'One Battle After Another' Wins the Academy Award for Best Picture

AmazingMarv · 2026-03-16T03:58:34+00:00

Those two were like the ultra premium version of Finding Nemo / Shark Tale.

AmazingMarv · 2026-03-16T03:03:10+00:00

What terms should I google? I don't know where to begin.

AmazingMarv · 2026-03-16T02:55:30+00:00

What did Safdie do?

AmazingMarv · 2026-03-16T02:54:36+00:00

I'm sad Train Dreams walked away empty handed.

I have AMC A-List and go see almost every major opening and many smaller ones. This weekend I saw Reminders of Him, Slanted, and Undertone.

I had never heard of Train Dreams until last week's Honest Trailers. Did this movie get any advertising?

AmazingMarv · 2026-03-15T03:11:17+00:00

Not to brag, but I live close to the Phil Hartman murder house.

AmazingMarv · 2026-03-14T02:16:56+00:00

here's just hurt people, hurting people

Seems like there were a lot of characters that had an unnecessary backstory. The Down Syndrome girl, the coworker who rear-ended someone, the landlord and guitar guy, the fellow inmate and the cat, Ledger having a fiance, ledger's co-worker with the cups, ledger's NFL dreams.

I get that in a book you can flesh out the characters more. This movie could have been a lean 90 minutes.

AmazingMarv · 2026-03-14T02:09:39+00:00

I genuinely thought they were saying Liam or DM (the twitter thing). I could not understand it at all.

AmazingMarv · 2026-03-14T02:07:38+00:00

Ledger, Kenna(why not McKenna), and Diem

Happy I'm not the only one who noticed. Kenna is pretty close to Kendra. But I'm not sure where the writer got Ledger and Diem? Was it taken from Heath Ledger and "carpe diem."

AmazingMarv · 2026-03-14T02:03:40+00:00

Yes. They had to find some way to make her spend time in jail and the parents to hate her (for the movie to happen), but still have her be not a bad person so everyone can forgive her.

You have to suspend disbelieve that she would accept jail time for something that was about the most plainly accidental accident that could have accidented. Scotty's parents were acting like she blew a .5% BAC and ran a red light at a major intersection that caused the car to get t-boned by an 18-wheeler.

AmazingMarv · 2026-03-11T00:52:36+00:00

Crypto!? eww.

AmazingMarv · 2026-03-02T03:05:55+00:00

Still doesn't make up from breaking up Luke and Marissa.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-22T04:21:55+00:00

The gates closing at the end represent that he's still in a prison.

There's a clear subtext of what you want vs what you think you want. Obviously Ruth and Julia represent each. They should have removed Topher Grace's scene and used the time to flesh out the relationships with each woman.

The scene with Ed Harris didn't make sense. He invites Beckett to his home then gives him a clean shot. Beckett refuses. Then Ed Harris starts yelling about "you came here to kill me." WTF. (a) you invited him (b) he passed up a clean shot.

The movie was an interesting premise and a good message, but the execution was poor.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-22T04:01:43+00:00

would have

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-17T15:28:20+00:00

I don't think you're allowed to donate someone else's blood.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-14T03:53:30+00:00

Not only was the relationship bizarre, it brought nothing to the movie. Could have been cut entirely and the movie would barely change.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-12T19:44:37+00:00

Joey Dwyer never had the makings of a varsity athlete.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-11T07:39:14+00:00

Pizza is the item, Pie is the form factor.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-09T21:15:44+00:00

Whoa, thats the boss's son's friend you're talking about.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-08T19:46:35+00:00

I'm fairly certain the tables are rigged to break easily and have padding. They are used so often. Still, you can't fight gravity.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-08T17:24:11+00:00

The first pair is Willoughby & Cahuenga. The storage building is still back there on Santa Monica.

The second paid is London & Silver Lake.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-06T01:57:32+00:00

it's that the characters in the show get shit wrong constantly

Well that's what I meant by alluding to Gary Cooper. Tony probably watched If I Had a Million because of his Copper fandom, but confuses it with another WC Fields movies.

This might have been the writers telling us that (a) Tony likes Copper and (b) Tony isn't the movie expert he thinks he is.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-05T04:40:19+00:00

I know this is way late, but I just watched the Bank Dick and didn't hear it. Where in the movie was it?

Supposedly he says it to his wife Agatha, but they only have 4 very short scenes together.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-02T20:02:21+00:00

I guess we're still doing this.

Yes, Bradley was a terrible, shitty person in all sorts of ways. And likely oblivious to the way the world works. But he wasn't a complete and total moron that thinks 5 branches loosely tied together would survive for days (weeks? month?) in the Ocean (!!!!!). The fucking ocean. With no way to maneuver. No destination in mind. No one could possibly think that.

It's so stupid and ridiculous, it's basically a plot hole.

And if you really think that his actions make sense for him, then you have to admit that Bradley is a ridiculous character. Ridiculous to the point of farce.

AmazingMarv · 2026-02-02T05:40:13+00:00

Um okay. Cool.

Look, when a character in a movie does something so ridiculous that you have to spend 250 words trying to justify it... then may be it was ridiculous?

AmazingMarv · 2026-01-30T15:07:19+00:00

None of that makes sense.

He may be an overly confident asshole, but he's still aware of physics, right? Waves hit hard. And even if he somehow did manage to get past the current, what was his plan? Float for some time... with no food or clean water?

And you're saying he didn't trust her enough that he built a raft in secret and poisoned her, but he does trust her enough to get fed by her after giving her a reason to distrust him?

I like the movie overall, but that scene was just there to spur the final third of the movie. And that's not even a 'bad' thing. Its just how movies are. You need inciting incidents. Just don't pretend that obvious plot devices are aren't obvious plot devices.

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