Why do people worship this hack?
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Better and smarter than Nolan
That's not saying anything.
Tell that to IMDB
You mean the site where The Shawshank Redemption is ranked as the greatest film of all time? lol
Needs Cruise, DDL, PSH in support to be interesting.
There Will Be Blood and Billy Madison 2 were good
He's the last true filmmaker
This is what I don't understand, where do people pick up this dogshit opinion?
The greatest director from his generation and the greatest director consistently working (that is, making movies regularly) alive. The Master is also the best movie of the 21st century.
lol, seriously, what is the root of this disease? The Master, really?
Nah, objectively the greatest director consistently working is Denis Villeneuve. Inherent Vice and Licorice Pizza were shit, Denis hasn't made a bad film.
Villeneuve is good but not even top three
PTA
Chanwook Park
Nolan
Villeneuve
Chazelle
Eggers
IV is a masterpiece and Licorice Pizza is much better than, say, Arrival or Dune
Okay, now I'm starting to get some insight into deranged mind of a PTA stan.
I deliberately excluded some other great directors from previous generations (Tarantino, Lynch, Scorsese, Spielberg) and should have included the brilliant Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Reality) as well
To understand PTA's brilliance, you gotta focus on his aesthetic perfectionism and subtlety of themes-- the unsaid is a strong factor in his movies
lol he is good but at best is the best AMERICAN director currently working, not the best director in general
All of his movies are good, except for Licorice Pizza, which was self-indulgent bullshit
Magnolia is godawful.
Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood are classics, Magnolia and The Master have great moments, Hard Eight and Inherent Vice have good moments. PTA is one of the few talented writer-directors still working, but I have no idea what he's been doing lately. I couldn't stand Phantom Thread or Licorice Pizza. Seems like he's just navel-gazing and doing weird little home movies now.
>Boogie Nights
>Magnolia
>There Will Be Blood
>The Master
>Phantom Thread
5 masterpieces. He’s simply one of the greats.
is the phantom thread good?
he called magnolia a masterpiece, you can safely disregard his opinion
No. It's a miracle that he convinced DDL to do that hunk of shit. Coincidentally he's never acted again since.
He makes good movies.
I mean if you have dogshit taste i guess it is difficult to understand why people like PTA.
>He makes good movies.
I don't even disagree, he has made some good movies, but the perception of him in the criticism circles is outrageous. "muh last heckin auter." Tarantino considers him an equal ffs, and he's not even wrong.
>muh last heckin auter
Nonsense peddled by people who need to watch more movies obviously. Tho I don't think I ever saw this opinion outside of this shitheap.
He is still very good, and is understandable why some people absolutely love his work.
>He is still very good
For this era of ultra low standards, sure. He's directed exactly 1 truly great film (TWBB). Everything else he's done is decent AT BEST.
I like Magnolia the most but I really love Altman's ensemble movies so I guess I could be called biased.
I like Altman but I found Magnolia to be contrived and tediously schmaltzy. Licorice Pizza was a bit too sentimental as well, but the story was more grounded at least.
I think PTA does sentimentality quite well.
Tarantino is better, because he knows how to deliver for his audience. The only strong 3rd act PTA has ever written was in There Will Be Blood.
I agree, which is why it's so funny to me that this guy is held up as some kind of luminary. He's regularly being outperformed by a footgay who makes pulpy genre flicks.
He's remembered for his high points, and it also speaks to the bleakness of modern cinema, where everything is produced by committee and market tested to death, at least PTA has the integrity to write his own movies and shoot them on celluloid. Whether or not I particularly like each one, I appreciate the legacy he's carrying on.
I can understand this I guess, but I'm just not very attached to film stock. I'd rather watch a great picture on digital than a mediocre one on film.
punch drunk love is legitimately one of the worst movies i've ever watched, not even an exaggeration.
magnolia fricking sucked
guy is obscenely overrated and im not taking a chance and wasting my time by watching more of his trash
Best mainstream filmmaker working today.
Event Horizon has some cool ideas but it descends into schlock by the end, also the Cooper character is annoying as frick. People only enjoy Mortal Kombat because of nostalgia but we all know it's a dogshit movie.
Also I haven't seen any of the Resident Evil movies but I can't believe that there are like 12 of them and they keep making more, who is watching them?