Comedy One Battle After Another - PTA/DiCaprio Team-Up

[Drizzle]

I saw it last night. I still think There Will Be Blood is PTA's defining masterpiece with Boogie Nights at # 2 but I'd rank this slightly below that. A bigger question for me is trying to decide if this was better than Sinners as far as 2025 films go.

I loved pretty much all of it, though I thought the ending was a little clunky with what happened to Sean Penn's character. Yeah, it was delicious irony that he survived the Christmas Adventurers (LOL) assassination attempt only to just get killed by them anyway but they could have just had him die by getting shot in the face and kept the ending of the movie focused only on Bob and Willa. I was also hoping that Regina Hall's character was going to get sprung from captivity somehow.

Overall, I thought it was PTA's best in nearly two decades. My ranking now that I've seen them all:

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Boogie Nights
3. One Battle After Another
4. Magnolia
5. Phantom Thread
6. The Master
7. Punch-Drunk Love
8. Licorice Pizza
9. Hard Eight
10. Inherent Vice

Also, see this on the biggest screen possible if you can. It's well worth it.

 

[The Shape]

I can already say the marketing failed this movie. That first trailer that was played heavily over the past few months - which I still loved - was not representative of the film as a whole. Should have been marketed as something closer to a must-see event/action film rather than a zany comedy.

 

[CaptainWagner]

Really incredible flick, probably my new fave of the year. Was lucky to get to see it in stunning 70MM IMAX (and Chase Infiniti's family was seated three rows behind me!) I'll definitely be trying to catch it in theaters again, but I'm so glad I saw it there first - the car chase in particular was absolutely mind-blowing on the IMAX screen.

Will process more thoughts on it later, but this is brilliant work on all levels and, as for as "commentary on our current moment" goes, it's everything I wish Eddington would have been, if Ari Aster were a better writer. So glad to see PTA return to form and push himself in new directions!

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Boom]

Sean Penn is completely insane in this.

 

[Kane52630]

I can already say the marketing failed this movie. That first trailer that was played heavily over the past few months - which I still loved - was not representative of the film as a whole. Should have been marketed as something closer to a must-see event/action film rather than a zany comedy.

You should tell that to the PTA fan sitting down the row next to me who would not stop obnoxiously laughing like Goofy over almost every single minute of the movie.

It once again almost ruined another PTA movie for me.

 

[Link]

You should tell that to the PTA fan sitting down the row next to me who would not stop obnoxiously laughing like Goofy over almost every single minute of the movie.

It once again almost ruined another PTA movie for me.

It's not a great year for movie theater etiquette. I've had to tell so many people to be quiet, but what's new is that they keep talking.

 

[Drizzle]

You should tell that to the PTA fan sitting down the row next to me who would not stop obnoxiously laughing like Goofy over almost every single minute of the movie.

It once again almost ruined another PTA movie for me.

What the hell? It'd be excusable during that chunk in the middle of the movie where Leo's trying to evade the feds but the whole damn time?

 

[blueharvest]

 

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‘One Battle After Another’: How Leonardo DiCaprio’s Radical Action Pic Fared In Blue & Red Counties

'One Battle After Another' about government radicals, played heavily in blue county theaters.

deadline.com

 

[Kane52630]

What the hell? It'd be excusable during that chunk in the middle of the movie where Leo's trying to evade the feds but the whole damn time?

Yeah it was all the small chuckle moments and they were either laughing or whistling whenever someone had their comeuppance.

The same thing happened to me with Licorice Pizza.

 

[OrbOfConfusion]

Yeah it was all the small chuckle moments and they were either laughing or whistling whenever someone had their comeuppance.

The same thing happened to me with Licorice Pizza.

How?? While I haven't seen OBAA yet, that's quite incredible considering Licorice Pizza, while funny, isn't filled with a bunch of comedic moments.

 

[Drizzle]

Licorice Pizza is without a doubt a much lighter movie than One Battle After Another but I thought the comedic moments in OBAA hit harder.

 

[Stringer]

One of my favorite movies of the year. I wonder if the majority of trimming of its original runtime was from the beginning. It seemed like there was a whole other movie stashed in those first 30 minutes.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Licorice Pizza is without a doubt a much lighter movie than One Battle After Another but I thought the comedic moments in OBAA hit harder.

Raped in reverse?

Howling.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

What the hell? It'd be excusable during that chunk in the middle of the movie where Leo's trying to evade the feds but the whole damn time?

The movie is ****ing funny.

 

[Ninjablade]

Leo falling off the roof is probably the funniest thing I've seen in theaters this year.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Leo falling off the roof is probably the funniest thing I've seen in theaters this year.

And it probably isn't in my top 5 for the movie. That's how funny it is.

 

[Drizzle]

 

[emielaen]

Haven't seen OBAA yet but Eddington is good!

 

[Drizzle]

Haven't seen OBAA yet but Eddington is good!

I liked Eddington fine but OBAA blows it out of the water in every way.

 

[Kane52630]

I liked the meanness more about Eddington, but OBAA is more idealistic. They're both different in their structure.