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ITT: Definitive Ranking of Paul Thomas Anderson Films
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Date: September 30th, 2025 11:24 AM Author: A Dick is Not Dispositive 1. There Will Be Blood 2. Punch Drunk Love 3. Magnolia 4. Hard Eight 5. One Battle After Another 6. The Master 7. Phantom Thread 8. Boogie Nights 9. Inherent Vice 10. Licorice Pizza
Frankly, 2-8 are all almost interchangeable.
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Date: September 30th, 2025 8:27 PM Author: A Dick is Not Dispositive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781505&forum_id=2)#49316036) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 8:46 AM Author: A Dick is Not Dispositive Everyone agrees (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781505&forum_id=2)#49316895) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 8:51 AM Author: Paralegal Oberfuhrer von Kaarlstack (🧐) Gen X just makes the Same Movie. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781505&forum_id=2)#49316901) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 8:58 AM Author: Israel's Next Top Shabbos Goy 1. Boogie Nights 2. There Will Be Blood 3. Magnolia 4. Phantom Thread 5. Punch Drunk Love -----(substantial drop-off)----- 6. Licorice Pizza 7. Inherent Vice 8. Hard Eight 9. One Battle After Another 10. The Master |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 10:31 AM Author: A Dick is Not Dispositive You didn’t like OBAA?
I also feel like The Master is massively polarizing, but I liked it after a second watch. |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 11:19 AM Author: Israel's Next Top Shabbos Goy It's the only one I haven't seen. I will wait for it to come out on DVD. I have no interest in seeing it beyond being a completionist. Maybe it's very good. I probably liked Licorice Pizza more than the average viewer.
I have seen The Master several times and I have never enjoyed it at all even a little bit. |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 11:34 AM Author: A Dick is Not Dispositive How many DVDs do you own? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781505&forum_id=2)#49317195) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 2:30 PM Author: Israel's Next Top Shabbos Goy About 30 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781505&forum_id=2)#49317556) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 3:03 PM Author: A Dick is Not Dispositive Are you renting dvds? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781505&forum_id=2)#49317692) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 3:06 PM Author: Israel's Next Top Shabbos Goy No (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781505&forum_id=2)#49317704) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 3:38 PM Author: A Dick is Not Dispositive But you intend this film to become 3 percent of your DVD collection? What percent of your DVD collection is Paul Thomas Anderson? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781505&forum_id=2)#49317763) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 3:57 PM Author: Israel's Next Top Shabbos Goy 9/30 = 30%
It's safe to say I'm a PTA fan. |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 10:35 AM Author: goy orbison One great film, maybe one of the best ever, and the rest is middling gen-x dreck. The Charlie Gordon of film (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781505&forum_id=2)#49317090) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 11:33 AM Author: A Dick is Not Dispositive Which one is great? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781505&forum_id=2)#49317194) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 11:42 AM Author: goy orbison TWBB (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5781505&forum_id=2)#49317205) |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 2:34 PM Author: John Halo Inherent Vice had the superlative scene with Brolin playing a dicksucking closeted Hoover-coded FBI agent visibly lusting over Phoenix's Ashbury-Height detective character and excellent Pynchonian set humor throughout. One of the last dramedies defined by a subtle and wry humor that I remember seeing in theaters Reconsider your position Licorice Pizza was only any good in the same way that Tarantino's "Once Upon A Time" could be considered as any good and will not hold up in the slightest once a couple years have passed. That said, PTA's best films have all been made *after* his coke addiction went and left. Discuss |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 3:56 PM Author: A Dick is Not Dispositive Lots to unpack here. I love Inherent Vice, but structurally it is a mess and did not really seem to have much deeper meaning compared to OBAA. I can’t really differentiate it from The Nice Guys or even The Big Lebowski (two great films). It is only a tick below films 2-8.
Licorice Pizza is the only PTA film I really didn’t like and it is several ticks below Inherent Vice.
I think the coke addiction changes are more about PTA growing as an artist and becoming more sure of himself rather than trying to pay homage to Scorsese, as in Boogie Nights. |
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Date: October 1st, 2025 3:59 PM Author: Israel's Next Top Shabbos Goy The biggest ding on Inherent Vice is that the book was substantially better than the film. That really dinged it for me.
I'm not gonna say LP was a masterpiece but it was a fun romp. It was a lot better than OUATIH. |