Boogie Nights

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Boogie Nights

Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham, John C. Reilly

A dark comedy following the rise and fall of Eddie Adams, a handsome, uneducated teenager who works in the kitchen of a popular San Fernando Valley nightclub. Back at home, Eddie has to face the oppre...( read more  read more... )ssive company of a passive father and a domineering mother who keeps reminding him he''s stupid and a failure. But when he''s spotted at the club by Jack Horner, a successful porn producer, Eddie is instantly lured to a promising career in the adult entertainment industry.

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  • QueenCityFilms
    December 11, 2009
    QueenCityFilms
    one of the FUNNEST movies I've ever seen...definitely one of my personal favorites. PTA is amazing.

    Just had a kickass dinner and a movie night with this badboy - recommended for those who have already seen the film - but when you invite over people that haven't seen it...CONFU...( read more)SION SETS IN!

    It's still bad ass - it blends moments of shear comic genius with heartbreaking depression - really a twisted cocktail of a film. But a damn damn good one - love this movie, love Marky Mark and PSH...and Burt Reynolds is immaculate. Baller!
  • Chiefilms
    September 27, 2009
    Chiefilms
    I've got to change my previous rating of this classic PTA film from a 4 to a 4.5 inching towards a perfect score with every viewing. This film is so epic, telling the rise and fall of Dirk Diggler, the HUGE pornstar played by Marky Mark. This movie made his acting career. If n...( read more)ot for this, he would probably still be performing "Good Vibrations" with the Funky Bunch in Boston clubs. This movie is fun and crazy at the same time with a soundtrack spanning the 70's and 80's, perfect!
  • SirPant
    September 16, 2009
    SirPant
    A stylish but badly structured film from PTA. Burt Reynolds performance is brilliant, as are most of the cast but on the whole, it's a very overrated film for me.
  • mrpopcorn
    August 18, 2009
    mrpopcorn
    "Everyone has one special thing"

    The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the 1970s and 1980s.

    REVIEW

    Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film "Boogie Nights" is...( read more) a breathtaking ride through seven years in the pornographic film industry. This was a huge undertaking for this filmmaker's sophomore foray into picture making, but as seen with his prior effort, "Hard Eight", he has a knack for garnering career-making performances from his actors and for interweaving story lines on par with Robert Altman. He seems also to have no qualms with wearing his influences on his sleeve, as is clear by the often spoken about three minute long opening shot that hearkens back to Scorsese or DePalma.

    The film follows the journey of a young man, played by the previously under-appreciated Mark Wahlberg, who yearns for a life beyond his Southern California suburban nowhere. Once he meets up with Burt Reynolds, in the finest performance of his career, and his pseudo-family of skin flick makers and performers, the story is just getting revved up. What follows are two and half hours that wiz by with the deft hand of a filmmaker so attuned to the needs of their story that the frequent subplots and meanderings only add texture and aesthetics to the piece. Though it is basically "42nd Street" with a porn twist, it's surprisingly subdued in its expression of on-screen sex, because the film is about so much more. Although their business is sex and pleasure, it is the variation on the family unit and the hopes and dreams of the characters that are really at the core.

    Put simply this is brilliant film-making!
  • ohagankieran
    July 22, 2009
    ohagankieran
    Boogie Nights is perhaps one of the greatest examples any would-be filmmaker should take a long hard look at. Sure, you could spend loads of quality time reviewing the classics from Hitchcock to Scorsese; but lets follow suit for the modern generation and study half-heartedly.
    Pa...( read more)ul Thomas Anderson's stylish and compelling take on the 70s porn industry follows Eddie Adams, aka Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), through six years of sex, drugs and disco. His chance meeting with pornography director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) starts his career as one of the greatest adult actors of the time. Dirk's character is based on real-life porn actor John Holmes, who, like Dirk, was renowned for being extremely "well-endowed". This is where Dirk finds initial success.

    The main themes in Boogie Nights are the obvious ones relating to a film of this genre; pornography, drugs, sex, betrayal, violence and music. Boogie Nights deals with the pornography theme with some control. It is not overplayed and the sex scenes are surprisingly minimal, but mentally explicit when they take place on screen.

    Throughout the film cocaine is abused enormously, and the film's setting, Los Angeles 1977-1983, reflects the popularity of the drug at that time, which the film captures perfectly. However, Boogie Nights does not promote cocaine, as there are some scenes involving addiction and overdoses. For example at Jack's party, they find a girl who has recently, and graphically, overdosed; blood pours from her nose and she begins an unconscious fit. The film, before this scenes, has been fairly upbeat and comic, but from this point it foreshadows the darkness that it will occur.

    The music scenes are executed brilliantly, from superbly-staged disco scenes to a down-and-out Dirk singing terribly in his new music career. The soundtrack too is excellent, featuring tunes from The Emotions, ELO, The Beach Boys and the unforgettable Sound Experience. The standout scene in the whole film comes down to the music; Dirk, Redd Rothchild (John C. Reilly) and Todd Parker (Thomas Jane) visit drug dealer Rahad Jackson's (Alfred Molina) house in order to make some quick cash from selling phoney drugs, but Night Ranger's Sister Christian, which is playing in the background, increases the intensity of the scene incredibly, proving that music can bring so much more depth to a scene. Boogie Nights is filled with those kind of scenes, which makes the film even more fantastic.

    The standout performance in Boogie Nights is Burt Reynolds as the enigmatic, yet moody, film director. In the scene where he attacks a young guy for slating his movies, it is a complete shock for the audience, because before this point he has been pretty mellow and content. Other notable performances are Julianne Moore, Heather Graham as the beautiful Rollergirl, John C. Reilly, and Mark Wahlberg, who delivers the performance of his career.

    Boogie Nights is also a surprisingly original film, using common themes but filmed in its own sharp and realistic way. Anderson's approach has been fully captures these characters in a time when nothing seemed to be going wrong, or at least until the 80s arrive. From then on, things turn very dark indeed, and all signs of the recognisable characters and situations from the first part of the film have gone. This does not, however, reduce the high level of engaging entertainment that this film offers.
  • daghka
    December 24, 2009
    daghka
    easily one of Anderson's best, a fantastic ensemble piece that follows regularly but still has a hell of a lot to offer. Julianne Moore and Heather Graham did fantastic here and it was really and enjoyable and intriguing look at these character's lives. In fact, the cast all did ...( read more)well, for some their best probably.
  • ifeels1ck
    December 20, 2009
    ifeels1ck
    A super stylish homage to the era of 70s porn following the rise and fall of an ambitious young star.
  • ed
    December 7, 2009
    ed
    Phenomenal ensemble.
  • zdravkoduck
    December 3, 2009
    zdravkoduck
    The first and only porn movie that I saw from beginning to end. Had to let that one out. What can you say It's a porn epic. I think Burt Reynolds found the role he's been searching for his whole life. His very appearance screams porn director. At the end they should have put one ...( read more)frame from fight club when Mark Walhberg shows his prosthetic penis.
  • iLOVEmovies25
    November 28, 2009
    iLOVEmovies25
    lol..my kinda movie :P
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