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What is the board’s opinion on “Magnolia”?
Posted on 3/11/20 at 2:57 pm
Posted on 3/11/20 at 2:57 pm
I see that it’s on Netflix and I’ve never watched it. Is it worth a watch?
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Posted on 3/11/20 at 3:15 pm to Meatball
Yes
Posted on 3/11/20 at 3:16 pm to Meatball
I liked it. Thought Cruise was great in it.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 3:19 pm to Meatball
It is one of the best "slow burn" films of all time. Like Muholland Drive (instead of Lynchian strange, you get PTA strange).
It's a moving painting with sound. More of a multimedia experience than a true film, it stuck with me on an emotional level far past the textual content. Almost a purely contextual experience.
And the acting is just one superb performance after another. I'm still not sure that isn't Cruise's best performance, for example.
It's a moving painting with sound. More of a multimedia experience than a true film, it stuck with me on an emotional level far past the textual content. Almost a purely contextual experience.
And the acting is just one superb performance after another. I'm still not sure that isn't Cruise's best performance, for example.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 3:20 pm to Meatball
It's one of my favorite movies, but it's a little out there. I had no idea what it really was when I went to the theater to see it one day, and left wondering WTF I had just watched.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 3:29 pm to Meatball
One of my favorite movies.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 3:30 pm to Meatball
Jesus who are you people? This has to be the worst movie I've ever seen.
I'd rather watch Attack of the Killer Tomatoes than this.
I'd rather watch Attack of the Killer Tomatoes than this.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 3:48 pm to Meatball
Largely incoherent and a huge mess.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 3:55 pm to Meatball
I just read the plot on wikipedia.
What in the flying frick?
What in the flying frick?
Posted on 3/11/20 at 3:57 pm to Meatball
It's a movie that is almost entirely subtext. The ending is, to me, a hilarious metaphorical solution to everyone's various problems. I also enjoy the Aimee Mann song.
But there's a deep sadness that pervades the film, and I keep inferring the same central theme - that the smarter a person is, the more difficult it is to be happy.
Also, it saddens me because when I see Felicity Huffman, I'm forced to wonder what happened to her between this and Desperate Housewives that made her look like a different person who is 25 years older.
But there's a deep sadness that pervades the film, and I keep inferring the same central theme - that the smarter a person is, the more difficult it is to be happy.
Also, it saddens me because when I see Felicity Huffman, I'm forced to wonder what happened to her between this and Desperate Housewives that made her look like a different person who is 25 years older.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 4:00 pm to Meatball
I was working at a movie theatre when this came out. I had to preview it the night before we showed it to the public. I thought it was good in parts but bad in others. I get that all stories are intertwined but it was long and slow.
The next day after one of the showings a woman was talking to her friend about it. All she said she remembers “it was raining frogs”. She just shook her head and could not understand why that happened.
The next day after one of the showings a woman was talking to her friend about it. All she said she remembers “it was raining frogs”. She just shook her head and could not understand why that happened.
Posted on 3/11/20 at 5:43 pm to Meatball
Good movie I thought, but not one I find myself wanting to rewatch
Posted on 3/12/20 at 2:47 am to Meatball
Three very long hours of melodrama.
Depressing. Very weird. An abstract slow swerving trip around the meanings of happiness, fulfillment, purpose with a central theme focus of relationships between family members and the effects upon themselves and their relationships to other people.
Some people think it’s a masterpiece. Still others just appreciate its unique storytelling.
I am in neither of those groups. I understand what the movie is attempting in its scope. I just don’t care for it. It’s silly excess. It’s not moving to me. It’s unfulfilling. It is a definitive example of trying too hard. That’s just my opinion.
Depressing. Very weird. An abstract slow swerving trip around the meanings of happiness, fulfillment, purpose with a central theme focus of relationships between family members and the effects upon themselves and their relationships to other people.
Some people think it’s a masterpiece. Still others just appreciate its unique storytelling.
I am in neither of those groups. I understand what the movie is attempting in its scope. I just don’t care for it. It’s silly excess. It’s not moving to me. It’s unfulfilling. It is a definitive example of trying too hard. That’s just my opinion.
Posted on 3/12/20 at 2:30 pm to Meatball
A lot of people (good and bad) are tormented by abuse or the ghosts of their abusers/victims.
What has stayed with me since I watched it (posted it about it here on this board a month or so ago) is not the things done by or to others out of spite, malice, jealousy, or depression, but the moments of unsurpassed tenderness and compassion.
This is a movie that presents a full slate of very real, very human horrors - and dares the audience to believe that the characters played by PSH and John C. Reilly exist in our same world. It is ultimately uplifting through that lens.
It is definitely in need of serious editing - think PTA said in a reddit AMA he should have cut 30 minutes. And it is pure melodrama. The acting is some of the finest of the cast's careers, no small compliment given the performers.
What has stayed with me since I watched it (posted it about it here on this board a month or so ago) is not the things done by or to others out of spite, malice, jealousy, or depression, but the moments of unsurpassed tenderness and compassion.
This is a movie that presents a full slate of very real, very human horrors - and dares the audience to believe that the characters played by PSH and John C. Reilly exist in our same world. It is ultimately uplifting through that lens.
It is definitely in need of serious editing - think PTA said in a reddit AMA he should have cut 30 minutes. And it is pure melodrama. The acting is some of the finest of the cast's careers, no small compliment given the performers.
Posted on 3/13/20 at 12:56 am to Meatball
goat. quiz kid donnie smith TYFYS.
This post was edited on 3/13/20 at 1:00 am
Posted on 3/13/20 at 5:35 am to Meatball
Good movie
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