NoseBrain: Huh. Maybe I should give it a fourth chance and hope it's better this time.

No, that movie was not that great. People are just blinded by the director.

detroitdoesntsuckthatbad: Also it was the last time I actually had an intermission in a major movie theater.

Fred Willard unavailable for comment.

steamingpile: NoseBrain: Huh. Maybe I should give it a fourth chance and hope it's better this time.

No, that movie was not that great. People are just blinded by the director.

I barely made it through the opening monologue before getting hit with a crushing depression

consider this: Boogie Nights - great
Magnolia - great
Punch Drunk Love - good
There Will Be Blood - meh

He's going downhill with each film, so I'm not expecting much from this.

Zombie DJ: I guess I just don't care enough about someone else's religion because that just didn't look like it'd be fun to watch.

Scientologist-like typing detected.

As for me, I haven't seen a movie in theaters since about 2006. I'm going to see this one as soon as it comes out.

bidness: detroitdoesntsuckthatbad: Also it was the last time I actually had an intermission in a major movie theater.

Fred Willard unavailable for comment.

Now that, that was funny.

The difference between a cult and a religion is the size of its membership.

And I truly don't give a fark about either.

Somebody needs to audit.

Peaceboy: Hoffman is greatness, every time. Dude's won a Best Actor Oscar, shouldn't he have had higher billing than Phoenix?

High hopes for this.

It's alphabetical.

I wasn't crazy about Magnolia the first time I watched it, but after watching it a few times it really grew on me to where it's not one of my all time favorites. I do usually skip the whole opening monologue part though...

*now* one of my all time favorites, not "not"

geez =/

Jonny Greenwood needs to write the score for more movies.

Paul Thomas Anderson needs to direct more movies.

/All I got.
//Gonna watch the shiat out of this movie.

DeltaPunch: THIS

After seeing that trailer, I don't care what's about -- it just looks like a good movie.

It would be impossible to go wrong with a cast AND a director like that.


The All-Powerful Atheismo: He should've won best director AND best milkshakes

Hah! No argument here, man!


andrewagill: lh3.ggpht.com

Cargo: See, I was thinking more

Always good to see MST3K represented here - cheers!

"The Master" Is totally not about Scientology.

Of course. And Citizen Kane is totally not about W.R Hearst.

consider this: Boogie Nights - great
Magnolia - great
Punch Drunk Love - good
There Will Be Blood - meh

He's going downhill with each film, so I'm not expecting much from this.

I didn't see PDL, but I agree that TWBB was meh - quite over-rated, in fact. It was soulless and cold, although Daniel Day Lewis's performance was excellent (if a little scenery-chewing).

Anyway, no love for PT Anderson's debut, Hard Eight?

bidness: detroitdoesntsuckthatbad: Also it was the last time I actually had an intermission in a major movie theater.

Fred Willard unavailable for comment.

Shhhh... All the attention is off him now.

malaktaus: Scientologist-like typing detected.

Why? Because I don't hate a religion enough to go see it?
ooookaaaay.
I'll just be over here enjoying life and living to let live.

/Now, make one about the W.B.Church and I'm in

MCM: I wasn't crazy about Magnolia the first time I watched it, but after watching it a few times it really grew on me to where it's not one of my all time favorites. I do usually skip the whole opening monologue part though...

Yeah I normally wont watch a movie.more than once.if I don't like.it.

FLMountainMan: Robo Beat: I read somewhere once that Scientology targets actors not necessarily because of their publiic profile, but also because compared to those in other professions actors and actresses very frequently have that unique combination of narcissism, naïvité, and deep pockets. People who believe that they can change the world with the help of Scientology and are willing to dig deep to get rid of all of their thetans like Elron said they could.

Actually, I think the exclusivity of it is what appeals to them and pride is what keeps them. Any schlub off the street can get salvation through Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc.... But Scientology offers (on the surface, at the initial stage) salvation through nothing more than payments of discretionary income, which most actors are swimming in. By the time you begin to have doubts, you've isolated yourself and spent a shiatload of money on it. Easier for some to just keep on going rather than having to admit their error.

Scientology: the only 'religion' where your salvation can actually result in a sunken-costs fallacy.

Zombie DJ: malaktaus: Scientologist-like typing detected.

Why? Because I don't hate a religion enough to go see it?
ooookaaaay.
I'll just be over here enjoying life and living to let live.

/Now, make one about the W.B.Church and I'm in

You evidently believe scientology is a religion. That generally indicates that one is a scientologist or a fool.

Zombie DJ: malaktaus: Scientologist-like typing detected.

Why? Because I don't hate a religion enough to go see it?
ooookaaaay.
I'll just be over here enjoying life and living to let live.

/Now, make one about the W.B.Church and I'm in

They did. it was called Red State.

Now let us never speak of it again.

"Magnolia" sucked balls. I liked all the rest of PTA's films, though, and really look forward to this one.

PTA is my absolute favorite director.

However, Magnolia, arguably the most "PTA" of all his films, just doesn't work for me. There's stuff to appreciate about it - beautifully acted and photographed, for example - but I feel like it doesn't do anything Boogie Nights didn't already do. And at the two-hour mark, I was certain the music sequence was the end of the film, but realizing there was another hour to slog through, I became very weary. PTA has yet to make a truly bad film, but I feel like Magnolia is the most irrelevant and unnecessary of his films, despite that it crystallizes all of the trademarks of Anderson that make him my favorite director.

That said, The Master is gonna kick some ass. Can't wait.

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