poll thomas anderson 2

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

good mourning!

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.

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)