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on 6/19/2009
I love when I get director specific mashups. This time it's Paul Thomas Anderson. Boogie Nights, while full of strongly written characters, fails to matchup with the heart-tugging writing of Magnolia. Everyone in this movie gives a phenomenal performance.
on 7/8/2009
One of the hardest ones for me. Both films I love dearly, by a director who is one of my favorites. I chose Boogie Nights, however, when I inevitably get this one again, it's quite possible that I'll choose Magnolia.
on 7/10/2009
I can't do this! 2 movies that I would've placed solidly in my top 10 all time. I take Boogie Nights though. The writing is a notch better, and overall it just has a more epic feel, crossing decades, where Magnolia feels like you're just with these characters for one day in their lives.
on 1/17/2010
All Boogie Nights has on Magnolia is the better Philip Seymour Hoffman role. Something about Philip Seymour Hoffman as a heavyset, flamboyant gay man just reeks of brilliance; sadly, not even Philip Seymour Hoffman could save Boogie Nights from being anything more than a disappointment. Magnolia, though also a disappointment, realizes brilliance with far greater frequency. Tom Cruise alone is better than just about anything in Boogie Nights.
on 4/9/2010
Magnolia has that Aimee Mann soundtrack and those haunting frogs. Boogie Nights was a great expose on the porn industry but Magnolia was an expose on life's lingering pain and regrets. Magnolia was a heartfelt film that we all could relate to.
on 4/12/2010
In my opinion there are almost no movies that can top Magnolia, not even Boogie Nights.
on 5/24/2010
Magnolia never struck me in any way. However, I really enjoyed Boogie Nights from start to finish, well, almost finish. 8============D
on 6/28/2010
I've always preferred Boogie Nights so I'm picking it here but I think i'm going to have to watch Magnolia again soon.
on 2/25/2011
They're both shockingly fun films to watch, each full of its own specific emotion and lovable or hatable characters whose journeys you feel compelled to watch, but nothing can beat Magnolia. It seems like every ten minutes we're seeing a new reason to call it a masterpiece. Jason Robards' monologue was perfect, and the meltdowns (particularly Julianne Moore's) were ripe with emotion and not over the top. The characters singing Aimee Mann's song was a surprise, but it worked, as did the now famous ending which, whether you get it or not, is entertaining and now in retrospect, seems like the only way they could end the film. Exodus 8:2
on 8/2/2011
Magnolia is so underrated. A three hour film seems daunting and yet it never hits the same note again, or bogs down in minutia, it just rolls and rolls and rolls. Best John C Reilly performance, best Cruise performance. But Boogie Nights has the greatest scene in a film in the last 25 years. Whalberg and Reilly and Tom Jane go to sell fake cocaine to Al Molina and firecrackers are involved. Boogie Nights is just to crazy and to much fun to watch. Two of the greats though.
on 9/26/2011
I love Boogie Nights but Magnolia is an underrated classic. Beautiful film.
on Dec 30
^^hahaha willhunting
