Seeing Ke Huy Quan win made me happy at the beginning, but good goddamn, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE SWEEPS WITH 7 OSCARS INCLUDING BEST PIC!!!

Edit: The BRENNAISSANCE is IN BLOOM

  • wifom [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    It’s a fun film with insanely strong performances across the entire cast. Does it deserve to be hailed as a modern classic? Probably not, but compared to your average year’s Best picture winner (Coda, Green Book, Hurt Locker, fucking KING’S SPEECH) it’s goddamn Citizen Kane in my eyes

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      2 years ago

      According to the Wikipedia article the directors started planning things out way before multiverse shit went mainstream and were really worried the movie would fall flat as time went on because people would be sick of that concept.

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        2 years ago

        According to the Wikipedia article the directors started planning things out way before multiverse shit went mainstream and were really worried the movie would fall flat as time went on because people would be sick of that concept.

        It helped that their take wasn’t a pop nihilistic bazinga take, which I am indeed sick of because it really doesn’t follow for me that “if multiverse = NOTHING HAS MEANING BEING A NARCISSISTIC MASS MURDERING ASSHOLE IS NOW GREENLIT FOREVER”

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          2 years ago

          Exactly. Whether they intended it or not, EEAAO actually comes off as an incredible response of radical empathy to the cynical nihilism that embodies so much of the multiverse genre.