Just saw it. Eh.
I went in blind and enjoyed it. Avoid exposure to hype and you can enjoy things :blob-no-thoughts:
I knew nothing about it before I saw it because I'm virtually a hermit apparently, but I loved it. Only problem was that it ran on too long.
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I went in blind and it was my favorite movie in the past 5 years. Always avoid exposure to hype.
That was one of several parts where I cried
Tbf I do cry at movies pretty easily
It definitely wasn't up to the hype, but I enjoyed it as a B-list Sci-Fi family drama.
The movie felt like something I'd have seen produced 20 or 30 years ago. Low budget, high concept, lots of surrealism where special effects and CGI would normally live, good acting from a bunch of people I'm not overly exposed to (excellent use of Jamie Lee Curtis), enough comedy to keep the premise from taking itself too seriously...
It was a good movie and I'd watch it again.
I'm sorry you feel that way. I genuinely wish everyone could experience what a profound experience it was for me.
For sure. I think the film is really powerful in how it approaches both depression and its roots in intergenerational trauma. Watching it in the theater I could see shades of my own family in so much of it.
I went in knowing nothing except good reviews and slightly multiverse related, and it was one of my favorite movies of all time tbh. I cried several times. The way it talked about depression and nihilism and how they interact with family relationships really hit for me.
Also a complaint I see all the time on this website is “Movies are too long now” and I really don’t get it. Tbh, I love long movies as long as they aren’t bad. When I find out a movie I was looking forward to has a 2:45 runtime I’m like “Hell. Yes.”
I thought it was pretty good. Could have done without the finger bit though.
I loved it, but i knew it would be a “i’ll forget about it until I get the chance to watch it 3-4 years after it came out and probably really like it” movie.
The movie doesnt take itself too seriously, but takes it’s premise really seriously. Def not a movie for the hype machine we call marketing today. It also feels like we’re coming back to dumb but smart movies where you dont have to know a lot of things when you go into a movie
Im making sure that it doesnt live up to the hype for the people that know me by telling everyone I know that is the best “new movie” I have seen in years
Ya, I felt the same. It didn't help that it had Rick & Morty vibes, and that Dr. Strange had a multiverse movie coming out at the same time.
(btw the creators said they came up with the idea independently of those two, so who knows)
It, in my opinion, blows Dr. Strange Multiverse of Madness out of the fucking water. Specially when you learn they edited the entire fucking thing in premire pro.
The multiverse stuff has been hanging around in the cultural subconscious for a few years now. Adam Curtis would make a montage of how these movies line up with what's going on in the world.
I think people are disappointed in how their lives turned out and imagining alternate realities makes them feel like they are fulfilled somewhere out there, even if it's not here. Or they like to imagine different paths they could have taken. It also takes the for granted the idea that our lives are deterministic based on a series of variables or individual choices, which lets us escape the idea that our society is oppressive on purpose. It jives with liberalism in that way.
Obviously multiverse stuff has existed in fiction for a while, but it's gotten a lot of popularity recently.
Weird, I was sure I saw somewhere the creators said that it was explicitly written to make an anti-nihilist response to the messages of Rick and Morty.
if you watched enough stephen chow's movies, this movies has no effect on you. Just how people who likes Stephen Chow in the West only knows Kungfu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer.
But i guess people likes it because it validate them or that they dream that their broken family can be fixed like the end of the movie
This is too true. The butt plug scene felt straight out of a Stephen Chow film, but not as good. Plus I thought the ending was too trite and conservative—who cares about a multiverse where you can do so much good, help so many people, when you have a <3 family.
Anyways, i remember I'm in a movie group where they talk about the movie and there was no dissident allowed. One of the comment literally said:
''this is the only feel good movie we have in these difficult time''
I think there is indeed a lot of personal bias shaping the movie
"De gustibus non est disputandum", In matters of taste there can be no disputes.
Yeah same. The hype train got me. It's like if you made the Matrix an absurdist comedy for nihilistic zoomers.
I do like the fact it was at least trying to be original and doing something different when so much media is the same rehash. So I always appreciate creative risks Iike that.
And it's cool if people here liked it too. Media & art I think is largely impactful on a personal basis depending on when you see it in your life. Just like when a bad breakup song hits much hard when you just had a bad breakup.
Yeh I feel similarly. I appreciate them for making something different, and it got a good amount of laughs out of me, and everyone loves a god fight scene. But even as someone with depression the emotional side of the story didn’t really hit me at all.
i liked it, but obviously everyone has different tastes and there were definitely a few bits that got on my nerves. also it was at one point the highest rated film of all time according to letterboxd, and it definitely didn't deserve that.
I enjoyed it a lot but thought the ending part went on for a bit too much
