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Interesting how many movies I have checked out leading up to awards season are about acters/entertainers/performers:

Deliver Me from Nowhere
Blue Moon
Nouvelle Vague
Jay Kelly
Rental Family
Hamnet

It can get very meta as the actors are playing the role of actors who then sometime have to act as those characters in other projects as part of the plot. Clooney is an A-Lister playing an one, whose stardom at least equals his.

Brendan Fraser though is playing an actor whose claim to fame was in a Japanese toothpaste commercial.

Zoey Deutch & Elle Fanning both play roles in foreign countries in languages other than English, thus in theory not nearly as accomplished as the roles they are playing.

Seems quite challenging.
 

Whenever I see this trailer I feel like someone is going to try to pitch me on buying a GMC truck and I start craving Reese's peanut butter cups.


I hope it's good though.
 

We watched a movie on Netflix the other day called "A Line of Fire". Action flick.

Not good. Not at all. Not a terrible story line, but just awful acting, like seriously bad. One could find better performances at a high school One Act Play competition.
 

We watched "One Battle After Another" last night. I thought Penn was terrific and stole the limelight from DiCaprio but the movie itself was disappointing. At best, it's a hour and half storyline bled out to 2 hours 45 minutes.

I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10 for me. We did watch "Once Upon A Time in America" the night before so maybe that overinflated my expectations some.
 

Slim Tubby said:
We watched "One Battle After Another" last night. I thought Penn was terrific and stole the limelight from DiCaprio but the movie itself was disappointing. At best, it's a hour and half storyline bled out to 2 hours 45 minutes.

I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10 for me. We did watch "Once Upon A Time in America" the night before so maybe that overinflated my expectations some.
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Watched it yesterday. Loved it. 9/10
 


Slim Tubby said:
We watched "One Battle After Another" last night. I thought Penn was terrific and stole the limelight from DiCaprio but the movie itself was disappointing. At best, it's a hour and half storyline bled out to 2 hours 45 minutes.

I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10 for me. We did watch "Once Upon A Time in America" the night before so maybe that overinflated my expectations some.
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WilliamsArenaGuy said:
Watched it yesterday. Loved it. 9/10
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I still think One Battle After Another is the Best Film of 2025, that I have seen. A Close runner up is Sentimental Value, which is quite a different film.
 






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