Boogie nights then hard eight.
― Slippage (Ross), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
I didn't know The Phantom Thread was so well received here
― i am updating my User Agreement and Privacy Policy (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
And maybe he didn't care to, and he wasn't interested in the darker elements
I think that's it, and a major part of what makes Boogie Nights so great. Star 80, Hardcore, and other films had already gone that route--successfully and unsuccessfully--and at a certain point, that approach is just turgid. Boogie Nights completely turns all of that on its head. Other than the Colonel and Little Bill, no one is punished. I love that about the film; someone else might find it willfully naive and destructive, and that's valid.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
Lil Bill's wife and her last dude sure get punished.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
Right--and the people at the donut shop, and a few other peripheral characters. I was thinking more of the principals.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
I’m not complaining exactly, Boogie Nights is the only structure and style Goodfellas rip-off that works on its own terms more or less.
― omar little, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
Just watched Boogie Nights and I sure don’t know what to make of it but the ensemble is great.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link
Starting to suspect I will vote for The Master
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
also realized that all of his movies are 'epics' except Punch Drunk Love and Phantom Thread (and Hard Eight yea?)
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:46 (five years ago) link
Voting on the basis of replay value and sentimental feelings here.
Boogie nights has a stellar soundtrack N heather graham and Julianne Moore, two class actresses. Perfectly captures the drug use N dead end of the porn industry and there’s a reason it’s never been bettered today. It was otm
Hard eight is a minor classic and to me that’s better than epics any day - don’t imagine I’ll care to watch magnolia or there will be blood any timeSoon. Inherent vice was amazing but I would rather go back to a classic comfort movie like boogIe,
I’m no movIe critic, diss me as you feel
― Slippage (Ross), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 05:07 (five years ago) link
I don’t see boogie as an epic unless you think long movies are default epic.
― Slippage (Ross), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link
it's def an epic, ensemble cast + decade long span + altman-esque mosaic. fwiw i think Nashville is an epic too, and imo Boogie Nights is more similar to Nashville than Goodfellas.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 05:25 (five years ago) link
I've seen them all and vote Phantom Thread. maybe just recency bias tho, haven't rewatched any of the other ones in a long time.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 05:47 (five years ago) link
boogie nights insistent use of "you got the touch" makes me wonder how high a paul thomas anderson directed Transformers movie would have rated.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/fdo9pw26q2euQ/giphy.gif
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
i guess there's a megatron/starscream dynamic between philip seymour hoffman and joaquin phoenix
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Tuesday, June 12, 2018 9:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and inherent vice
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
which is what i ended up voting for
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
all eight of his movies except for half
― omar little, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
eh i feel like inherent vice is still an epic despite the story taking place in a relatively short period of time/ sprawling & discursive & ensemble cast
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
that's how Transformers: The Movie is too.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
sprawling & discursive
it's stoned
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
that exchange sounds like something I'd hear in a Parquet Courts song.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
It reminds me of the discussion in the thread for a road movie poll about what constitutes a road mcvie (which I still insist could constitute a particularly epic afternoon stroll through one's neighborhood because it's all about the vibe maaaan).
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
THE road movie poll, I mean. I assume there was only the one.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
Now that I think about it it's the Hoffman/Christopher Evan Welch scene that is most Megatron/Starscream-like.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
His last two are his best, easily.
Everything before TWBB seems like bloated student films to me.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
So Magnolia is one heck of a thing, huh
― devops mom (silby), Sunday, 8 July 2018 05:35 (five years ago) link
Gotta rewatch that one soon.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 July 2018 06:19 (five years ago) link
was my favorite movie of all time for a long time
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 July 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
albeit i was a teenager for most of those years
good mourning!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 July 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
Ok I rewatched Inherent Vice last night for the first time since the theater and it was much more enjoyable when I wasn’t anticipating every next thing from my memory of the book. Noteworthy that even within the more kaleidoscopic plot PTA indulged his interest in doubling his protagonist (Doc doubled by Bigfoot, made explicit in the unison dialogue over the tray of weed at the end).Some standout points here are Brolin with a mouthful of weed and Joanna Newsom as Sortilege as narrator.
― devops mom (silby), Monday, 9 July 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
Brolin was perfect in that role. Probably my favorite performance of his.
motto panukeiku!!!
― supreme court justice samuel lance-ito (voodoo chili), Monday, 9 July 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
the popsicle 😳
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
they're frozen bananas
― devops mom (silby), Monday, 9 July 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Still...
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
Finally saw Phantom Thread. Wouldn’t change my vote for BN or TWWB (I can’t remember which I voted for), but very good and definitely in the top half of his filmography. Not much to add to what’s been written on it already, but I did wonder about the meaning behind Alma’s bizarre (and impractical!) method of pouring drinks beyond it being a quirk that Reynolds (apparently) finds charming at first and then later finds annoying (unless that’s all its meant to mean).
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link
She’s idly amusing herself by pouring slowly from great heights. Reynolds finds it obnoxious because he is highly sensitive to sound (and everything else). I think that’s all.
― devops mom (silby), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 02:45 (five years ago) link
I landed on The Master. Among the reasons: Joaquin Phoenix's face in contorted detail, the hours of word salad, the end, the beginning, the central relationship, the struggle and the fear, "Pig fuck!", Amy Adams.
so anyway thinking abt this I found it mysterious beautiful and hella raw. his other film have been super crafty and all v well laid out from a plot and character development pov. this one was willing to not be all constructed of perfectly interlocking pieces. it felt like a play how there were two miserable dudes yelling at each other and no resolution. also ACTING. I liked their relationship, just two guys who want to have adventures surrounded by a band of joyless pedants. Amy adams being all this is a thing you do for billions of years was such a hilariously wrong reading of psh's seat of the pants bullshiting. it looked amazing I thought, all this clear light. also the spacious 50s vibes when there werent as many people around, America was a small town.not sure if it was really as good as boogie nights or there will be blood but it was def more mature and operating on a deeper level. and I loved joaquin phoenix riding off on the motorcycle and not coming back― lag∞n, Monday, October 1, 2012 6:23 AM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not sure if it was really as good as boogie nights or there will be blood but it was def more mature and operating on a deeper level. and I loved joaquin phoenix riding off on the motorcycle and not coming back
― lag∞n, Monday, October 1, 2012 6:23 AM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
hard eight is underrated
― grandaddy of all liars (Ross), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
that lagoon post is so righteously good
― Clay, Friday, 10 August 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
Have long wondered (probably because I saw the films around the same time) if the motorcycle scene in The Master was a homage to Hughes tooling around on one at the beginning of Melvin & Howard?
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 August 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
awesome lagoon post except can someone tell me what he's trying to say about Amy Adams?
― rip van wanko, Friday, 10 August 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
yeah I didn't get that either
― Dan S, Friday, 10 August 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
Think he’s meaning the characters there not trying to say anything about the actors
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 10 August 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
IV my fave movie of the decade, so that
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Friday, 10 August 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
same, Inherent Vice my just be my favorite film this decade. glad (and unsurprised) it has a following in ILX. most people around me dislike it.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 11 August 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
really great if you haven't heard it
https://soundcloud.com/rufioxvi/wtf-episode-565-paul-thomas-anderson
― piscesx, Saturday, 11 August 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link