Its leading the pack at The Globes
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filmflaneur — 3 months ago(December 08, 2025 11:24 PM)
And again, here you are lol
Also 'woke' is a subjective measure of intangibles, subject to context, perspective and issues of confirmation bias. I shan't say any more since I was hoping this thread would be free of such sterile arguments.
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sheetsadam1 — 3 months ago(December 08, 2025 11:32 PM)
I shan't say any more since I was hoping this thread would be free of such sterile arguments.
I think you were hoping for too much. Only a handful of posters here seem to actually like movies, especially contemporary movies. The rest only know what Fox News has told them about it.
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sheetsadam1 — 3 months ago(December 08, 2025 10:10 PM)
I found the movie to be quite disappointing.
Of the nominees I've seen, I'd pick Bugonia over it in Best Picture, Rose Byrne over Chase Infiniti in Best Actress, Jesse Plemons over Leo in Actor, Jacob Elordi over Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn in Supporting Actor, Amy Madigan over Teyana Taylor in Supporting Actress, and I suppose I'd go with Guillermo del Toro of those I've seen in Best Director, since this is P.T. Anderson's worst movie to date. Really disappointing that Ari Aster and Yorgos Lanthimos weren't nominated though.
I doubt One Battle After Another makes my top 20 at the end of the year. I do currently have Sean Penn ranked second for supporting actor and that's the only thing I'd even consider nominating it for.
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filmflaneur — 3 months ago(December 08, 2025 10:29 PM)
this is P.T. Anderson's worst movie to date.
Critics much more often point to Inherent Vice (2014) for its density and confusion, or sometimes Hard Eight (1996) for being less polished than his later work.
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sheetsadam1 — 3 months ago(December 08, 2025 10:40 PM)
Hard Eight was fine. I give it a bit of leeway for being a first effort. And Inherent Vice was a lot more fun than this and didn't seem to take itself as seriously.
A script with revolutionaries posing as weed-growing nuns, a sensei who is also a Latino Harriet Tubman, a nefarious group called the Christmas Adventurers Club, and characters named Jungle Pussy and Colonel Lockjaw has the makings of a damn good Tarantino movie or full-fledged satire, not a three-hour dead serious drama, with only one laugh to be found.
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sheetsadam1 — 2 months ago(January 24, 2026 03:06 PM)
Tbf, I was in a pretty terrible mood when I watched it
So I will see it again sometime to make sure I'm giving it a fair shot. I do suspect it's better than my initial impression because I'm still remembering a lot of details about it now.
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Loki — 2 months ago(January 24, 2026 03:15 PM)
I went in not knowing anything about it other than the director and two actors. And considering the actors, I just assumed it was going to be heavy drama, but it was pretty funny. It's only now that I see anyone taking it dead seriously. To me, it comes across as satire, with only people it struck a nerve getting all upset about it (bonus points imo).
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sheetsadam1 — 3 months ago(December 08, 2025 10:18 PM)
The screenplay nomination is understandable. There's probably nothing particularly wrong with the screenplay. Anderson simply did a shockingly poor job of directing it. He wrote a piece of entertaining pulp fiction and took it far too seriously once he was in the director's chair, completely killing the screenplay's potential.
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filmflaneur — 2 months ago(January 16, 2026 12:50 PM)
One Battle After Another and Adolescence have led this year's Golden Globes with four wins apiece. Paul Thomas Anderson's counterculture epic took home best comedy or musical film. It also earned him best director and screenplay, marking his first-ever Golden Globe wins.
Oscars, here we come!
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filmflaneur — 2 months ago(January 24, 2026 02:04 PM)
I make this the ninth reply to me with this same wording in a day or so. Have you nothing better to than cyberstalk me with this childish reply, lol? Guess not.
I think you'll find things are a little more complicated than that.
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 