Movies Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Starring Leonardo DiCaprio

[Shane-O-Mac]

was good, pacing was excellent, builds to a pretty intense ending

9/10

 

[Herwald]

Damn the last 1/3 was the only decent part lol.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

It's a movie that's well made and well casted, but it's all over the place. There's a good story in here....somewhere...but it gets overshadowed and highjacked by whatever goofy shit the director/writer was going for.

I have no idea what point was trying to be made, but it just felt like he had a bunch of characters and scenes in his mind that he wanted to put on film and just went for it...regardless of whether or not it made sense or went well together.
I found the music to often times not fit what was happening in the movie, and that actually made it distracting. It was like he was trying to set a mood with the music, but it didn't work because it soooo did not go with what was happening that it had me actively thinking "Why is this music playing right here?"

It was entertaining enough to not make me fall asleep, but partly because of how ridiculous I found it. I couldn't help but think that I'd love to see most of these characters in another film with a better script and story. I haven't seen Penn, DiCaprio, Del Toro in anything in a while, and to have them all in one movie and get this...that just made it all the more disappointing.
Would not recommend.

 

[shunyata]

was good, pacing was excellent, builds to a pretty intense ending

9/10

Saw it last night with the wife, she loved it and she thought Magnolia was boring back in the day (I thought Magnolia was amazing).

Pacing and soundtrack were excellent. The actress playing Perfidia has rediculous... assets.

Del Toro was awesome. It managed to be both ludicrous and too real all at once.

I loved the line he had when DiCaprio is apologizing for bringing all this heat down on him and he replies something like "my people have been under attack for centuries, don't be selfish".

 

[NadaRekowski]

I stopped watching after Sean Penn fucked that black girl. What a load of shit.

 

[KnightTemplar]

158 million intake on 200 million budget, so yeah it was a bit of a flop. But that doesn't say anything about how good it is.

I just think the characters in Killers were a lot more interesting and insightful.

DiCaprio's character really loved his wife... but he was also such a spineless, craven, unmanly piece of chicken-shit that he agreed to poison her to death because... she's a squaw, isn't she? That's what he's supposed to do, isn't it? He's a man so afraid of going against the grain he plays along with the race-killings.

De Niro's character, similarly, is still vehemently insisting that he's a friend of the Indian even after he's been sentenced in court. Which is precisely the kind of bullshit confidence huckslers pull. They lie so vehemenly even they themselves believe it.

In this movie, all the bad guys are literally card-carrying racists. It's just less insightful and poignant.

So was OBAA. It's break-even point was $300 Million. It made just over $200 Million.

 

[Intermission]

Dis gon' b gud.

It's Leo "look at me I'm acting" DiCaprio at it again.

 

[heavy_hands]

enjoyed it more than I expected…was a tad longer than it needed to be but the ending was pretty great, good soundtrack too. 9/10

 

[chrisdiaz]

Man this was such a liberal fever dream I had to turn it off half way through the movie. the heavy handed dialog and the caricature characters were way over the top. it felt like if quentine tarintino had autism and dyed his hair blue.