Assemble your resistance fighters and daddy issues - it’s time for another heavy-hitting episode of Podcast Assemble! Tommy’s bringing Naked Gun 2025 to the table (it exists, and somehow isn't terrible), while DL’s dusted off the spine of The Wheel of Time Book 1—because nothing says light reading like 800 pages of lore. Then it’s onto this week’s main event: Paul Thomas Anderson's latest spectacle One Battle After Another—the slow-burn epic with more trauma than gunpowder.

Timecodes:

• Introduction (00:00 )
• What Have You Been Up To? (07:30 )
• Main Topic: One Battle After Another (2025) (23:05 )
• Stupid Plot Summary (24:28 )
• What did I miss? (26:06 )
• Plot (28:17 )
• Performances (38:44 )
• Tones and Themes (45:49 )
• 3 Best & 3 Worst (47:05 )
• Critical Reception (51:24 )
• Better or Worse than Aquaman (2018)? (52:34 )
• !! SPOILERS !! (53:28 )
• !! END OF SPOILERS !! (05:26 )
• Trivia True or False (1:05:29 )
• Wrapping Up (1:08:18 )

Main Topic:

One Battle After Another is not your dad’s war film. It’s part PTSD spiral, part arthouse endurance test, and full of actors staring into the middle distance like they’ve forgotten their lines—or their will to live. The film drops you into the trenches and never quite lets you out. The boys have some spicy opinions about those 100% Rotten Tomato scores that were flying around.

Is One Battle After Another a poignant portrait of soldierly despair—or a prestige drama trapped in slo-mo? Let us know at thepodcastassemble@gmail.com or hit us up on socials.

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