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
last time I saw this movie it gave me really weird nightmares and I don't know why
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:35 (two years ago) link
Both BN and IV are pretty cartoony, but imo Inherent Vice tries too hard and isn’t very funny, while Boogie Nights tries much, much too hard, but has funny moments, even if it’s too glib about its characters’ suffering, in that very 1990s post-Tarantino way
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
otm. yeah when i rewatched BN a few years ago and it felt a lot more broad and sitcom-y than i remembered, constantly telling you that its characters are idiots in a specific way that feels very of its time now. still funny imo.
i completely forgot that the mp/yp construction was in Boogie Nights. ive definitely heard it at various times over the years since and never clocked it as a BN reference. mindblowing if thats actually the coinage.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
Boogie Nights has so many characters that are poorly hiding their personal issues and pain, with most of the tragedies played off as comedic as to not turn it into a different movie
That’s probably the through-line in a lot of PTA’s work, whether he’s cloaking tragedy with comedy or presenting genuinely harrowing things punctuated with a series of punchlines
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
I suppose that glibness about tragedy is also just a sign of a filmmaker in their 20s
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
It does allow some moments of real pain, particularly for Julianne Moore's character. But some things, like William H. Macy's character, are definitely played more kind of as pathetic punchlines.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
imo Inherent Vice tries too hard and isn’t very funny
sigh
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
pretty much all of his films are very funny though
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
I think PTA absolutely views most of his own films as comedies
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
The final line of There Will Be Blood makes me crack up every time
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
I can't remember it, but my brain wants to say it's "nobody's perfect!"
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
I could’ve sworn it was “ain’t I stinker?”
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
I thought it was Slim Pickens saying “Yahooo!”#OneThread
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
“I’M FINISHED!”
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
Our 70mm run of Paul Thomas Anderson's BOOGIE NIGHTS must end Thursday! Below are 📸 of the actual print you will see!Don't miss the party of the summer. 🎟️: https://t.co/oXN2lvB3jY pic.twitter.com/xs6VIJ7fUj— Film at Lincoln Center (@FilmLinc) August 22, 2023
might hit this up, hardly remember the movie
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 18:44 (ten months ago) link
saw it for the first time last year... it absolutely ruled as a big screen experience.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 19:36 (ten months ago) link
His name is...Carne Asada.
His partner's name is...Doctor Casino.
Those are great names!
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 19:37 (ten months ago) link
"You know my reputation. 70 millimeters of tough load..."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 23:00 (ten months ago) link