Is this PTA's best?
>>71920360
TAME THE PUSSY
There Will Be Blood > The Master > Punch-Drunk Love > Boogie Nights > Magnolia > Inherent Vice > Hard Eight
None of them are bad, though
>>71920808
RESPEC THE COCK
>>71920866
>TFW PTA is the only director to get Adam Sandler in a good movie
>>71920360
desu I've only seen TWBB, Boogie and this. The performances were really what sold me on the film, particularly John C. Reilly, always goin on about people's language. Philip Seymour Hoffman is a fucking bro. The whole cast is perfect. Only parts of it I found lacking were Tom Cruise. I thought the game show scenes were awesome. Can't say if it's his best work, but I think it's close to a 5/5 movie.
>>71921094
He was meant to play Eli Roth's character in Inglorious Basterds, which would've been pretty good. I don't remember why that ended up falling through
>>71920360
yes
>>71920360
Not really. It was an experimental phase like when Scorsese made "After Hours." It wasn't a movie, it was just him playing with the medium for no reason.
His movies afterward got far better.
>>71921189
What makes you say that?
>>71921172
would have made the whole movie worse
>>71921189
Nah, it wasn't just empty experimental wank. The "everyone is connected" format fits your accusation, but individual characters & storylines were still powerful and personal and well-crafted in ways that had nothing to do with "playing with the medium for no reason"
>>71921189
but after hours is fucking great
>>71921233
Couldn't have been worse than Eli though, tbqph. That guy cannot deliver a line, took me out of the movie every time he opened his mouth. Sandler's no great actor either, but he's always been good at violent tantrums, I could totally see him murdering prisoners with a baseball bat
Inherent Vice is his best, by a lot.
>>71921172
He decided to do Funny People instead.
>>71921361
I can't imagine how anyone could really believe this.
>>71921189
That's a banal and reductive way to look at both Magnolia and After Hours, but especially After Hours.
>>71920866
Was about to post the exact same order, except by switching TWBB with The Master. I don't know how PTA is going to top that.
>>71922017
I agree with your order, The Master is my favorite PTA film and it's also his best looking due to 70mm
