Top 3 films of PTA
 

For me:

1. https://resizing.flixster.com/QD8c_6...DA7ODAwOzEyMDA

Easy number one choice for me. The best film of the 21st Century, and among the best ever. Hard to envision PTA ever topping this masterpiece.

2. https://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/M...82,268_AL_.jpg

If not for LA Confidential, I would say this deserved Best Picture. The fact that it wasn't even nominated, yet that farce Good Will Hunting was is beyond me. Another masterpiece film from PTA.

3. https://resizing.flixster.com/JgkxST...DA7ODAwOzEyMDA

There was a time when I would have picked Magnolia over The Master, but upon further viewings, The Master is getting better w/time whereas Magnolia wasn't quite as good as I remembered (but still excellent).

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My fave of the 3 is Boogie Nights. Didn’t see it for the first time until 2-3 years ago & I loved it.

1. Boogie Nights
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Magnolia


Easy call for me

01. The Master
02. There Will Be Blood
03. Punch Drunk Love

The Master and TWBB are both #1 basically. Boogie Nights is close and i'd like to see what i think of Phantom Thread on a rewatch. Have to see Inherent Vice again too, i haven't watched it since it came out and i'm particularly interested what i'll think after reading some Pynchon. I've actually watched all of his films other than Inherent Vice within the last year.

Re: Top 3 films of PTA
 

1. Phantom Thread
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Magnolia

The others I've seen suck.

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I don't think any PTA movie "sucks".

Hard Eight is the weakest link and even that's a solid film.

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Inherent Vice is the only PTA movie I felt disappointed by after viewing. Everything else PTA did felt like it had a focused vision and whether or not it worked varied, but Inherent Vice just felt like a mess to me.

Also...

1. Boogie Nights
2. Boogie Nights
3. Boogie Nights

Inherent Vice is the only PTA movie I enjoyed.

Re: Top 3 films of PTA
 

1. The Master
2. Boogie Nights
3. There Will Be Blood

Re: Top 3 films of PTA
 

That's unacceptable.

Also Boogie Nights is better than The Master.

Too bad.

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Inherent Vice doesn't even have a dance number in the middle like Boogie Nights does. How can one even defend it?

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Boogie Nights and Magnolia are PTA's best 2 movies.

Punch Drunk Love was really good, too. Adam Sandler needs to make more serious films. He can act when working with the right people and material.

I found The Master and There Will Be Blood to be extremely boring.

And I couldn't get myself to finish Inherent Vice, a movie I really wanted to like.

Because dance numbers are the definition of quality.... ?

Also Boogie Nights has Marky Mark and Inherent Vice has Joaquin Phoenix, which automatically makes the latter superior.

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At least we got to see Marky Mark's penis at the end. All Joaquin Phoenix did at the end of Inherent Vice was be sad in a car.

Also, yes, I measure movie quality by dance number percentage.

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I won't defend The Master but you should give There Will Be Blood another try. It's a slow burn but there's a lot of cool stuff going on if you really look into it.

We got to see a very obvious prosthetic. I have vibrators that are more impressive than that.

I ranked Boogie Nights at #2, but The Master has a good case over it.

The Master is a TERRIFIC movie! Would be a lot of director's best films... it's just that in my mind, TWBB is masterpiece.

LOL. Thanks for that. 😎

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Only seen 3 sooooooo...

1. There Will Be Blood +
2. Magnolia
3. The Master