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Summary: Boogie Nights-The return of Dirk
Review: This Platinum series is a noticeable improvement over the last release. Paul Anderson, the director, says this is the "definitve version" of Boogie Nights. While I agree with him in many ways, I STILL had the need for MORE supplemental material. The packaging is really nice. It opens like a book, revealing 2 attractive discs, one with the film, the other with supplemental material. Trying to release these discs with your fingers may be the hardest thing you ever did. They are VERY difficult to release from the case. This edition does not come with a booklet, but gives you plenty to read on the inner sleeves. Once you pop the DVD's into your player, you'll see that the menu's are simple and very easy to navigate. You can set-up your monitor with a simple 'color bars' set-up. The picture quality is beautiful. Color saturation is noticeably improved over the previous release, and overall the widescreen image is attractive and clean. The sound is also greatly improved over the previous release. It is cleaner and more vibrant and the stereo separation seems to be much more precise. The music sounds incredible and the vocals are clear and sharp. The firecracker scene at the drug dealers house sounds wonderful! The audio commentary is reason enough to get this DVD. Paul Anderson has almost every person you'd ever want to listen to on this DVD. They are all talking in their own vulgar and natural ways throughout the film, and most of the time, it is quite amusing and informative. This version has an additional few minutes of a deleted scene that is great to watch including Becky, Jerome and a car crash with Mark Whalberg driving! John C. Reilly is a really funny guy, and his scenes in this DVD, (The John C. Reilly Files), are a pleasure to watch. The DVD also includes the "Try" video, a nice little addition. In conclusion, I love this film, and anyone else who does should get this DVD. I recommend it highly, I just really wanted to see more supplemental footage, (probably because I love this film so much). Besides that, this DVD is excellent, great picture and wonderful sound, and the supplemental footage is incredibly entertaining. **By the way, go to the 'color bars' and let it play for about 30 seconds....something shocking will appear on your screen** Enjoy this DVD!
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Summary: Great Film - DVD's are the same.
Review: What can i say about this film that hasn't been said? ...You already know that its a great film, wonderful directing and cast. Mark Wahlberg is exceptional and well Burt, well lets just say this is his best performance EVER. But you heard it before...blah, blah, blah.Now for the DVD fan, this is important, if you already have the single disc release, there is no need to buy the double disc set, because they are the same, oh..but wait the single disc has more. Don't be dooped by New Line's marketing strategies. You get the same extra features, but on 2 discs instead of one and a nifty new packaging, which is what you are paying for. In fact the single disc release has one extra feature that the 2 disc set doesn't, the "song jump" feature, which alows you to skip to selected songs throughout the film.
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Summary: An intense in your face , melodramatic film.
Review: P.T. Andersons melodramatic star studed epic about the rise and fall of a porn god is no less amazing to see as it , plays out like something from True Hollywood Story a gifted busboy disowned by his parents is played beleivably by Mark Whalberg who get's a chance encounter by Jack Horner a porn film director who's popularity is growing with female porn star Rollergirl played by Heather Ghram , Jack is played by academy award nominated Burt Reynolds who is seeking a lead male porn star for his movies when he finds this busboy he dosen't know it but Jack is about to turn him into the most hottest porn star that ever lived , with his newfound comes his ego also as he becomes Dirk Diggler the 17 year old porn god with a 13 inch right between his legs that is given his stardom , with money friends , women , respect , and drugs. He finds a new life he never new he had but even a god can fall from grace , all it took was one argument with Jack , for it to be all a distant dream , now away from the porn industry left to presue his other passion music he finds out that his former job is giving him trouble to presue anything else and when him and his friends decide to , make a drug deal Dirk is finding out that his life is going absoulutely no where and fast , suddenly he's left to decide what he's going to do with his life , a person is gifted with one specal thing and it just so happens for Dirk that specal thing is between his legs he can't run from it he can't hide it so he ends up right back where he started as Dirk Diggler the porn god in this 70& 80 charachter driven melodrama with director commentarys and music from the movie and deleted scenes that push the movie well over 3 hours it's fun to see what the movie would have , looked like as a longer film this is one modern day epic you don't want to miss Boogie Night all in all is one wild trip that you'll wan't to take over and over and with a searing sountrack it only helps it more.
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Summary: Anderson's masterpiece (out of the 3)
Review: Having not caught on to how good he was in 1997, the American moviegoers finally realized how good Paul Thomas Anderson is when "Magnolia" was finally released on video in late July 2000, most having missed it in the theatres in early January. I remember the week I saw PTA's third picture on video, the very week it came out, it was the subject of every chat room, the topic at every video store, the hottest rent on the shelf (thanks mainly to its much talked about frog-raining climax). But although most would favor with Anderson's three hour opus, I say "Boogie Nights" is his masterpiece. Probably because anyone familiar with Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" knows it has so much in common, and is so much more ambitious than "Magnolia", right down to the natural disastor climax, that it could be said that Anderson deliberately plaugerized Altman's plotlines(it was made six years before, you know). "BN" on the other had was something PTA had brewing in his mind for years; he made a short Dirk Diggler mockumentary in 1987, and wrote the first drafts of "Nights" before his debut feature "Hard Eight". Every character in the film is memborable both tragically and comically. They seem completely fresh and original with every repeat viewing, even the most minor of characters such as Eddie's unmericful mother, the eccentric mechanic Todd Parker, the dope fiend Rhnand Jackson and his Chinese comrade Cosmo, and Phillip Baker Hall's porn producer mafioso-Floyd Gondolli. Not to mention career high performances by Phil Hoffman and John C. Reilly, PTA has compiled one of the greatest casts ever for a contemporary film. Sure the direction and editing bear a striking resemblance to that of Scorsese and Schoonmaker, but that's surely not an insult to Anderson or his film. Unlike "Magnolia" Anderson crafted "Boogie Nights" with ALL his own imagination, conviction and heart.
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Summary: THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE
Review: THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE. PURE GARBAGE. DEFINATELY NOT WORTH SEING.
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Summary: P.T. Anderson's flawed gem
Review: "Boogie Nights" is an arresting study of the porn industry that is fueled by an array of searing performances and direction which resonates with a sense of compassion and zeal. Like all the other P.T. Anderson films, it's ideas and themes couldn't be anymore richer, but the overall result is slightly marred by a somewhat lack of discipline in regards to storytelling. But still, this is the kind of film-making that doesn't come around very often, it keeps you intellectually and emotionally gripped throughout it's entire duration. "Boogie Nights" delves into the lives of certain people involved with porn, and examines the deteriorating morals, social isolation and lost identity that lies behind their garish facade of fame. I was impressed with the movie's chronicle of the adult film industry's rise and fall, it depicts the escalating sordidness at a real gut level. One thing that really drives the story is how the characters and their actions challenge us, we may object to what they do, but we also in some way understand why they're doing it. Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore and Burt Reynolds are potent in their roles, but it is the supporting cast of Heather Graham and Don Cheadle that really steals the show. The only thing that bothered me about this movie was how it sort of spun out of control during the climax, and suddenly wrapped up neatly in the denoument, it just didn't feel "right". But overall, "Boogie Nights" is still an exceptional picture, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to be enthralled and provoked at the same time. Oh, and the visual re-creation of the 70's is an eye-popper.
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Summary: The New Boogie Nights DVD!
Review: The Martin Scorsese of my generation! A "Goodfellas" for the Porn industry! What a great movie! I'm going to talk a little about the new DVD. First, if you have the old one, DON'T BUY THIS, rent it! Why, because it's pretty much the same. Sorry folks, the extra commentary and few deleted scenes don't make this worth buying a second time around. The most interesting thing about this DVD is the CAR CRASH/BECKY WIFE BEATER scene..... that itself, is worth a rental. Pleast PTA, release this again with "Dirk Diggler Story" and that "John Holmes" documentary... especially if you want us to get our money's worth.
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Summary: Genius
Review: You know there is something wrong in the world when a toilet tank full of crap like the talented mr A-hole is given good reviews. This is a real movie. All must die who thought Mr Ripley was good. please make me god for a day. This movie is pure greatness. if you thought it was too long you would be forbidden from seeing movies in my fascist regime. If you liked forest gump you would be killed. Titanic? Skinned alive. All will pay for stupidity and ruining art. You need a license to rate art. Your opinion is forbidden.
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Summary: This is the keeper.
Review: This new platinum series DVD has a couple of extra scenes not on the original as well as an extra commentary track featuring nearly the entire cast! They basically sit around a room and Anderson asks them questions about the film as it's playing ("Do you think Luis was high when we were filming this scene?"). Between yelling at Wahlburg to stop answering his cell phone and screaming over Melora Walter's baby, he talks to Juliann Moore, John Reilly, Don Cheadle, William H. Macy and more. Even if you do have the first DVD, get this one!
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Summary: ONE OF THE GREATEST FILMS.....EVER
Review: I cannot find a better written film than Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights." The actors and actresses are phenominal, the directing is awesome, but the script is what stands out. PTA is a great writer and director, I believe he even surpasses the famous Scorsese for the best "one shot scenes." I suggest you buy this film, it's a spectical that is one of kind, and can be considered ( by me ) one of the greatest films....ever.
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