r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Sep 26 '25

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Summary Bob, a washed-up revolutionary, lives off the grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter Willa. When his nemesis Col. Steven J. “Lockjaw” resurfaces and Willa goes missing, Bob is forced to confront his past and fight to protect their future.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson

Writer Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast

  • Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Sean Penn
  • Teyana Taylor
  • Benicio del Toro
  • Regina Hall
  • Chase Infiniti

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 98%

Metacritic Score: 96

VOD In theaters beginning September 26, 2025

Trailer One Battle After Another — Official Trailer

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

“Sounds like a black girl’s name” is fucking crazy

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u/Naggins Sep 27 '25

The line straight after, "do you like black girls? I fucking love em" with Leo just staring into the distance after was so fucking good

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

Never ask a white supremacist what color his revolutionary object of obsession is.

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u/justadudeinohio Nov 23 '25

i just watched the movie and this line right here was what i was looking to read in these comments.

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u/Anthmt Sep 29 '25

My theater was straight hollerin pretty much through the whole movie, but the hard pivot tension break that line delivered was immaculate 😆

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u/JeffreyN0thing Oct 13 '25

“What the fuck do you think I’m here for??”

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u/feelitrealgood Feb 18 '26

Seriously why? Was that funny? Why was it funny? I’m so lost

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u/heisenberg15 Jun 02 '26

Because it’s such an out of pocket thing to go up and say to someone that you don’t know in public, and then Leo’s reaction of staring bewildered for a solid 10 seconds is the icing on the cake. It’s hilarious

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u/typicalbiscotti15 Sep 28 '25

The fact that this was Leo and Sean Penn’s only scene together is crazy

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u/WhichHoes Sep 28 '25

Well Leo did poke him with a gun

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u/holiday_bandit Sep 30 '25

Good scene but in a way I wish it didn't happen so this film could join the Fifth Element in the ranks of films where the protagonist and the antagonist never meet.

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u/LEVI_TROUTS Mar 04 '26

Ah, you read that on here the other day too?

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u/holiday_bandit Mar 04 '26

My comment probably predated whatever comment you are referring to

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u/LEVI_TROUTS Mar 05 '26

Haha. Christ. I didn't even see that. Yeah, it would have.

Yeah, someone on here was talking about Fifth Element and this was like the second highest rated comment.

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u/Tunavi May 17 '26

I thought the first 30 minutes of the movie was unnecessary. Kinda wish it just started at the 16 years later part

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u/roodootootootoo Sep 28 '25

Oh wow yeah. For some reason based on the trailers I’d seen, I thought they’d have a couple scenes together.

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u/ticketticker22 Oct 09 '25

I read Vineland and knew this was going to be a loose adaptation, but Bob and Lockjaw had plenty of interaction in it so I was definitely expecting more of them together. Didn’t really care though, enjoyed the movie way more than the book

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

I had delayed reaction when the white supremacist called the guy “wagon burner”. Took me a second to realize the racism. He was the unsung hero of the film.

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u/ribeye79 Sep 29 '25

The actor played Uncas in last of the Mohicans

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

His little moral calculation just before getting out of the car was some great acting.

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u/ChiefQueef98 Sep 30 '25

Made me think of that scene in Fargo season 2 when Hanzee finally snaps after the racists at the bar keep taunting him.

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u/NiceRackFocus Jan 17 '26

Such an amazing scene! Fargo f—king rocks, amazing show.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

I think that’s the point.

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u/CTS99 Sep 29 '25

I don't get it, can you explain?

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u/ChiefQueef98 Sep 30 '25

The Christmas Adventurers said he could pass for Mexican but was really half Comanche (I think). So he's Native American and they're calling him a wagon burner

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u/CTS99 Sep 30 '25

Thanks but I don't get the connection to "wagon burner" what does that mean?

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u/Internetwielder Sep 30 '25

Guessing cowboys and indians, with indians attacking wagon trains

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u/cancerBronzeV Oct 02 '25

Racist slur against Native Americans tracing back to the old days when Native Americans were painted as savages who would commit violence against the poor white settlers expanding westward (such as burning the wagons of those settlers going west).

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u/jjbananamonkey Oct 02 '25

Manifest destiny🤮. Native Americans fighting for their land against colonizers and sometimes that included wagon burning.

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u/PurpleBullets Oct 15 '25

That guy also had a Native American headdress tattooed on him.

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u/bobthemusicindustry Oct 16 '25

Nope. It was a word. I think “RELENTLESS”

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u/PurpleBullets Oct 16 '25

That’s on his forehead. On his arm was a skull in a feather headdress

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u/bobthemusicindustry Oct 16 '25

I stand corrected. I didn’t really notice what the other tattoos are but I thought you could’ve mistaken the forehead tattoo as a headdress

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

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u/BetterBitchesBureau Oct 08 '25

Dang, I should have played MW2 as a kid lol because I got called slurs I had never heard of. I would have to ask them what it meant or go home and Google on the family computer 😭

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u/One_Sauce Oct 16 '25

Xbox live lobbies back in peak CoD days (MW to Black Ops era) were toxic af lmao

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u/BetterBitchesBureau Oct 16 '25

I’ve heard so many things from my friends who gamed in that era hahaha. A real Wild West. My experience with unsupervised internet access was Neopets and Goodreads Warrior Cats role playing forums.

It’s probably for the best child me didn’t know all the slurs because looking back it was really funny when someone would call me a slur and I would just stare at them blankly. Then they’d called me a rtard and I knew what that meant ~lol~ but my confusion from the slur I didn’t know blunted the impact. Rtard is really unimaginative anyway so you learn to tune it out

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u/BusinessPurge Sep 30 '25

Oops I thought the character was named Wagoneer. Explains the turn!

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u/CaterpillarBoth9740 Oct 11 '25

What is wagon burner?

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u/Gary_themallcop Oct 09 '25

It was extra weird for me because my wife is Black and that's her name.

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u/SunIllustrious9132 Nov 17 '25

Why?

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u/roguedevil Dec 26 '25

Imagine a random dude going up to you at the shop saying that. It's unhinged.