My money’s on him for an Oscar nomination.
I do think so. I see this movie, at the very least getting nomiations for:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor (Leo)
Best Supporting Actor (Penn)
Best editing
Probably more in the other departments as well. I would say an outside shot of a nomination for the girl who plays Leo’s daughter in the movie, but I thought she was good, but not amazing.
Note: I still think Weapons is the best movie fro 2025, obviously only including what I’ve seen.
One Battle is a top 5, though. It was solid stuff.
This movie has weirdly gone up in my estimation, the more I’ve thought about it. I’m going to rewatch it soon.
I saw it a second time with my wife. She is a big NO to any horror, but loved this movie. It pulls you along and has, uh, the best final 5 minutes of any film this year.
:giggle:
Of the many things I love about that ending, Archer’s POV as he follows the trail of destruction is high on the list, because it manages to be whimsical in the middle of what is literally a trail of horror. And of course, there’s no surprise in finding out which kid is his.
Could you please refrain from spoilers like this???
Most recent: 1944’s To Have And Have Not.
You take a Hemingway book, add in a Nobel prize winner to write the screenplay, cast Bogie, Bacall, Walter Brennan…and you get a fourth rate Casablanca knockoff. It even had a helpful piano player (that wasn’t in the novel). And Vichy French. No natzees though.
We noted that the beginning sort of dragged, but I was “well, they’re just setting the tone, introducing the characters. Give it some time.” Then it droned on all the way to the end to a surprising sudden stop. The End.
And really, what’s the deal with the famous line? “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and… blow.” It’s not like Bogie and Bacall talking about racehorses in The Big Sleep. That was some smoking hot double entendre. This one? It’s not sexy, it’s not clever, it’s just…dumb.
Just watched Kiss Of The Spider Woman with Raul Julia and William Hurt. Despite there being a handfuls of version of it including one that was just released recently with Jennifer Lopez, I’d never heard of it until a youtuber I watch did a video on it. It’s essentially a ‘bottle episode’ type movie set mostly in a South American prison cell and is almost entirely a dialogue between marxist, macho, political prisoner Raul Julia and effeminate gay man, William Hurt.
If anyone plans to watch it, it’s streaming on HBO and, surprisingly, youtube.
Good print tho a tad over saturated ..very widescreen…Clint knows how to do westerns. Been a good while since I’ve seen it and looks good on the new TV - HDR effective for it.
I love Baum’s videos. I was familiar with this movie but I’ve never seen it either. I am going to have to give it a go now.
Same here, I think I’ve watched just about all of them, many of them more than once.
Pale Rider
Sydney Penny was only 13 when she played the apparently 15 year old daughter…
Quite a filmography…
Sydney Penny - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
Young Artist Award for Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress - Motion Picture
Hoagy Carmichael. He was the best thing. I agree this was not that great. I heard they were trying to cash in on the Bogie-Bacall relationship, and they changed a lot of things because of that. Last minute changes like that often result in lackluster results.
Becky, on NFLX. A low-budget revenge flick with some plot holes. It won’t win any awards, but it’s not unwatchable.
I don’t know if this counts as a movie as such, but the daughter went to see Taylor Swift - The Official Release Party of a Showgirl last night. It was:
- The songs from the new album
- Swift talking about writing the songs for the new album
- A music video for “The Fate of Ophelia”
One for the Swifties but probably not anyone else.
Gotta say…I thought she was not great in Pale Rider. That character grated a bit. I’m pretty sure looking over her resumé that I haven’t really seen her in anything else, so she may have greatly improved from age 13. She definitely looked older, in fact I would have assumed she was an older actor playing younger rather than vice versa.
I thought she was older as well, when you consider Natalie Portman in her breakout role she looked her age and certainly earned the accolades.
Sydney maybe overplayed the impulsiveness but hell she drove that wagon and showed good horsegirlmanship???….not bad for a 13 year old in a Clint Western. Apparently she grew up on a ranch which explains her ability to ride.
Busy girl
Rare four stars from Ebert. Pale Rider movie review & film summary (1985) | Roger Ebert
Another extreme meh for Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning from me. However I was happy to see Simon Pegg getting some extra screen time. He’s had quite a journey from his days as a wanna-be comic artist in Spaced.
I think you might be confusing your Sydneys. Sydney Penny (from Pale Rider) is 54. Sydney Sweeney isn’t.