Re: What else changed our lives?
Posted: Apr 15th 2002, 1:14 am
>< May I ask - you are the first person I have 'met' that rated the film Magnolia with seemingly positive comments...What exactly did you like about it?? The bit I liked was the raining frogs scene because most people don't know it can really happen! ><
It really was one of those movies you either loved or hated. But trust me, there are a large amount of people who would consider that their favorite movie.
From a purely technical standpoint - because I'm a technical film nerd having studied acting and directing and whatnot - it was the best ensemble performance I've ever seen in a movie, Tom Cruise in particular. The directing sucked me in as well. Paul Thomas Anderson does things with the camera that you've never seen before, never more prevelant than in this movie.
Emotionally, though, it was a movie that I connected with in many ways and a movie that set off a variety of emotions and feelings. Like the numb feeling in my butt after it was over. It was long, but that was it's only flaw.
And that ending. Best ending I've ever seen, whether it made sense or not. I laughed, I marvelled, I was frightened, I wondered "What the hell?!" Like you explained, it is possible with tornados and such, but obviously that's not what was really going on here. There were definite biblical references. There are many interpretations to get out of it. But I always judge how much I like a movie by how much I think about it after seeing it, and I couldn't get this movie out of my mind. I don't know, it was just one of those movies that was so well-done and so enjoyable to me that I constantly kept finding myself uncontrollably smiling at it. Even when it was really sad, it was just so good and so capable of making you feel something - whether it be be happiness or sorrow - that I couldn't help but smile.
- jim
Kaytee Bodle: Girl With Guitar
http://girlwithguitar.0catch.com/
It really was one of those movies you either loved or hated. But trust me, there are a large amount of people who would consider that their favorite movie.
From a purely technical standpoint - because I'm a technical film nerd having studied acting and directing and whatnot - it was the best ensemble performance I've ever seen in a movie, Tom Cruise in particular. The directing sucked me in as well. Paul Thomas Anderson does things with the camera that you've never seen before, never more prevelant than in this movie.
Emotionally, though, it was a movie that I connected with in many ways and a movie that set off a variety of emotions and feelings. Like the numb feeling in my butt after it was over. It was long, but that was it's only flaw.
And that ending. Best ending I've ever seen, whether it made sense or not. I laughed, I marvelled, I was frightened, I wondered "What the hell?!" Like you explained, it is possible with tornados and such, but obviously that's not what was really going on here. There were definite biblical references. There are many interpretations to get out of it. But I always judge how much I like a movie by how much I think about it after seeing it, and I couldn't get this movie out of my mind. I don't know, it was just one of those movies that was so well-done and so enjoyable to me that I constantly kept finding myself uncontrollably smiling at it. Even when it was really sad, it was just so good and so capable of making you feel something - whether it be be happiness or sorrow - that I couldn't help but smile.
- jim
Kaytee Bodle: Girl With Guitar
http://girlwithguitar.0catch.com/