Licorice Pizza 2021 is how PTA beats Besson at his own game, while getting a Best Picture Oscar nomination
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Blender Dumbass
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As I explained
in my article on the matter a quality of a film could be measured in how well it "corrupts" the audience. And being a motherfucking genius
Paul Thomas Anderson decided to show everybody, who's the boss. His 2021 film
Licorice Pizza which was nominated for the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Oscars. And has a fairly decent 90% score on Rottent Tomatoes, is doing the same thing as
Luc Besson's
Leon: The Professional, but better. To put it lightly, it shows a romance between a minor and an adult. And it says that "it's okay, actually".
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One Battle After Another 2025 is PTA doing a Machete remake
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Blender Dumbass
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In my review of
Robert Rodriguez's film
Machete Kills I speculated that
Quentin Tarantino introduced a small reference to
Grindhouse movies in
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood to fulfill a rather outlandish promise from the fake trailer of
Machete 3 in the beginning of
Machete Kills. That there would be a
Grindhouse movie with
Leonardo DiCaprio. I think
Paul Thomas Anderson just beat Tarantino in this regard. His 2025 film
One Battle After Another ( starring DiCaprio ) is a straight up remake of the first
Machete.
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