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Dove said:
One Battle After Another ( 2025)

Entertaining, for sure.

Nonsensical...yep.

But entertaining.

I can see Sean Penn getting an Oscar nod. DiCaprio, not really showing us anything he hasn't done before.
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This Oscar win will age poorly. Not Crash poorly, but poorly.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
This Oscar win will age poorly. Not Crash poorly, but poorly.
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As the night grew, I sensed it was down to One Battle and Frankenstein. I was leaning toward the latter getting the nod.
 
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ZooCougar said:
The right movie won Best Picture.
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Did you see them all? I haven't seen this one yet. F1 and Hamnet were the two best I saw, followed by Sinners, Frankenstein and The Secret Agent. Marty Supreme was trash. Bugonia was weird but decent.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Did you see them all? I haven't seen this one yet. F1 and Hamnet were the two best I saw, followed by Sinners, Frankenstein and The Secret Agent. Marty Supreme was trash. Bugonia was weird but decent.
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I saw everything but F1 (can’t take a movie with a 60 year old driving seriously) and Marty Supreme.

I watched One Battle After Another a second time and came away even more impressed. Everything in that movie, acting, sound, cinematography, writing, casting, directing is amazing. There are so many good one liners and the memorable scenes.

Sinners was just a musical of From Dusk Till Dawn.
 
Worst best picture pick since "The Artist." Every character is a cartoon. Every situation is nonsense. I get they wanted to honor the director but this was not good. This was a forgettable year for films but.....
 
Palatine said:
Worst best picture pick since "The Artist." Every character is a cartoon. Every situation is nonsense. I get they wanted to honor the director but this was not good. This was a forgettable year for films but.....
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A lot of Oscar bait swings and misses. Jay Kelly was pretentious muck, as is everything by Noah Bombach. There are not words for how terrible he is and how unwatchable his movies are, and I don't get why everyone else does not see it. Nuremberg should have been a great film, but it was also undone by a bad director and bad casting with Rami Malek. On the other end of the directing spectrum, Jon Chu could direct 10 Boneyarders arguing about whether Jayden Ross deserves more playing time into an interesting film, but even he couldn't turn Wicked: For Good into an Oscar nominated movie.

The Amanda Seyfried film looks interesting, but I have not seen it yet. F1 was fun, but not a Best Picture caliber movie.

Song Sung Blue picking up an Oscar nomination for Kate Hudson was an indication of how weak this year's field was. Hudson did a solid job in a cute little film, but Best Actress nomination for that role? Really?
 
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Palatine said:
Worst best picture pick since "The Artist." Every character is a cartoon. Every situation is nonsense. I get they wanted to honor the director but this was not good. This was a forgettable year for films but.....
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That industry is dead.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
A lot of Oscar bait swings and misses. Jay Kelly was pretentious muck, as is everything by Noah Bombach. There are not words for how terrible he is and how unwatchable his movies are, and I don't get why everyone else does not see it. Nuremberg should have been a great film, but it was also undone by a bad director and bad casting with Rami Malek. On the other end of the directing spectrum, Jon Chu could direct 10 Boneyarders arguing about whether Jayden Ross deserves more playing time into an interesting film, but even he couldn't turn Wicked: For Good into an Oscar nominated movie.

The Amanda Seyfried film looks interesting, but I have not seen it yet. F1 was fun, but not a Best Picture caliber movie.

Song Sung Blue picking up an Oscar nomination for Kate Hudson was an indication of how weak this year's field was. Hudson did a solid job in a cute little film, but Best Actress nomination for that role? Really?
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Sinners won because of the first half of the movie, which was very good. I can't imagine a vampire movie actually winning in any category.
 
I found myself watching "The Kill Room" as it queued up after a show I finished. I saw it had Uma Thurman and Sam Jackson in it, so I figured I'd give it chance. It was rough going for the first 15 minutes or so. Thurman was overacting and doing so terribly. I was about to turn it off till Jackson got involved. After that point, it was pretty good, including Thurman. The plot involves money laundering through art, and it totally skewers the art world's pretentiousness and lack of ethics. The "artist" is a mob killer and the medium he uses for some of his work is his chosen "weapon". It actually turns into one of those movies where you root for the criminals and there's a good bit of comedy involved, both the black and the LOL kind. I ended up enjoying it.
 
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temery said:
Sinners won because of the first half of the movie, which was very good. I can't imagine a vampire movie actually winning in any category.
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Sinners didn't win.
 
Palatine said:
Worst best picture pick since "The Artist." Every character is a cartoon. Every situation is nonsense. I get they wanted to honor the director but this was not good. This was a forgettable year for films but.....
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Not everyone appreciates satire. One Battle After Another kicked butt in every possible area.

People thought 2001 was nonsensical when it came out too. But it was a decade ahead of it's time.
 
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temery said:
Sinners won four Oscars
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Not best picture. That’s what most normal people mean when they say it won.

Sinners was really mid. Nice premise but they screwed it up making it into a remake of “From Dusk Till Dawn”. Which also wasn’t that great.
 
Captain America: Brave New World

Miscast, whiney and boring. Hung around, hoping that the CGI fight scene would make it worth it. It didn't.

TLDR: It sucked.
 
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ZooCougar said:
Not everyone appreciates satire. One Battle After Another kicked butt in every possible area.

People thought 2001 was nonsensical when it came out too. But it was a decade ahead of it's time.
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Hey, I loved 2001 since the moment I saw it. I consider it one of the two best films I have ever watched. It is as close to a perfect film we will get.

One battle after another was silly, unbelievable, and filled with one dimensional performances. Comparing these two films is like comparing the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore to a Shake Shack.
 
Palatine said:
Hey, I loved 2001 since the moment I saw it. I consider it one of the two best films I have ever watched. It is as close to a perfect film we will get.

One battle after another was silly, unbelievable, and filled with one dimensional performances. Comparing these two films is like comparing the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore to a Shake Shack.
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That's not a popular opinion though. Lot's of people would have said and did say the same thing about Dr. Strangelove. It was deemed to be "utterly ridiculous". People who don't get satire will say that.

Kubrick ticked off everyone so badly that he had to lie to get 2001 made.
 
ZooCougar said:
That's not a popular opinion though. Lot's of people would have said and did say the same thing about Dr. Strangelove. It was deemed to be "utterly ridiculous". People who don't get satire will say that.

Kubrick ticked off everyone so badly that he had to lie to get 2001 made.
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They should have called it The Neverending Movie because random stuff kept happening long after any point of the movie had been made.
 
Free Fire (2016) This is an interesting premise, a great cast and bad movie. The majority of the movie takes place in an Boston warehouse where a group from the IRA is buying guns from gangsters. Once the shootout starts, about 20 minutes in, the movie never leaves the shootout.
 
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CL82 said:
Captain America: Brave New World

Miscast, whiney and boring. Hung around, hoping that the CGI fight scene would make it worth it. It didn't.

TLDR: It sucked.
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The only post End Game Marvel movie that is any good has been Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
 
2025 Fackham Hall

Odd, often silly, but very good.

A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. As the Davenport family, headed by Lord and Lady Davenport, deals with the epic disaster of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin.
 
temery said:
The only post End Game Marvel movie that is any good has been Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
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Shang-Chi was a solid C, maybe a C+ movie at best, but it wasn't the direct that Disney's churning turning out lately.
 
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temery said:
2025 Fackham Hall

Odd, often silly, but very good.

A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. As the Davenport family, headed by Lord and Lady Davenport, deals with the epic disaster of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin.
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Turned it off 15-20 minutes in. Just sad. None of the jokes were funny, just gross.
 
temery said:
2025 Fackham Hall

Odd, often silly, but very good.

A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. As the Davenport family, headed by Lord and Lady Davenport, deals with the epic disaster of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin.
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It is one of the many knockoffs of "Airplane" humor. This one is a Upstairs, Downstairs or Downton Abbey send up. Had a few moments which is all you can really expect from these. Silly, yes. Very good, bit of a reach.
 
Palatine said:
It is one of the many knockoffs of "Airplane" humor. This one is a Upstairs, Downstairs or Downton Abbey send up. Had a few moments which is all you can really expect from these. Silly, yes. Very good, bit of a reach.
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It was very good when you wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning and can't find anything else to watch.
 
Project Hail Mary

It's rare that the hype for a movie matches the enjoyability and this is one of those instances.

On a scale of 1-10, 1 being Starfleet Academy and 10 being Interstellar, I give this an 8. Interstellar is one of the greatest movies that will ever be so 8 is damn good in my book.

It's from a book by Andy Weir who wrote The Martian. Having read that book he only writes books to make them into movies. But it's still a good one.

The story is a blend of your favorite buddy movie with a bit of Interstellar, Contact, 2001, The Martian and some other movies yet it somehow feels really original. Ryan Gosling plays a chatty Scientist named Grace, who suddenly becomes mission essential on a project to save the sun which is infected with something which will result in extinction of life on earth.

The movie starts in media res with Grace waking up and the rest of the crew is dead. He has amnesia and has no idea where he is or why he is there. This is one of those dual narrative movies where you see the present and there are flashbacks to before the trip on earth.

When he gets to where he is going light years away, he meets an alien buddy who just so happens to be there for the same exact reason. And this is the best part, because instead of acting on a green screen, they use a real puppet to be the alien instead of awful Marvelesque CGI. The alien occupies a physical space and it makes a huge difference.

Gosling and the puppet have to carry the whole movie and it works perfectly. My only issue is that the most unbelievable storyline is that the Grace and Rocky end up in the same system at the same time. Also the movie is a bit long and not in the good Christopher Nolan long movie way.
 
Springsteen: Delivery Me From Nowhere

Thoroughly enjoyed it. Really appreciated its pace in relation to the artistic process. Jeremy Strong was fantastic as Bruce's manager and Jeremy Allen White did a great job too, honestly, I think it's the first work of his I've seen.
 
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