Is “Everything Everywhere All At Once” Part Of The MCU?
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Y’all remember Everything Everywhere All At Once?
Perhaps the greatest achievement of movies like Everything, Everywhere, All At Once is in how they reclaim and reshape movies not just from each actor’s catalog, but all that American filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino have attempted to borrow from Asian cinema history.
In his later thoughts for his guest spot on the Filmcast, Walter Chaw said that Everything Everywhere All At Once “reclaims all of those appropriations.”
But the movie’s most surprising connection to another dimension-hopping movie franchise turns out to also be the most obvious.
