Everything Everywhere All at Once

Jun 12, 2022 14:58


Brilliant Husband and I finally went back to a theater to see an actual movie with real, live, other human beings! (Well, he'd done it for Dune, but I wasn't ready then.) We saw Everything Everywhere All at Once, and I really recommend it. It's a lot, though: you have to be braced for some very rapid cutting (fortunately, not generally for too long at any one time).

I have to say, I didn't feel great about us being the only two people in the theater wearing masks. And I don't mean just our theater; I saw no one else wearing masks at the whole multiplex. Not the staff, not people in the halls, not people in the bathrooms (BH didn't see any in his, either). We were fortunate to have empty seats on either side of us. We'd considered buying them to keep them empty, but so few had sold before we bought that it didn't seem sensible to buy them. And I'm still basically cheap, which is a big part of how we could afford to buy them now.

The movie is genius. Michelle Yeoh is awesome, and the rest of the cast can keep up with her. It packs a surprising emotional punch for a fantasy-action-comedy. I laughed, but I also felt very moved at points (but don't want to say too much).

Weirdly, I spent the whole movie feeling I should recognize Ke Huy Quan, who plays Evelyn's husband Waymond, and I found from the IMDb that I had only seen him when he was a child-in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (which I like to call Indiana Jones and We Really Didn't Think This One Through and have only seen partially, and once) and The Goonies (which again, I have only seen once, and he was quite young).

It was also a good feeling to be with other people laughing together. I hadn't realized how much I missed that.

Have any of y'all seen it? Is anyone else going to go through the rest of your lives referring to the movie Racaccoonie?

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