I think everyone on this sight pretty much loves or at least really likes most of his films, and would find it very difficult to rank one over the other. So I thought we could try and do this, from least favourite to favourite. If you find it to be a futile exercise that undermines the special quality of each of his films, remember, you don't have to do it! It's just a bit of challenging fun. I'll do mine.
6. Hard Eight (Sydney)
5. Boogie Nights
4. Punch-Drunk Love
3. There Will Be Blood
2. Magnolia
1. The Master
- Cigarettes and Coffee
- Pearl
- The Dirk Diggler Story
- COP Beat, starring John C. Reilly
- Back Beyond
- Lucille (Life, Take Two)
- Blossoms and Blood
- SNL Fanatic
- Get This Bastard Out of Me: The Jack Anderson Story
- That lost We Suck Young Blood Music Video
- The Kid-IV Project, rumored titles: Fun with Episiotomies or Wrecked
- Flagpole Special
- Here's Looking at You, Fi (a collection of tastefully shot erotic vignettes that Maya was never supposed to find out about)
- Couch
Sorry I couldn't just name 10.
I normally love making lists, but I find it hard to compare my appreciation of post-TWBB with pre-TWBB. I wouldn't know how to put The Master and Boogie Nights on the same list.
I could make a top 3, though.
1. Magnolia
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. There Will Be Blood
I have a Top 3 too.
1 Magnolia
2 Everything else...
3 ...except Sydney
Punch Drunk Love
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
There Will Be Blood
The Master
Sydney
That's pretty much how it stands and I dont see it changing any.
1. Frangolia
2. The Matress
3. Puck Funk Loose
4. Hooker Knight
5. There will be cum
6. Stiff Nine
Donkey Punch Drunk Love
1. Resident Evil
2. Mortal Kombat
3. Death Race
4. Alien vs. Predator
5. Pompeii
:bravo:
1. Lancaster Dodd
2.
3. Scotty J
4. Phil Parma
5. Dean Trumbell
6. Young Craps Player
I fucking hate that he is gone
Title says it all, interpret it however you want. For me I become attached to each of his films emotionally in a different way, but if I had to do an objective ranking, this would be it.
6. There Will Be Blood
5. Boogie Nights
4. Hard Eight
3. The Master
2. Punch-Drunk Love
1. Magnolia
Isn't this just a slight variation on the general ranking thread you just created? Which itself could have fit into other older threads. I mean you couldn't seriously think we had never tried to rank his films before, in the 11 years of this board's existence..
I'm gonna merge this with the other one. I'll keep your subject header for context.
Also what your saying makes no sense, at the very least I'm not sure you know what "objective" means.
You just got hit with the pube hammer, how does it feel?
Don't sweat it. He went easy on ya
A semi-response to the dude's question: his last three have been pretty important for me emotionally.
Also, in overall ranking.
1. The Master
2/3. TWBB/PDL
4. Boogie Nights
5. Magnolia
6. Hard Sydney
Oops, I meant to say "subjective" there, sorry to make you confused. I hope what I was saying makes more sense to you now.
You are quite right about adding my "emotional ranking" thread to pre existing one. I am quite new to this forum, so I don't know the way things work around here in terms of starting new threads and such, but thank you for hinting to me the proper way of doing things around here. But I do feel that making a new thread about ranking PTA's films is not a sin, as I only wished to start fresh discussion and conversation. Of course I would know that you guys have already discussed this, but I would rather start a fresh thread than comment on some old thread that's been buried a few pages back where no one would see. I just thought it would be a more efficient way of sparking more replies and conversations, although I am very sorry if this was an inconvenience to XIXAX.
But thank you for putting me on the proper path when it comes to the common code of conduct here and I hope that my corrections to what I previously said make it make more sense to you :)
Don't worry about it.
Our general rule of thumb around here is, if there's an existing thread that encompasses what you're looking to talk about, use it, even if it means resurrecting it from years ago. The topics in each board arrange themselves in order of when the most recent post was made, so new posts always move their thread to the top of the page, no matter how old the thread was originally. The added benefit of bumping old threads is that it forces us to confront a time before we were all bitter old assholes and we actually talked at length about film.
Feelin' listish:
1. Mag
2. Blood
3. Punch
4. Mast
5. Boog
6. Syd
Quote from: Fernando on March 09, 2014, 12:44:38 PM
1. Lancaster Dodd
2.
3. Scotty J
4. Phil Parma
5. Dean Trumbell
6. Young Craps Player
I fucking hate that he is gone
So is #2 Caden?
I'm confused.
That's a pretty efficient system. Thank you for clearing things up for me :yabbse-smiley:
I look forward to posting and discussing things with you guys, now that I've been put on the proper path.
Nice list too btw.
Quote from: N on March 10, 2014, 06:30:35 PM
Quote from: Fernando on March 09, 2014, 12:44:38 PM
1. Lancaster Dodd
2.
3. Scotty J
4. Phil Parma
5. Dean Trumbell
6. Young Craps Player
I fucking hate that he is gone
So is #2 Caden?
I'm confused.
I'm probably falling into a trap but...
number 2 is obviously chere mill, since PSH didn't have a part it's blank.
Oh... right.
For some reason I thought you were listing PSH's best roles in general.
This is difficult but:
6. Hard Eight
5. Boogie Nights
4. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Magnolia
2. There Will Be Blood
1. The Master
My favourite is The Master. Probably the most perfect, layered and genius film I've seen. It's like a perfect dream that cradles and confronts every part of you. Freddie Quell and Lancaster Dodd are two of my favourite fictional characters, and two of the best performances I've ever seen. I might post a piece on it soon. Not a "definitive" narrow analysis, but just my personal exploration of its intricacies.
Hard Eight is in no way a less than very good film, and is only my least favourite because it is among such strong competition. There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love and Boogie Nights are pretty much inter-changeable.
I'm going to guess that you are young. True/false?
Yes, i am. What gives it away? ;)
I don't like list as such, but will share some of it.
There was a time, when "Magnolia" was favorite of mine, when it comes to films overall. Since then my taste for films changed quite dramatically. I expect that discovering some films in future will affect how I perceive those seen before.
Right now my stack of PTA films is pretty much a flip of version from few years ago. "Knuckle Sandwich" took place of "Magnolia". I just prefer focused films (I feel that it is better word to describe than simple or streamlined) and enjoy quite a bit genre films. At the moment "PDL" is one of my favorite films and "Magnolia" somehow disappeared.
And I need to revisit "Sydney"...
Quote from: SailorOfTheSeas on May 12, 2014, 05:20:34 PM
Yes, i am. What gives it away? ;)
Generally favorites are weighted towards the ones you saw first, since the newest ones are your favorites and the older ones blend together for you, that gave it away. :yabbse-smiley:
You have a good point there.
I saw them in this order, from least to most recent: There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, The Master, Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love, Hard Eight. I see the positive correlation between my top three and the three i saw first!
Although, if i'm honest with you, i'm pretty sure hard eight wouldn't be among my favourites of his even if i had seen it first, and only would be if i had some huge nostalgic or sentimental tie to it. i also i reckon that The Master would be my favourite even if i had seen it last, because everything about it just appeals to me and my taste. i agree with u but preferred taste plays a big role too. then again i suppose when u'r at a young and malleable age the films you see and like in those years have a big role on your preferred taste :yabbse-wink:
Just a question. How old are most people here?
Quote from: SailorOfTheSeas on May 13, 2014, 01:56:34 PM
Just a question. How old are most people here?
Just a generation before you, mostly.
I think many of us are 30ish and saw Magnolia in our late teens.
Yeah I saw Magnolia in my late teens.
you saw magnolia in your late tens
I saw it in my early teens, as a matter of fact I was 12! BOOOOOOYYYYAAAWAAAWAWWWWWAWWAAAA
1. Blood
2. Boogie Nights
3. Magnolia
4. The Master
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. Hard Eight
There will be drunk nights, Maggie. - Master Sydney
Maggie, drink blood & boogie! - Master Sydney
Quote from: PoZer on June 15, 2014, 05:11:18 PM
There will be drunk nights, Maggie. - Master Sydney
Marquee?
Maggie had nights of blood and drunk love with Master Sydney.
Boogie Blood was dirty.