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It's a hard ticket between Finding Nemo and One Battle After Another. Which one will you watch? Let's decide!
Now that One Battle has officially been canonized by the Academy as the Best Picture of 2025, we're ready to put the discourse to bed. What better matchup to do that with than the story of another father braving the big, blue, dangerous world to reunite with his progeny? Finding Nemo has been that story for over two decades. Has it been dethroned?
Of course, there's a little more happening under the surface between these two movies: the anthropomorphized natural world versus the very natural chaos of Paul Thomas Anderson's supposedly "civilized" society. What's inherent in the system? Are we leaving the world better than we found it, and are we preparing our kids to do the same? Well, we've gotta find them first...
0:00 - Act I
11:33 - Act II
1:00:09 - Act III
By Jeffrey BoggessIt's a hard ticket between Finding Nemo and One Battle After Another. Which one will you watch? Let's decide!
Now that One Battle has officially been canonized by the Academy as the Best Picture of 2025, we're ready to put the discourse to bed. What better matchup to do that with than the story of another father braving the big, blue, dangerous world to reunite with his progeny? Finding Nemo has been that story for over two decades. Has it been dethroned?
Of course, there's a little more happening under the surface between these two movies: the anthropomorphized natural world versus the very natural chaos of Paul Thomas Anderson's supposedly "civilized" society. What's inherent in the system? Are we leaving the world better than we found it, and are we preparing our kids to do the same? Well, we've gotta find them first...
0:00 - Act I
11:33 - Act II
1:00:09 - Act III