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Summary: Like all P.T. Anderson, disturbingly beautiful...
Review: I've seen this movie four times, and I pick up something new to appreciate every time. What a brilliant movie! The cast works together perfectly, and the directing is fantastic. There are so many interesting, emotional scenes that it's hard to take in on a first viewing. Some have called it too long, but I wish it were longer--it made me laugh hysterically, and was also quite touching. All in all, a lovely ride.
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Summary: the wild side
Review: This movie is quite long. However, the characters come across as real. The movie is somewhat surreal in its reality. The late 70's/early 80's look is all there. Super.
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Summary: "Boogie Nights" is One of the Most Original Films Ever Made
Review: It's not a movie for people who want to remain on the safe side - it's about porn, there is much nudity, three sex scenes, a good deal of violence, an incredible amount of "obscene material," excessive drug use and nearly non-stop swearing. But everything "Boogie Nights" offers you everything in a movie that a film buff wants to see. It denies conventions and ideal character development, story lines or editing. It is relentlessly original and non-stop. It is an opus, an opera, throwing together a close knit family of porn movie makers in the late seventies and early eighties and they interact with each other, affecting theirs and each others lives in ways that only can be determined by staying put through the course of the movie. I will not recommend "Boogie Nights" to a person who has ever dismissed a film simply on the basis that it is too uncoventional or too profane, because indeed, "Boogie Nights" is unconventional and profane. But you can't dwell on that, and if you usually do, then don't see it. But if you can simply sit down and let a movie affect you in whatever way it will and accept a movie for what it is, not what you hoped it would be, then it might be perfect for you. I know the director, Paul Thomas Anderson, personally and I can tell you there are few directors making movies today like him. He writes from his gut and puts on film whatever raw emotions arise. He is a genius and someone whose films are to be inspiration for apsiring filmmakers forever.
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Summary: Excellent Film about an Unexplored People
Review: Paul Thomas Anderson is truly a talented director and an even better screenwriter. His film about a close-knit, surrogate family of porn stars is beautifully told and brilliantly portrayed by one of the best casts of recent years. While real porn stars are looked down upon, I thought it was really amazing how Anderson used the sex/porn idea to lure people into the movie, but made them stay by showing great characters and great actors portraying them. Dirk Diggler, the character played by Mark Wahlburg (who shows that he really has become an actor) was based off of an actual fallen porn star. I'm a 17-year old boy, and I'm sure a lot of people would be surprised to hear me say this!
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Summary: Definetely Not One I'd see again
Review: This has got to be the worst film I have ever seen. I can't believe most people are rating it five stars.The films acting is really cheap and some scenes are really long and boring the film just doesn't make sense.Personally, i'd rather go outside and watch the grass grow than see this garbage!
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Summary: One of the best of the 90's
Review: First off this is the best film of 97, PT creates so many good scenes in this movie it's unbelievable. Second, Long way down (one last thing) is without a doubt the best scene of the decade, the shot in which mark wahlberg spaces out for about ten seconds is simply amazing. Third, the dialouge in the film is the reason it makes the actors look so damn good. Scenes like when Buck is talking to Jessie about sunsets, when Dirk flips out because they wont shoot the scene, Jack's monolouge about film-making in the resteraunt, and Amber tries to get joint custody of her soon. The dialouge is what makes these scenes shine. PT is surely the best writer/director to come along in the last twenty years.
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Summary: All Downers step aside! THIS MOVIE IS GREEAT!
Review: Ok. I'm not going to say much. I just have to say that I love this movie. If you dont like profanity, then dont watch "R" rated movies! I, myself, love profanity in movies, so that was simply icing on the cake. I loved this movies visuals, cinematography, and of course the music - it really is a masterpiece. I love long(er) movies, and this movies is 2.5 hours too! It's a great epic-drama that sucks you in. Every character is so interesting you cant stop watching... I cant wait to see the directors new film "Magnolia"."Let's keep rockin and rollin! "
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Summary: What exactly is the message?
Review: I thought that I had fallen asleep during this film and missed some important scenes, but no, I was conscious throughout. If I had the choice I would have opted for the unconscious state of mind whilst this film whirled round my dvd player. The film just did not have any flow, it was just scenes, and boring scenes at that. You did not get to know any of the characters so could not sympathise with what was going on. The only thing that kept me watching this film was the soundtrack so I suggest you buy the CD and forget the DVD. I think that one of Dirk Digglers movies would have had more of an impressive story line.
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Summary: tough call: good filmmaking, terrible topic
Review: I absolutely hated this film. As a person who has seen several lives ruined by cocaine, I can say that the film portrays the degradation of human beings quite accurately, and it is for this portrayal and the feeling and tone portrayed that I give the film 2.5 stars. Before the coke, the principals are actually doing OK for themselves, notwithstanding the fact that poor Dirk Diggler is a few sandwiches short of a picnic. To me, this was a movie about cocaine, not the porn industry. The industry could have been freely swapped with just about any other endeavor and the story would have been the same. The individual characters' personalities start out being unique and, in their own way, valid, but they end up evolving into the homogenized coke-induced bravado and fake intensity characteristic of the drug. The boredom and pointlessness and intensity are accurately portrayed, but it's just something I don't want to watch. Basically, for the characters, it's a hyped up and boring netherworld existence of all fanfare and no substance. The viewer is treated to the same.
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Summary: A compelling look at redemption, family and love's duplicity
Review: Before PT Anderson ever undertook the massive undertaking that is Magnolia, there was Boogie Nights. Sustained by extremely controlled and talented acting, this film takes its viewer through a Valley where love, loyalty, forgiveness and redemption run as rampant as PT Anderson's imagination allows. The dynamic between Moore and Reynolds is the best performance as far as performance, but this isn't a film that relies on a strong individual effort. The real character is Anderson's script, where everyone gets a classic Greek treatment: a rise to reknown, be it fast, slow or otherwise; a sharp fall, so sharp in fact it appears all can be lost; and a return to former glory with aknowledge of loss that makes said character reflective and a little less ignorant. At the risk of being long-winded, I will strongly reccommend this DVD (commentary, deleted scenes, and a ton of Phase 2 stuff) for any avid movie fan that wishes to see one Valley boy's unifying, familial, redemptive masterpiece. Enjoy.
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