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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
hard eight is underrated
― grandaddy of all liars (Ross), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
that lagoon post is so righteously good
― Clay, Friday, 10 August 2018 20:18 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
yeah I didn't get that either
― Dan S, Friday, 10 August 2018 22:36 (six 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 (six years ago) link
IV my fave movie of the decade, so that
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Friday, 10 August 2018 22:55 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
ih is a rly good movie
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 11 August 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
Predicted finish:
Phantom ThreadThe MasterThere Will Be BloodInherent ViceBoogie NightsMagnoliaHard EightPunch 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, 14 August 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
Win for Phantom Thread would make me suspect pernicious recency bias but would also be totally justifiable
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
feel like The Master will win by a lot
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
My faith in something or other has been mostly restored.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
lol wtf
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
hmm.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
I actually did try to vote 19 times, but only one of them got through, promise.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
Well let’s check in after another 3 to 5 movies
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
the top two were obviously going to be the top two, there's no surprise there.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
kinda surprised TWBB placed 2nd and got so many votes. thought that one had really diminished in hindsight
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 01:52 (six years ago) link
lagoon otm re The Master
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 01:56 (six years ago) link
― 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)
― Dan S, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
Lol why does anyone like DDL, such a tiresome bore
Or ham, take your pick
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
can't believe BN is 21 years old. more time passed between now & '97 than '97 & subject matter. crazy. i'll be dead soon.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
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)
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
you should definitely see it in 70mm
― Dan S, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:07 (six years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
lagoon otm re /The Master/
― circa1916, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link
TWBB feels so narrow in scope compared to The Master
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 04:12 (six years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:22 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pattern here imo
― liberally social (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 08:01 (six years ago) link
amazingly you can be a bore and still be a good actor and be a total ride as well.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 08:27 (six years ago) link
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.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 11:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
that they were made back-to-back, basically.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
tbh I haven't enjoyed anything DDL has done since My Left Foot, which teenaged-me enjoyed almost solely because of his hamminess
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CF2PbJsaW8
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 07:48 (five years ago) link
lmao "there was hardly any fucking blood"
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 08:07 (five years ago) link
I mean, Jamie otm
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 08:45 (five years ago) link
man magnolia fucking sucks
― flappy bird, Saturday, 4 May 2019 05:53 (five years ago) link
Would love to see a yearly poll for his works since imho his “best” could change any day.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 4 May 2019 06:11 (five years ago) link
Man THE MASTER fucking sucks
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 May 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link
One of my Letterboxd follows listed his ranking of PTA’s features and as I commented to him I would’ve complained about it but it’s hard to be offended when the movies are as good as they are. Which made me wonder, of the 8! = 40320 ways to rank his features to date, how many of the orderings are indefensible? Is ranking Punch Drunk Love or Hard Eight first necessarily trolling? Is rating Magnolia highly an imposture? Putting There Will Be Blood towards the bottom half would be a minority opinion but not a boorish one. Anyway I like these films.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link
Revisited Magnolia recently and, no, it's not at the top of the pile. I'm sure a rewatch of Inherent Vice would result in the same reassessment. So it's Phantom Thread because that's what's left.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:11 (three years ago) link
as my date and i were coming out of there will be blood the guy behind us said to his date "i think he was consumed by greed"
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:23 (three years ago) link
guy was not wrong
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:30 (three years ago) link