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What's your favorite by PTA?

don't like any
0 (0%)
haven't seen Any
1 (2.2%)
Hard Eight
1 (2.2%)
Boogie Nights
9 (19.6%)
Magnolia
9 (19.6%)
Punch-Drunk Love
4 (8.7%)
There Will Be Blood
15 (32.6%)
The Master
2 (4.3%)
Inherent Vice
4 (8.7%)
Junun
0 (0%)
Phantom Thread
1 (2.2%)
Licorice Pizza
0 (0%)

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Re: Anderson, Paul Thomas - What's your favorite PTA film?
« Reply #60 on: January 17, 2013, 03:28:04 PM »
1. Magnolia
2. There Will Be Blood
3. The Master
4. Boogie Nights
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. Hard Eight
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Re: Anderson, Paul Thomas - What's your favorite PTA film?
« Reply #61 on: January 31, 2013, 11:16:39 AM »
If every working director were to put out a movie on the same day, this is probably the guy who's film I would see.

There Will be Blood 5/5
Punch Drunk Love 5/5
Boogie Nights 4/5
The Master 4/5
Magnolia 4/5
Hard Eight 3/5

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Re: Anderson, Paul Thomas - What's your favorite PTA film?
« Reply #62 on: January 31, 2013, 01:05:25 PM »
There Will Be Blood 5/5
Punch Drunk Love 4.5/5
The Master 4.5/5
Magnolia 3.5/5
Boogie Nights 3/5
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Re: Anderson, Paul Thomas - What's your favorite PTA film?
« Reply #63 on: February 01, 2013, 12:46:38 AM »
Magnolia is brought down by its whiff of a hint of a spectre of a tangential association with Fiona Apple

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Re: Anderson, Paul Thomas - What's your favorite PTA film?
« Reply #64 on: January 02, 2014, 07:36:44 PM »
The Master (2012) 48/100 - It's a well shot film with many scenes looking exquisite, but PTA is laughing at anyone who thinks this is a masterpiece. I believe he decided to conduct his own little experiment and the audience was the case subject. Could he dangle pretty baubles, scene after scene after scene, with a haunting score, yet no cohesive storyline but because it's from PTA, would the critics and the hipsters lap it up like mother's milk? From the reviews I've read, it looks like the answer is... YES! There's one key moment in the film when you should have realized you were being had. It's when the son says...He's making it up as he goes along. It was Anderson telling you what he himself was doing.
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Re: Anderson, Paul Thomas - What's your favorite PTA film?
« Reply #65 on: January 02, 2014, 07:42:33 PM »
I'm glad you were able to see through it.

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Re: Anderson, Paul Thomas - What's your favorite PTA film?
« Reply #66 on: January 03, 2014, 02:39:39 AM »
I'd like to vote, but the option best representing my idea of PTA - hugely overrated - is absent from the list.

Magnolia
Punch-Drunk Love

Hard Eight
Boogie Nights

The Master
There Will Be Blood

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Re: Anderson, Paul Thomas - What's your favorite PTA film?
« Reply #67 on: June 23, 2014, 06:49:00 PM »
Boogie Nights: 8/10
There Will Be Blood: 8/10
Punch-Drunk Love: 7/10
The Master: 6/10
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Re: Anderson, Paul Thomas - What's your favorite PTA film?
« Reply #68 on: June 24, 2014, 08:38:24 AM »
I've seen them all and PUNCH DRUNK LOVE and THERE WILL BE BLOOD are both great movies that I would rewatch any time.  BOOGIE NIGHTS has it's place, but the other two are my favorites of PTA's work.
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Re: Anderson, Paul Thomas - What's your favorite PTA film?
« Reply #69 on: August 09, 2014, 09:49:21 PM »
Punch-Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood
Hard Eight

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