Well you actually got me interested again, so there! Plus I really like Benicio del Toro as an actor, I think he’s excellent. Sicario is a favorite of mine.

Personally I don’t like films with a blatant agenda. I watch a movie to disconnect from reality for a couple of hours, not have it slap me in the face. I’m also not very good at sitting, so a movie has to be pretty interesting for me to really enjoy it.

RT rates it as 85% for the movie goers....so most people will enjoy it.

I didn't so much...just not my cup of tea. I couldn't wait for it to end.
I've seen this and 'Caught Stealing' this year at the theater. That's it. I'm tempted to see CS again...I really enjoyed it.

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Yep, the majority of people will love it.

Focus on the story and you'll be fine. But if you start to feel triggered, remember that globalists have two tools in their toolbox: nationalist populism and fascism/anti-fascism to exploit and control the population by creating Us v Them relationships to distract from and co-opt their agenda.

At least that was one of my takeaways.

It's a complex movie.

If nothing else, it's intense and extremely entertaining.

Shaun will love this

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I just saw it. Loosely based on pynchon’s vineland. I was kind of disappointed by inherent vice (the other paul thomas anderson pynchon book movie). I was steeling myself to be pissed off but… this movie was its own thing and brilliant. It has the bones of vineland. Vineland is a lot crazier, packed with lots of other stuff but im not sure how it would work as a movie so… well done.

Solid movie - wheels within wheels and brilliant acting and directing.

Don't click on this YT link if you haven't seen the movie but will at some point. Spoliers throughout as a Behind the Scenes video.

But it was fun watching it having seen the film.

One Battle After Another - Behind the Scenes

Neat.

None of the actors mentioned the book.

I just dont understand how this movie would appear without having read vineland. Doesnt it seem like a lot of random stuff? I guess theyre actors and dont need to understand.

I wish hed spent more time developing the northern cali underground scene, especially the paranoia about the Reagan camps and secret freeways, and the tow driver.The mafia wedding? Oh and i missed:

“A sort of Esalen Institute for lady asskickers [...] the Sisterhood of Kunoichi Attentives”,

i guess the nuns were it but a lot there that could have been include. One of my favorite lines: everyone has a purpose, and perhaps yours is to serve as a warning to others.

I didn't hate it, but did not get the hype either...maybe you have to be an ex-revolutionary to relate. For the most part I found the background music really annoying - at times 15 min of like one piano note repeating, like a dentist drill to my teeth... But mostly for me the movie did not know if it was a comedy or not.

Thought Sean Penn was brilliant (and normally I do not like the guy much), but it's a bunch of really weird characters/scenario and I didn't know what to make of it. Last strange movie like that I saw was "Honey don't". Kinda left me the same way, "Hmm Ok"...

Sorry not sorry to bring this back up.

my friends all sawr it and loved it. I paid for a kid and his buds to see it and they all loved it. Then I fought for weeks to convince some extended family…. One of the last showing in local theater.

Well my dad loved it, wife liked it but everyone else thought it was icky. My brother in law hated it and wanted to walk out 5 minutes in. High praise all round for Sean penn.

I’m really surprised by the responses it’s like we all saw a completely different movie. You realize the crazy radicals aren’t the ‘good guys’, right?

Father… daughter. That’s the center of mass, everything else is stuff, but then I’m seeing movie having read the book and I can’t unread it. I think the movie would otherwise be super whack.

I think it’s my second favorite movie but I’m a sucker for color and lenses.

^^^ great stuff, thanks for posting. Some thoughts. What I think makes this movie brilliant is it's a very simple story wrapped inside a very complex one, which in itself is designed to trigger. People get easily emotionally lulled into the oligarchs vs radicals good vs bad complexity (so they hate the movie) when they should be focusing on the father protecting the daughter story. I think I was fortunate to dislike the radicals and the oligarchs equally allowing for the simple but rich father-daughter protection relationship/story to be the focus and everything else was just conspiring against them. The one exception to that, which I think added a lot, was Sensei Sergio.

I loved it... Great movie. SmileWavy

Shot on old school VistaVision.

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So.. youve not read the book. What do you think the convent was about? Whats with the nuns with machine guns?

I think that could have been filled out a bit more.

yes, I think that's clear. I would have to see the movie again to give a proper response about the nuns. As part of the movie, to me, they were the change in location as well as energy (resting place for audience to take a breath) to set up the climax. They were a location needed to get all of the competing characters together and to focus on one thing, Willa (Bob too, but it's really about her). In that way, they didn't need to be filled out, they just needed to fit in with the prior 2+ hours.

I have to see Bugonia. If I can see OBAA again before it leaves the theater, I will.

So the question then becomes, what were they in the book?