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Summary: Probably The Best Movie Ever
Review: As i saw this movie for the first time at a local movie theater here in Italy...i was shocked of how beautiful the whole thing was. Everything was damn perfect!Everything was damn funny,everything was damn sad! Can u guys immagine that this is the movie i choosed for a first date with my now actual girlfriend?( It worked,hihihih!) I mean i had a laugh attack that last for days as i saw Dirks beautiful "He will Rock you" performance together with Chest ( John C. Reilly) And what about the firecrackers or "Napoleone the king to conquer? " I must say: P.T. Anderson: I'd have done it the same way,i woulden't change a single dot of this movie. I was really upset as i raelized that this master piece didn't win any award. And i'm not talking about the Oscar...otherwise it was a dump film,just like condoms,you are so excited before you use them,and then have nearly vomit attacks after!
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Summary: Good but too bad and weird!
Review: This was, the weirdest movie i've ever seen, well PT Anderson did a good job, with Magnolia but this was way too gross and weird.......
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Summary: Good movie, marginal quality DVD
Review: The movie tells a good story, albeit one revolving around porn. My friends tend to like it because Heather Graham is naked in the movie. I know she is beautiful, but I tend to like it because the film has wonderful camera work. I was lucky enough to see this film in college, while I was in the middle of a film class. The first scene at the night club will show you what I'm speaking of.Now, onto the DVD. The DVD doesn't add much features. It isn't well produced at all. It just seems that someone wanted this as a DVD release and they had two days to put it on the disk. Now, naturally, this doesn't detract from the movie. And if you want the movie on DVD format go ahead and buy it. But I would think about waiting until a better version is put out.
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Summary: In the Top 20 of the 90's
Review: Paul Thomas Anderson's sweeping story of a colorful group of people involved in the 70's porn business is unforgettable. It will stand as one of the best films of the 1990's. For one thing he shows us that these are "people" like the rest of us in their hopes, fears, desires, happiness, and misery. The perfomances are all first rate, but they had a incredible script to work with including the great dialogue. The film has artistic integrity while it pulls of the tricky camera shots, lighting and sound. If you have a home theatre listen carefully to the music at the party, in the films first half. You will hear "Spill the Wine" and how it sounds to someone who is under the water in the pool. Very cool. But more than the technical aspect of this film, is it's story and development of character that continually changes as the films spins through the years where it takes a dark turn from free sex 70's to aids ridden 80's. The DVD is loaded with extra's and commentary from the director and the actors. Get this disc and remember: "Everyone has at least one special thing".
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Summary: Suprisingly good
Review: Like many people, I was torn between going to see this movie and staying away. While it is not a porn movie, the subject matter deals with the ins and outs of the adult film industry. Since it stared Mark "Mary-Mark" Walhberg, I subconconciously convinced myself that other people would "know" why I was really there. I'm glad I ignored my self-concious voice, and went anways. Wahlberg was a good actor and the film was actually interesting. Of course,I developed a theory afterward that the sucess was partly atrributal to his own experiences as a hunky rapper. Having attended one of his concerts, I can vouch that sex appeal was the selling point (since the lyrics were hardly new, there had to be some hook)at this time. Wahlberg actually performed in his underwear for the audience as the night went on. Like the fictional Dirk Diggler, perhaps Walhberg realized he was being typecast and/or too limited because of the very same sex appeal that launched his career. The irony is evident throughout several scenes in the movie, and it is quite moving at times. The uncanny simmilarities could be the very same reason why Walhberg decided to star in this movie. Although other people (with the exception of Leonardo Dicapprio) could have been in the starring role, Wahlberg's own personal background makes the story more compassionate. People need to be aware of what is going on around them so they do not get exploted by shady characters. Even though I am a big fan of 70's clothes,some of the selections worn by the characters on and off screen are really horendous, but that aside, this is a very enjoyable movie.
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Summary: Cant deny the excellence in this film
Review: There is not a lot to enjoy or like about this movie. It is set in the world of pornography and drugs of the late 1970's and most of it is hardly an enjoyable experience. However, it is exceptional in its' acting and direction. Burt Reynolds deserved an Oscar for his portrayal. It is a great film if you are in the mood to take a trip back to the age of disco. The music alone is worth the trip. And, it is a densely layered film. There are stories within stories. Hardly a feel good movie, it is one of the best films of the last few years.
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Summary: Big Star, Little China
Review: Every afficionado of art whether it be literature, film, et cetera has a landmark. The one piece that all others are compared and contrasted too. For myself it is Boogie Nights. The dynamic direction, depth of actors, completeness of script, and overall passion displayed by all involved contributed to a masterpiece. For those hesitant to see this film due to its material. Remember that great movies are rarely about a way of life, in this case porn, rather movies focus on the personalties around that way of life. If Boogie Nights were solely about porn it would have been exploitive, which thankfully it was not. The DVD contains quite a bit of extras. Paul Thomas Andersons commentary is by far the best as it is insightful and engaging. Deleted scenes, music video, and your normal "extras" finish out the disc.
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Summary: step aside, Tarantino
Review: Boogie Nights may not have won any Academy Awards, but Paul Thomas Anderson did win something: "The Best Independent Filmaker For College Kids". Yes, the film is set before most college kids were even born, but the style, content, and soundtrack take Quentin Tarantino and blow him out of the water. The actors (like Pulp Fiction) also make the director look a hell of a lot better than he really is, and the pornography content gives anderson the parent's disproval-- which is exactly what college kids want. Magnolia is even better than Boogie Nights, but BN showed the world a new hip face (who knows his place by paying hommage to Scorsese) and brilliant talent. Sorry QT, but PT is the new king of pulp. Casey
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Summary: Boogie Nights
Review: Boogie Nights is the best movie of the '90's. The script is letter perfect. It's direction is flawess and the performances are top-notch. Having worked in a video store, I have recommended this movie to just about every customer. Love it or hate it you just cannot stop watching it. It'll make you mad and a second later you'll bust out laughing. P.T. Anderson is on the verge of super-stardom. I would also recommend his first movie, the brilliant Hard Eight.
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Summary: Too long, too drawn out, too weird...can I have some more?
Review: "Boogie Nights" is one of those movies that defies categorization. It's about the porno industry, and has its fair share of sexual content, but never titillates. It's often funny but the humor is usually of the dark variety. Much of the content shouldn't be entertaining, but the movie succeeds grandly as entertainment. It's the oblique nature of "Boogie Nights" that makes it so special. It's not a film that will give you pat answers; rather, it'll challenge you in a way few films do. What other movie in recent memory was able to take an explicit sex scene and make it sexually unexciting? "Boogie Nights" has just such a scene, and it serves one purpose: to de-glamorize the world of porno and portray it for what it doubtless is: a business where people do nothing but try to make a living. "Boogie Nights" centers around the life and times (the late 1970's and early 1980's) of Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg, who's dynamite), who is discovered by porno impresario Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds, in another dynamite performance) and soon changes his name to Dirk Diggler and becomes a porno star. Dirk's story is intertwined with the stories of others who share his world: coked-up porn queen Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), who plays surrogate mother to Dirk because she is legally barred from seeing her own child; Reed Rothschild (John C. Reilly), his best buddy and co-star; Rollergirl (Heather Graham), a porn performer who insists on "acting" with her rollerskates on; Buck Swope (Don Cheadle), a black porn bit player who dresses like Gene Autry and dreams of owning a stereo store; and Little Bill (William H. Macy), Horner's quietly enraged right hand man, whose wife literally does it with everyone and anyone and doesn't care if her husband sees her doing it. Director Paul Thomas Anderson tells the characters' stories vignette-style, much as Robert Altman would. In particular, Dirk's rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story is alternately funny, horrifying, sad and uplifting. In particular, there is a scene in which a strung-out Dirk tries to make a drug deal with a crackhead dealer. Problem is, the cocaine he's trying to sell is fake, the dealer's house is full of armed thugs, and his friend keeps lighting firecrackers as the whacked-out dealer listens to Night Ranger's "Sister Christian". Anderson directs this scene so beautifully that the tension and fear is absolutely unbearable after a while, but the whole setup is so bizarre that you can't help but smirk your way through it. That's great directing, folks. The performances are all standouts, but Reynolds' and Moore's are especially fine. In addition, the period feel (down to the Cheryl Tiegs poster on Dirk's bedroom wall) and music is right on target. This is a brilliant film, and though it's too in love with its own brilliance from time to time, the flaws are greatly outweighed by the film's tremendous energy and superb performances.
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