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Brolin was perfect in that role. Probably my favorite performance of his.

motto panukeiku!!!

the popsicle 😳

they're frozen bananas

Still...

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).

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.

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

hard eight is underrated

that lagoon post is so righteously good

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?

awesome lagoon post except can someone tell me what he's trying to say about Amy Adams?

yeah I didn't get that either

Think he’s meaning the characters there not trying to say anything about the actors

IV my fave movie of the decade, so that

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.

really great if you haven't heard it

https://soundcloud.com/rufioxvi/wtf-episode-565-paul-thomas-anderson

ih is a rly good movie

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Predicted finish:

Phantom Thread
The Master
There Will Be Blood
Inherent Vice
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Hard Eight
Punch Drunk Love

Not the inverse of how I'd rank them, but probably closer to the inverse than to how I'd rank them.

Win for Phantom Thread would make me suspect pernicious recency bias but would also be totally justifiable

feel like The Master will win by a lot

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My faith in something or other has been mostly restored.

lol wtf

hmm.

I actually did try to vote 19 times, but only one of them got through, promise.

Well let’s check in after another 3 to 5 movies

the top two were obviously going to be the top two, there's no surprise there.

kinda surprised TWBB placed 2nd and got so many votes. thought that one had really diminished in hindsight

lagoon otm re The Master

Predicted finish:

Phantom Thread
The Master
There Will Be Blood
Inherent Vice
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Hard Eight
Punch Drunk Love

Not the inverse of how I'd rank them, but probably closer to the inverse than to how I'd rank them.

― clemenza, Tuesday, August 14, 2018 4:31 PM (two hours ago)

pretty close, boogie nights higher than you predicted though! (I know you really liked it, I did too)

Lol why does anyone like DDL, such a tiresome bore

Or ham, take your pick

can't believe BN is 21 years old. more time passed between now & '97 than '97 & subject matter. crazy. i'll be dead soon.

thought that one had really diminished in hindsight

it's easily his weakest imo but I thought that on first and only viewing too

(on DVD, the only one apart from Hard 8 that I didn't see in the cinema -- but it's showing in a 70mm festival here next month so thinking of giving it another chance)

you should definitely see it in 70mm

oh yeah for sure if you've never seen it in a theater

I thought TWBB had diminished in retrospect because of DDL histrionics. Phantom Thread didn't have the same problem because it was so surprisingly self-effacing and funny and loose.

lagoon otm re /The Master/

TWBB feels so narrow in scope compared to The Master

Lol why does anyone like DDL, such a tiresome bore

Or ham, take your pick

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:22 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pattern here imo

amazingly you can be a bore and still be a good actor and be a total ride as well.

I don't think DDL's performances in A Room with a View, My Left Foot, The Age of Innocence, The Boxer or Phantom Thread are the work of a ham. Let's say he can work both modes.

But TWBB is mostly a failure.

or My Beautiful Laundrette, In the Name of the Father, The Boxer, The Crucible...

That My Beautiful Laundrette and A Room with a View were made the same year is pleasing.

that they were made back-to-back, basically.

tbh I haven't enjoyed anything DDL has done since My Left Foot, which teenaged-me enjoyed almost solely because of his hamminess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CF2PbJsaW8

lmao "there was hardly any fucking blood"

I mean, Jamie otm

man magnolia fucking sucks

Would love to see a yearly poll for his works since imho his “best” could change any day.

Man THE MASTER fucking sucks