as existential as it was. I was not expecting to start crying in the theater because I started contemplating about my own life, about what kind of person I would be if my parents hadn’t gotten divorced, if I never found FA, if I was still dating Isle, if I hadn’t met some of the wonderful people that I know now…
“That’s all cool, JT. Get back to Doctor Strange!”
Hmm? Oh yeah. Um…well there’s lots of CGI. And then more CGI. Several background characters with no names die. More CGI happens. And then more CGI stuff. Mm…oh, comedy joke-jokes comedy jokes. Uh…oh more CGI. And CGI. Oh there’s the scene that is emotional and I have to cry now. But no. Mm…oh, plot twist. Ehhh, some cameos of other superheroes. Mm…
Mm…mm. CGI. Talking. CGI.
Okay so, I’ll give credit where it’s due. I really do like what they did with Stephen Strange. I didn’t like him in the first movie all that much, but I do like what they did here to some degree. Like Everything Everywhere All at Once, it explores the possibility of Strange having to deal with not being with Christine. And it’s something he…doesn’t exactly regret per say, but he has that lingering thought of “This could have worked…but it didn’t.”
Also on that note, I’ll give props to the fact that this is largely Wanda Maximoff’s motivation behind becoming evil. She just wants to be in a universe where she’s a mother and has two loving kids. And I get where she’s coming from to a degree. It’s a shame that I need to watch WandaVision beforehand to understand what led up to this, which I did not do. Because I do not have Disney+ and don’t wanna get it right now. And I was not aware you needed to watch a TV series to understand why one of the superheroes is now evil. I saw the first film; that should be enough. But I guess it’s not. BECAUSE FUCK ME, RIGHT? :D
I like some of the death scenes in Doctor Strange 2. Some of them are incredibly graphic, even for a PG-13 film. Someone gets cut in half; an alien has its eye popped out (onscreen), a man’s head explodes, someone is disintegrated and turned into subatomic particles, etc. At the same time, almost all of them fall flat. We’re supposed to be shocked by these characters dying, but no one in the film is really shocked by it. We’re supposed to care about these characters dying because “AW MAH GAWD! THIS WELL-KNOWN SUPERHERO JUST DIED!” But this superhero only appears in this film, has about five minutes of screentime, does nothing, and then dies. And they’re from an alternate universe, so what does it matter anyways?
The first fifteen minutes of this film opens with two overblown CGI fight scenes. One ends with an alternate version of Stephen Strange getting impaled and dying. The other scene involves current-day Stephen Strange fighting a colossal octopus eldritch monstrosity in the middle of a very public city block. But no one is killed, onlookers stand by and watch with glee, and the movie still ends up breaking the tension with comedy.
Why am I supposed to care? Why am I supposed to care about feeling any sort of tension or dread or terror at any point in the film when the movie opens with what was essentially the actual climax of The Suicide Squad and The Avengers?
“Because it’s the Multiverse JT! They’re doing new things and shiz!”
I’m going to be very, very blunt here. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is an overblown, bloated, CGI mess that expects you to have kept up with everything that has happened in the MCU up until this point. Missed out on Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame? Fuck you! Missed out on WandaVision, a TV series that is exclusive to Disney+, a streaming service you have to pay money for? Fuck you!
I think what also seriously pisses me off is that towards the end of the film, Doctor Strange meets an alternate version of himself that became evil because he chose not to be with Christine. But Doctor Strange kills him rather easily. You had your film right there! You could’ve made this film be about Doctor Strange teaming up with Doctor Strange to stop some “unknown” threat! But then halfway into the film, it’s revealed that the threat is the alternate Strange himself. And the second half of the movie would be Strange having to not only defeat his evil version, but finally accepting his inner demons.
Instead, we got Wanda being evil because trauma and she’s a mommy who wants kids.
Contrast this to Everything Everywhere All at Once, where most of the plot is about a woman coming to terms with her own personal dilemmas and the effect it has on her family, and her struggling constantly to stop the “evil threat” that plagues the alternate universes, even though SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER AND SPOILER. This movie was emotional when it absolutely did not need to be, and I respect it for that. And you don’t need to see anything beforehand to understand what’s happening. Doctor Strange 2 is supposed to be emotional but I didn’t really care. Everything Everywhere All at Once was funny as all hell—to the point where I’m not even going to spoil what the jokes are or why they are funny. I didn’t even chuckle with Doctor Strange 2.
Doctor Strange 2 didn’t…you know what, no. Fuck it. I’m gonna say it. Doctor Strange 2 didn’t even handle diversity as good as Everything Everywhere All at Once did. Now obviously I’m not saying that Stephen Strange needed to be transgender or African-American—no, I don’t mean that. What I’m saying is that Doctor Strange 2 has multiple minority characters in it and almost all of them are side characters, in the background, and/or they die and literally no one cares. Even America Chavez spends most of the movie being a damsel in distress until the plot needs her to activate her powers. Oh, and she has two moms. Which I’m fine with, until you realize they are onscreen for thirty seconds, say almost nothing, and then get sucked into a portal and presumably die. All four lead characters in Everything Everywhere All at Once are well-developed, well-written Asian or Asian-American characters. And Evelyn’s daughter, Joy, who is one of these four characters, is openly homosexual. So yeah, just to contrast these two films even further.
Go see Everything Everywhere All at Once as soon as you can. I don’t know if it’s still in theaters, but if it is, see it now before it’s too late. It’s been out for a very long time so it might be leaving theaters soon.
I’m not gonna tell you whether or not you should see Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for one of two reasons. The first is because you’ve probably seen it already. The second is because it’s another MCU film. And that’s all I need to say. This one’s a lot less comedic compared to your usual MCU film and it has a lot of disturbing imagery, monsters, and deaths in it, but besides that, it’s nothing new. You got your comedy joke-jokes comedy jokes, you got “the scene” that’s sad and you gotta cry, you got the motivational speech during the climax that needs to happen because motivation, you got the Big Bad who is taken out by the end of the film, you got side characters who die and you’re allegedly supposed to care, you got CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and—
“But JT! The post-credit—”
Don’t know, don’t care.
“But you paid money for a movie you said you don't like supporting! That's hypocritical!”
No I didn't. Saw it through "other means" without paying for it. I definitely saw Everything Everywhere All at Once in theaters and paid for it though.
I’m not saying it’s wrong of you to support MCU films. I’m not saying they’re all trash and I want MCU films to just go die in a fire. But at this point, MCU has become so formulaic that it’s hurting the series, not helping it. And it’s because we keep getting a new MCU…thing every other month or so. So when you keep pumping out similar stuff all the time but change up some characters and locations, it’s all gonna feel very…stale. I know “that one guy” infamously said Marvel movies are akin to amusement park rides. And while I don’t…necessarily agree to an extent, look at it this way. When the MCU started, it was an amusement park filled with all sorts of rides! Some of them were excellent. Some of them were good. Some were kinda boring. Some broke down before you could ride them and you got pissed off. But overall, you had fun with it!
But now it feels like all we’re getting are roller-coasters. And that’s fine and all, but…sometimes I wanna ride other rides. Especially when some of the roller-coasters behave similarly but are just painted differently. And I feel like the MCU—and possible all blockbuster films as a whole—is just gonna be an amusement park full of roller-coasters…I don’t want that. But those are the rides that get the most attraction and it’s the one ride people always talk about, so Marvel is probably gonna keep building roller-coasters. Because that’s what the majority keep asking for.
All I’m saying is that every so often, go out your comfort zone. You don’t always have to ride a roller-coaster. You don’t always have to go to the amusement park. Go see some musical. See a cosmic horror film. See an artsy-fartsy film everyone is saying is great. I’m not saying all these films are good—they aren’t. Some are overrated. Some are boring as all fuck. Some make you hate all the characters and not care by the end (I see you Midsommar). But sometimes, you get shit like Uncut Gems. Shit like Hereditary. Shit like Everything Everywhere All at Once.
And it’s always incredible, or at least interesting, to see what filmmakers can produce when they care about more than just how flashy and CGI-riddled their film is.
“You loved Doctor Strange 2 that much?”
Aren’t you a funny bitch?
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE RATING: 10/FUCK YOU.
DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS RATING: IT’S ANOTHER ONE/10.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is another Marvel movie. Before I continue I will link to a journal of my thoughts on previous MCU films. As well as my review of Avengers: Infinity War and my review of Avengers: Endgame. Keep that in mind going forward when I share my thoughts. To be fair some of these opinions may have changed a bit. I fully acknowledge I may have been a bit too cynical with Doctor Strange and Thor: Ragnarok and may rewatch both of those films at some point in the future. But overall, this is how I feel about all the MCU films I’ve seen so far. Anyway, back to this.
Everything Everywhere All at Once is the latest film by the Daniels. Basically it’s a movie about a middle-aged Chinese immigrant named Evelyn Wang who has a very hectic life. She left her parents to be with the man she loved—Wayland—and spurned them in the process. She runs a laundromat and is heavily in debt. Her daughter, Joy, is a lesbian—something she’s seemingly iffy about, and something she knows her father won’t approve of. And even worse, because of how hectic and demanding her life is, her husband is having thoughts about getting divorced. Anyways, while doing her taxes on day, she finds out that she may or may not have the ability to experience an alternate version of herself in another universe…
Okay! Now let’s segway into how Doctor Strange 2 starts.
AW SHIT! LOOKIT ALL THIS CGI! MUTHAFUCKA LOOKIT ALL THIS SHIT! LOOKIT ALL THIS SHIT! AAAAWWWWWWWWWW MAH GOD. AWWWWWWWWWWWWW MAH GAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWD!!!
All right anyway, this movie takes place…in the future. After the whole Avengers: Endgame thing. It actually starts off kinda interesting, with Doctor Stephen Strange having to accept the fact that he chose to be a superhero protecting Earth from malicious threats as opposed to being with Christine, his love interest. It’s actually a bit compelling, seeing him at his former lover’s marriage—
AW FUCK MAH TITTIES! OCTOPUS ALIEN! FUCK MAH ASS! AW MAH GAWD! AW MAH GAWD-DAMN! LOOKIT ALL THIS SHIT! LOOKIT ALL THIS CGI SHIT! MOTHER FUCK MAH TITTIES! AWWWWWWWWWWW MAH GAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWDDDDDDD!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch is evil now and she wants to kidnap some chick named America Chavez to get her powers.
…Oh there’s a bovine-headed sorcerer. He looks cute.
This is…going to be interesting. Because I’m not gonna say much about Everything Everywhere All at Once because I don’t wanna spoil anything. You need to see this film at least once in your life. It starts off as being this fish-out-of-water story where a woman has to switch to alternate universes of herself in order to gain certain skills—skills she must use to stop this dreaded evil that threatens to destroy all alternate universes across the cosmos. But by exploring these universes, she sees alternate versions of her life…better versions of her life. A version where she’s rich and famous, but unmarried. A version where she becomes a skilled and renowned chef. A version where she has hot dogs for fingers. XD And it’s…it’s very thought-provoking. Because you reflect on your current life and realize it’s a similar concept, where there are thousands—millions—of versions of yourself that have gone down a different path.
But are you happier in these alternate lives? Are you okay knowing that you gave up something in your current life to achieve your other life? …Is your other life better than the one you’re current living? Do you believe any forms of happiness can occur in your lives or is it all some façade? Is it possible to be happy just by choosing to be happy, by being a kind and helpful person in spite of what universe you’re in?
Did I mention this movie’s very funny? It’s very funny. XD There’s a kickass scene involving a fanny-pack I’m not gonna spoil. There’s a parody of Ratatouille. Except…it’s not. XD There’s a scene involving trophies. You will understand what I mean when you see the film.
You see I went into Everything Everywhere All at Once expecting to see this incredibly trippy-ass sci-fi film! And that’s what I got! I was not expecting all the surprisingly well-choreographed action sequences and the improvised use of scenery people used to attack others with (including a SPOILER XD). I was…not expecting the film to be as emotional as it was. I was not expecting the film to be as existential as it was. I was not expecting to start crying in the theater because I started contemplating about my own life, about what kind of person I would be if my parents hadn’t gotten divorced, if I never found FA, if I was still dating Isle, if I hadn’t met some of the wonderful people that I know now…
“That’s all cool, JT. Get back to Doctor Strange!”
Hmm? Oh yeah. Um…well there’s lots of CGI. And then more CGI. Several background characters with no names die. More CGI happens. And then more CGI stuff. Mm…oh, comedy joke-jokes comedy jokes. Uh…oh more CGI. And CGI. Oh there’s the scene that is emotional and I have to cry now. But no. Mm…oh, plot twist. Ehhh, some cameos of other superheroes. Mm…
Mm…mm. CGI. Talking. CGI.
Okay so, I’ll give credit where it’s due. I really do like what they did with Stephen Strange. I didn’t like him in the first movie all that much, but I do like what they did here to some degree. Like Everything Everywhere All at Once, it explores the possibility of Strange having to deal with not being with Christine. And it’s something he…doesn’t exactly regret per say, but he has that lingering thought of “This could have worked…but it didn’t.”
Also on that note, I’ll give props to the fact that this is largely Wanda Maximoff’s motivation behind becoming evil. She just wants to be in a universe where she’s a mother and has two loving kids. And I get where she’s coming from to a degree. It’s a shame that I need to watch WandaVision beforehand to understand what led up to this, which I did not do. Because I do not have Disney+ and don’t wanna get it right now. And I was not aware you needed to watch a TV series to understand why one of the superheroes is now evil. I saw the first film; that should be enough. But I guess it’s not. BECAUSE FUCK ME, RIGHT? :D
I like some of the death scenes in Doctor Strange 2. Some of them are incredibly graphic, even for a PG-13 film. Someone gets cut in half; an alien has its eye popped out (onscreen), a man’s head explodes, someone is disintegrated and turned into subatomic particles, etc. At the same time, almost all of them fall flat. We’re supposed to be shocked by these characters dying, but no one in the film is really shocked by it. We’re supposed to care about these characters dying because “AW MAH GAWD! THIS WELL-KNOWN SUPERHERO JUST DIED!” But this superhero only appears in this film, has about five minutes of screentime, does nothing, and then dies. And they’re from an alternate universe, so what does it matter anyways?
The first fifteen minutes of this film opens with two overblown CGI fight scenes. One ends with an alternate version of Stephen Strange getting impaled and dying. The other scene involves current-day Stephen Strange fighting a colossal octopus eldritch monstrosity in the middle of a very public city block. But no one is killed, onlookers stand by and watch with glee, and the movie still ends up breaking the tension with comedy.
Why am I supposed to care? Why am I supposed to care about feeling any sort of tension or dread or terror at any point in the film when the movie opens with what was essentially the actual climax of The Suicide Squad and The Avengers?
“Because it’s the Multiverse JT! They’re doing new things and shiz!”
I’m going to be very, very blunt here. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is an overblown, bloated, CGI mess that expects you to have kept up with everything that has happened in the MCU up until this point. Missed out on Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame? Fuck you! Missed out on WandaVision, a TV series that is exclusive to Disney+, a streaming service you have to pay money for? Fuck you!
I think what also seriously pisses me off is that towards the end of the film, Doctor Strange meets an alternate version of himself that became evil because he chose not to be with Christine. But Doctor Strange kills him rather easily. You had your film right there! You could’ve made this film be about Doctor Strange teaming up with Doctor Strange to stop some “unknown” threat! But then halfway into the film, it’s revealed that the threat is the alternate Strange himself. And the second half of the movie would be Strange having to not only defeat his evil version, but finally accepting his inner demons.
Instead, we got Wanda being evil because trauma and she’s a mommy who wants kids.
Contrast this to Everything Everywhere All at Once, where most of the plot is about a woman coming to terms with her own personal dilemmas and the effect it has on her family, and her struggling constantly to stop the “evil threat” that plagues the alternate universes, even though SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER AND SPOILER. This movie was emotional when it absolutely did not need to be, and I respect it for that. And you don’t need to see anything beforehand to understand what’s happening. Doctor Strange 2 is supposed to be emotional but I didn’t really care. Everything Everywhere All at Once was funny as all hell—to the point where I’m not even going to spoil what the jokes are or why they are funny. I didn’t even chuckle with Doctor Strange 2.
Doctor Strange 2 didn’t…you know what, no. Fuck it. I’m gonna say it. Doctor Strange 2 didn’t even handle diversity as good as Everything Everywhere All at Once did. Now obviously I’m not saying that Stephen Strange needed to be transgender or African-American—no, I don’t mean that. What I’m saying is that Doctor Strange 2 has multiple minority characters in it and almost all of them are side characters, in the background, and/or they die and literally no one cares. Even America Chavez spends most of the movie being a damsel in distress until the plot needs her to activate her powers. Oh, and she has two moms. Which I’m fine with, until you realize they are onscreen for thirty seconds, say almost nothing, and then get sucked into a portal and presumably die. All four lead characters in Everything Everywhere All at Once are well-developed, well-written Asian or Asian-American characters. And Evelyn’s daughter, Joy, who is one of these four characters, is openly homosexual. So yeah, just to contrast these two films even further.
Go see Everything Everywhere All at Once as soon as you can. I don’t know if it’s still in theaters, but if it is, see it now before it’s too late. It’s been out for a very long time so it might be leaving theaters soon.
I’m not gonna tell you whether or not you should see Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for one of two reasons. The first is because you’ve probably seen it already. The second is because it’s another MCU film. And that’s all I need to say. This one’s a lot less comedic compared to your usual MCU film and it has a lot of disturbing imagery, monsters, and deaths in it, but besides that, it’s nothing new. You got your comedy joke-jokes comedy jokes, you got “the scene” that’s sad and you gotta cry, you got the motivational speech during the climax that needs to happen because motivation, you got the Big Bad who is taken out by the end of the film, you got side characters who die and you’re allegedly supposed to care, you got CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and CGI and—
“But JT! The post-credit—”
Don’t know, don’t care.
“But you paid money for a movie you said you don't like supporting! That's hypocritical!”
No I didn't. Saw it through "other means" without paying for it. I definitely saw Everything Everywhere All at Once in theaters and paid for it though.
I’m not saying it’s wrong of you to support MCU films. I’m not saying they’re all trash and I want MCU films to just go die in a fire. But at this point, MCU has become so formulaic that it’s hurting the series, not helping it. And it’s because we keep getting a new MCU…thing every other month or so. So when you keep pumping out similar stuff all the time but change up some characters and locations, it’s all gonna feel very…stale. I know “that one guy” infamously said Marvel movies are akin to amusement park rides. And while I don’t…necessarily agree to an extent, look at it this way. When the MCU started, it was an amusement park filled with all sorts of rides! Some of them were excellent. Some of them were good. Some were kinda boring. Some broke down before you could ride them and you got pissed off. But overall, you had fun with it!
But now it feels like all we’re getting are roller-coasters. And that’s fine and all, but…sometimes I wanna ride other rides. Especially when some of the roller-coasters behave similarly but are just painted differently. And I feel like the MCU—and possible all blockbuster films as a whole—is just gonna be an amusement park full of roller-coasters…I don’t want that. But those are the rides that get the most attraction and it’s the one ride people always talk about, so Marvel is probably gonna keep building roller-coasters. Because that’s what the majority keep asking for.
All I’m saying is that every so often, go out your comfort zone. You don’t always have to ride a roller-coaster. You don’t always have to go to the amusement park. Go see some musical. See a cosmic horror film. See an artsy-fartsy film everyone is saying is great. I’m not saying all these films are good—they aren’t. Some are overrated. Some are boring as all fuck. Some make you hate all the characters and not care by the end (I see you Midsommar). But sometimes, you get shit like Uncut Gems. Shit like Hereditary. Shit like Everything Everywhere All at Once.
And it’s always incredible, or at least interesting, to see what filmmakers can produce when they care about more than just how flashy and CGI-riddled their film is.
Given the ever-changing tempo and direction of the plot and action, it could easily have been a hot mess, but it all worked together so beautifully and perfectly. The characters felt so real, with the dialog being totally natural. Whether casual, emotional or humorous, it all just fit together in a perfect flow from start to finish.
This is one movie I recommend everyone to see, if they want to relive that feeling of a movie not only being a really good time, but also reminding us of how movies can also make us stop and think.