Just got around to watching it for the first time tonight. We had so many people tell us we’d love it and need to watch it, so it was high on our list. Great cast, and it won so many awards.
I didn’t hate it, but I was left scratching my head over all the hype. I like odd movies and books, so it’s not that I couldn’t handle the weirdness. It seemed like in the same vein as Scott Pilgrim, and if you told me it wasn’t a bit box office but got a cult following, I’d totally believe that.
My wife felt exactly the same way. Maybe it’s just one of those cases where there was too much hype for us, but I felt kind of let down.
I thought the movie was alright, but yeah I was also let down by the hype. The one trailer I watched was giving me philosophical sci-fi action vibes, so I thought that I was about to watch this generation’s “The Matrix”. Not sure why I thought that in hindsight. Turns out it was a family drama/comedy albiet with a unique aesthetic and execution. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great at what it is, it just wasn’t for me. It didn’t help that the movie took too long to end imo.
There was a point in it - I’m guessing a little more than halfway through - where it was very obvious how it had to end. The movie didn’t treat us like we’d figured that out though, and it treated that ending like it was a big surprise. That was my biggest problem with the pacing, and probably why you felt like the end took too long in coming.
I had slight hopes at a couple points that they were going to take an unexpected curve, but it didn’t happen.