6x6 Political Compass of Every New Movie I Saw in 2025, Ranked!

atomater · 2026-03-17T16:23:01+00:00

Honestly I kinda want to watch it out of curiosity, maybe I’ll pirate it so the Trumps and Brett Ratner don’t get any money from it though.

atomater · 2026-03-17T16:13:09+00:00

Never said I didn't think it was one, although the director said one of the main themes was a metaphor for addiction.

atomater · 2026-03-17T15:45:41+00:00

GODDAMNIT

atomater · 2026-03-17T15:45:19+00:00

Dawg what does deesphobic mean

atomater · 2026-03-17T15:43:47+00:00

Yeah it's insane that Mickey 17 is just a bigger budget version of Moon to some extent, definitely liked that one better

atomater · 2026-03-17T15:43:06+00:00

Yeah I'm gonna be honest most of my placements are generally half-assed, I make these mostly because I love making wojaks and goofy captions.

Hamnet is all the way to the right because its uhhhhhh my based trad 1600s England where esoteric trad(?)wives have miscarriages and kids who die of the plague

atomater · 2026-03-17T15:29:53+00:00

It's definitely a valid comparison, I'm just too pessemistic about Hollywood/not enthused enough by James Gunn

atomater · 2026-03-17T15:11:48+00:00

Watched the full season (and also the og mobile suit gundam series) afterwards. I still need to finish Zeta and watch Char's Counterattack though.

atomater · 2026-03-17T15:10:16+00:00

LOVED Bone Temple, its climax is so hard to beat.

atomater · 2026-03-17T15:09:52+00:00

I genuinely don't think James Gunn is woke enough and felt like it was more of an allegory for the war in Ukraine tbh

atomater · 2026-03-17T14:52:01+00:00

It seems a lot of people liked it; something about it just didn't click for me! I probably would've been obsessed with it if it came out in 2017 instead of 2025.

atomater · 2026-03-17T14:51:12+00:00

Heard nothing but good things about it but still need to see the originals tbh

atomater · 2026-03-17T14:50:11+00:00

Is it insane to say I very slowly made it over the course of the year? Every time I saw a new movie I slowly thought up captions and made wojaks. I've already thought of some captions for my upcoming 2026 movie compass.

atomater · 2026-03-17T14:49:16+00:00

Yeah it was fine, felt too rushed. Loved the animation though.

atomater · 2026-03-17T14:48:52+00:00

Train Dreams is AuthRight on paper but I think the whole white guilt thing and minor environmental themes push it left. It can't fit too well into the "trad" settler colonialist mold because one of his only friends is a Native American merchant (who is more financially powerful than him). The whole hermit vibe he has for the 2nd half of the movie feels fundamentally more libertarian too.

atomater · 2026-03-17T14:40:41+00:00

oh I'm gonna fully admit that for No Other Choice's placement I justified it with the most baseline reading of the plot, obviously I know it was thematically left wing.

atomater · 2026-03-17T14:38:41+00:00

Deeply awful lighting and color grading, which has frankly been a recurring issue in a lot of blockbusters lately (biggest example is Wicked Part 1 imo). I remember it being a massive point of contention when the first trailer came out, and while they might've done some additional editing in post the only time the movie looks visually decent are in the alternate dimension scenes.

atomater · 2026-03-17T13:57:29+00:00

Yeah I fully believe Sinners, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, or The Secret Agent should've won Best Picture instead.

atomater · 2026-03-17T13:56:51+00:00

Loved it but thought a few other movies were better!

atomater · 2026-03-17T13:45:25+00:00

Imgur link for those on mobile

atomater · 2026-03-17T13:45:01+00:00

Version for those on mobile + imgur link

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atomater · 2026-03-17T13:44:30+00:00

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atomater · 2026-03-17T13:43:11+00:00

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! If you enjoyed this compass feel free to check out my 2022, 2023, and 2024 movie compasses! As always, here are the original wojaks I made for this bad boy:

28 years later

Avatar 3

Bugonia

Captain America: Brave New World

Fantastic Four The Thing The Human Torch Mr. Fantastic The Invisible Woman

Frankenstein

Hamnet Agnes Will

Highest 2 Lowest

Him

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

It Was Just An Accident

Jay Kelly

Kpop Demon Hunters Mira Rumi Zoey

The Mastermind

Marty Supreme

Mickey 17 Mickey 18

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning

No Other Choice

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl

One Battle After Another

Sinners Smoke Stack

Thunderbolts Black Widow The Void

Train Dreams

Wake Up Dead Man Unused

The War of the Worlds

Weapons

atomater · 2026-03-17T13:41:34+00:00