Magnolia - what a piece of crap

I was morbidly fascinated by it.

Tammy was great in that role.

PLAGUE OF FROGS!

Yeah I sort of hated it too, OP. It's so up it's own ass. I always have time for Phillip Seymour Hoffman, but oy vey it is a bit of a slog. Good soundtrack by Aimee Mann.

It was a bit long but Paul Thomas Anderson directed it very well. He was with Fionna Apple at the time, there's someone you never hear about anymore.

R4 Had PSH lived, I'm convinced that he would have beat DDL's record number of Oscars. He had talent above and beyond.

I meant to post this in the Melanie Mayron thread. I live down the street from MM. Back in January 2014, I was walking my dog past her house at around 10am. I saw a very disheveled man getting out of a car and heading to her house. He was very disheveled, like possibly hungover and/or hadn't slept for days. I recognized him as PSH.

About two weeks later I saw his obit on the early evening news. Obviously, I wasn't the least bit surprised.

^^did I mention he was disheveled? lol sorry 'bout that!

well, that's bombshell-level shit r8.

Actually Fiona Apple is still at it. She released a really amazing, wildly original album in 2020 called "Fetch The Boltcutters." I think it was her fifth studio album.

Fiona has a unique voice.

I enjoyed it knowing that Tammy was once again sure she'd get an Oscar, and wouldn't, and didn't, and won't.

Kulti$t POS.

[quote]r7 Back in January 2014, I was walking my dog past Melanie Mayron’s house at around 10am. I saw a very disheveled man getting out of a car and heading to her house… I recognized him as Phillip Seymour Hoffman. About two weeks later I saw his obit on the early evening news.

Was she his [italic]heroin dealer??[/italic]

She’s suddenly our generation’s Cathy Smith ! !

Amazing movie, one of the best

Friendo, I cannot tell you why I enjoyed it. Because I did not enjoy it.

Magnolia Network?

Tom Cruise, PSH and Julianne Moore are all fantastic. That weird little boy gives a great speech.

I think it's the best movie about intersecting LA stories. It's better than Short Cuts, Pulp Fiction and Crash.

Cruise played against his usual type. Or did he really?

Cruise played a misogynist a little too realistically. He's not THAT good of an actor.

I think Cruise became so embedded in that fucking cult Scientology it fucked with his brain.

Cruise was great and played against type. Let him have that. Stop trying to find reasons to shit on the performance.

It was a little overrated like Crash or Love Actually. It was an ensemble movie that went nowhere. The opening montage was the best part the film. There were interesting scenes but cut disjointed PSH was underwhelming in his caretaker role.

PT Anderson said Fiona wasn't there for him as he's talking to PSH in the limo. He said the premiere of the movie and the making of the movie was a different thing than what filming was like.

PT Anderson has some blind in CDACN something flagpole sitta song and Jamie Presley. Paul is married to Maya Rudolph now. Paul also had a crush on the fan dance girl in Putney Swoop, looked sort of like Maya.

Orson Welles said filmmaking can be learned in a day and a half so get out there, directors. Make a Magnolia

I didn’t love it. I didn’t hate it. I don’t really remember it. But once a time I wanted to worship Cruise’s cock, so I couldn’t pass it up.

Cruise was electrifying in "Magnolia"--he used to take chances as an actor. I remember being really equally impressed by Melora Walters, Melinda Dillon, Julianne Moore, Jason Robards, and Philip Baker Hall. The soundtrack was a great and funny playlist for all the sound and fury of these characters who were grasping after any shred of belief or dignity, anything to keep from facing their own silence. I didn't care for the meta-moment when the characters started singing along with Aimee Man, but I can see where the director was going with it. The frogs worked okay for me--Anderson wanted to put in something a little magical alongside all the desperation, and I think he succeeded in making a worthy companion piece to Altman's mosaic films "Short Cuts" and "Nashville."

Tammy Cruise's best performance

I recommended Nashville to a very close friend and he got back to me that he hated it. How could anyone hate Nashville, I thought, this was incomprehensible—until I saw Short Cuts. I agree, of the LA ensemble films, Magnolia is the best, if still not as good as Nashville.

I can’t, with you troglodytes.

[quote]R26 I recommended Nashville to a very close friend… of the LA ensemble films, Magnolia is the best, if still not as good as Nashville.

Did your friend notice that Henry Gibson was in both?

I did not recognize him the first time I saw MAGNOLIA. Then I was like, “OMG, he’s such a good actor! He’s nothing like he was before!”

I loved “Boogie Nights,” so I probably set my expectations too high, and was very disappointed.

I enjoyed this movie but whenever I want to rewatch it I remember that John C. Reilly is in it. I've never liked him but he's particularly repulsive in Magnolia. He plays a loud, bossy cop. I hate him.

PSH in an under appreciated and weird movie , Loving Liza. He is a disheveled man, living through the period following his wife’s suicide. She left him a letter which he carries around and won’t open .

The girls mother is Kathy Bates. He begins inhaling gasoline to cope. Clever movie . I can’t remember if he reads the letter ; maybe he does but we don’t find out the content.

I love the film, though sometimes some of the performances would have been much better had they held back even a tiny bit. PSH, for example...he's too precious and frail and fey; it's not one of his great performances because it went a few steps too far. Wm. H. Macy likewise -- he's an actor I dislike and the role is overwrought. Hideous John C Reilly was not bad for once, even if still John C Reilly.

Melora Walters was brilliant, I thought, the best of the lot. And Julianne Moore was perfect, I thought, and harrowing.

The plot I like a great deal, and the music.

I was just discussing this w/ someone the other day! When it came out, "Magnolia" was SO overhyped. Meant to be PTA's magnum opus but it was just meandering, bloated and self important. I agree the storyline w/ Julianne, PSH and Robards was the best-Tammy was ok. But all the fanboys came out in droves, defending it against the critics and saying it was God's gift to cinema. Now? You rarely here about it compared to some of PTA's later, more beloved films- especially TWBB, which many still regard as his best and one of the best films ever made *period*. Magnolia, by comparison, is largely forgotten.

But so is "Boogie Nights" and that makes me sad because it is also a great picture. Just think- PTA completed that film when he was 27/28. Crazy.

The only thing I remember from this movie is the Julianne in the pharmacy scene.

My pharmacy never let me come back after I performed this monologue for them. I assumed everyone had watched Magnolia.

I realized I can’t stomach Julianne Moore‘s high pitched quavery voice and I haven’t seen any of her movies since then.

Tom's performance in this earned him one of the 3 golden globes he returned in mock outrage and protest at the HFPA LOL. Yeah Tom, bit of an overreaction there, no?

R30 he was a complete opposite of a loud, bossy cop. What movie did you watch?

RESPECT THE COCK!

TAME THE CUNT!

I was just thinking about this movie and raining frogs the other day. These things happen!

He muscled his way into his neighbor's apartment and then asked her out while looming over her. He's loud in every movie, r38. What movie did YOU watch?

OMG. You’re all so stupid. I hope it rains down frogs on you.

R41 You mean he did cop stuff and then asked a woman that was into him, is wants to go on a date? What a brute

[quote]r34 The only thing I remember from this movie is the Julianne in the pharmacy scene.

I think the lawyer scene is even better.

Shut the fuck up!

It's one of those movies where everyone - actors, writer, director - is non-stop swinging for the fence. It's exhausting.

[quote]r45 Shut the fuck up!

[italic]I sucked other men’s caaaaaks!