Magnolia.

[Jimmy Carter]

Last night I made a friend of mine watch Magnolia with my brother and I. As I expected, he loved the movie.

The quality that one feels when watching Magnolia is amazing; the acting is all superior to most efforts. The story is great, the idea is interesting and the execution perfect.

This movie, much like Memento, was the type of movie that within 5 minutes I knew I'd love it.

I really liked Phil (the caretaker) and his care for Earl. I guess it's because I used to work at a nursing home and know what it's like to get attached to some of the people you work with and how hard it is to watch them go away.

[piku]

I didn't care for the movie all that much. Oooh, like twelve stories all interweave. Oooh, that’s just like a magnolia flower, where if one little thing changes the entire flower is changed (as was explained to me, anyway). Oooh, that doesn't make it a good movie. Magnolia is just a complex, pointless movie made simply to be complex and make film students all giddy.

I think a swell movie could have been made from Tom Cruise’s character however. Actually, if I remember correctly I think I plotted out decent movies for quite a few of the individual characters in the movie.

[Green]

I remember in an interview PTA said he didn't know the *spoiler* rain of frogs was from the bible. Weird.

[MVS]

type [ spoiler ] [ / spoiler] without the spaces.

[Josh]

Magnolia was an amazing piece of film that I refused to watch for a long time because I thought my girl was trying to get me to watch "Steel Magnolias".

You like run on sentences... don't you?

[MVS]

I thought it was pretty good, bordering on excellent. Even Julian Moore, who I dispise, was good (like Val Kilmer in Heat or how Keifer Sutherland has made me like him due to the exceptional 24).

Great performances all around, and a great story.

[Gooch]

I really enjoyed Magnolia - so much to the point I really didn't notice how long it truly was. PT Anderson seems to have a common motif concerning family in his films. If you enjoyed Magnolia or are a PT Anderson fan, I recommend checking out Hard Eight, another one of his films (along with this and Boogie Nights) with Samuel L. Jackson, Gwenyth Paltrow, and PT Anderson regulars John C. Reilly and Philip Baker Hall. Good stuff all around .

[Kinopio]

Great film.

What makes it great is that even with so many characters and no real coherent story, it still is such a powerful experience. The acting, directing, and music were so good that they made you forget about how boring this film would sound on paper.

[Diff-chan]

Originally posted by piku
I didn't care for the movie all that much. Oooh, like twelve stories all interweave. Oooh, that’s just like a magnolia flower, where if one little thing changes the entire flower is changed (as was explained to me, anyway). Oooh, that doesn't make it a good movie. Magnolia is just a complex, pointless movie made simply to be complex and make film students all giddy. If your brain boggles at the thought of a movie with 12 seperate things going on... well, never watch a Robert Altman movie.

I think a swell movie could have been made from Tom Cruise’s character however. Actually, if I remember correctly I think I plotted out decent movies for quite a few of the individual characters in the movie.

Its not complex at all. You could explain the setup of the movie in about two minutes. Its not even about that, its about what goes on in it, and even those things are simple because they are basic human impulses. There's really nothing complex about the film.

Magnolia is a beautiful, beautiful film, and its even better because it is more human that practically any movie to come out nowadays (outside of American Beauty, which also came out in 1999). While I think Boogie Nights is overrated and dumb, Magnolia is wonderful. Some scenes in it are heart-breaking.

[amerlop]

Originally posted by diffusionx
Its not complex at all. You could explain the setup of the movie in about two minutes. Its not even about that, its about what goes on in it, and even those things are simple because they are basic human impulses. There's really nothing complex about the film.

Magnolia is a beautiful, beautiful film, and its even better because it is more human that practically any movie to come out nowadays (outside of American Beauty, which also came out in 1999). While I think Boogie Nights is overrated and dumb, Magnolia is wonderful. Some scenes in it are heart-breaking.

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one my my faves