Quote from: Carnage on November 23, 2025, 11:26:19 PMI watched F1 there, awful shite. Cheesy as Cheddar and totally predictable, and you'd know Hamilton had a lot to do with it. Still, I was after something to switch my brain off to, job done.

Brain feels concussed after sitting through it there :laugh: Was the meta level intentional? As in, they chose the first formula in the book for every single character arc and dialogue set piece  :eyeroll:  Actually now going to look up what are considered the all time worst movies ever nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars  :laugh:

Are you telling me that's been nominated for best fillum at the Oscars? Fucking hell...

One Battle After Another. For the amount of stuff that happens, it's twice as long as it needs to be.

Quote from: Emphyrio on Today at 12:02:59 PMOne Battle After Another. For the amount of stuff that happens, it's twice as long as it needs to be.

Exactly. Of course the "Pure cinema film bro" young wans think it's the second coming of movies. Penn and Del Toro were great but it's not a patch on Boogie Nights and Magnolia when it comes to PTA's stuff.

Depends on what stuff of PTA's you see as definitive, I suppose. If you apply the same logic to The Master or Phantom Thread, there you've got two other highly vaunted, but still totally different, PTA films that are twice if not thrice as long as they need to be, strictly narratively speaking.

I don't mind a long movie, even narrative aside, if there's something worth the time, be it the score, cinematography etc. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, for example. One Battle...was disappointing.

I was expecting more from it too, have to say, but did enjoy it. Herself absolutely loved it, but then she's a long-in-the-tooth Leo swooner  :laugh: 

He was very good in it. Can't fault the acting across the board, to be fair.

The Master was a cunt of a film. Mind bendingly dull sheeeeyite!