1) A short list of some of my favorite movies, off the top of my head, to help you understand me as a person!
- What’s Love Got To Do With It
- House of Flying Daggers
- I Give It A Year
- High Noon
- Amelie
- Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead
- Like Water for Chocolate
- Girls Trip
- The Florida Project
- Elling
2) This is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen in my life. I need to see it again to decide if it is indeed my favorite movie, but I can’t remember the last time I was so bowled over by such a combination of ambition and creativity.
3) Thank God Awkwafina was busy! I don’t quite hate her to the level most people seem to, but her playing the daughter instead of Stephanie Hsu (who is a star I tell you!) as originally cast would have taken a point off the rating. I saw Awkwafina in The Farewell and she won the Golden Globe for it, so I know she has the acting chops to pull off this role, but it’s still Awkwafina. I wouldn’t see see the character because I always just see Awkwafina playing a character.
4) A movie that can make you feel the emotion in a scene when the characters have hot dogs for fingers is a real mastery of the craft. I’m still amazed at the audacity!
5) Life is meaningless, so a movie like this plays into my worldview, but I also believe everyone’s goal should be to have the best time you can, while you can, and help others do the same. Am I enjoying myself? Am I trying to create a world where everyone else can also enjoy themselves? If the answer to both is yes, then I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing. Regardless of your religious background or belief system, if you answer yes to both of those questions, you’re probably following the moral code of the path you’ve decided to follow.
6) This is my favorite Jamie Lee Curtis role. Nothing else is even close.
7) I didn’t realize the guy playing Michelle Yeoh’s husband was the kid from The Goonies until his big climax in the last quarter of the movie, but damn if he didn’t eat this movie up! How exciting it must be to play a role like this! Michelle is the star, but Ke Huy Quan is low-key carrying the emotional heart of the film. It’s hard to upstage the exceptional Michelle Yeoh but I was bowled over.
8) Do you need a dildo fight scene? Then you need this movie.
9) If I were an all-powerful entity in the universe with mysteriously indeterminable motives, that’s the exact wardrobe I would pick for myself. From luchador to golf country club chic to 90s club kid, every look was a ten.
10) Michelle Yeoh. A 60-year-old Asian female action movie star. We have no choice but to stan. It’s hard to play an overly-critical mother while still retaining likability so the audience roots for you. It’s hard to play a reluctant superhero tasked with saving the world because you have to make enough mistakes to be believable but not so many that you have no hope of succeeding. She had to do both at the same time! My Michelle Yeoh knowledge is limited to Crazy Rich Asians, Memoirs of a Geisha, Shang-Chi, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I had no reason to believe she had comedic timing, but she’s funny! And glamorous and sensitive and will be on everybody’s Oscar short list next year if there’s any justice.
11) I don’t know what this movie is. It’s an action comedy family drama sci fi epic saga about love and identity and humanity. Honestly, it’s trying to do too much, but that also means there’s no time to get bored, and so much to unpack after you leave the theater. I didn’t know what I was in for, so I’m not going to spoil the experience for anybody else, but you’ve never seen a movie quite like this. After you see it, let’s go talk about it!
12) Make sure you go see it though. I don’t throw many Must Sees out there, but this is one of them.
Score: 10/10
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