[00:00:06] Speaker A: Welcome to Five minute Film Finder.
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Welcome back to Five minute film finder. It's been a while. This is Ben and today with me I have Darren. Welcome back, Darren. So we've taken a little bit of an break due to busyness of the library. People are getting back out there in the world and doing lots of programming. Also some technical difficulties. We're excited to jump back into it with some exciting movies today. How have you been, Darren?
[00:00:39] Speaker B: I'm doing pretty well. I'm doing pretty well. I'm very excited to do this. I miss the podcast and I love watching movies.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: Absolutely, yeah.
If you've listened before, you know that me and Darren love to jump into some Sci-Fi movies. We've done quite a handful of fun and weird Sci-Fi movies in the past.
But today we have a nice two hander.
We're doing some martial arts multiverse movies.
I think that's like the simplest way.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: You can multiverse movies, say that five times fast on a podcast.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: Absolutely. So, without getting into it, we are doing everything, everywhere, all at once. And the one quite a two hander. I always rely on Darren to find me a nice co pick for whatever movie I throw at him. And I chose everything, everywhere, all at once. And he brought me the one and I forgot what a wild movie of its time it was. But why did you pick the one? Do you remember it? Fondly?
[00:01:48] Speaker B: I watched it in the theater. I remembered it. I don't know about fondly. It's a 2001 movie and it's very much a 2001 movie. And I saw it on the list on hoopla there and I thought it'd be a great match because of the multiverse thing.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: Absolutely. Okay, well, let's jump right into it and we'll start with everything, Everywhere, all at Once. Wilhelm, start the timer.
All right. So everything, Everywhere, all at Once is a 2022 film directed by the Daniels. You may recognize the Daniels, daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, I believe from another episode we did, swiss Army Man. They are a weird director duo. They come from music videos, I believe.
[00:02:40] Speaker B: I believe that's correct.
[00:02:41] Speaker A: They are incredibly inventive in the way that they approach films.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: If you've seen anything that they've done, you know that they don't do typical movies.
[00:02:53] Speaker A: It has a distinct personality and approach, very low budget, but not in the sense that it looks cheap as they don't spend a lot of money wasting on viz, on visual effects.
[00:03:08] Speaker B: Everything is like the resource use in these movies.
[00:03:11] Speaker A: Absolutely. And it was a very distinct impression that I got from watching this one and watching the one.
This movie had estimated between 14 and $25 million budget, which that was quite a big range, but still a very small for a huge movie.
But it's beautiful.
Everything looks like it looks amazing warm. But if you are really paying attention, all the Sci-Fi elements of it are so practical. Just they're clearly just doing it on set that day.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: Camera tricks and stuff like that to make it look more expensive than it actually is.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: Yeah, one of my favorite ones I remember when I was watching was the first time she puts on the headset and they're doing like a very classic scan where normally they do this in a computer and they kind of do the lights all around the head. But this they just had a projector on her and it looks really cool and kind of like nice and warm and analog and there's something like really beautiful about that.
So that's kind of like the vibe you're getting from them.
I can't go too deep into this because we only have 5 minutes. That's the whole thing.
This movie has an incredible cast.
Heavy hitters of the martial arts film world. Michelle Yeoh is our star.
You may know her from crashing Tiger hidden Dragon. She has been in a million TV shows as just a heavy hitter of martial arts. And also just like being a presence.
She's in Tomorrow Never Dies, one of the classic Pierce Brosnan's that is arguable as to the quality for different people. She's in Crazy Rich Asians for another more contemporary film that she's been in. But she is just like a huge presence in Asian actors.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: And as an actor, she always finds a way to fill those roles really well, takes command of the role. And her presence is always felt in these movies. And it's interesting because she's never really been given and it's something that she's expressed she'd never been really given a chance to do something like this where she has this amount of range and things that she needs to cover in a role. She's been kind of singular in the things that she's been asked to do. And so it was cool watching her be able to do that.
[00:05:51] Speaker A: Absolutely.
So a little bit about this movie. This is a movie ostensibly about a family, about changing relationships, changing how you view the people that you love, but through this crazy lens of the multiverse, seeing all the possible paths you could have taken. It's a really beautiful and lovely movie that is kind of couched in a lot of silliness and both Visual and the Daniels.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: Very much into the absurdist comedy and just giving you those things that you don't know what you're going to expect and just surprises you along with the.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: Message that they're going I'll just say hot dog fingers.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Hot dog.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: If you've never seen this movie, you'll never expect to see people with hot dog fingers delivering an emotional kind of moving scene.
[00:06:49] Speaker B: I mean the unbelievably poignant rock scene. Yes, the rocks.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: There's a scene that is entirely between two characters as rocks on a cliffside through subtitles rock subtitles. No movement, no voiceover, just the wind blowing and two rocks talking to each other. It's a beautiful movie.
I think I'm running close on time.
Also, quick, other things to get in there. Who else is in this movie? We also have Ki Hui Kwan, who is playing Weiman Wang. He also is known as Shortstop and Data from Goonies and Indiana Jones, respectively. He's just lovely in this movie.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: Just a beautiful man in the movie. Yeah, for sure.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: Jamie Lee Curtis playing one of her fun villainous roles in this movie. But also sort of, because multiverse, right.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: And even the villainous portion has some resolve.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: A turnaround. Stephanie sue, who you may also know from I think she was in that new movie Girls Trip.
Maybe not. She's been in a lot of TV shows. She's in marvelous. Miss Maisel unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt girl code just a ton of stuff but she is fantastic. She also plays the big bed of the movie.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: The daughter of the main character and the overall antagonist.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Yes.
So wrapping it up. This movie is awesome. You should absolutely see it. It won, I think, seven Academy Awards.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: Including three for the actors. Yeah.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: So we got Best Picture, best Actress, best Supporting Actor, best Supporting Actress, director, Screenplay, film, Editing supporting Actress. Again, original score and costume design.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: And not just those things, but notable because first time for a science fiction movie.
The Asian actors winning the awards for acting, and then the fact that it's a rated R movie that won all of these.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: Yes, an important detail. This is a rated R movie, so it has some explicit stuff. It's not a particularly bloody violent movie, but there is some absurdist rated R material. So watch with caution. But so funny, so good. That's definitely my time.
But now we will move on to The One right after this message.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: Great.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: And we are back. So, Darren, what are we talking about?
[00:09:47] Speaker B: So today we have the one. It's an interesting companion to everything because, should I say everything everywhere, all at once?
[00:09:58] Speaker A: Whatever you want.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: Interesting companion to everything, everywhere all at once. Because the multiverse aspect. But it treats it differently, obviously. In The One, it's more of a focus on the villain, really. It's the villain's movie, in my opinion. And the multiverse is a way for him to gain power, basically. That's the plot of the movie. And we spend 80 ish minutes watching Jet Lee fight himself. That's the gist of it, truly. And like I said earlier, it's very much a 2001 movie. The sounding soundtrack, like the new metal soundtrack is on point, if you're into that. Just littered with it very much. Of course, drowning pool's. Bodies is in there. Just like, I think, right within the first needle drop. And then also the end of the movie. Like they bookend the movie with bodies by drowning pool. It's pretty good as far as the effects and everything go. It shows its age. We talked about the budget on the last movie. It doesn't match the budget. It's not a greatly reviewed movie, but I think it's a fun Jet Lee kung fu movie.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: If you're into Jet Lee 90s movies, it scratches that.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: Itch absolutely interesting things for me. Things like Jason Statham's in the movie, in a small role. Very early role for him.
[00:11:33] Speaker A: Pre shaving the head.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: Yeah, pre shaving the head. He had only done one movie, Hollywood movie, because he had done Lockstock and he had had a couple of English movies first. But yeah, maybe his first actual Hollywood movie that he'd done.
Supporting role for him. Delroy Lindo. Good role for him. I like that.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: In that role of a tough but fair cop.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: You want him to be you'd feel bad for making him mad at you, but you want him on. Yeah. So that was pretty good for me. And watching the interaction between him and Jet Li, good for some laughs.
But interestingly. I think the most interesting thing I found when watching this movie was what I discovered. I did not know this, but Kei Hui Kwan actually worked on the one.
[00:12:26] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: So in his time, after he had to retire from acting because he couldn't get any jobs, he basically bounced around Hollywood doing some jobs. And he was working for Corey Yoon, who was doing stunt coordination. He's directed some movies since then, but he did the stunt coordination and stuff for this movie. And the first X Men movie that came out in 2000. So he worked on Khu Kwan. Worked on both of those movies. And I didn't know that before I picked the one. So I thought that was great. He was actually worked on both movies.
[00:12:59] Speaker A: Yeah. So something about this movie that struck for me is like how clearly The Matrix had just come out a year or two before. It was like they just were trying to do their own spin on the bullet time. Because there's the slow motion, but also weird, like slow motion into speed. Ramping into slow motion is very almost own vibe.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: Almost to the point where it doesn't make sense. Yeah, he can't be doing that. It's physically impossible for that guy to be moving that speed and this guy to be moving that speed. A little bit of that.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: And that just also felt like a thing of the time. Very much.
[00:13:34] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:13:35] Speaker A: Everybody's just like, well, now that we can do bullet time, let's just see.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: What we can stretch it as far as you can go.
[00:13:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
So we had a lot of fun with this movie. There's also some gripes. Obviously, they could have done more with the multiverse thing.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: I think that was really that's what's going to knock it down. It's only rated like 5.9 or something like that. IMDb. And for me, that's like Borderline because it's an action kung fu movie. It's within my range. I can watch it. But a lot of people aren't going to enjoy this movie. You could push it up by exploring the multiverse more like we talked about.
[00:14:11] Speaker A: So something we were talking about off mic is they at one point show all the different versions of our hero and villain.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: The Law or Lawless is in there somewhere. That's the guy's name.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: But they just flash a bunch of different versions of him on the screen with different haircuts and different names from different multiverses. But they never explore that. They never show these characters or kind of have fun with the whole idea of a multiverse. It's just like, yeah, there's a multiverse.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: There was very little multiverse travel. Like, they spent more time traveling back to the multiverse, like cop shop than they actually did going to other universes. And it's just kind of a missed opportunity.
Except for at the end. I thought that was great. They send him to the prison Planet. Like, you get to see the Prison Planet thing. You get a little taste of the actual I want to see that movie.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: Yeah. And that may have been like a tee up for a sequel that never.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: Happened because it wasn't that good.
[00:15:08] Speaker A: Didn't make much money there's, Wilhelm with the time. But would you suggest this movie?
[00:15:16] Speaker B: I think that, like I said, if it's within your range of kinds of movies that you like, if you like Action, you like Kung Fu, you like Jet Li, like Jason Statham, you like New Metal from Johnny Poole and stuff like that, go for it.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: Yeah, it's definitely that vibe. I would agree with that.
I don't think we did that for everything everywhere. But also, I think we're both emphatic yeses on that movie. It's incredible. So we are so happy to be back with Five Minute Film Finder. We're going to be trying to get these out a lot more regularly.
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[00:16:03] Speaker B: Thanks for having me. So excited to be back. Bye.
