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.

Ha! R15. That was a trick question and you fell for it. Born ln the Fourth of July and Dead Poets Society are also sentimental dreck, like Driving Miss Daisy. All the nominees were sentimental dreck.

The correct answer for “who should have won in the 62nd Academy Award” is ALWAYS one of the pictures not nominated: Do The Right Thing, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Henry V or sex, lies, and videotape.

I’m not R15, but R17, you sound like a real asshole. I bet a lot of the people you consider to be your friends think you are too.

I can just TELL.

A Cinemascore.

I did like it very much. I don’t know about all this “10/10” love, but it was very good.

I just saw this. This is a stone cold masterpiece. If Stanley Kubrick was still alive, he would’ve made this film

Potential Oscar juggernaut. Likely nominations

Picture

Director

Lead Actor

Supporting Actor - Penn

Supporting Actor - del Toro

Supporting Actress - Regina Hall

Screenplay

Editing

Cinematography (gorgeous California vistas)

Score

Art Direction/Production Design

Costumes

Makeup

Sound

Casting (debuts next year)

This may be the first film to break the 14-nomination ceiling (All About Eve, Titanic, La La Land)

Also given that this appears to be a pretty weak year with nothing spectacular coming out of Venice and Toronto, it’s possibly in for 10+ trophies.

Can anyone explain what is so great about it?

R17 Thinks anything that's humanistic is sentimental dreck.

More for me, R9. I think he’s divine.

R17, is your name Julie? Because you’re a cunt.

Just saw it and I also think it is very good. I know I will see it again at the movie theatre. There are so many things happening at times that it is difficult to follow. I do not care much for Di Caprio but he is so, so good. He resembles Jack Nicholson in the Shining, at times. All the actors are at the top of their games. It is a fantastic film and I laughed out loud at some of the lines.

Sean Penn was hysterical. I could see him winning for this.

This movie was racist af and not nearly as clever as it tried so hard to be.

I haven't absolutely adored anything PTA has made since There Will Be Blood. Do the PTA fans think this one lives up to that one?

Agree the title is almost wilfully dull - I keep forgetting it - but I can't wait to see this on the big screen. Even without the 10/10 reviews I'd see anything new by PTA, but the reviews don't hurt.

R29, that is such a ridiculously facile take that I’m not even sure I should respond.

You can tell the difference between racist characters (who are actually caricatures too) and the film containing them, being racist, right?

Or probably not, I guess. People are just so fucking stupid now, I am beyond being surprised by a take like this.

R10 the movie starts with revolutionaries attacking an ice detention center and involves the military aligning with white nationalists. what are you talking about

Agreed R33. Just look at downtown Chicago today.... the film is perfect for our times.

That was a career Oscar, he’ll never win another one.

Who are you talking about, R35? Leo?

Not R35 but I would not be angry if Leo wins another one; he truly deserves it. And Sean Penn might win another one also.

I just watched some nitwit Gen Z cunt review the film - with an introduction complaining about how PTA is a performative male and how he is just so "dude coded" that it gives her massive ick.

This was partly made in my city!

The town was abuzz with Leo and Benicio sightings.

Cool. I need to see this.

R38 she loved the movie but is haunted by knowing how many "bros and dudes" will also enjoy it

We all laughed when Sean said to Leo, "It's always one battle after another with you, isn't it?"

The only thing I liked about this movie was the scene early on where the woman from the poster (who could be Dionne Warwick's granddaughter) forcibly gives analingus to a superfit Sean Penn and he shudders in pleasure while she does it.

[quote] who could be Dionne Warwick's granddaughter

She's been cast to play Dionne Warwick in an upcoming biopic.

Sinners was only the frontrunner because it was big tent film that made money while also being critically lauded. Hollywood knows its on its sad last days as far as movie theater success. I knew when true Oscar season started, it wouldn’t keep that title. It’s a great film for its genre but I don’t know about great overall. I like how Michael B Jordan truly got lost in the characters and pulled off the twin aspect without it being mere spectacle.

Did anyone know Maya Rudolph is basically common law married to Paul Thomas Anderson. The press release of this film made me learn that. I ain’t know thats been her baby fava for the past 20 years.

R16 R17 What about My Left Foot? Of the 5 Best Picture nominees it holds the highest Metascore with a 97 followed by Driving Miss Daisy at 81 and Field of dreams has the lowest at 57

Let's hope for an intelligent, funny movie to come around. A crowd pleaser. People would appreciate an Oscar for that..

This movie is ridiculous. And Leo does NOTHING in it

R42 🛑 Teyana Taylor rims Sean Penn in this film? Lawd I done seen and heard it all. For all yall who don’t know Teyana Taylor got on, by choreographing the Queen’s Ring the Alarm video at only 16 yrs old. The video where Bey channels Sharon Stone from Basic Instinct.

R36 Whenever a DL eldergay says something will NEVER happen, you best believe it’s gon happen.

^^^ Words of mafuckin wisdom, sho nuff!

R51 Mock all you want bitch. I have more taste, intellect, creativity in my MAFUCKIN pinky finger than your entire soul. Let me go. I said I was gna retire mafuckin but the cunts brought it back out me.

Mafuck is a great word R52. It's part of DL lore now so no need to retire it. I also like ignant in the Gavin Newsom thread.

Mafuckin ignant. Perfection!