One Battle After Another (2025)

[Greg]

It took four sessions, but I finally finished this. I was thinking there were going to be revelations or something important to say but no. All the characters pretty much had one note with no arcs for any of them. I can't imagine why Benicio del Toro received an Academy Award nod. The supposedly great chase scene was pretty meh. Sean Penn dove into his character and made me think a lot of Greg Bovino, but this came long before Bovino was part of our consciousness. There was a lot of reflection of what is going on in today's society but I don't need a movie to show that to me, I can just watch the news.

[King Bob]

I thought this was crap. DiCaprio, Penn and Taylor were all hamming it up like Shatner. I found it pretty much pointless. The attraction between Penn and Taylor was absurd and silly. And the "revolutionaries" were really just playing - nothing they were doing changed anything. Total waste of my time. I thought Magnolia and Boogie Nights were very good and expected more from this.

To me, not Oscar worthy at all for any of the nominations. Train Dreams should win best picture, but it won't.