Magnolia

[aolsux]

anyone seen it?

weird fucked up flick

[niveK]

This movie is greta, then they remade it and called it Crash.

[aolsux]

This movie is greta, then they remade it and called it Crash.
yeah but crash was brilliant, this was long and except for tom cruise's character (which made me laugh) was kinda trite

[reductiondesign]

...you're comparing an incredible film like Magnolia to Crash?!

This is sad.

Paul Thomas Anderson does fantastic work.

[niveK]

not comparing as in saying they are the same in terms of greatness. its more like saying Crash is Magnolia for Dummies

[cantnokdahustle]

anyone seen it?

weird fucked up flick

Fucked Up, How?

should have won best picture in '99.

[A picasso blue]

you cant tell me that you understood this movie

[radiofriendly]

not worth the trouble for me. 3 star movie for me. Cruise was great, and the film was imaginitive, but it with all the intensity in that movie, it didn't really add up for me. its recognition was fueled by its artistic merit alone. and the crash comparisons are lame.

[radiofriendly]

should have won best picture in '99.

just in case you forgot, these movies came out in 1999

American Beauty
Being John Malkovich
Cider House Rules
The Insider
Election
The Sixth Sense
Topsy Turvy
Straight Story

...and Music Of The Heart. haha, just kidding...

[cantnokdahustle]

you cant tell me that you understood this movie

I don't understand what it is that you may have failed to understand.

[cantnokdahustle]

just in case you forgot, these movies came out in 1999

American Beauty
Being John Malkovich
]Cider House Rules
The Insider
Election
The Sixth Sense
Topsy Turvy
Straight Story

...and Music Of The Heart. haha, just kidding...

WOW, shit you forgot the matrix as well...:rolleyes:

the only films on there worth a damn are The Insider, BJM, and American Beauty.

Election was made only for the reason to go,"they look this is a goofy movie about how even teachers are human beings and get jealous of those kids we all hate."

[radiofriendly]

WOW, shit you forgot the matrix as well...:rolleyes:

the only films on there worth a damn are The Insider, BJM, and American Beauty.

Election was made only for the reason to go,"they look this is a goofy movie about how even teachers are human beings and get jealous of those kids we all hate."

haha, don't hate on the sixth sense! best mainstream success of it's kind in the last 10 years. ill say it. and it was Bruce Willis' best performance. it's hard to really dislike this movie at all, regardless of whether or not you predicted it.

and i thought election was an extremely sharp movie. so well written. Alexander Payne is a genious.

[A picasso blue]

I don't understand what it is that you may have failed to understand.
maybe it was how any of those "stories of coincidences" mentioned in the beginning had absolutely nothing to do with the characters or the ending where frogs rained from the sky

[lanolynn]

john c. reily was my favorite part of this movie.

[cantnokdahustle]

maybe it was how any of those "stories of coincidences" mentioned in the beginning had absolutely nothing to do with the characters or the ending where frogs rained from the sky

First, I wish to apologize, the phrase "failed to understand" is a little more harsh than I wished to express.

The frogs, can take on a plethora of different meaning beit religious or perhaps just a point in which that was needed to allow all of the characters to reach some sort of catharsis, whatever you take it to mean i know this atleast, we all laughed histarically when W.H. Macy got hit in the face with the frog that knocked him off the building.

I think that the beginning was to act as a bit of a foil to the causal events that would follow in the film. I don't think that you can view the film as a lesson, or observation of coincidental events, I truly believe that it needs to be viewed terms of cause and effect.

It is the most beautiful/appalling depiction of human beings on screen that i have ever seen...

[captainmccool]

maybe it was how any of those "stories of coincidences" mentioned in the beginning had absolutely nothing to do with the characters or the ending where frogs rained from the sky

did you listen to the narration? they weren't supposed to come back around to those stories it was just depicting how strange things do happen all the time and then bam intro into the movie

as for the frogs there like ^^ said there are so many interpretations. It's really up to the viewer

[cantnokdahustle]

haha, don't hate on the sixth sense! best mainstream success of it's kind in the last 10 years. ill say it. and it was Bruce Willis' best performance. it's hard to really dislike this movie at all, regardless of whether or not you predicted it.

and i thought election was an extremely sharp movie. so well written. Alexander Payne is a genious.

i will be the first to admit that i didn't predict the ending, though per my defense i was 13ish (and not very bright to this day). but the film was the definition of a "one trick pony," albeit, at the time a refreshing one, though i do believe Shyamalan copied much of Jacob's Ladder.

my problem truly with election is that i hate Reese Witherspoon sooooooooooo much. she is hands down the most annoying "serious" actress of all time.

[A picasso blue]

did you listen to the narration? they weren't supposed to come back around to those stories it was just depicting how strange things do happen all the time and then bam intro into the movie

as for the frogs there like ^^ said there are so many interpretations. It's really up to the viewer
the ending had nothing to do with the characters at all, thats another thing

[FondestMemory]

i love magnolia. it's my favorite pta film.

and i don't get the crash comparisons. i loved crash too, but it's not like those are the only two movies ever that have interconnecting stories. they're both great films, that's pretty much where the similarities end in my opinion.