You Know It's Paul Thomas Anderson IF... 

That makes no sense.

@@sjelliott6660 Are you stupid? It means he makes quality films, but do not fall under the “Oscar-bait” category that the Academy prefers. Unnecessarily depressing biopics with somber musical scores, a stacked A-list cast, backed by a big studio, whose producers violently campaign for it.

koth Even more crazy is how some confuse him and Paul Anderson (Resident Evil films).

Just another random person on the Internet I mean in all fairness there names are pretty damn similar

PTA is very underrated

People don't give a shit about directors. It's upsetting when you really love movies.

@@amsheel9921 Paul W S Anderson not to be confused with Wes Anderson or Paul Thomas Anderson

Don't forget John C Reilly. I'd love to see the two collab again.

@@gabrielidusogie9189 John C Reilly is criminally underrated as a dramatic actor.

Carol From HR he genuinely made me feel excited for Burger Barn in Gilbert Grape

Yes.

Yes.

idimajo agreed

idimajo good point. The Master and Boogie Nights are my personal faves.

Well, except for Hard Eight. It's good as a debut feature but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece, which it's totally okay, he was beginning his career. I agree with all the rest though.

None of them are

@@HelloSpyMyLie your a Micheal Bay fan ....right?

MULHOLLAND DRIVE: greatest film of the 2000s.

Birth

Star Fucker, EUREKA: greatest film of the 2000's.

No Country for Old Men

That would be The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

In the master also

Plex finding your own happy 🤷🏽‍♂️

Interesting point but I disagree with your Punch-Drunk Love angle. Barry does try to help him selves by reaching out to the doctor/dentist, asking him to get in touch with a therapist. But he continuously gets shot down as no one he trusts actually follows through e.g the doctor, phone sex line and all his sisters repeatedly. Lena comes into his life helps him with the self-acceptance he desperately needs.

The Master and Boogie Nights are probably the happiest endings I’ve seen from PTA.

The ending of MAgnolia is a great example of that

David Lynch. Period.

David Lynch. Period.²

Lynch is kinda in his own league since he has Twin Peaks and other artistic pursuits, but his movies are more hit or miss. Paul Thomas Anderson has made nothing but great movies, and his craft gets better with every film.

will reznicek you say this as if it’s objective

Pault Thomas Anderson... Wes Anderson ... That Ander folk can be proud of his sons.

VB MUTT in my opinion Inherent Vice is his best one. It's a very underrated movie.

I would switch The Master and There Will Be Blood otherwise I completely agree with your list. I haven't found many people that rank the movies in the same order as me, I always thought The Master was an overlooked masterpiece.

What's Inherent Vice doing in the end? It's one of his best movies...

The Dude, eh it's not better than the top 5 he listed. I'd probably put it at 6th

No one cares. Glazer > PTA

wyliebees saw it yesterday... another masterpiece...

Phantom Thread is his best film so far

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@@DomenTheChief I _DRINK_ IT UP!

DRAAAAAAINAAAAAGE!!!

Legit read that in his voice.

Haut Strange would’ve been awesome to see a crossover of Altman and Anderson!

@@danbam3411 Anderson acted as a director stand-in when Altman was making his last movie when he was dying. He dedicated There Will Be Blood to him.

Rickard Kaufman yes that’s correct!

@@danbam3411 I have only seen one Altman film which was M*A*S*H which was exceptionally great if I saw more of the show it was based on.

@@danbam3411 And some of Altman's films served as an inspiration for PTA like Boogie Nights which I heard took inspiration from Nashville.

I think he said somewhere that it's the only movie where he had to make a lot of leeway because of producer pressure.

But he was only in two of his movies. Makes more sense to use an actor whose in lots of his films like Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Nope. It's 1 of just 3 Adam Sandler films that I think are shit, yet most people say it's Sandler's best. It depends on whether you like patronising arty nonsense, or not. The Grand Budapest Hotel is another overrated 'comedy' which I'd describe as patronising arty nonsense.

Daniel Gardecki You thumb up your own comments mate 😂😂

Very much worth watching. My second favorite PTA film

Carcosa yep great film

I've seen all PTA, haven't regretted watching a single one, including Hard Eight. The man just has an amazing filmography.

agree

PTA talks about this in his reddit AMA!

That's rape

Bearded Pete me too man

I think Anderson is fascinated by religion, by both its positive and negative aspects. And more than anything, he seems to explore the ways in which religion can be perverted and used for bad purposes. Not necessarily critiquing religion *per se.* I remember hearing interviews with him after The Master came out, and people would of course ask him what he thought about Scientology, and his answers were always so open-minded and agnostic about it. I remember he said something like (paraphrasing), "Some of the stuff you see in any religion is pretty crazy, but you also can't deny that sometimes religion does something good for some people on a personal level. If you get something good out of it, and it's working for you in your life, and you're not hurting anyone else, then good for you." Even the film itself remained very aloof and agnostic about "The Cause." Sure there are moments when it is not shown in the most positive light, but there are also moments where it seems like Freddie is "getting better" in some way and benefiting somehow from his meeting Dodd. I loved how open-ended the film was. I honestly consider Anderson to be almost a spiritual filmmaker.

Nah, they're not related. They're both absolute geniuses tho.

gl

Nice try

*Punch Drunk Love* and *Boogie Nights* were shit. I've seen *Magnolia* with it's excellent cast too but as I can't remember a single thing about it, so it can't have been that memorable. After watching the trailer to remind myself, I can see why I've forgotten about it as it also looks shit.

+Daniel Gardecki (Danstarr69) your problem

lol this dude straight-up liked his own comments.

Wtf you talking about? Punch Drunk-Love and Boogie Nights are shit? You drunk?