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 (five years ago) link
feel like The Master will win by a lot
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
My faith in something or other has been mostly restored.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
lol wtf
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
hmm.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:19 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Well let’s check in after another 3 to 5 movies
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 00:55 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
lagoon otm re The Master
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 01:56 (five 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, 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
you should definitely see it in 70mm
― Dan S, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 03:07 (five 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 (five years ago) link
lagoon otm re /The Master/
― circa1916, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 04:11 (five years ago) link
TWBB feels so narrow in scope compared to The Master
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 04:12 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
that they were made back-to-back, basically.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 11:40 (five 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 (five 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
i should rewatch the master
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:51 (three years ago) link
which does not suck
I honestly would love a yearly rehash poll of his works
btw “The Master” has a good example of something I think deserves a separate thread: Weird/Bad Last Line Said in a Film
“Now stick it back in, it fell out.”
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 6 February 2021 06:32 (three years ago) link
one of those directors i like who still makes a lot of movies i don't like
the master had a hole where a main character should have been. twbb kind of a mess. adam sandler romcom. etc.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 6 February 2021 06:40 (three years ago) link
Punch-Drunk Love and Magnolia are, to my mind, better films than There Will Be Blood. I haven’t seen anything he’s made since then.
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Saturday, 6 February 2021 07:51 (three years ago) link
pdl and hard 8 both rule
― flopson, Saturday, 6 February 2021 07:53 (three years ago) link
I don't think Hard Eight is a particularly great movie, but the presence of the godlike Phillip Baker Hall raises it up to an extremely memorable 100 mins or so
― calzino, Saturday, 6 February 2021 08:00 (three years ago) link
his performance in that movie sort of reminds me of George C. Scott in The Hustler
― calzino, Saturday, 6 February 2021 08:03 (three years ago) link
Philip Baker Hall is so great in Magnolia. I think about him in that all the time.
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Saturday, 6 February 2021 08:55 (three years ago) link
I've always been curious about his turn as Trickie Dickie in Altman's Secret Honor. I know it's probably a bad movie, but I'm going to dl from the torrents to find out for myself.
― calzino, Saturday, 6 February 2021 09:29 (three years ago) link
it’s a helluva watch, recommended (for pbh only really)
― Clay, Saturday, 6 February 2021 09:48 (three years ago) link
nice one, that will do for me
― calzino, Saturday, 6 February 2021 09:55 (three years ago) link
he really blows the rest of the cast offscreen
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 6 February 2021 10:25 (three years ago) link
It's on the Criterion Channel for those interested.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 6 February 2021 12:49 (three years ago) link
― jammy mcnullity (wins), Saturday, 6 February 2021 13:13 (three years ago) link