The Master

[Motherwell]

Seems like it should be pretty obvious that TWBB is supposed to feel over-the-top, grand/grandiloquent, self-consciously ornate, and comprised of the spectacle of the stage.

[Phil]

You'll have to say more on that, because right now I don't know what it means. TWBB is a movie about making an audience feel love, hate, and fascination with a terrifyingly focused man (not to mention a caricature that's ludicrous now and then). You get to/have to be H. W. Plainview for a while, everything looks mythic, old, and vaguely scary, and you have to sit and witness your driven father evolve into an unhinged monster. Its industrial and economic concerns are set dressing for the straightforward task it sets itself.

I think I'd need to see it again before I can expand that into anything worth saying, probably just should've left it off to begin with since it's been so long and his performance and the way it fits in the movie is really the only thing that I have much memory of.

[captain]

DDL's character in TWBB is a hamfisted load of doddering Big Man stereotypes, starting with the mustache. It's like a fucking Mr. Show sketch. Every other character in the film is a transparent extension of his internal conflict.

Gangs of New York is an abject horror show, and his performance in that film is similarly outrageous, however it's believable and functions within the film. In TWBB it's just NOW MY VERBIAGE AND ACCENT ARE NOTE PERFECT AND I SHALL RECITE FOR YOU THESE LINES WITH THE TENACIOUS VERACITY NECESSARY TO INVOKE AN IMAGINARY PAST IN WHICH A PERSON LIKE ME COULD HAVE EXISTED AND SAID SUCH THINGS. You can't suspend disbelief but for a couple of nicely-flowed moments. Most are endlessly staged.

That said, the *opening* of the film is nothing short of phenomenal. And I adore the scene where he lights the earthquake oil on fire with his knave.

DUN'T WORRY DDL MY BB STAY STRONG 4 ME IM UR CAP-T
TOTES TRYIN'A TAKE UR HEART AWAY, I ALWAYS BACK U BB

seriously this guy is pathetic

[RoyalCheese]

According to a lot of people who haven't seen the movie yet, it's a masterpiece

[the singularity]

what's your favorite movie

[addison]

the excess of twbb is its point, as others have noted
the score is great too
it's his best film and one of the best films i've ever seen
love it

pdl is a great low-key masterpiece
magnolia is a full-blown beautiful failure
boogie nights and hard8 i don't remember so much, but i loved the former at one time
hard8 is before he found his voice, so the people who praise it as his best film don't really like pta

[brent]

i will never forget seeing pdl in theatres, one of the best experiences i've had, but it's the worst rewatch of his movies for me

[M. Piedlourde]

i will never forget seeing pdl in theatres, one of the best experiences i've had, but it's the worst rewatch of his movies for me

i'll simply never get tired of watching punch-drunk love.

[lost_blues]

punch drunk love is total shit, twbb is my favourite movie, magnolia's garbage, boogie nights pretty awesome

[Totally]

Guys when you have to make up excuses for why a film is important, it probably is not.

[universe]

TWBB is the only PTA movie I've enjoyed, and it's solely because DDL played it so over the top. I can't really stand any of his other films.

[Totally]

Boogie Nights is the only one I love, because my childhood memories align well with it (lots of porn mags in trash bags, poor friend from San Bernardino w/ junkie single mother).

captain is approaching manvstrees levels of butthurt totally fanboy itt

[Amblin]

Totally I always knew you had to have an Inland Empire connection.

[Totally]

Hush.

[cooly]

pretty cool thoughts everyone

[Buddy Glass]

[rtt]

i'm just about to watch this and i'm expecting it to be amazing.

[rtt]

greasers palace, pound and moment to moment are great. haven't seen Putney for some reason

[number none]

new trailer

[Dinosaurboner]

Man I want to see this movie.

[delgriffith]

Ahhhhhh PSH looks great. 2 for 2 with these trailers. Can't wait.

[good pups]

yes

[Totally]

Interesting that PSH just left his agency.

[Malcolm Money]

[kid8]

Hell yes.

[Baby Museum]

oh wow.

[sleigh]

greenwooooood

[seriesfinale]

Man I want to see this movie.

Masterboner

[clown]

this + Django Unchained right before the end of the world on Dec 21

great way to go, if you ask me

[kid8]

Oh shit this comes out on my birthday. Yay.