One Battle After Another (1 Viewer)

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Anyone see this? Not many people did as it was a box office bomb even though it won an Oscar for best picture. Think I will pass on this one.
 
Terp152 said:
Anyone see this? Not many people did as it was a box office bomb even though it won an Oscar for best picture. Think I will pass on this one.
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I heard so many people raving about it, so I gave it a watch; I lasted about half an hour then I was out, a piece of garbage of a movie.

Did the moron who directed it win best picture? Whoever it was who won for best director is very concerned with the world his children will be inheriting; you mean a world where a guy like you can get paid millions to direct a crap movie that lost loads of money? That sounds like a pretty good world to me.
 
I started watching it yesterday. Haven’t finished it yet but I think it’s fantastic.

Another movie I watched this weekend which is also good was the Iranian movie A Simple Accident, nominated for an Academy Award. It is about a victim of torture who by a accident sees his former tormentor and kidnaps him with plans to kill him but since he’s not completely sure he enlists some fellow victims to help and some mad escapades around Teheran results. It’s amazing the regime let him make the movie. It won several prizes.
 
Terp152 said:
Anyone see this? Not many people did as it was a box office bomb even though it won an Oscar for best picture. Think I will pass on this one.
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At least Sean Penn treated his role like a black comedy farce which One Battle After Another should have been throughout rather than the pretentious crap that it was, the point of the film according to whoever wrote it is that America is ruled by white supremists.

If that's your idea of a good watch, have at it.

Anaconda with Jack Black was a better movie.
 
I could not believe this was a real movie. I thought it was a spoof on woke Hollywood which would have been genius. Unfortunately, that is not the case.
 
This year's Oscars show continues the downward trend of viewership/ratings and the movie theater industry is in sharp decline of ticket sales. If only we could connect the dots.
 
Terp152 said:
This year's Oscars show continues the downward trend of viewership/ratings and the movie theater industry is in sharp decline of ticket sales. If only we could connect the dots.
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That’s two different questions. Viewership has been declining which is why they’re switching to YT, hoping to attract younger viewers who don’t watch the networks anymore.

Ticket sales have been declining because there are so many other ways to watch movies nowadays. I have seen four of the best picture nominees and it was all through streaming.
 
I finished watching the movie and liked it, thought it was very good. There was a lot going on in the movie so a lot to consider.

Sean Penn was fantastic but he was also a stereotype. His performances reminded me a lot of General Jack Ripper (played by Sterling Hayden) in Dr. Strangelove. In fact, Penn utters some lines at the end of the movie which are very similar to Hayden’s.

Now, did this deserve the best picture? Not sure. I haven’t seen all the movies yet. I’m planning to watch Marty Supreme and Secret Agent this week but between One Battle and Sinners, I’d probably lean slightly to the latter.
 
SNAFU. The movie is a black comedy, that have limited appeal and rarely do well at the box office. The Oscars have very restrictive qualification requirements, which limits the number of nominees with a definite bias towards artful rather than popular movies.
 
jazzeum said:
I finished watching the movie and liked it, thought it was very good. There was a lot going on in the movie so a lot to consider.

Sean Penn was fantastic but he was also a stereotype. His performances reminded me a lot of General Jack Ripper (played by Sterling Hayden) in Dr. Strangelove. In fact, Penn utters some lines at the end of the movie which are very similar to Hayden’s.

Now, did this deserve the best picture? Not sure. I haven’t seen all the movies yet. I’m planning to watch Marty Supreme and Secret Agent this week but between One Battle and Sinners, I’d probably lean slightly to the latter.
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I respect your opinion.
 
jazzeum said:
That’s two different questions. Viewership has been declining which is why they’re switching to YT, hoping to attract younger viewers who don’t watch the networks anymore.

Ticket sales have been declining because there are so many other ways to watch movies nowadays. I have seen four of the best picture nominees and it was all through streaming.
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True but it could also be the subject matter of the film. Don't you think it strange Top Gun Two was a box office smash while this movie bombed at the theaters?
 
Terp152 said:
True but it could also be the subject matter of the film. Don't you think it strange Top Gun Two was a box office smash while this movie bombed at the theaters?
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As a whole movies aren’t doing that well. I’ve been to two different movies in the past few months that were action thrillers and the theatre was only half filled.

On the whole, Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies are not box office hits like Top Gun but he makes some fantastic movies that are artistic successes such as Punch, Drunk, Love; Licorice Pizza; There Will Be Blood; and The Master, which I saw recently and thought was incredible. His latest movie didn’t bomb but did lose movie. About $200 MM in gross receipts so far but costs of production and marketing were more than ticket sales.
 
I think most on here can recall when going to the movies was a genuine thrill, when times were simpler, TV was fun, dial up telephones were the norm……..fast forward to now-a-days and it’s all about streaming, instant access, pronouns, DEI madness and apparently snowwhite was really a bloke…..

How did it go so wrong?
 
Wuthering Heights was not much better
Instead of starting with the ghost scene of Kathy clawing at the window in the middle of the night, it starts off with the close up of a hanging in Liverpool.
the book is a classic for a reason.
 
damian said:
Wuthering Heights was not much better
Instead of starting with the ghost scene of Kathy clawing at the window in the middle of the night, it starts off with the close up of a hanging in Liverpool.
the book is a classic for a reason.
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I decided I would not see this. I just can’t see Margot Robbie in this role.
 
I watched Secret Agent last night. It’s a bit of a strange movie, showing a man on the run from a regime that wants to kill him and shows life of common folk in Recife, Brasil, which is in the north and is traditionally very poor. The movie is a bit disjointed and hard to follow as the director gradually reveals the plot and shows the corruption and squalor in Brasil in the 1970s. I found it a bit interesting because I Iived there in my pre-teens and thought at one time I would be a Brasilian history professor. I probably need to watch again but my wife and son were bored.
 
OzDigger said:
SNAFU. The movie is a black comedy, that have limited appeal and rarely do well at the box office. The Oscars have very restrictive qualification requirements, which limits the number of nominees with a definite bias towards artful rather than popular movies.
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The problem is it's not a black comedy.

It begins and ends there.

Very rarely do I hear rave reviews about a movie and then lose interest half an hour in...........this one falls into that category for me.
 
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