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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9765798" data-attributes="member: 7023840">UPDATE!I don't normally do an update to these threads, but I just watched One Battle After Another, the new P.T. Anderson movie starring Leo, Benicio, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti (great name) in a breakout role, and many others (Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, etc.). Brief review- I'm not going to do spoilers, but if you like P.T. Anderson movies (and you should), then you have to see this. It's more "action-y" than usual, but it's not an action movie. It's very loosely based on Vineland if you're a Pynchon fan, but if you've read that book the plot elements are different enough to shock and surprise. I think that a lot of people will, of course, talk about how it is "relevant" to our current time (and it is), but like all great art ... it has much more important and deeper thematic elements. I loved it!That said, where does it rank? That's a lot harder. I tend to be hesitant to rank movies I've just seen because I tend to rank them either too high or to low. You have to let them marinate for a while and watch them again after that first blush has worn off. That said ...My initial instinct is to say that it's one of his great films, but not his best film. It's not There Will Be Blood, which, to me, is practically a modern Citizen Kane. It's not The Master, which ... I mean, c'mon. So it's not in the top two.But it's above Phantom Thread. That's the movie that I think of as "technically perfect, but I don't love it." I really enjoyed this film. So it's ... it's top 5. It's better than Licorice Pizza- not because LP is, in any way, bad, but because LP just isn't trying to be more. Which is fine, but One Battle After Another definitely has more deep thematic resonance.I know I might be alone in ranking Punch Drunk Love so high, but I'm right and everyone else is wrong. And Boogie Nights is a stone-cold classic. It's with those movies. I need to let it settle a while, but it's somewhere in the #3-#5 range. Pretty sure.</blockquote>

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