Yea Superman was good for where CBMs are currently, and great for where DC movies are, but in the overall landscape, it’s closer to Fantastic Four than the top of the field this year.
‘One Battle After Another’ (dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson) | Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Sean Penn (9/26)
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Dr. Narcisse
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Not saying in quality...Although there have been those on social media who made that comp ironically.Gonna pretend I didn’t see that The Departed comp.
C’mon man.
Just in terms of a director being due. Is it outrageous if someone still favors Boogie Nights/TWBB/The Master?
Leo really did nothing but get saved the whole movie 
I AM WARHOL
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This movie isn’t doing so hot in the box office. Just copped 4 tickets for a Dolby showing tomorrow and so far, we are the only 4 seats taken 
Sean Penn wanna join the CAC club 
Piff Perkins
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Saw it today and was floored. I’ve been anticipating this for a couple years and followed the production news. The minute I heard PTA was allegedly doing another Thomas Pynchon adaption I was sold. Of course we later learned it’s not an adaption, just some loosely based influences. Point being: my expectations were very high and this somehow surpassed them.
This is really a masterful job. It moves very briskly for a nearly three hour film. I haven’t felt that way about a modern epic since Killers Of The Flower Moon, which is also brisk. The writing is sharp. Acting is spectacular, especially Sean Penn and Regina Hall. Leo is great too, as always.
I didn’t get white savior vibes. A baked, forgetful old revolutionary who gave up that life to half raise a child…I don’t see it. And the kid essentially saves herself while proving to be a more effective fighter. Bob is more Big Lebowski than hero or leader. He’s got balls though.
Also I thought the underlining white nationalist secret order/cult was an interesting decision. The cops, soldiers, generals, and cult seem far more like caricatures than the black characters feel like that or placeholders.
I heard someone walking out the theater say it felt Tarantino like and then another (white) guy said no because Tarantino would have had the n-word in there 50 times. I had to laugh at that. PTA got his themes across without shortcuts IMO.
So far…
OBAA
Eddington
Weapons
Bring Her Back
Sinners
This is really a masterful job. It moves very briskly for a nearly three hour film. I haven’t felt that way about a modern epic since Killers Of The Flower Moon, which is also brisk. The writing is sharp. Acting is spectacular, especially Sean Penn and Regina Hall. Leo is great too, as always.
I didn’t get white savior vibes. A baked, forgetful old revolutionary who gave up that life to half raise a child…I don’t see it. And the kid essentially saves herself while proving to be a more effective fighter. Bob is more Big Lebowski than hero or leader. He’s got balls though.
Also I thought the underlining white nationalist secret order/cult was an interesting decision. The cops, soldiers, generals, and cult seem far more like caricatures than the black characters feel like that or placeholders.
I heard someone walking out the theater say it felt Tarantino like and then another (white) guy said no because Tarantino would have had the n-word in there 50 times. I had to laugh at that. PTA got his themes across without shortcuts IMO.
So far…
OBAA
Eddington
Weapons
Bring Her Back
Sinners
I was literally swearing during that scene.That chase sequence…man…
The way he had the camera journeying up and down along them hills like a roller coaster, all the while Greenwood does Greenwood things. Had me on the edge of my fukkin’ seat and I need to see it again.
Jean toomer
Superstar
Entertaining and at times visually stunning but ultimately frustrating for me. Considering PTAs own kids are quadroons I found the lack of depth of the black characters disarming. The fact that there’s no discussion about paternity between the two protagonists is kinda crazy as this is the fulcrum for the latter part of the movie. Finally and most concerning why did my comanche brother do what he did? There is absolutely no insight into his motivation for the most important act in the movie. Madness.
6/10
6/10
Dude did say he would never fully trust him because he wasn’t white, and would turn on them at the drop of a dime. And he wasn’t fw it because she was a kid. They already showed his trepidation
Some of the greatest cinematography I’ve seen in yearsThat chase sequence…man…
The way he had the camera journeying up and down along them hills like a roller coaster, all the while Greenwood does Greenwood things. Had me on the edge of my fukkin’ seat and I need to see it again.
That alone was worth the IMAX price of admission
Willa deaded it quickly and told Lockjaw it didn't matter what the test said, he'll never be her real father. That's why Lockjaw immediately contracts her out to be killed after the test is done.
The Comanche bounty killer told Lockjaw that he don't kill kids. At first he hands Willa over to a white supremacist gang, but then he changed his mind.
The Comanche bounty killer told Lockjaw that he don't kill kids. At first he hands Willa over to a white supremacist gang, but then he changed his mind.
I read it as her keeping it from him the way he kept from her that her mother was a rat. The letter from her mom saying to give your dad a hug and kiss for me told us that.
haven't read through the entire thread yet, so apologies if this has been answered:
was the reason the bounty hunter had a change of heart cause he told penn earlier he don't kill kids? and he simply didnt want to have that type of blood on his hands?
