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Boogie Nights (1997)
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"I can only imagine what compromising pictures there must be floating out there of Joan Allen to get her to agree to a role in director Paul W.S. Anderson's car porn flick, “Death Race.” Granted, her role in the “Bourne” films was a supporting one, but this woman was thrice nominated for an Oscar. I mean, she's got to be more proud of starring in Saturday Night Live's “The Best of Chris (Mr. Peepers) Kattan” video than this. I know the argument: “It's just pure fun, it's a Roger Corman film, for crying out loud. Loosen up, Mr. Stuffy Movie Critic Guy!” And while I will admit to a few inventive scenes (the one prisoner's head that seemingly explodes when he gets plowed into was a nifty little effect. But the director must have thought so too, and decided to show it on three separate occasions), the overall effect is nothing that "
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"Lists of movies within movies are fairly common on the internet, enough that I now realize I need to finally see Bowfinger simply because I’ve counted about a million list makers in love with something titled “Chubby Rain.” And the lists are likely to keep on coming thanks to this week’s hot release, Tropic Thunder, which actually features two movies within (the Vietnam War film “Tropic Thunder” and the festival-winning making-of documentary “Rain of Madness”), as well as the upcoming How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, which has spawned a popular fake movie trailer for an NC-17 film titled “Mother Theresa: The Making of a Saint” (previewed above). Yet until someone makes "
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"I don't exactly what I was expecting from a movie about the 70's porn industry, but on some level I thought that it might say something interesting about porn, or sex, or movies, or voyeurism. Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights uses porn more as a backdrop than as a subject for his multi-character drama. The movie mostly works but I felt like I wanted and deserved something more. The movie is ensemble piece, but the most significant storyline revolves around a 17-year old kid with a huge organ named Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) who works as a dishwasher at a Las Angeles nightclub. His "reputation" comes to the attention of adult filmmaker Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) who senses that he might be the next big star. He drops out of high school, moves away from home, changes his name to Dirk Diggler and becomes a big star making huge amounts of money, a lot of which he spends on cocaine, like everyone else in the industry. He becomes a kind of son to Jack's wife Amber Waves (Julian ... "
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"I never knew it was so easy to add lightsaber effects to any YouTube clip. Earlier this week, when I wrote about the new Clone Wars lightsaber game for the Nintendo Wii, I saw it done with the infamous “Star Wars Kid” video (see it here). And now, thanks again to Fark.com, I see it done with a clip from The Princess Bride (above). Apparently, this is only the latest in a trend; people have been changing swords to lightsabers in nearly every movie featuring swashbuckling, including the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (see here and
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown round #2”. Read more about that here.Hard EightP.T. Anderson's Magnolia and a Punch-Drunk Love are two of my favorite movies. I also think Boogie Nights is a very good movie, although it doesn't affect me as profoundly as those other two. I just watched Hard Eight, and have yet to see There Will Be Blood.So far my feeling is that each of Anderson's movies have been subsequently better. Hard Eight is a solid movie with good characters and good use of a style that would come to be perfected. Boogie Nights may just not appeal to me as much because I can't get entirely invested into the world of the pornography industry. But it is still well done. Magnolia is simply perfect, and Punch-Drunk Love is somehow even better in it's own way. Due to this trend in my personal enjoyment of his movies and the "
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"Over at Sergio Leone and the Infield Flyball Rule, Dennis Cozzalio has offered the film blog world a 28-question “summer midterm.” As he puts it, “We know that the last thing you really want to do in the summer is to be sitting indoors taking a test. But wouldn’t you rather be doing this than seeing Transformers? I thought so. Now get to work!” I’m not good with long quizzes, so for this week’s installment of The Micro Five, I’ve picked five questions to answer in short essay form. See my answers below, and be sure to check out Dennis’ post to read the 70+ (!) responses. This is pass/fail, right? 1. Describe a famous location from a movie that you have visited (Bodega Bay, California, where the action in The Birds took place, for example). Was it anything like the way it was in the film? Why or why not? When I was 17, I was briefly employed as a hostess at Dupa "
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"This was a good weekend for me in terms of movies...a few movies were ones that I've been trying to see for weeks but just haven't really gotten around to. However, one was a movie that I just happened to stumble on at my friends house. All of them were pretty good, and they are as follows: The Darjeeling Limited, Gone Baby Gone, Boogie Nights, and Paprika.As a huge Wes Anderson fan, I've been wanting to see The Darjeeling Limited since the day it got into theaters. However, I was a little bit disappointed with the film as a whole. It was obviously a Wes Anderson film, and he didn't really try anything new, and the actual narrative just wasn't nearly as compelling as any of his previous films. The performances are all great, and Adrien Brody adapts very well to Wes Anderson's childish, imaginary world. Because that's the way Anderson seems to view things...however, while this was absolutely perfect for all his other films, it would have been nice ... "
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"New Hairspray director Adam Shankman is responsible for some of the most profitable/least watchable films of the past decade. But he started out as a choreographer, and below you'll find his best work: the disco dance scene from Boogie Nights: Originally posted on:SpoutBlog "
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Boogie Down
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"Revisited this one last night, having seen it once shortly after it was released. While I still enjoyed it, it didn't seem quite as remarkable as my first screening. A lot of the scenes kind of dragged, and seemed very self conscious, like the director was pulling everything out of his bag of tricks, afraid to leave anything good on the cutting room floor. Could probably have used a little more editing. There are some good scenes, the wild 'drug heist gone wrong' scene with Alfred Molina still carries a lot of power, and the long tracking shots that frame the movie at the beginning, middle and end are all impressive. Other scenes seemed a little forced (Dirk Diggler's fight with his Mother before he leaves home, The Rollergirl Limo scene, etc) Some of the characters and set-ups were quite moving and funny, while others just seemed to be there for cheap effect. Rather a sad movie, in more ways than one, - you feel bad for these poor pathetic losers, but you see a lit ... "
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