Everything Everywhere All at Once and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness

This will be short and sweet:

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a horrible mess of a movie, and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever that this movie would be considered for Best Picture.  It seems to me that this movie is getting recognized for one of two reasons: 1) the members of the Academy responsible for sending out the list of nominees are from an alternate universe, and are trying to send an SOS to our universe, or 2) it's a case of The Emperor's New Clothes (that seems to be going around quite a bit these past few years), and everyone is afraid that they won't be included with the cool kids if they don't pay homage to the multiverse, and its all-inclusivity.  It's no accident that the message of this film is a condemnation against those who are close-minded; the only people who shouldn't be tolerated are the intolerant.  If you're looking for me to set aside the offensive message, and focus only on the production values, I would simply ask, what production values?  In a year where we have Avatar: The Way of Water, The Fabelmans, and Top Gun: Maverick; each of those three other films nominated for Best Picture are great examples of the current state of filmmaking, each striking a balance between the story that they're trying to tell, and the technical achievements that have made it possible to bring each story to life.  Everything Everywhere All at Once feels and looks like a bad movie from the 80s, which may be fun to revisit for the first few seasons of Stranger Things, but isn't the right fit for a movie that should have been fantastic, not mundane.  

When I saw Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness back in May of 2022, I thought that it wasn't strange enough, and it didn't take advantage of what it would mean to have access to an unlimited number of alternate universes.  There was one, albeit too short, sequence where Doctor Strange finds himself tumbling through a variety of universes, that by far was one of the best scenes in the movie, but somehow made the return visits to some of the most boring places in the multiverse seem even worse.  After watching Everything Everywhere All at Once, my perspective on Doctor Strange has changed.  I'd rather have any one of the Marvel universes, than ever spend another second in in that oversaturated, drab 80's office park that inexplicably was a the center of Everything Everywhere All at Once's multiverse. 

Now if you'd like to talk about something really interesting, please feel free to reach out to me, and I'd gladly discuss how the mutiverse is simply another pseudo science concept that's been invented to explain gaps in the currently "accepted" understanding of the cosmos.