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Talking Pondo: Everything Everywhere All At Once and When Harry Met Sally
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In this episode, Marty gives Clif the film When Harry Met Sally to watch and Clif gives Marty Everything Everywhere All At Once to watch.
This week on Talking Pondo, Clif and Marty kick things off by heading into the multiverse with Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), the Oscar-winning cinematic fever dream. Clif is blown away by the film's wild imagination, emotional core and sheer technical achievement. Marty admires what it accomplishes but wonders if it's nonstop visual chaos and increasingly absurd detours might be a little much. The guys talk about the movie's surprisingly universal story of a family falling apart, it's inventive take on alternate realities, the incredible work of Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis and James Hong.
Then it's time to trade universe-hopping for the streets of New York with When Harry Met Sally (1989), Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron's romantic comedy classic. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan play two people who keep crossing paths over the years while debating whether men and women can really be friends without sex getting in the way. Clif praises the razor-sharp writing, endlessly quotable dialogue, and remarkable rewatchability, while Marty takes a fresh analytical look at a movie he's seen many times. Is it really a character-driven love story, or is it more like a string of brilliantly executed routines about relationships?
Along the way: the multiverse connections to The Matrix, Quantum Leap, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and even Mystery Science Theater 3000. Clif and Marty debate the best romantic comedies, discover a little Rob Reiner/Stephen King movie trivia and once again find themselves looking at two very different films through the Talking Pondo microscope.
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