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

such a good post

a ton of wrong terrible opinions in this thread but the good ones are jewels

also all of pta's films are full of yuks, i guess inherent vice's are more prominent bc you've got the combined forces of pta and pynchon but like... phantom thread is fucking hilarious. i'd say one thing distinguishing modern pta is the yuks are much less straight up funny things and more incidentally funny bc the movie's just being itself, incidentally is a very novelistic way of bringing the yuks, etc.

def

. I liked their relationship, just two guys who want to have adventures surrounded by a band of joyless pedants. Amy adams being all this is a thing you do for billions of years was such a hilariously wrong reading of psh's seat of the pants bullshiting.

yaassss queen

I loved PTA until Inherent Vice which totally threw me. Maybe I need to see it again with my expectations lowered? Still haven't seen Phantom Thread.

I work for a museum in Houston and every once in a blue moon I'll be sent somewhere to witness one of our artworks that has been loaned out getting installed or taken down. When The Master was released I happened to get sent to NYC and I had some free days. The museum set me up in a nice hotel room with enough money for decent food, managed to hit all the happening record stores, saw Grizzly Bear at Radio City Music Hall and watched The Master in 70mm.

Sigh. All that sounds really fucking nice right now.

<3 pig fuck scene is all time

one of my favorite PTA shot scenes is when freddie comes back from jail and he hug/wrestles lancaster to the ground. everyone on and off screen for that hitting their respective note.

i need to watch this again. at the time it was my favorite PTA movie but it might have been surpassed by phantom thread now

I remember being very irritated by Joker because Phoenix had already played Freddie Quell

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

a buddy road trip film

buddy boat trip

philip: buddy the sea is our road
joaquin: yes

pig fuck!

this is the best movie

All anger and sadness and failure and violence and American vistas

Paul Thomas Anderson is a brilliant director who recurrently fumbles the endings of his movies - except for this one. I was holding my breath watching it, hoping he wouldn't stick in some last-minute change of tone or thesis statement. As someone says above, he had the right idea to keep a delicate touch to the end.

If you don’t like the end of Phantom Thread I don’t know what to tell you but I do think the end of this one is a beautiful gentle relief

i'm sorry but no way is the end of inherent vice fumbled

the way this one winds down is perfect tho yes, otm

i actually don't have a problem with any of pta's endings so maybe i'm the wrong person to assess this

I think they’re all pretty good

It’s hilarious that Dodd’s imagination is so impoverished is that when he tries to make up a game with a motorcycle the game is “drive the motorcycle in a direction”

PTA has done his best work since 2012.

I have to register a lonely "no, not even close" whenever that idea is voiced.

For Phantom Thread, the disappointment was that all of that buildup and detail was for the banal twist "She makes him ill and he's glad to have a credible reason to take a break from working."
I actually never thought Inherent Vice got off the ground at all, but the "action scene" near the end was absurdly inadequate as a capper.
The ending of The Master reminds me a little of Malick's Days of Heaven. Life continues on from the dramatic plot of the movie and we can imagine these characters living on past the credits.

Currently would rank them in the following tiers:

• [[Magnolia (1999) * * * * *]]

• [[The Master (2012) * * * * *]]

• [[Phantom Thread (2017) * * * * *]]
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• [[Boogie Nights (1997) * * * *]]

• [[There Will Be Blood (2007) * * * *]]

• [[Inherent Vice (2014) * * * *]]
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• [[Hard Eight (1996) * * *]]

• [[Punch-Drunk Love (2002) * * *]]

Hard Eight, three stars, gtfo

the ending of phantom thread was so wonderful

Didn't like Phantom Thread much compared to the rest but the ending was good. I think I like his endings in general

would watch an entire movie of DDL ordering breakfast

all his endings are good

except magnolia

PIG FUCK!

otm

your fear of capture and imprisonment is an implant from millions of years ago

from millions of years ago

such horseshit, but people want to believe

no its true

even trillions of years

5 quadrillion

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

really enjoying this lovely video essay, i feel like the video essays that youtube recommends me are so often godawful that the quality of this means even more to me

pig fuck

is this PSH's best movie?

yes

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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