Best Of

One Battle After Another

Biggest battle for me was trying to stay awake for a fucking almost 3 hour movie off of McMenamins soapy IPA's.

I love some of the shit on X that predictably jerked it to and took this plot way too seriously, "It's non stop action, truly one battle after another!"

This is a Culture War satire and California Noir (I think I just made that up but you know what I mean) where Leonardo DiCaprio tries way too hard to be a Lebowski type for Gen Z to keep his career going.

Sean Penn was horribly miscast until the final jokes at the end. Then it's obvious he was perfect for the role.

Depending on where you sit in the Culture Wars, this will either be a worthy dark comedy or a complete pile of shit in the vein of "the Left can't meme". I guess for me it was both.

I will say that Paul Thomas Anderson is fucking unreal when it comes to scores and cinematography. There's 4-5 shots that are amazing, even some small scenes like the helicopter over the California forest. The tone reminded me of Under The Silver Lake which is probably the best California Noir ever made. There's 3-4 screens that were laugh out loud funny as well. Leo wasn't exactly terrible in it, he's just kind of become a parody of himself now.

An account on X posted a which Paul Thomas Anderson film is your favorite thing?

The only movie of his I started was There Will Be Blood and I didn’t even finish it.

@Swaye