Magnolia (1999) Reaction/Commentary (Request) 

The final scene where Claudia smiles directly at the camera is the most touching ending to any movie I've seen. She's the most broken character, and deserved to find some ray of hope.

The reason why in the final scene Jim's voice is muffled beneath the song, although we can understand what he is saying, is because the most important are the lyrics of the song. The camera is on Claudia's face while she is listening to Jim and the lyrics reflect her thoughts and wishes, particularly in the chorus, "But can you save me?, Why don't you save me?, If you could save me", and when she realizes that the man she's fallen in love with is indeed going to save her, she breaks the forth wall, looks straight at us, and we get that glorious smile that makes for one of the most beautiful endings I have ever seen on the screen. Magnolia is one of my favorite movies alongside Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood For Love and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Parts One and Two and Bram Stoker's Dracula and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life and John Ford's The Quiet Man and a few other's. An absolute masterpiece. I watch it lots of times and sometimes I watch just the dizzying and absolutely frantic and genius first half an hour, my favorite intro to a movie alongside the first three minutes of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

You really have to rewatch this a few times. You are brave to talk about it after one viewing! Aimee Mann wrote most of these songs for this movie and they are great!

This is a great movie. Thank you for reacting to it!

This movie has been in my top 10 list since the first time I watched it back in probably 2000... I own the movie and the soundtrack which is also amazing. The song save me was nominated for an academy award and a Grammy😁

Exodus 8:2 If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. 82% chance of rain The rope on the roof of the building by the suicide jumper forms an 82 Part of Frank's phone number has an 82 in sequence One of the door numbers has an 82 in sequence There's quite a bit more I can't think of right now. You caught the "Exodus" sign right before the first frog drops, I never caught that before!!

When I first rented this on VHS in 2000--two cassettes!--I had to take a half-a-day break between 1 & 2 just to catch my breath.

Someone holds up a sign with an Exodus number whatever the number. The same way signs with Bible quotes at football games. That quote is the one about pharaoh and the frog curses

PTA: Gotta put in a word for Phantom Thread. Really knocked me out. It's a thinker, too. Another great soundtrack, though very different.

In answer: I _don't_ suggest Liquorice Pizza for a reaction. Its sort of a love poem to 70's LA without much of a plot. _I_ enjoyed it a lot, but I like weird, arty stuff more than most everyone. From PT Anderson I *highly* suggest The Master and Punch Drunk Love. I think you'd really dig both those.

Remember in Jim's tribulation about the loss of his gun in the rain and with his flashlight, he prayed that God would help return his gun. I thought it was so silly for Jim to pray to God about his gun. Well????

4:26 The group Rapeman wrote 'Budd' about Budd Dwyer's televised suicide.

This was a GREAT film!

So I'm sure u did a deep-dive into this film. So u can go through all the times 82 is referenced. Exodus 8:2 is the frog pestilence. 82 is EVERYWHERE in this film, at least 10 times. On the plane that fights the fire, vines where Stanley jumped, times, humidity, booking mugshot, etc.

My first time for Magnolia too ... thank you for posting, please do Minority Report, Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion and The Last Samurai... you won't be disappointed .

Def react to all of his movies

Bro, what's there to be lost about 😂

Didn’t watch _Boogie Nights_ at the time, but did see this one in the theater. *Loved it.* Bought the soundtrack and got the VHS- which I still have, haha. Such a wonderful film, with great performances. 🩶 Edit: 38:33 I forgot that they re-enacted that scene in _Barry._ 😂 Not funny here, but hilarious in that context. 52:10 Well… 🐸🤭

this movie is about Karma.. simple

Btw. No such thing as an incel. Any man can get a woman. Even if he has to pay for her.

One of my favourite movies of ALL TIME! Really enjoyed your reaction. There aren’t much reactions of this film out there. Glad you checked it out. It’s really amazing I have new insights from your comments and takeaways from this film. Magnolia is really rich in fine detail that way, which is why I love it sm!

The intro is all stories from "Ripley's Believe it or Not!" As is the frogs falling from the sky (kinda...it was fish in Kansas, I think).

Love this movie. Saw it in theaters twice when it came out. Great reaction Mike!

Haven’t seen this in years. Great call out to “Requiem for a Dream” I think they’re both great, but I can never watch Requiem again. I have seen this more than once which adds to the experience. Great Reaction.

I'd love your reaction to "A Ghost Story." It's a completely different kind of film but seems to hold to some similar themes.

There will be Blood is one if his best. Complicated characters.

The poster was nice and nice pictures and not much info. Old ladies thought it would be great for their groups. In the first thirty minutes about one tenth of the audience walked out in a huff. That terrible language pissed them off. This was especially true in the South. They saw a Magnolia and couldn't help but think of moonlight and magnolias of the old south.

Great reaction! Just found your channel, watched " Sleepers" and "Boogie Nights". Just as a side note. Lived through the 80's in Hollywood. My husband and I worked for Hustler and knew Larry and Althea Flynt.

When Paul Thomas Anderson wrote this film, he had so many stories he wanted to tell, and he couldn’t decide which one he wanted to write, so he just said “fuck it, I’m doing them all!”

Did yall ever watch Jurassic Park 3?

Do you like movies from the action background, older of course 70’s 80’s Like gator, gone in sixty seconds, bullet, stick, for a few , Dirty Harrys ? I know you get a lot of suggestions ,just offering a few more.. I like your let it breath style, a three hour movie ,and reaction over an hour is great, a lot of reactions take godfathers down to 25 min.. just not for me. Keep it up. Glad to see the old ones get dusted off

Hell yeah love this