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Summary: magnolia is truly the best movie i have ever seen
Review: i am not the type or person who has loved every movie i have seen but magnolia is truly the best movie i have ever seen. it leaves you with a sensation no one will ever feel unless they see this movie. magnolia is my favorite movie and will always be my favorite. if you havent seen this movie, please do so, I BEG OF YOU!
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Summary: Good for Young People Even!
Review: I am 15 years old and this movie was wonderful! It had everything you would want in a movie. Especially a strong point, makes you really think about life! A must see!
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Summary: Gripping
Review: Right up to the very end, I hoped this film would go on and on. The ten or so main characters are so fascinating that you won't mind it takes time to tell their stories. This is a surprisingly moralist film about family and forgiveness...
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Summary: Beautiful when you think about it.
Review: Let's get one thing straight, don't compare this movie to any others especialy "American Beauty" because all films are independant of eachother and once you start to compare them they lose the quality that makes them different. "Magnolia" captured me from its great opening sequence and still hasn't let go. I can't stop thinking about it...there is so much to love. I am amazed at how much Paul Thomas Anderson put into the script and bewildered as to how he started to write it. My only quip with the film is its leangth, which deosn't bother me now but while I watched the film I felt as though there were false endings. This detracts little from the film but keeps it from feeling like an unflawed masterpiece. But don't take my word for it, SEE THIS MOVIE
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Summary: Not deserving such a high credit
Review: The film has one of the essences required for a "Big" movie. From the parallel cross-cut shots in the beginning introducing each of the main characters and throughout the whole film the interlacing of several story lines for each of these characters have all packaged the film in a very comprehensive form. In terms of editing and directing for the simultaneous happening of several story lines, it's unargueable that creditsshould be given to the director especially when the film is at the length of more than 3 hours. The credits the film has earned in this aspect, however; do not offset what it's bad at. The film seems to try to tell about understanding for others, forgiveness towards others and ourselves and finally getting redemption, but only that 2 scenes of "Frog Raining" and those main characters singing together in different places are not enough at all to convince audience of the awakening and shining within the world of the main characters' hearts. Other than these 2 scenes, other part of the film just tells several different stories but it has no weight in emphasizing the message of the film itself. It's a matter of the integration of the main scenes with the balance part of it but more importantly it's another matter of director's inadequate understanding on the characters and on the message himself. I especially hate the "Frog Raining" scene. It's so abrupt happening in the film and so unmatching with the other part of it.In terms of actors' performance, I think most of them have over-acted and there are far too much crying and grief expressions than needed. I consider this is the request from director asking actors to act in a way showing every feeling and expression through an extravagant acting. Tom Cruise hasn't acted better than he used to be and I just wonder why the Berlin Film Festival jury has given him the best supporting actor prize. Hasn't there really had no other actor with better performance ?
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Summary: I would give it 6 stars if I could...
Review: A brilliant, beautiful, stunning movie that I'll never forget--powerful and life-affirming but never overly sentimental or sappy, it's a testament to life and faith. Everyone should see it.
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Summary: THE BEST FILM OF THE 90'S!
Review: This masterpiece by Paul Thomas Anderson, was unforgivably overlooked in the academy awards ( it only got three nominations for Supporting Actor Tom Cruise, Screenwritter Anderson, and for Aimee Mann's beautiful song "Save Me" ), but is not only my choice for the best film of 1999, but also my choice for the best film of the 90's. It towers over every single other hollywood film this year. The film, with a herculian cast, and brilliant editing by Dylan Tichenor, is an always fascinating three-hour opus that bears some (superficial) similarity's with Robert Altman's great "Short Cuts", but is in my opinion an even better film. It starts with a brilliant montage about strange coincidences, and then switches gears to tell different stories about people in the San Fernando Valley. Every single one of the characters is interesting, and brought to life brilliantly by each actor ( I know that all the nominees in the "Best Supporting Actor" category can't be from the same movie, but Jeremy Blackman, John C. Reilly, and William H. Macy, should have been nominated alongside Cruise for their brilliant performances). Among all the characters in the film, are Tom Cruise, as a cocky TV stud who teaches seminars on how to seduce women, Jason Robards as a dying man who starts to remember all of his regrets, Philip Seymour Hoffman as the dying man's nurse, Melora Walters as a pathetic drug user, Julianne Moore as an unloving, mentally unstable wife, William H. Macy as a former child genius who is now foolish and sad, Jeremy Blackman as another child genius, who is driven to excel by his tyrant of a father (Michael Bowen), Philip Baker Hall as a game show host with a very dark past, and John C. Reilly as a slow-witted but caring cop. All of these characters and others, come together in different stories that I will not reveal, and the film's ending is so amazing and unexpected, that you should run away if you think someone's going to give it away. "Magnolia" is original, dazzling, and unconventional filmmaking that rejects the timid post-modernism of recent cinema.
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Summary: So much beauty in the world
Review: Don't make the mistake of comparing Magnolia with American Beauty: both are off the wall, unconventional movies, but the similarities between the two stop about there. Magnolia is an amazing feat of scriptwriting, acting and directing. Watch it, let the director take you on a wild ride, and never, ever wonder 'why?'. Don't try to put words to what you see, it'll only sound corny. Just enjoy it.
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Summary: Infinitely Blown Away
Review: Magnolia shot to the number four spot on my top ten list, a list which I usually reserve for Coen Brother films, or movies that I've seen countless times and can't get enough of. But I saw Magnolia only once and knew it was special. The moments with John C Reilly were the best along with Phillip Seymore Hoffman and Jeremy Blackman. Everyone in the movie was great. It seems as though a lot of people are left confused by the ending, but looking out for these things will help explain it: -An 82 spelled out in rope.
-An 8 and a 2 in blackjack.
-An 82% chance of rain.
-An audience members "Exodus 8:2" sign.
-A bible verse on a bus stop.
-Some more stuff like that. Watch for those throughout the film. I hope this doesn't confuse you more.
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Summary: The real American Beauty
Review: When I went to see "Magnolia" I saw it with my dad. It was unlikely for a sixteen year old male to want to see this film considering "Scream 3" was right next door, but I am SO glad i went to see this. It changed my view on movies for the better. "The World Is Not Enough" really left me sour because it was the same thing over and over again: bombs, babes, bullets, and little to no dialogue in scenes. That is what makes "Magnolia" magnificient: superb dialogue, wonderful casting, an original storyline, and a piecing together of scenes unlike anything I've ever seen, and I doubt we as moviegoers will see for a good while. "American Beauty" was outstanding, don't get me wrong, but it can't compare to "Magnolia." The fact that it walked away without any Oscars is a complete and total sham, moreso than last year when "Shakespear in Love" beat out "Saving Private Ryan." Anyway, the bottom line is that "Magnolia" is a movie experience worth seeing for yourself.
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