One Battle After Another… new Best Picture frontrunner? Another Oscar for Leo?

It looks like this will be it… long overdue director (Paul Thomas Anderson has 11 nominations and no wins) and the Academy would love to give DiCaprio an Oscar for a role where he actually says words.

Another over-praised performance from fug, bloated Leo

It’s Oppenheimer all over again

The previews make it look like a Nicholas Cage pic, and that’s not necessarily a good thing.

Race is over

I'm so tired of seeing the trailer for this.

My understanding is that the audience tracking for this is okay but not great. And the review makes it seem like it cuts too close to home, frankly. Not my idea of escapist entertainment right now. And last year’s “Civil War” as a disappointment, wasn’t it?

Also I’ve seen the trailer a dozen times and it looks strictly standard.

And by the way, will Trump use this film as an excuse to declare martial law? Will he try to shut it down if its popular?

(I know, I know, he doesn’t need an excuse, they’re all in his head anyway and filmmakers shouldn’t self-censor to avoid right wongire. There’s no avoiding it anyway.)

“right wing ire”

I prefer this a million times over anything with fucking Pedro Pascal in it.

This might have done well 10 years ago when it was attuned with the political zeitgeist

It might be a masterpiece but it boasts the worst title of a movie I have heard in years. Maybe ever.

Someone at work saw a preview last night - loved it - and called “One Thing Or Another.”

That’s bad.

Thanks, Hollywood, for letting us know what's coming down the reality pipe....

I’m going to see this for sure. Looks more entertaining than Hamnet the other favorite for the Oscar.

R7 = typical eldergay who probably thinks “Driving Miss Daisy” deserved to win

R: 14 — Wrong! I didn’t love any of the Best Picture nominees that year, but if I had been an Academy voter it would have been a tossup between “Born on the Fourth of July” or “ The Dead Poet’s Society.”

Smart ass.

R7–OK, I’ll take the bait. There is a string of movies I would have preferred to any of them—Do the Right Thing, Henry V, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Crimes and Misdemeanors, High Hopes, off the top of my head—but of the actual nominees, yes, I liked the low-key but pointed, beautifully acted Driving Miss Daisy best.

One moment—after making a fuss with her son about the missing can of tuna (seen, like the candy box in Crimes of the Heart, in a funny close-up) and gravely calling Hoke in to be fired, once he explains he merely borrowed it and has the replacement on him, Daisy abruptly leaves the room and leaves the son (Ackroyd) to resolve it all.