The Reel Rejects - Wow...Just Watched ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER!! Out Of Theater Reaction & Review!

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Starting point is 00:01:40 VistaVision, second one since 1961. That is crazy. And I'm a sucker for IMAX. So if a movie shot with complete IMAX cameras the entire time, that means the expanded IMAX ratio, you should watch it on IMAX. Projected in 70 millimeter. We got to see a 70-millimeter. print on film here at IMAX headquarters stunning the movie watched by the way is p.T anderson decaprio's new movie one battle after another hey coy hey Greg how would you

Starting point is 00:02:05 describe the plot of this movie go for it I would describe this film as a commentary on revolution and the individuals on both sides of said revolution I would say it's a movie about fatherhood it's a movie about legacy it's a movie about the inherent violent nature of mankind it's a movie about what it is to try to survive in a certain territory you feel entitled to. It is a movie about the guilt that your legacy carries, and it's a movie about the inherent violence of trying to have territory. It's about possessing, like, a joy de Viva from both sides. Everyone has an entitlement to what they think is to live, and it captures the two sides of a very specific revolution that feels terrifyingly topical. Yeah, that's

Starting point is 00:02:52 like the themes of what it's about. But I guess the plot of the movie, the actual plot of the movie would be about how DiCaprio is like a was part of a big revolution way back when and now he's got a daughter and now the things that he's done in the past have come to catch up with him as a bad guy played by Sean, what's his name? Penn. Sean Penn is hunting them down leading to a crazy, crazy action. action adventure movie with a non-stop political backdrop and strange independent comedy humor. That was the craziest thing about this experience. They let P.T. Anderson make a movie that is fully an independent action comedy. I laugh more or less than I think most things this year. And it's like not the whole theater wasn't laughing.

Starting point is 00:03:47 Like it's a very strange film right from the jump. The movie kind of asks you like, hey, if you're not on board for the first. 10 minutes, you might not be on board for the rest of the experience. That being said, I do think it is a movie that even though it starts off gripping and trancing, it actually just continuously gets better and more engrossing. And I think P.T. Anderson really does a great demonstration of master of anxiety and tension and these very extended sequences with this bombastic music cues throughout the entire time. This is like an assault on the senses.

Starting point is 00:04:25 It is a movie that really challenges the viewer from the very beginning. I think the first act challenges you with like whether or not this is for you. Like Greg said, you really got to kind of strap into the assault of subject matter and of the senses and of what it is they're trying to translate in a way that is largely darkly humorous. Like I don't know if I would have enjoyed this if I didn't get that release of laughing. after. Like, there are so many moments we were just like, okay, I need to, I need to laugh. Like, I'm in so much, like, anxiety and pain for these characters. And the humor is not ever, like, slapstick. It's always coming from a place of darkness of darkness. Like, there are, you know, a few moments, like your Wolf of Wall Street, like, sight gag stuff. But overall, the laughs come from the darkest possible place. And I don't think it will be for everyone, but those it's for, we'll know quickly. And then they're going to have a great time because then the second act really ratchets up the action. And the third act is like a Cohen Brothers film. It really has, like, this incredible Tarantino dialogue, like 10%, 40% Cohen Brothers' tone and action mixed with PTA's incredible ability to direct actors and Maison Sen. Like, the visuals are stunning. But if you don't like the themes and the subject matter, this movie is not going to ever get you.

Starting point is 00:05:36 And it asks a lot of you from the jump. I mean, the movie does adopt a point of view. Like, I was here going, okay, is this going to be, it's like, I've been saying, like, I think my favorite movie of the year is a very divisive movie of the year. It's called Eddington. And I would actually kind of put this movie in a similar camp. Like, this movie is a weird, dark, comedy, political satire that also is an action movie at the same time. And I'm like, yeah, that's how I would describe Eddington. That's how I would describe this movie.

Starting point is 00:06:03 And this movie definitely does adopt, like, a specific type of point of view. But at the same time, I feel like even if you're not, it never, like, explicitly says, like, left or alt-right or something to that degree. Do you believe in people's right? it's yeah but so you will like this movie if you don't the it's it's tough to talk about the movie the most one of the most politically charged thematic experiences without feeling like hey you know maybe how do you play there's no way to really play it safe it really takes the side here

Starting point is 00:06:37 and and uh i'm on board for the side that it's taking all right i'm just gonna fucking say that and it's like and it is a movie that is very charged with right now We were talking to Brandon right before this. Because he also like immigration, like, heavily. I don't know that this movie would have been as topical a year ago or two years ago,

Starting point is 00:06:57 and he's been writing this for 20 years, which means PTA has seen what he wanted to make, and it's only become more and more prevalent in its subject matter. This felt so jarring to watch it. Yet the year is never really specified. No. And what it takes place, and I'm watching this going like,

Starting point is 00:07:10 this could take place between like 2010 to now. The cars are very vague. Like, you know, they do a really good job keeping it abstract enough. And the settings all don't feel like it has to be a certain time. But I think the subject matter is terrifyingly more and more prevalent with how the action goes through it. Well, that's the thing is I don't feel like you actually have to be super knowledgeable about the political landscape or exactly what this movie is really, you know, using as a, because in a lot of ways, you can kind of just treat it like the coolest backdrop ever because the movie is a really straightforward, taught tense thriller where even if you don't. know the subject matters you will probably just get reeled in to the intensity of the characters in the situation they're in i love this it dawned on me this is like the third

Starting point is 00:07:59 decapria performance in a row of a guy who's like subjects himself to drinking is not the sharpest tool in the shed anymore you know he's kind of like on a degradation past like once about a time in hollywood killers of the flower moon now this like he's taking wall street wolf of wall street who's still like top dog and sharp. But he devolves in the movie into this. People have taken Jordan Belford to be some like strange inspiration in life where these last three characters are... Those people won't like this movie.

Starting point is 00:08:26 No, no, no. I mean, like I thought DiCaprio in this film is brilliant. Every moment he is on screen, even though this guy is not like typical leading man type of character, it really does remind you why Decaprio is such a great leading man. He's a movie star in this. He really is. He is doing things that are so,

Starting point is 00:08:46 unremarkable remarkably. And then when things get remarkable, you're like, you're so enamored. He's such a presence on screen. And this movie really shoots like there are shots of people's pores. Like this movie is very closely framed. And that doesn't work unless you've got Benicelle D'Oro, Leo, unless you've got like Sean Penn who I don't even want to praise, but it's praising from a place of acting, like not the character. Because this is so despicable and such a vile. Yeah. But the performance to make you hate him this much is incredible. Wait a minute.

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Starting point is 00:10:39 He is a disgusting character and a force that you really want to see get taken down. And if you know P.T. Anderson, you know the movie's never really going to go in the direction you ever expect. Yeah. Because the movie is actually dealing a lot with the action movie backdrop. Like if you take the exact plot of this movie about a daughter who's in trouble, he's got to go rescue his daughter. The movie actually, if you really examine it, yeah, it's got the beats, but within the beat. It takes, like, the way the scenes unfold. I never do that I see.

Starting point is 00:11:14 Exactly, the way the direction goes. And a lot of times the scene might be set up. We're like, oh, I know what's going to happen here. But then it usually does not go the way you imagine. And then when there are action scenes, like, okay, we're going to do like a rooftop chase or we're going through the city, we're doing a car chase. The perspective it adopts in every single scene is so unique to this type of genre. That was the thing that surprised me the most about this being shot with IMAX cameras. is most movies that are shot with iMacs cameras use it to capture like scale and epicness

Starting point is 00:11:45 and scope and he decided to go i'm going to shoot this whole movie to make it way more intimate and everything's so up close and handheld it's like there's not this gloss to the the use of the iMacs cameras even though the movie looks amazing it's never used in a in a way that is like a masturbatory you know you know it's like 3d goes in instead of popping out and it emerses you in the film. He uses IMAX like that, where it just enhances an experience. It doesn't like present itself as needing to be like bragging about IMAX. It's just such an experience to watch it in this format, which I think is such a strength of the film. Like I plan to see it again regularly to compare the two, but I think it's such a special IMAX time. And the performances,

Starting point is 00:12:28 again, the movie stars in this film, this doesn't work unless everyone's A-game because it's so big and in your face. Benicio del Toro is, this is one of my favorite roles of this guy's ever done. I love how comfortable in his own skin he is. And he's like a perfect opposite to how DiCaprio's mannerisms and whole demeanor go about. Anxiety versus laid back. Yeah. And I love what Beniso La Toro and DiCaprio are both doing with their careers because they're leaning into their age. And they're not trying to like play something that they're not.

Starting point is 00:12:58 And more they lean into their weight. They lean into their age. Like the wrinkles they now have add character in depth to the characters they play. I love them so much in this movie. It's like, I would love to see DiCaprio and Mnisa El Toro team up again. Yeah. And the movie adopts like a very unique structure. Like it justifies its runtime very well, I would say.

Starting point is 00:13:17 I'm like, when you're aware of a movie of this length, sometimes my brain is going, is there, could they have trimmed this scene? Could they have cut this scene? But I kind of enjoy the hell out of every single scene that was in it. So I don't even mind if something was like, yeah, we got that information already. It's a little bit repetitive. But I don't mind because it feels so like lived in. And that's the thing of this type of action movie.

Starting point is 00:13:36 It's just looking at, what would these people be like in an action political thriller like this? And they need to hear that information. So I don't mind seeing that information from another perspective. So there are a couple moments, but I really wouldn't cut anything or much. And I was thinking the movie has so many twists and turns. I was like, oh, it's got to end here. And then when it doesn't, I was happy. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:13:55 And like the, so the beginning of the movie, that's when you really highlight the relationship between DiCaprio. And what's that accent? Tiana Taylor. Tiana Taylor. And she is such a force, especially in the beginning. that you need to establish that relationship right at the top or the movie doesn't work. Yeah, she's amazing. Yeah, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:14:11 She's not teased that much in the trailer, so I don't really want to give it away. And then the person who plays the daughter, I've never heard of this person either, Chase Infinity. Chase Infinity, yeah. She's one of those actors that I love so much because of the depth and that she can bring behind the eyes. Like, she doesn't, she has these scenes where she's just going opposite DeCaprio and Sean Penn, where it's primarily just behind the eyes. And she gets this, like, fascinating character art that I don't want to give away. But she is a hell of a performer.

Starting point is 00:14:39 It's such a long movie that I'm like, I don't want to comment too much because the trailers don't give away that much about what you guys are. The trailers actually don't give the plot away. Like, when I've seen like moments of, oh, oh, oh, cameo? No.

Starting point is 00:14:55 She would not appear in this video. She loved it. Look at the joy. But I think Chase Infinity is going to be one of those actors that you see in a young role like this that you're like, oh, what was their first thing? because they're going to grow one of those Oscar performances. You're like, like, uh, Haley Steinfeld.

Starting point is 00:15:10 Yeah. Where Haley Steinfeld came out in true grit. Nobody's like, what a performer and then is only blown up more. This kid feels like she's going to be everywhere because she kept up with Benicio. She kept up with Leo. She acted around Sean Penn who's playing at like an 11 here. I was really impressed that the supporting characters never felt shortchanged, whether they had one line or were, you know, in two of the two and a half hours.

Starting point is 00:15:30 Like it was so special. She never felt like she was acting. Like you need an actor like that to be going alongside with DeCAPri. and Sean Penn, and the relationship between her and DiCaprio is vital to this experience. Like, it is the heart of the movie, and man, do you believe this dynamic so much? And I want to praise the marketing. You mentioned it a second ago, but I went into this movie knowing literally nothing about what it was. I saw the outfit.

Starting point is 00:15:57 I saw the phone and yelling. I saw a couple lines of dialogue at CinemaCon. But the marketing hasn't shown what this movie is even about, and I got to have a rare experience that felt like discovering like a 90s VHS tape at a cabin in the woods where I was like, what's this movie gonna be? And it felt like that kind of

Starting point is 00:16:12 awesome throwback to when thrillers didn't need IP when actors got to really flex for a long run time. But that also was partly because the marketing. The market doesn't tell you what your journey is going to be. So as best you can,

Starting point is 00:16:24 I'd recommend watching it before you hear too much about it because that made it special. Yeah, I would agree with Koi on that. This is one of those like, I really wonder if audiences will actually like it because it's such a high rotten tomato

Starting point is 00:16:36 score at the moment of watching this. I think it's made for people that do rotten tomatoes. Yeah, exactly, because it was like, the first 15 minutes was like, wow, you know what? I don't think this is an audience movie. I looked around at the crowd so many times where I was like, okay, and I laughed

Starting point is 00:16:52 a lot, and I laughed throughout the film, but in the beginning when I'd laugh, I'd feel so bad. I'd feel so guilty I was laughing. And it'd be like, is anyone else with me? This could also still be that kind of movie that does surprise in like, oh, no, audiences do love. I could see it going either way. But hey, make up your own mind.

Starting point is 00:17:08 Go watch this movie. Don't just listen to Koi and I. And honestly, the movie's so good that even if you don't see it on IMAX, it's absolutely worth watching still. I would fullheartedly say that some movies that are shot with IMAX cameras like, yeah, you only really like it to be shot with IMAX. This is one where I was like halfway through going, this movie's great even without getting the IMAX scope.

Starting point is 00:17:28 I'm excited to get it regular, but I would recommend it if you can find it. Yeah, for sure. What would you give it at? You could do stars. Right. That's what you do star ratings. I'm going to do letterbox, so I have that, you know, out of five. I'd say four and a half out of five. If I was going to go out of ten, I'd say like nine point two.

Starting point is 00:17:42 It's like a high up there. Why is it not the, what's the point eight there? I do think that rewatchability is a factor for me. And a lot of my laughs were coming from a place of total darkness and brokenness. And I don't love feeling that way. I don't love feeling that we're so broken that I have to laugh to not cry. And I feel like there's a lot of commentary on things that make me upset. They are real.

Starting point is 00:18:03 I feel like a lot of the reasons I enjoyed this, was because it was fictionalizing a very nonfiction issue times a hundred like there are so many issues in this film that I know are real and a lot of the times I was laughing it's because I felt like oh God that's all I can do so I'm not going to put myself through this often so that's the point eight and there's also a lot of things

Starting point is 00:18:20 that I feel like people will misread and it does embolden you know people to feel extreme in one way or the other and I think we need extremes and I worry about the discourse from it so I don't find myself

Starting point is 00:18:35 rewatching movies that I know cause myself discourse and myself certain negative feelings even if it's a net positive the movie's got a lot of darkness in it so it just can't be a little higher fascinating i know the knowing you as an individual i understand why that would affect you i don't respond to that way with this movie i'm like this is the kind of movie that you get better every time i watch it you know it's got me think of the world great yeah i mean it does but i'm like wow the way this movie's done is so well executed you know and like oh these little details i didn't catch before. I will be rewatching it, but I like, like, in Bruges is my favorite comedy, and most people

Starting point is 00:19:09 don't even consider that a comedy, and it's the same thing, where the darkness is why it's funny, but, you know, I've never been a hit man, whereas, like, we deal with some of the things that are, are being addressed in this film by living in modern society, so it doesn't feel like escapism. Oh, yeah, yeah, I get what you mean. I don't know. I guess it's my new genre of film now. Just dark gray.

Starting point is 00:19:28 I love. Dark political, Greg. Dark political action Western satires. That's like, that's like, that's like, that's a letterbox. I've got to go dark political Western set. I'm like, this is, I've got to be like probably my second or third favorite movie. What do you get it? I would, I usually do like a 9 out of 10.

Starting point is 00:19:44 I'll give it like a 9.5 out of 10. Well, all right. Yeah, I really love this movie. It's in my top five of the year. And I've only given 26 films five stars. So four and a half is insanely high. Hell yeah. Real good.

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The Reel Rejects - Wow...Just Watched ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER!! Out Of Theater Reaction & Review!

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