THE MASTER (2012) P.T. Anderson's film on the origions of Scientology (sort of), Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and Laura Dern

i'm saying!!

there's a casting call soon for some of the WWII scenes being shot here

is pta really going to take two years making this? i'd guess he isn't aiming for a january 2013 release. had thought he was doing 'vineland' with robert downey jr too. look forward to that towards the end of the decade.

sounds like he started filming in June.

Great as this sounds I hope the Inherent Vice adaptation comes first.

is pta really going to take two years making this? i'd guess he isn't aiming for a january 2013 release. had thought he was doing 'vineland' with robert downey jr too. look forward to that towards the end of the decade.

without knowing much about it or how these things work, i read somewhere that they were maybe gonna film the two things back to back & then edit, with the assumption that editing would take a year, per there will be blood

stoked for the madness.

― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, August 3, 2011 1:37 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's titled "The Master" yet there is no John Simm to be found. Sad.

no http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/files/images/henry_james_(george_eastman_collection)296c.jpg no credibility

jesse plemons of FNL as PSHs son is intrstng

I am not confident that this will be a better Scientology film than Mock Up on Mu:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-forgotten-sticky-figments

sounds like he started filming in June.

― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, August 3, 2011 9:45 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yah http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/06/paul-thomas-anderson-the-master-photos.php

http://www.examiner.com/community-in-san-francisco/mare-island-one-huge-film-set-for-new-big-budget-movie

Heads up:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/master-paul-thomas-anderson-october-release-megan-ellison-297353

Also I'm terribly amused by that Mare Island link just above as I lived there from 1979 to 1981 when it was still a Navy base.

stoked for the madness.

― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Wednesday, August 3, 2011 1:37 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 1:19 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like this idea. would be cool to see what films buffet and gates would throw their money behind.

philip seymour hoffman and joaquin phoenix, laura dern and amy adams

p.t. anderson and, er, himself

Something something or other:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/movies/paul-thomas-anderson-film-may-be-about-scientology.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9oZDKFoCqAw

Worth embedding! Maybe this link will let it happen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oZDKFoCqAw&feature=youtu.be

Ah hell. Well, yeah, it looks pretty intriguing. Phoenix almost looks like Fassbender there. Pretty excited.

<3 joaquin

fucking amazing trailer

Was just about to post it. Great, great stuff.

oh hell yes

nice.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Excellent - can't wait for some Hubbard footage

Rah! Just watched it twice through. I'm stoked.

the only way i could be more psyched for this is if there are aleister crowley & jack parsons analogues in the movie because their association w/ the hubb

that is pretty much exactly what a trailer should be. hope the movie is that good!

xpost -- got that goddamn right

the only way i could be more psyched for this is if there are aleister crowley & jack parsons analogues in the movie because their association w/ the hubb

omg what if

is he making a boob out of sand?

how would you rate your overall health?

strrrong

Actually you know, what if the whole supposition has been a bit of a blind and it IS all about Hubbard/Parsons/Crowley rather than just Hubbard straight up? The time period is right given the look of the trailer, and it suits the title.

will lose my shit if there's a Parsons (or Crowley) analogue in this

amy adams as marjorie cameron???

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/cameron.jpg

probably not tho!

radiohead's jonny greenwood is doing the score for this, for those who care about such things. i thought he did a fantastic job with both There Will Be Blood and Norwegian Wood.

was there ever a movie made about parsons? that entire story with the three of them is so bonkers

I thought the music in that trailer sounded very similar to Greenwood's TWBB score.

tbh i would watch this for the wrestling seamen alone #pvmic

i almost auditioned to be an extra in that scene!!!

gr8080, mind if I change the year in the thread title now that it has a 2012 release date?

by all means, and change this to 2013 while you're at it:

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES MICHAEL BAY REBOOT (2014)

thanks!

sorry if that's an annoying habit, i just really hate the "anticipate" meme in movie thread titles

i almost auditioned to be an extra in that scene!!!

Jeez, man, you could have snuck in a 77 tattoo or something into the film and blown minds.

i saw a girl with a 77 tattoo on saturday!!

i came very close to asking if i could take a photo

I can’t rule it out

A tougher one would be what is his worst movie. I mean, he's great in Along Came Polly.

the acting and filming are off the charts in The Master

i like the ambiguity as well

rewatched the other night, hated the ending in the past, now I think it's perfect. it's so rich and amazing, it's crazy how I tended to forget the motorcycle is where Freddie runs off and then comes back. Amy Adams is so great in that last scene at the school. i might like it more than There Will Be Blood

hated the ending in the past, now I think it's perfect.

i was going to say!

the ending blows

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proud of myself for being capable of change and admitting it

good on you

I love this movie so much I'm afraid a second viewing may expose flaws

The Master, Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread -- a helluva stretch!

for real. I think I'm gonna rewatch Phantom Thread next

my second viewing--just my take--made it seem even better

didn't like Inherent Vice or Phantom Thread, my "helluva stretch" is Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, and The Master

You're picking up the tab tonight, honey.

love the master and phantom thread ive watched inherent vice a few times now or at least tried to and it has a lot going for it, yelling about pancakes etc, but it just never comes together for me like in a basic way it doesnt hold my attention, i know its supposed to be a loosey goosey scene but its just too vibes reliant, afterwards im like what happened there who knows, i question the wisdom of adapting pynchon not really a writer that makes you think "this should be a movie", tho if you had to maybe an animated film would be better

well put. it's the least of the three Alfred mentioned, and it really is all about the marshmellow pizza vibes. and yes Pynchon writes some lovely sentences but at the end of the day his characters are way too cartoonish to have an impact on the reader

my "helluva stretch" is Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, and The Master

― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, March 6, 2024 11:41 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

gotta say this is a pretty fucked up opinion not the least of which because those werent released consecutively

i question the wisdom of adapting pynchon not really a writer that makes you think "this should be a movie"

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btw lol his next film 2025 VINELAND

I haven't killed babies since enduring PDL all those years ago but if I watch it again no one will stop me, not even me.

while i recognize pdl isnt his best film i do think its funny, the one i actively dislike is magnolia, grandiose and stupid with a ton of begging ass 90s bs, trying to get that tarantino dough

phantom thread > the master > TWBB > the rest

you gotta put boogie nights in there baby

Phantom Thread gets more mischievous with each viewing (I can see this happening with Haynes' May December). It tops my list.

idk which i like best of "the big four" theyre all good in their own ways

punch drunk love is awesome, I'm allowed to have my own "Dirty Work is the Rolling Stones' Best Album" opinion, alf.

John C Reilly losing his gun makes Magnolia top tier for me

https://i.imgur.com/zXaRQkZ.png

Lloyd George looks like the most chill of the Big Four imo

I'm allowed to have my own "Dirty Work is the Rolling Stones' Best Album" opinion, alf.

lol fair

though Dirty Work is certainly not the Stones' best.

no way gotta go clemenceau he looks like a walrus dressed up in a suit, who doesnt love that xp

inherent vice and licorice pizza are my top two, you guys are all squares imo
jk

i love master & phantom thread too and boogie nights etc etc

omg forgot about licorice pizza, another winner

he's on quite a roll

As much as I like The Master, I rate it lower than his more recent efforts mainly because I felt he didn't want to lean on the Scientology (and delve into what it is to be a leader or subject of a cult) aspect too much and the film becomes this battle of wills between the two actors with a lot of scenery chewing big acting. Which is fine, it's a good movie just doesn't hit me as hard as his other ones.

think i've watched this movie twice, in theaters, in 70mm, and barely remember anything about it. other than the guy would make this awesome cocktail. looked really good. put a kick in your day. i dream about being able to drink something like that.

Do you have access to torpedo fuel?

that got me doing a little googlin' and so i came across this delightful sentence:

Well that's an excellent question because we see people accidentally swallowing gasoline all the time, I mean it's a daily occurrence here in Utah and the important thing to know is that if you swallow gasoline and it goes down to your stomach, it's really not that big of a deal, other than you're going to be burping gasoline for about 24 hours, that's not real tasty, but it will keep going, it's not absorbed very well in your gut.

what are people doing in utah? siphoning gasoline, it turns out

just utah stuff

Loved this movie, I see it sometimes described as a buddy movie and I guess it sorta is

Utah has restrictive alcohol laws so if you find yourself with a hangover on Sunday morning, unleaded 87 might be the only buzz in town

Utah State Song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUA9FUTieKA

at its heart it's the "me and my bro goofing around" movie

― mh, Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:00 AM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I liked their relationship, just two guys who want to have adventures surrounded by a band of joyless pedants.

― lag∞n, Monday, October 1, 2012 6:23 AM (eleven years ago)

Laura Dern does some of the best acting that has ever been done in the one little scene where she quizzes PSH about the nonsense and he yells "what do you want from me, Helen!?" at her, and she turns away shattered

I saw this in the theatre with my mom. She’s really into salacious Scientology scandals and isn’t super into “high brow” film. Her paraphrased review: “I didn’t know it was just going to be about.. two guys being guys”

she gets it

I think it worked better as a metaphor for Scientology.. that way they can't complain about little errors in the details

And PSH's character was sympathetic at times, whereas Hubbard was a deluded pervert monster