Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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I don't think that's a bad description of it. It's a funny movie. I laughed a lot.

Not "the best movie of the last decade" but definitely one of the highlights of 2025 for me
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Jorge wrote:I don't think that's a bad description of it. It's a funny movie. I laughed a lot.

Not "the best movie of the last decade" but definitely one of the highlights of 2025 for me
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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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You dorks didn't laugh at del Toro's character? Not once? Get the fuck outta here.
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That was directed at the very dumb and very wrong team Daft, Argo, Burt.

Obviously Jorge and Len know what's up.
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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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Oh i've never seen it. I just really like Jorge.
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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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Just because a movie has funny moments doesn’t make it a comedy!
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Mecca wrote:Just because a movie has funny moments doesn’t make it a comedy!
Like Die Hard
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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Oh i've never seen it. I just really like Jorge.
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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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One Battle After Another is satire. It's very funny.
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Nah man I didn't laugh ONCE.
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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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Mecca wrote:Just because a movie has funny moments doesn’t make it a comedy!
Well this isn't a hard science, genre is descriptive, and a movie can be multiple genres at once

To me it has a bunch of really funny moments especially after that more dour first act
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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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del Toro is lowkey the MVP of this movie
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epilogue wrote:del Toro is lowkey the MVP of this movie
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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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Ello Sailor wrote:Nah man I didn't laugh ONCE.
I did laugh when Leo jumped off the building and fell 40 feet. Great physical comedy.

I also thought it was a bold move to have the black parent satirically abandon her child.
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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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Ello Sailor wrote:Nah man I didn't laugh ONCE.
I did laugh when Leo jumped off the building and fell 40 feet. Great physical comedy.

I also thought it was a bold move to have the black parent satirically abandon her child.
I thought you were gonna stop posting here.
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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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Ello Sailor wrote:You dorks didn't laugh at del Toro's character? Not once? Get the fuck outta here.
ftr, I have been extremely complimentary of del toro in this very thread
The Argonaut wrote:Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't like this movie (One Battle After Another). I liked this movie! I just don't know that it works all the way around.

I can only understand this movie as a comedy, right? And maybe my big problem is that I don't think Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn are funny. This movie is definitely trying to be funny, and trying to make me laugh. But these guys just aren't funny. So it kind of just ends up feeling manic and then like Sean Penn is doing a silly walk. But it's not actually funny to me?

Benicio del Toro is legitimately funny, for sure. Maybe because he doesn't ever try to do too much. Probably my favorite moment of this movie is when he gets arrested. Very simple, very funny.

And the road stuff on the chase scene is cool.

I'm sure it overall works emotionally though it didn't really hit me hard there.

I just don't think it won me.
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Re: Catch All PTA's Licorice Pizza Thread (Nov. 26, 2021)

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epilogue wrote:
daft twat wrote:
Ello Sailor wrote:Nah man I didn't laugh ONCE.
I did laugh when Leo jumped off the building and fell 40 feet. Great physical comedy.

I also thought it was a bold move to have the black parent satirically abandon her child.
I thought you were gonna stop posting here.
I am going to. I just have so many things to vehemently disagree about with you first.
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I just didn't find the creatures very fuckable in this.
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epilogue wrote:del Toro is lowkey the MVP of this movie
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