Random Entertainment Poll: 9/19/2008

[TJ Wells]

Best P.T. Anderson film?

[williek311]

I went with TWBB but Boogie Nights would be second. I love the opening disco scene in that movie (I love all shots like that where it's just one long continuous shot).

[stayillogical]

There Will Be Blood.

[.invisible ink.]

i loved Boogie Nights and Magnolia (haven't seen TWWB yet) but I had to go with BN in the end, it was done sooo well.

[poppa Q]

Really close between Magnolia and There Will Be Blood.

[Ravenna]

Boogie Nights. But I love them all immensely.

[bradyreier]

There Will Be Blood gets my vote, but they're all good.

[popdisaster00]

Boogie Nights. But I love them all immensely.
haha, hense your avatar

[popdisaster00]

So glad you made this thread, TJ. He is my favorite director.

I went with Magnolia. Of course TWBB will probably win, but Magnolia was one of the most uncomfortable movies I have ever seen, and I mean that in the best way possible.

Plus John C. Riely is amazing in it.

[domotime2]

Magnolia by farrr and away.....i wasnt crazy about boogie nights or punch drunk. ATWBB was deece.

[WFUJerseyJon]

Boogie Nights. I'm a star, I'm a star, I'm a fucking star.

EDIT: Plus that opening shot is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen on film.

[MIKEY_HORROR]

Boogie nights got my pick

[drudo182]

I like this poll.

Boogie Nights, easily.

Love the scene where Don Cheadle is in the donut shop.

[drudo182]

So glad you made this thread, TJ. He is my favorite director.

I went with Magnolia. Of course TWBB will probably win, but Magnolia was one of the most uncomfortable movies I have ever seen, and I mean that in the best way possible.

Plus John C. Riely is amazing in it.

"Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes, they need to go to jail."

I also love his scene where Dixon is rapping and he calls him Coolio and tells him to cut it with the lip and the language.

[Jessooker]

I'm gonna say There Will Be Blood, but Punch-Drunk Love is a close second.

[TJ Wells]

Punch-Drunk Love is the one I can watch over and over again. I'm surprised i'm the only one who went with it.

[drudo182]

I like it but I can't imagine picking it as his "best" work.

[TJ Wells]

Oh ha ha shit, I did put Best. It's weird, I can almost put them all in different categories:

Best: Boogie Nights
Weirdest: Magnolia
Most Rewatchable: Punch-Drunk Love
Most Admirable: There Will Be Blood
Most Underrated: Sydney

But then again, almost all of those can fit in at least one other category. Crazy.

[Jessooker]

I own, but have yet to watch Magnolia :zip:

[drudo182]

Oh ha ha shit, I did put Best. It's weird, I can almost put them all in different categories:

Best: Boogie Nights
Weirdest: Magnolia
Most Rewatchable: Punch-Drunk Love
Most Admirable: There Will Be Blood
Most Underrated: Sydney

But then again, almost all of those can fit in at least one other category. Crazy.

I agree about Hard Eight. Has some great dialogue. I think Magnolia takes the cake though. PT just has these crazy long dialogue sequences that I love.

I think Punch-Drunk might get the weird category for me. Strange stuff in that one, even more so than Magnolia.

[drudo182]

I own, but have yet to watch Magnolia :zip:

You should watch that soooon.

[Jessooker]

You should watch that soooon.

I want to. I'll plan on doing it this week.

[drudo182]

You should stay in tonight and watch it.

[TJ Wells]

Even though I disagree with it, I love Kevin Smith's thing with Magnolia:
(paraphrased)
"I'll never watch it again, but i'll keep it; i'll keep it right on my desk, as a constant reminder that a bloated sense of self-importance is the most unattractive aspect of a person's work."

Following this, he ran into P.T. Anderson somewhere, and felt like such an asshole, because apparently he's a really nice guy.

[Jessooker]

I'm afraid if I attempt to watch any movie, I will fall asleep.

[drudo182]

Even though I disagree with it, I love Kevin Smith's thing with Magnolia:
(paraphrased)
"I'll never watch it again, but i'll keep it; i'll keep it right on my desk, as a constant reminder that a bloated sense of self-importance is the most unattractive aspect of a person's work."

Following this, he ran into P.T. Anderson somewhere, and felt like such an asshole, because apparently he's a really nice guy.

Wow. Kevin Smith is wrong but I can totally understand where he is coming from. It's that type of film for sure.

I feel that with a lot of Tarintino's work personally.

[drudo182]

"P.T. Anderson's "style" is a direct lift of Martin Scorsese's style, only P.T. doesn't know how to use it. Sure, MAGNOLIA was chuck full of LONG steadicam shots, "dramatic" push-ins, and various other little tricks, but to what end? NONE of these devices were well used in the film- they ALL called attention to themselves. If Kevin wanted to be self-conscious, he could wildly throw around the camera too because it's "cool", but you know what? He doesn't need to dress his films up with a bunch of window-dressing to make them interesting. Take away all the overbearing "style" and what have you got with MAGNOLIA? Three still boring, but less annoyingly self-consciously "cool" hours of tripe. Every camera move in MAGNOLIA seems to serve but one purpose- P.T. Anderson looking at us and jumping up and down exclaiming- "LOOK! I did a steadicam shot like the one in GOODFELLAS! I'm cool, right? RIGHT??"

Actually, he's probably saying he hasn't seen any of those movies- there's a boatload of movies that I'm sure were really bad that I didn't see this year, because I had no interest in seeing them. MAGNOLIA is the worst kind of failure, because it's such a self-conscious, insincere attempt to be "meaningful" and "important", and it fails so badly because P.T. doesn't have his heart in any of it, and it shows."

http://filer.case.edu/bcl3/

Terrible.

[popdisaster00]

"Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes, they need to go to jail."

I also love his scene where Dixon is rapping and he calls him Coolio and tells him to cut it with the lip and the language.
I felt so bad for him in that movie for some reason.

[notoaststereo]

magnolia>punch drunk love>there will be blood>boogie nights

but by no means are any of the movies remotely bad. all of them are incredible.