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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9823517" data-attributes="member: 11760">Just saw One Battle After Another and loved it.It's another film where I really wish I had been in the pitch meeting. Either he told them everything, to which I assume the money guys just stared at him, slack-jawed, or he told them nothing, and they stared at the final film, slack-jawed.I've heard the film described as "not political," which feels technically true, in that it doesn't name check the current resident of the White House, but it is full of sharp satirical observations of both sides, even though one side is clearly the bad guys. It also does a great job of contextualizing political struggles with a single tossed-off line above the dojo, which was just a masterpiece of confident writing.The way it bounces between action and comedy and family drama was also amazing. Just as I was marveling at how beautiful the skateboarders running across the rooftops, silhouetted against the reflected flames of a burning city, was we cut immediately to slapstick comedy without losing any of the urgency of the action. (There's an incredibly long sequence that's scored by essentially a single hand playing the same three or four notes on a piano until I was practically climbing out of my skin from tension.)I have no idea what category this goes into at the Oscars, but it deserves a bunch of them.Bonus: This also feels like a great, lowest possible tier game of <a href="https://www.atlas-games.com/unknownarmies" target="_blank">Unknown Armies</a>, with the various underground groups vying against each other in a shadow war.</blockquote>

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