Boogie Nights
Starring:Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, John C. Reilly, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham, Don Cheadle, Luis Guzmán, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Thomas Jane, Melora Walters, Ricky Jay, Robert Ridgely, Alfred Molina, Philip Baker Hall, Michael Stein, Stanley DeSantis, Patricia Forte, Kai Lennox, Jack Wallace
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Studio: New Line Home Video
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
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Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s, and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of GoodFellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life, and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety, and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it ain't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of '70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the '90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and Ricky Jay. DVD extras include nine deleted scenes and a commentary track from Anderson. --Jim Emerson
Average customer rating:
- Great movie
- A Star Is Born ... Sort of
- compelling
- the parable of the bad son played in porn industry of the 70's
- Filmmaking at its finest.
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Boogie Nights (New Line Platinum Series)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg , Burt Reynolds , John C. Reilly , Julianne Moore , and Heather Graham
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
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ASIN: B00004TQF7
Release Date: 2000-08-29 |
Amazon.com essential video
Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s, and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of GoodFellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life, and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety, and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it ain't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of '70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the '90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson
Description
From Hollywood's hottest new director comes the outrageous epic that throws the covers back on California's adult entertainment industry in the swinging seventies. It's a touching and often humorous portrait of a most unusual family of filmakers, brought
Customer Reviews:
Great movie.......2007-06-19
I was pleasantly surprised by Mark Wahlberg's emotional depth in this film. Who knew he could act? The story is basically about a group of lonely people who get together and find a strange comfort in one another and decide to embark on a career in porn. Ironic, dark and sad, but very deep.
A Star Is Born ... Sort of.......2007-06-13
When this movie came out, I wondered how this could possibly live up to the hype it had generated. Boy was I pleasently surprised to see that this movie did just that.
Mark Wahlberg divorced himself forever from his former Marky Mark persona when he plays a fresh faced loser who works as a busboy at a disco. One night, he is approached by none other than Burt Reynolds, making him the proverbial offer he can't refuse. So he accepts, rechristens himself Dirk Diggler, and becomes absorbed into the world of adult films. Here he meets the family he never had, achieves the success he never thought he was capable of, and is on top of the world. His ego is out of control, and he dives headfirst into drugs. Based loosely on the biography of 70s porn star John Holmes, Dirk and his friends narrowly escape violence (while John Holmes would be ruined by his association with the Wonderland murders).
What is the point of this? Some were wondering, myself included. The true horror of this story is not just in Dirk's story, but in the antics of the other characters. Amber Waves wants to see her son but her ex husband won't allow it because of who she is and who she hangs around with. Burt Reynolds is trying to make art in an industry that is admittedly sleezy and is drowning in a sea of videotape and amateurs. One and his wife just want to get out of the industry all together and start over, but they hit dead ends in jobs and bank loans. Roller Girl just wants to be more than the girl on skates. And the characters that you see at the parties - young, innocent faces who are taken advantage of somehow.
The cocaine scenes capture the paranoia of drug abuse perhaps better than any other scene in movie history (with the possible second of Good Fellas when Ray Liotta thought he was being followed by the helicopter). And perhaps the most telling of scenes, for me, was when Burt (a.k.a. Jack Horner) takes Roller Girl out on the town in his limo, wanting to film a random encounter. It just so happens the man they pick up off the street was an old high school classmate of Roller Girl's. He's willing to do the deed with her just like every other pig frat boy man (hard and fast and not sexy), and he puts her down afterwards. She was attempting to be in charge, to show him who really had the power. While the crew beats him up, Roller Girl gives him what for. If that's not a microcosim of the porn industry thoughts and feelings, I don't know what is.
What is the point? The point is that they all just wanted to be loved. And the end? When they all come back together? It's the prodigal son story, all of them coming back together and reconstituting their family. This is where they find love. It's a happy ending after all. Strange? Well, sure it is. But not as strange as all the situations of people who have left their families or real friends to return for forgiveness. And we do forgive, and we become families again.
compelling.......2007-06-01
Although the movie is long, it never drags. The vignettes about the characters' lives are interesting, and the characters themselves are surprisingly likeable. But it does seem like two movies: the lighthearted first part and the second part, when things take a dark turn. Both sides of the story are necessary as they give a more complete picture of the porn industry and the people involved in it. But I think that some of the violence towards the end is unnecessary and not fully explained. Other than that, however, the movie is worth watching.
the parable of the bad son played in porn industry of the 70's.......2007-05-15
This review refers to the movie and not the dvd product
Indeed, there are many sub-plots that fuse into this film. At face value, you may be lost by the fact that is a story of an edowed male porn star that becomes an overnight star in his media and the action style martial art heroe that he manages to create as well... yet the movie is about the collective soul of the group who is united under the porn production leadership played, superbly, by Burt Reynolds... this small little odd group is not ill spirited, but indeed misguided, yet there is respect among its members, there is a sense of honor and Burt reynolds acts as the merciful father (of the gospell parable) as he takes his astrayed son back again... yet the finacer of the movies is accused of pedofile charges, he is cast out of his beneficieries and suffers miserably in jail.
Filmmaking at its finest. .......2007-05-09
It's about the porn industry and the ramifications that it hits upon on a group of people espeically a young man.
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of my favorite directors. You know why? His sense of direction and his superb writing skills are what make him stand out from a crowd of other wannabe directors. The way he develops characters and feeds them lines that make you want to laugh, cry, or be amazed. He also can control multiple story lines at once in his writing and his direction. He makes it seem like that it is effortless to do that. It seems plausible to say that P.T. keeps topping himself in every movie that he makes. He keeps making better and better progress on each of his films in his direction style and scripts.
The acting, in the movie, was solid. I was surprised that Mark Wahlberg could pull out a performance like that and then go a bit over the top with the monologue speech at the end where he whips his...manhood, for a lack of a better word, out. He showcases the turmoil that the character suffers and feels and shows the irrational actions that he does. He shows that the character is still a child and that he cannot go through the world alone. The character has a lack of moral figures, but he is in the porn industry. John C. Reilly as Reed Rothchild, Dirk Diggler's friend, takes the role and makes it his. He makes the role as cool as Diggler's. He is the second best performance in the film. Julienne Moore is a goddess. She make all the fanboys giggle with excitement when she asked Dirk Diggler to come in inside of her. I mean, that line set off the dirty alarm in all of the fan boys heads, and she gives a excellent performance that only P.T. can draw out of her.
P.T.'s writing and direction have jumped from the Hard Eight days as it got more complex and a lot better than the writing in his earlier films. He makes his characters more richer and develops them more than they were in Hard Eight. I mean, he shows fantastic writing skills in the way the characters think, act, talk and feel. He has also done that in his third film Magnolia. He makes sure that the film seems authentic and it does with P.T.'s obsessions with pornography as a child. The film also has trademarks of him with the long shot at the beginning that introduces all of the characters in a seemingly original way.
Overall, it is one of my favorite movies. It is a solid movie that makes you seem impressed and feel like watching it over and over again. It takes you into a seedy underworld of porn and shows the characters that are in the industry and how they live their every day life.
Average customer rating:
- Great movie
- A Star Is Born ... Sort of
- compelling
- the parable of the bad son played in porn industry of the 70's
- Filmmaking at its finest.
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Boogie Nights
Starring: Mark Wahlberg , Burt Reynolds , John C. Reilly , Julianne Moore , and Heather Graham
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
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- Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
- GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
ASIN: 0780621980
Release Date: 1998-04-07 |
Amazon.com
Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s, and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of GoodFellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life, and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety, and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it ain't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of '70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the '90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and Ricky Jay. DVD extras include nine deleted scenes and a commentary track from Anderson. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews:
Great movie.......2007-06-19
I was pleasantly surprised by Mark Wahlberg's emotional depth in this film. Who knew he could act? The story is basically about a group of lonely people who get together and find a strange comfort in one another and decide to embark on a career in porn. Ironic, dark and sad, but very deep.
A Star Is Born ... Sort of.......2007-06-13
When this movie came out, I wondered how this could possibly live up to the hype it had generated. Boy was I pleasently surprised to see that this movie did just that.
Mark Wahlberg divorced himself forever from his former Marky Mark persona when he plays a fresh faced loser who works as a busboy at a disco. One night, he is approached by none other than Burt Reynolds, making him the proverbial offer he can't refuse. So he accepts, rechristens himself Dirk Diggler, and becomes absorbed into the world of adult films. Here he meets the family he never had, achieves the success he never thought he was capable of, and is on top of the world. His ego is out of control, and he dives headfirst into drugs. Based loosely on the biography of 70s porn star John Holmes, Dirk and his friends narrowly escape violence (while John Holmes would be ruined by his association with the Wonderland murders).
What is the point of this? Some were wondering, myself included. The true horror of this story is not just in Dirk's story, but in the antics of the other characters. Amber Waves wants to see her son but her ex husband won't allow it because of who she is and who she hangs around with. Burt Reynolds is trying to make art in an industry that is admittedly sleezy and is drowning in a sea of videotape and amateurs. One and his wife just want to get out of the industry all together and start over, but they hit dead ends in jobs and bank loans. Roller Girl just wants to be more than the girl on skates. And the characters that you see at the parties - young, innocent faces who are taken advantage of somehow.
The cocaine scenes capture the paranoia of drug abuse perhaps better than any other scene in movie history (with the possible second of Good Fellas when Ray Liotta thought he was being followed by the helicopter). And perhaps the most telling of scenes, for me, was when Burt (a.k.a. Jack Horner) takes Roller Girl out on the town in his limo, wanting to film a random encounter. It just so happens the man they pick up off the street was an old high school classmate of Roller Girl's. He's willing to do the deed with her just like every other pig frat boy man (hard and fast and not sexy), and he puts her down afterwards. She was attempting to be in charge, to show him who really had the power. While the crew beats him up, Roller Girl gives him what for. If that's not a microcosim of the porn industry thoughts and feelings, I don't know what is.
What is the point? The point is that they all just wanted to be loved. And the end? When they all come back together? It's the prodigal son story, all of them coming back together and reconstituting their family. This is where they find love. It's a happy ending after all. Strange? Well, sure it is. But not as strange as all the situations of people who have left their families or real friends to return for forgiveness. And we do forgive, and we become families again.
compelling.......2007-06-01
Although the movie is long, it never drags. The vignettes about the characters' lives are interesting, and the characters themselves are surprisingly likeable. But it does seem like two movies: the lighthearted first part and the second part, when things take a dark turn. Both sides of the story are necessary as they give a more complete picture of the porn industry and the people involved in it. But I think that some of the violence towards the end is unnecessary and not fully explained. Other than that, however, the movie is worth watching.
the parable of the bad son played in porn industry of the 70's.......2007-05-15
This review refers to the movie and not the dvd product
Indeed, there are many sub-plots that fuse into this film. At face value, you may be lost by the fact that is a story of an edowed male porn star that becomes an overnight star in his media and the action style martial art heroe that he manages to create as well... yet the movie is about the collective soul of the group who is united under the porn production leadership played, superbly, by Burt Reynolds... this small little odd group is not ill spirited, but indeed misguided, yet there is respect among its members, there is a sense of honor and Burt reynolds acts as the merciful father (of the gospell parable) as he takes his astrayed son back again... yet the finacer of the movies is accused of pedofile charges, he is cast out of his beneficieries and suffers miserably in jail.
Filmmaking at its finest. .......2007-05-09
It's about the porn industry and the ramifications that it hits upon on a group of people espeically a young man.
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of my favorite directors. You know why? His sense of direction and his superb writing skills are what make him stand out from a crowd of other wannabe directors. The way he develops characters and feeds them lines that make you want to laugh, cry, or be amazed. He also can control multiple story lines at once in his writing and his direction. He makes it seem like that it is effortless to do that. It seems plausible to say that P.T. keeps topping himself in every movie that he makes. He keeps making better and better progress on each of his films in his direction style and scripts.
The acting, in the movie, was solid. I was surprised that Mark Wahlberg could pull out a performance like that and then go a bit over the top with the monologue speech at the end where he whips his...manhood, for a lack of a better word, out. He showcases the turmoil that the character suffers and feels and shows the irrational actions that he does. He shows that the character is still a child and that he cannot go through the world alone. The character has a lack of moral figures, but he is in the porn industry. John C. Reilly as Reed Rothchild, Dirk Diggler's friend, takes the role and makes it his. He makes the role as cool as Diggler's. He is the second best performance in the film. Julienne Moore is a goddess. She make all the fanboys giggle with excitement when she asked Dirk Diggler to come in inside of her. I mean, that line set off the dirty alarm in all of the fan boys heads, and she gives a excellent performance that only P.T. can draw out of her.
P.T.'s writing and direction have jumped from the Hard Eight days as it got more complex and a lot better than the writing in his earlier films. He makes his characters more richer and develops them more than they were in Hard Eight. I mean, he shows fantastic writing skills in the way the characters think, act, talk and feel. He has also done that in his third film Magnolia. He makes sure that the film seems authentic and it does with P.T.'s obsessions with pornography as a child. The film also has trademarks of him with the long shot at the beginning that introduces all of the characters in a seemingly original way.
Overall, it is one of my favorite movies. It is a solid movie that makes you seem impressed and feel like watching it over and over again. It takes you into a seedy underworld of porn and shows the characters that are in the industry and how they live their every day life.
Average customer rating:
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Boogie Nights
Starring: Don Cheadle , Heather Graham , Philip Baker Hall , Philip Seymour Hoffman , and Ricky Jay
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
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Reilly, John C
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Wahlberg, Mark
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Walters, Melora
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ASIN: B000PAAJZ6
Release Date: 2007-05-08 |
Description
From Hollywood's hottest new director comes the outrageous epic that throws the covers back on California's adult entertainment industry in the swinging seventies. It's a touching and often humorous portrait of a most unusual family of filmakers, brought
Description
Former U. S. ambassador to China James Lilley, Nicholas Platt of the Asia Society and Peter Beinart of The New Republic discuss Chinese president Jiang Zemin's visit to the U. S. Also, Charlie talks to Chinese Director of Human Rights Xiao Qiang and writer Liu Binyan about the dissident view of Jiang Zemin and the state of Chinese politics. Finally, director Paul Thomas Anderson tells Charlie about his latest film entitled, Boogie Nights. The film was adapted from a short Anderson made years ago and offers a look into the gritty world of the adult film industry of the 1970's.
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First, a rebroadcast of a conversation with actress Helena Bonham Carter about her newest film an adaptation of Henry James' "Wings of the Dove" (from November6, 1997).||Then, a rebroadcast of a conversation with Gloria Stuart about the evolution of acting throughout the 20th century (from February 26, 1997).||Lastly, a rebroadcast of a discussion with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson about "Boogie Nights" (from October 30, 1997).
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Average customer rating:
- Great movie
- A Star Is Born ... Sort of
- compelling
- the parable of the bad son played in porn industry of the 70's
- Filmmaking at its finest.
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Boogie Nights [Region 2]
Starring: Mark Wahlberg , Burt Reynolds , John C. Reilly , Julianne Moore , and Heather Graham
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s, and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of GoodFellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life, and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety, and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it ain't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of '70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the '90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson
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Great movie.......2007-06-19
I was pleasantly surprised by Mark Wahlberg's emotional depth in this film. Who knew he could act? The story is basically about a group of lonely people who get together and find a strange comfort in one another and decide to embark on a career in porn. Ironic, dark and sad, but very deep.
A Star Is Born ... Sort of.......2007-06-13
When this movie came out, I wondered how this could possibly live up to the hype it had generated. Boy was I pleasently surprised to see that this movie did just that.
Mark Wahlberg divorced himself forever from his former Marky Mark persona when he plays a fresh faced loser who works as a busboy at a disco. One night, he is approached by none other than Burt Reynolds, making him the proverbial offer he can't refuse. So he accepts, rechristens himself Dirk Diggler, and becomes absorbed into the world of adult films. Here he meets the family he never had, achieves the success he never thought he was capable of, and is on top of the world. His ego is out of control, and he dives headfirst into drugs. Based loosely on the biography of 70s porn star John Holmes, Dirk and his friends narrowly escape violence (while John Holmes would be ruined by his association with the Wonderland murders).
What is the point of this? Some were wondering, myself included. The true horror of this story is not just in Dirk's story, but in the antics of the other characters. Amber Waves wants to see her son but her ex husband won't allow it because of who she is and who she hangs around with. Burt Reynolds is trying to make art in an industry that is admittedly sleezy and is drowning in a sea of videotape and amateurs. One and his wife just want to get out of the industry all together and start over, but they hit dead ends in jobs and bank loans. Roller Girl just wants to be more than the girl on skates. And the characters that you see at the parties - young, innocent faces who are taken advantage of somehow.
The cocaine scenes capture the paranoia of drug abuse perhaps better than any other scene in movie history (with the possible second of Good Fellas when Ray Liotta thought he was being followed by the helicopter). And perhaps the most telling of scenes, for me, was when Burt (a.k.a. Jack Horner) takes Roller Girl out on the town in his limo, wanting to film a random encounter. It just so happens the man they pick up off the street was an old high school classmate of Roller Girl's. He's willing to do the deed with her just like every other pig frat boy man (hard and fast and not sexy), and he puts her down afterwards. She was attempting to be in charge, to show him who really had the power. While the crew beats him up, Roller Girl gives him what for. If that's not a microcosim of the porn industry thoughts and feelings, I don't know what is.
What is the point? The point is that they all just wanted to be loved. And the end? When they all come back together? It's the prodigal son story, all of them coming back together and reconstituting their family. This is where they find love. It's a happy ending after all. Strange? Well, sure it is. But not as strange as all the situations of people who have left their families or real friends to return for forgiveness. And we do forgive, and we become families again.
compelling.......2007-06-01
Although the movie is long, it never drags. The vignettes about the characters' lives are interesting, and the characters themselves are surprisingly likeable. But it does seem like two movies: the lighthearted first part and the second part, when things take a dark turn. Both sides of the story are necessary as they give a more complete picture of the porn industry and the people involved in it. But I think that some of the violence towards the end is unnecessary and not fully explained. Other than that, however, the movie is worth watching.
the parable of the bad son played in porn industry of the 70's.......2007-05-15
This review refers to the movie and not the dvd product
Indeed, there are many sub-plots that fuse into this film. At face value, you may be lost by the fact that is a story of an edowed male porn star that becomes an overnight star in his media and the action style martial art heroe that he manages to create as well... yet the movie is about the collective soul of the group who is united under the porn production leadership played, superbly, by Burt Reynolds... this small little odd group is not ill spirited, but indeed misguided, yet there is respect among its members, there is a sense of honor and Burt reynolds acts as the merciful father (of the gospell parable) as he takes his astrayed son back again... yet the finacer of the movies is accused of pedofile charges, he is cast out of his beneficieries and suffers miserably in jail.
Filmmaking at its finest. .......2007-05-09
It's about the porn industry and the ramifications that it hits upon on a group of people espeically a young man.
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of my favorite directors. You know why? His sense of direction and his superb writing skills are what make him stand out from a crowd of other wannabe directors. The way he develops characters and feeds them lines that make you want to laugh, cry, or be amazed. He also can control multiple story lines at once in his writing and his direction. He makes it seem like that it is effortless to do that. It seems plausible to say that P.T. keeps topping himself in every movie that he makes. He keeps making better and better progress on each of his films in his direction style and scripts.
The acting, in the movie, was solid. I was surprised that Mark Wahlberg could pull out a performance like that and then go a bit over the top with the monologue speech at the end where he whips his...manhood, for a lack of a better word, out. He showcases the turmoil that the character suffers and feels and shows the irrational actions that he does. He shows that the character is still a child and that he cannot go through the world alone. The character has a lack of moral figures, but he is in the porn industry. John C. Reilly as Reed Rothchild, Dirk Diggler's friend, takes the role and makes it his. He makes the role as cool as Diggler's. He is the second best performance in the film. Julienne Moore is a goddess. She make all the fanboys giggle with excitement when she asked Dirk Diggler to come in inside of her. I mean, that line set off the dirty alarm in all of the fan boys heads, and she gives a excellent performance that only P.T. can draw out of her.
P.T.'s writing and direction have jumped from the Hard Eight days as it got more complex and a lot better than the writing in his earlier films. He makes his characters more richer and develops them more than they were in Hard Eight. I mean, he shows fantastic writing skills in the way the characters think, act, talk and feel. He has also done that in his third film Magnolia. He makes sure that the film seems authentic and it does with P.T.'s obsessions with pornography as a child. The film also has trademarks of him with the long shot at the beginning that introduces all of the characters in a seemingly original way.
Overall, it is one of my favorite movies. It is a solid movie that makes you seem impressed and feel like watching it over and over again. It takes you into a seedy underworld of porn and shows the characters that are in the industry and how they live their every day life.
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Charlie speaks with author and star of the film Boogie Nights Mark Wahlberg about his transition from the rapper to actor. Next, filmmaker Ang Lee, novelist Rick Moody, and screenwriter James Schamus discuss their successful new film, The Ice Storm, which was adapted from the book by Rick Moody and stars Sigourney Weaver, Jessica Lange and Kevin Kline. Finally, writer Paul Aster talks about his new book Hand to Mouth that chronicles the difficulties of surviving as a writer.
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First, Barry Levinson, veteran film-maker, discusses his latest acclaimed film, Wag the Dog, which stars Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. Then, up and coming film-maker Paul Thomas Anderson discusses his new film Boogie Nights and his status as an emerging acclaimed director.
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