i like this movie a lot but last time i watched it i kept wished it had just committed to being a comedy and cut out all of the 80s stuff besides singing the transformers song and the firecracker scene.
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 06:25 (nine years ago) link
and the last scene of course.
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 06:27 (nine years ago) link
thanks for the link
― Nhex, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 08:28 (nine years ago) link
I really love this movie but I once fell asleep while watching it and had some really fucked up nightmares about it
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 13:04 (nine years ago) link
that oral history was a delight.
thanks for posting
― gr8080, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
i read the oral history the other day, and then i stayed up into the wee hours of last night reading this annotated history of mike sager's rolling stone piece on the wonderland murders.
http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/annotation-tuesday-the-porn-star-and-mike-sager/
― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
how could such a massively pretentious film "commit to being a comedy"?
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
you answered your own question
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Also: Sydney Pollack was PTA's first choice for Jack Horner. Warren Beatty too (he wanted to play Diggler though).
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
i can totally see pollack in it, not sure beatty, it'd prob change the character somewhat
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
lol @ the idea of leo and barrymore as diggler and rollergirl
― gr8080, Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Warren Beatty too (he wanted to play Diggler though).
lol I thought you were joking!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
can see Pollack being good, but Reynolds is more genuinely porn-y
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
lol <3
Paul really wanted “Livin’ Thing” as the song at the end of the movie. He was really, really nervous to show the film to Jeff Lynne, but Jeff came down to a screening and Paul was just sort of watching the back of his head while he was watching the movie. Then the film ends and “Livin’ Thing” comes on and Paul just sees both Jeff Lynne’s arms shoot up triumphantly.
― sexxx attic (will), Sunday, 14 December 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Luis GuzmánMaurice TT RodriguezWe went to the shoot in a production van. We got out and we walked into the house. They said, “Be very quiet,” and they sent us up to a balcony. “You can watch from here.” There’s a guy and he’s banging this chick. The next thing you know, the guy looks up at the balcony, and he points to me. He yells up, “Hey, I know you!” I go, “That’s fucked up.” Next thing you know, he goes limp.
― 龜, Saturday, 20 December 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
Watching for the first time now - what a JAM this movie is, so much more satisfying than "Magnolia"
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 1 February 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Yes--but I'm going to vote for John C. Reilly's Magnolia performance in a poll I put up earlier today. I think he's just great in that.
Okay, Now You’re Talkin’ Above My Head: the John C. Reilly Poll
― clemenza, Sunday, 1 February 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
I hope God forgives Mark Wahlberg for saying that he hopes God forgives him for “Boogie Nights.”— Glenn Kenny (@Glenn__Kenny) October 24, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
The devil has all the best poons iirc
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
ha just watching this again. great movie and posters itt saying it is a comedy are otm, it is a hilarious movie
one thing that struck me this time around, i find it hard to believe dirk diggler doesn't do coke until 1980. three years in the biz w/ this crew before he does coke?!!??
― marcos, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
ha I'd never thought of that but now that you mention it that does seem... odd
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
also I was wrong here:
But the Scorsese films that PTA copped from for Boogie Nights (primarily Raging Bull and Goodfellas) are not broadly comic in the way Boogie Nights is.
cuz I laughed *a lot* when I recently got to see Goodfellas in a theatre. It's a different kind of funny tho, even if Scorsese and PTA both generally disdain the characters in their respective films (or at least see them as ridiculous)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
yea goodfellas is also hilarious
― marcos, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
also is there an authoritative list somewhere of films that start in a happy and glamorous 1970s that descend into darkness and dread once 1980 hits? (or 60s into 70s...)
― marcos, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
that's gonna be a long list
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
feel like the 90s-00s transition would also easily fit that dramatic bill (Dubya and 9/11 were such a grim 1-2 punch) but I can't think of any films that have covered that era
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
They really play up his innocence, all things considered. He's just a larky kid from the valley up for a little fun. It's not until things start to go bad that things go off the rails, so to speak.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
Wahlberg has a few notable roles where he plays an innocent and it's always naaaah
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
(xpost) Not nearly as good, and it's a year out of sync, but Star 80 fits the '70s-'80s divide--brutally so. A lot of '60s-'70s examples, probably.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
I'm curious about that film but it seems like such a grim watch, I haven't been able to bring myself to rent it
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I can't in any conscience recommend it. I like it more than most people, if "like" is the right word--there's a great roller-disco scene to "Sing Sing Sing," and Hemingway and Roberts are good--but it's nauseating at times.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
Wahlberg has a few notable roles where he plays an innocent and it's always naaaahhe is fantastic in The Big Hit (and in this)
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Thursday, 26 October 2017 03:46 (six years ago) link
Oh I love it I just never buy it
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 October 2017 06:03 (six years ago) link
I wish the Grantland oral history had more about Moore and Graham, how they felt about making the movie, how they felt about its success. Moore being uncomfortable is alluded to a couple times, it sounds like Graham maybe enjoyed things a bit more, which makes sense.
This PTA interview with a young excited brilliant director with a mouth full of pizza is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99jnnJQJF0Q
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Saturday, 8 September 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
Obviously he was primarily an important, fearless filmmaker but Robert Downey Sr.'s cameo in Boogie Nights is one of the best and most quotable parts of one of the best and most quotable movies ever made. https://t.co/F7Pepq6GLh— Nathan Rabin (@nathanrabin) July 7, 2021
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
When someone says that Boogie Nights is one of the best movies ever made, you look around for a dustbin to drop them in.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
no way you could pick me up
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
13 inches is alot to get into a dustbin...
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
but so worth it
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Thursday, 8 July 2021 00:54 (two years ago) link
Wait that was Robert Downey, Sr.?
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 03:22 (two years ago) link
As the studio owner? Yes!
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 July 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
As many times as I've seen it, had no idea either.
― clemenza, Thursday, 8 July 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link
You may own the tapes, I’ll grant you that…
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link
Didn’t remember the music being “Compared to What” either.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link
Nerd that he is, in the end credits PTA gave Downey the "(a prince)" title Downey gave himself in Putney Swipe.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 July 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
I love this movie, need to watch it again. It has so many good little bits. His most fun movie? (I still haven't watched Inherent Vice, I need to, so I don't know if it's more fun.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 July 2021 04:09 (two years ago) link
A former manager of mine quoted the MP/YP line to death when telling someone in our group not to work hard on the problems of others so it lost a little luster. Still great in the movie!
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 04:31 (two years ago) link
Inherent Vice is more abstract imo and not as directly fun. Boogie Nights hints at having madcap moments, with the actors playing it straight but the music/direction letting you know it’s goofy
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 04:33 (two years ago) link
Inherent Vice was frustrating because it didn't quite capture the book but was also as close as would be possible to capturing the book
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 July 2021 04:50 (two years ago) link
Positive I was watching a TV show the past year where someone used the MP/YP construction, and--in view of whatever show it was--it seemed like a clear reference. (Unless that saying pre-dates Boogie Nights; I'd never heard it.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link