One Battle After Another (2025)

I haven't seen any of them either (like a lot of the population, with so many damn streaming services, it has to be special for me to pay an additional fee and make time in my schedule to see in person), but even I know:
The Phoenician Scheme - Wes Anderson does another Wes Anderson, diminishing returns continue.
Eddington - Ari Aster (Hereditary) burns through any studio system capital he has left with a movie about living in 2020 that boils down to "People were crazy, and big tech has too much power over our lives and this won't end well"
Marty Supreme - Remember Uncut Gems? Well, they burned through their studio system capital to make another one with Timothee Chalamet in the 50s.
Black Bag - This was a real-ass studio movie (albeit lower budget), directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married spies, one of whom may have gone treasonous. That no one here has even heard of it shows how the movie marketing pipeline is probably completely broken - no one sees movies to see trailers, no one watches live TV with ads, and unless you have serious ad budgets for Super Bowl spots, etc., no one will know your movie ever came out. At some point it will all just be Big Budget Studio Slop meant to appeal to 80IQ morons for max ticket sales, and smaller movies made for Netflix that get tiny theater releases for award season qualification.

Beyond that I know It Was Just an Accident, Sorry Baby, Sentimental Value, Train Dreams, and Peter Hujar's Day are all BIG ACTING 'oscar-bait' that should fill out a ton of the award season roster slots.

spronk said:

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i'd argue but honestly not a lot of great movies this year, when you look at the lists all the fags are putting out i haven't even heard of 99% of them. what the fuck is hamnet lol

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The Phoenician Scheme belongs about 10 clicks up. Otherwise no contest.

Meh. Finished it in 2 sessions, few days ago. Can't recall what it's all about. Just remember I'm never watching it again. Long. Forgettable. Meh.

Izo said:

Meh. Finished it in 2 sessions, few days ago. Can't recall what it's all about. Just remember I'm never watching it again. Long. Forgettable. Meh.

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This pretty much sums up the plot.



Racist white supremacist asshole father vs good natured capable hippie father, fighting for her soul to give it goodness and meaning.

I don't get why people are surprised that people whose job it is to watch movies have relatively obscure things on their "bests of the year" list. Unless these surprised people work on the very flawed assumption that if something is good, then it must be widely distributed, well known and popular.

Also It Was Just An Accident is certainly not a "big acting oscar bait" to quote Wombat .It's the latest film of Jafar Panahi who is one of the best Iranian film director (I highly recommend Offside, Crimson Gold, Taxi and 3 Faces). I don't have the details off the top of my head, but for more than a decade he has been in deep trouble with censorship in Iran, including stints in prison and a ban on making movies, so his recent efforts have been done using different loopholes and often alluding to the political situation in his country. It Was Just An Accident is a much more frontal attack against the regime as it follows protestors who have been imprisoned and tortured. Pretty sure the whole cast had to leave Iran after the shoot.

For Accident, I should say Oscar bait in terms of getting nominations.

In terms of quality, sight unseen, it sounds like it's objectively the best film of the year.