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voted for p thread, a perfect movie to me

cool

lol

I think phantom thread may be my choice too, but now I want to go back and watch boogie nights, magnolia, and punch drunk love again

LOVED punch-drunk love as a high schooler and don't mind its "excusing" sandler's behavior which i don't know that it does, but yes emily watson is only a surreal device and it is p boring to me now to watch a movie about a guy and his surreal device.

pudding scam in punch drunk love is best scam since penny round off scam in superman iii, that movie should be called pudding drunk love airline miles

that movie should be called pudding drunk love airline miles

― Philip Nunez, Monday, June 11, 2018 10:43 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

ok, Hard Eight: definitely "early work" and some moments I thought were truly maladroit but John C. Reilly's character is a pretty classic PTA loser. "I know three kinds of karate!"

Reilly is pretty reliably one of the best elements of any film he's in, I find.

Phantom Thread is the first PTA film I've really liked. The Master and There Will Be Blood were OK. Still can't stand Magnolia. He still doesn't know how to end a movie.

He should always end them with a dong shot imo.

i like pretty much all these movies (i didn't like magnolia much but i only saw it when it first came out and i wasn't sure what to expect and i'm betting i'd like it more if i rewatched it). there will be blood, the master, and phantom thread are the best. voted for the master because the subject matter is more intrinsically interesting to me.

Reilly is pretty reliably one of the best elements of any film he's in, I find.

yeah, this guy is really a treasure. Philip Seymour Hoffman level imo.

The Master was great but this is still TWBB for me, crackpot epic with killer score.

TWBB might get my vote, i found it to be really compelling. Though I should rescreen it sometime to see how it holds up.

though I do really like Boogie Nights (another contender for my vote) it's not better than Goodfellas, not even close. Goodfellas is both darker and a lot funnier, plus BN doesn't feel like anything other than PTA transposing the Goodfellas aesthetic and structure to a new setting and different type of insular underworld, however unlike Scorsese it's one that he doesn't seem to particularly understand. And maybe he didn't care to, and he wasn't interested in the darker elements beyond bits of more Tarantino-style splatter violence. It gets by on the fact that it's extremely well-made and everyone in the film is pretty great and mostly likable.

I still can't get past the vacuum at the center of TWBB, and when I look past the vacuum I see Paul Dano.

And the Dano gazes back at you.

It just occurred to me every one of his movies is about a scam or someone scamming another. I used to think his movies were about how he didn’t have a good relationship with his father but now I see it’s about scams.
Maybe phantom thread will be his last movie; it’s the one that seems most at peace with the scam.

Boogie nights then hard eight.

I didn't know The Phantom Thread was so well received here

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.

Lil Bill's wife and her last dude sure get punished.

Right--and the people at the donut shop, and a few other peripheral characters. I was thinking more of the principals.

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.

Just watched Boogie Nights and I sure don’t know what to make of it but the ensemble is great.

Starting to suspect I will vote for The Master

also realized that all of his movies are 'epics' except Punch Drunk Love and Phantom Thread (and Hard Eight yea?)

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 time
Soon. 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

I don’t see boogie as an epic unless you think long movies are default epic.

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.

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.

boogie nights insistent use of "you got the touch" makes me wonder how high a paul thomas anderson directed Transformers movie would have rated.

https://media.giphy.com/media/fdo9pw26q2euQ/giphy.gif

i guess there's a megatron/starscream dynamic between philip seymour hoffman and joaquin phoenix

also realized that all of his movies are 'epics' except Punch Drunk Love and Phantom Thread (and Hard Eight yea?)

― flappy bird, Tuesday, June 12, 2018 9:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and inherent vice

which is what i ended up voting for

all eight of his movies except for half

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

that's how Transformers: The Movie is too.

sprawling & discursive

it's stoned

that exchange sounds like something I'd hear in a Parquet Courts song.

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).

THE road movie poll, I mean. I assume there was only the one.

Now that I think about it it's the Hoffman/Christopher Evan Welch scene that is most Megatron/Starscream-like.

His last two are his best, easily.

Everything before TWBB seems like bloated student films to me.

Now that I think about it it's the Hoffman/Christopher Evan Welch scene that is most Megatron/Starscream-like.

So Magnolia is one heck of a thing, huh

Gotta rewatch that one soon.

was my favorite movie of all time for a long time

albeit i was a teenager for most of those years