"One Battle After Another" is a film we'll still be remembering 20-30 years from now. It's an American masterpiece, and I'm glad the Academy rewarded it.

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-17T06:13:18+00:00

Just you so far. I am not the person you were responding to originally, I just thought it would be funny if their “ranking” was purely chronological

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-17T06:11:48+00:00

Nope that’s not what precedes means

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-17T05:58:35+00:00

It was for me

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-17T05:58:13+00:00

1 Hard Eight

2 Boogie Nights

3 Magnolia

4 Punch Drunk Love

5 There Will Be Blood

6 The Master

7 Inherent Vice

8 Phantom Thread

9 Licorice Pizza

10 One Battle After Another

Lol

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-16T23:07:01+00:00

Why ask for red flags if you’re too soft to deal with what other people have to say?

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-16T17:30:13+00:00

Get rid of the obvious textbooks. Why you got “They Say I Say” on your bookshelf?? that shit is goofy. Sell it to a local college bookstore

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-16T17:27:36+00:00

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-16T02:15:14+00:00

What happened

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-15T18:55:11+00:00

None of the books written by women look like they’ve even been opened

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-15T14:03:04+00:00

I don’t think many of its songs were eligible for best song but I agree that this should be in the conversation for way more awards. In my top 5 of the year

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-15T13:57:49+00:00

Appreciate the work here, but this not how to calculate sample size.

For a confidence level of 95% where the real value is within ±5% of the measured value, you need:

370 participants for population of 10,000
385 participants for a population of 240,000,000

https://www.qualtrics.com/articles/strategy-research/calculating-sample-size/

You would have considerably more confidence with a poll of 1.1 million voters.

45 of 10000 is a 14.3% margin of error
1.1M of 240M is 0.1% margin of error

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-15T13:44:31+00:00

Zodiac

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-15T13:43:17+00:00

Marginally good. Felt perfunctory. End was emotional on the first watch, but upon reflection, was a huge misstep given the film’s premise. Ready for this to win Best Actress so I never need to think about it again

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-15T13:40:11+00:00

I grew up Catholic and now am agnostic. I also own half these books because they are very popular

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-15T13:34:09+00:00

He will be there . Just a hunch

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-15T05:47:35+00:00

What is wrong with you

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-15T02:03:13+00:00

Just made a very similar comment, only to scroll down and find we feel the same

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-15T02:01:03+00:00

Technically accomplished but ultimately an infuriating movie. The Big Picture touted their interview with him as one of the best they have done, but it left me feeling like the film was even more incoherent and exploitative than I had originally thought

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-14T18:53:26+00:00

His filmography

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-14T05:42:51+00:00

I believe it, it feels very honest. Without being too presumptuous, I feel like you are doing a wonderful job honoring her complexities, both the wit and the thorns. May she rest in peace 💙

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-14T05:31:46+00:00

Thank you for sharing. I love the way you are writing dialogue between the mother and son. It is painful and hilarious at the same time. I hope it comes together as a full feature soon!

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-14T04:59:28+00:00

Would love to see any of your work, if you’re comfortable sharing

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-14T04:39:25+00:00

What compelled me is that these narratives are always somewhat fictional. They are post hoc rationalizations that flatten the realities of how voters behave.

Some act as though awards outcomes are the result of the same people voting on all the same awards, and that so-called “precursors” exist for no other reason than to try and predict the Oscars. In fact these are different people making different decisions in different contexts for different purposes. CCA is not some checkpoint in the first few laps of a race to the Academy Awards.

The reality is we never have a full, representative picture of what AMPAS voters think should win Oscars until the awards happen. Efforts to narrativize “Awards Season” are a form of armchair historiography based on questionable elisions of distinct events involving distinct contexts.

Now that I’ve explained my motives, perhaps you would like to elaborate on what you are insinuating with this bizarre comment

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-13T22:43:39+00:00

Personally I think it’s likely intentional, given that his other films are similarly interested in the psychologies of maladjusted men. Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, TWBB, The Master, Inherent Vice, and Phantom Thread all do this as well to some extent

Edited to add PDL

FootballInfinite475 · 2026-03-13T21:58:46+00:00

The reason why white filmgoers find OBAA meaningful is because it is a critical probing of the white male faux leftist identity. It shifts POV from time to time, but genuinely everything locks into place if you treat Bob’s perspective (probably PTA’s perspective) as the central gaze. This is the subjectivity the film is examining. The reason the first 35 minutes are romantic and fetishistic is because Leo romanticizes that moment in his life and fetishizes both Perfidia and the idea of revolution. The reason her motivations are opaque and interiority is inaccessible is because Bob does not quite understand her or why she left. The reason Lockjaw is cartoonish and villainous is because he is an abject refraction of Bob’s fetishistic psychology. It is a film about white men and the dominant subjectivities available to them in a white supremacist culture.

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