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GoHeelsweeeehoooo said:
Saw One Battle After Another tonight - thought it was good and very timely for what's going on right now in the US
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Possibly my second best film of this year. I say it's great and that I also say it's not a good adaptation of VIneland; both are true. Adapting Pynchon to film is something like trying to pole vault over Mount Everest. But you could look sensational trying, and Anderson did it here.
 
an0maly said:
Possibly my second best film of this year. I say it's great and that I also say it's not a good adaptation of VIneland; both are true. Adapting Pynchon to film is something like trying to pole vault over Mount Everest. But you could look sensational trying, and Anderson did it here.
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What's your top movie of the year?
 
GoHeelsweeeehoooo said:
What's your top movie of the year?
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I don't have much, or enough anyway, support from the critics on this, but the 2025 film that has had the most impact on me was probably Sovereign. It's a narrow band focus of the problem, but it still exemplifies, in drama, writing and performance, the special ideological insanity going on in America. It has the best acting performance of the year, and it was more emotionally gripping for me.

Also, Warfare is stunning, and right there with the best this year.

Sinners is astounding, dynamic and unique, but it does not stick with me as all that much more than great spectacle.
 
I watched three different adaptations of MacBeth last weekend. All were excellent, though I had my quibbles with all of them. I think I enjoyed the 1971 version directed by Roman Polanski the best. Without commenting on his subsequent sexual scandal and legal troubles, I will say that it had to be... something... for him to film this so soon after the Manson family murders of his wife, unborn child and house full of friends and guests, what with all the murders by knife in the play, particularly the scene where MacDuff's wife, children and servants were all slaughtered and the line later in the play when MacDuff says to MacBeth, "MacDuff was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd"...
 
hedge said:
I watched three different adaptations of MacBeth last weekend. All were excellent, though I had my quibbles with all of them. I think I enjoyed the 1971 version directed by Roman Polanski the best. Without commenting on his subsequent sexual scandal and legal troubles, I will say that it had to be... something... for him to film this so soon after the Manson family murders of his wife, unborn child and house full of friends and guests, what with all the murders by knife in the play, particularly the scene where MacDuff's wife, children and servants were all slaughtered and the line later in the play when MacDuff says to MacBeth, "MacDuff was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd"...
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I really enjoyed the Coen adaptation, it was spectacular looking.

Haven’t seen any others that I can recall, but that’s pretty interesting about Polanski.
 
duluoz said:
Finally set to see this later this week. In 70mm in a great old theater, looking forward to it.
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Saw One Battle. Really enjoyed it, lots of thoughts to come.

Likely seeing it again but in VistaVision next week. Will be interesting to compare against the 70mm.
 
2 weeks till the Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere film debuts. Very excited to see it.
 
hedge said:
I watched three different adaptations of MacBeth last weekend. All were excellent, though I had my quibbles with all of them. I think I enjoyed the 1971 version directed by Roman Polanski the best. Without commenting on his subsequent sexual scandal and legal troubles, I will say that it had to be... something... for him to film this so soon after the Manson family murders of his wife, unborn child and house full of friends and guests, what with all the murders by knife in the play, particularly the scene where MacDuff's wife, children and servants were all slaughtered and the line later in the play when MacDuff says to MacBeth, "MacDuff was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd"...
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Liked them all. The Joel Coen take is bizarre, feels like a filmed stage play in modernist settings, but overall is fine. Did not think Denzel Washington was all he could have been in it, but others were better, and as far as performances, Kathyrn Hunter almost stole the movie as The Witches.
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Saw One Battle After Another again last night in IMAX, and it may be a bit early, but I am calling it the year's best. See it on the biggest screen you can. It's of course very much in the past lane of Paul Thomas Anderson, but also has the satirical vibe of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove in parts, and the misbegotten humanity of the best Coen brothers things like Fargo.
 
an0maly said:
and as far as performances, Kathyrn Hunter almost stole the movie as The Witches.
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She was excellent and perfect for the role. That version was probably the most visually pleasing of the three. The 2015 version starring Michael Fassbender felt the most realistic (for lack of a better term) in terms of battle scenes and depictions of the more brutal scenes in the film, but without devolving into gratuitously graphic violence porn. But again, all three had their strong points and elements..
 
an0maly said:
Saw One Battle After Another again last night in IMAX, and it may be a bit early, but I am calling it the year's best.
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Been hearing a lot of good things about this, going to try and get to see it one night this week...
 
duluoz said:
Saw One Battle. Really enjoyed it, lots of thoughts to come.

Likely seeing it again but in VistaVision next week. Will be interesting to compare against the 70mm.
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Watched One Battle in VistaVision through a VistaVision projector. Only four places in the world showing it that way, so I was curious. I did notice some differences, it seemed a bit brighter and clearer, especially in some scenes. It looked immaculate but not dramatically different than the 70mm print. I’m glad I checked it out since I had the chance.

The second viewing really helped it out for me. The first time around I had some issues with the pacing in the 3rd act, but not this time. I picked up a lot of smaller details and paid even more attention to the fantastic Jonny Greenwood score. Also picked up some weird little goofs including a character referencing a metaphorical “fumble on the 90 yard-line…” which is not anything anyone who knows football would say, and also think I spotted a camera rig on one of the vehicles in a chase scene. Odd little goofs.

But anyway it’s a great f’ing flick. It’s early but it’s hard not to see this as an Oscars juggernaut and PTA’s first Best Picture.
 
Watched “House of Dynamite” on Netflix tonight before the basketball game.

It was extremely well directed and acted with a knock-out cast (though for whatever reason a bunch of Brits cast as Americans).

Tense and deeply disquieting. I certainly hope no POTUS has to face that choice ever.



I have read that some viewers were turned off by the Kurosawa / Roshomon style framing. I liked it but if you are sitting down for a linear political thriller you may well be frustrated by it. This film is a warning, not a thriller.
 
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I enjoyed it. Glad to have seen it on a big screen. He could’ve probably shaved 20 minutes but it didn’t drag for me as much as for others I saw it with.

I doubt it’ll make it into the Oscars hunt, other than for the technical categories. It’s beautifully designed and shot as you’d expect from Del Toro.
 
duluoz said:
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I enjoyed it. Glad to have seen it on a big screen. He could’ve probably shaved 20 minutes but it didn’t drag for me as much as for others I saw it with.

I doubt it’ll make it into the Oscars hunt, other than for the technical categories. It’s beautifully designed and shot as you’d expect from Del Toro.
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I look forward to checking this out.
 
nycfan said:
Watched “House of Dynamite” on Netflix tonight before the basketball game.

It was extremely well directed and acted with a knock-out cast (though for whatever reason a bunch of Brits cast as Americans).

Tense and deeply disquieting. I certainly hope no POTUS has to face that choice ever.



I have read that some viewers were turned off by the Kurosawa / Roshomon style framing. I liked it but if you are sitting down for a linear political thriller you may well be frustrated by it. This film is a warning, not a thriller.
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Watched tonight. Interesting style and content. Not sure about the ending.
 
Saw the Springsteen movie over the weekend and really enjoyed it. Your mileage may vary if you're not a big Bruce fan although my wife enjoyed it and her fandom is mostly through osmosis.
 
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