Boogie Nights

This is a movie of such style and propulsive power, wittily conveying Jack Horner’s sophisticated dilemma as a film-maker and theoretician of adult content.

A hard-core movie with a soft, light-hearted center and an edge like a knife.

Anderson is young enough to be post-hip and post-ironic, if such terms are possible.

As lensed brillantly by 26-year-old Anderson, the movie is at once tasteful and raunchy.

The movie's special gift happens to be Mark Wahlberg, who gives a terrifically appealing performance in this tricky role.

It's a deeply divided film--hugely ambitious and uneven, with sequences that seem to point to a new, comically flagrant movie sexuality and others that drag one into the funky muddle of the dreariest dopehead downers from the '70s.

Heavily influenced by Quentin Tarantino's brand of quirky sensationalism, this high-energy saga by Paul Thomas Anderson goes a long way toward exposing the greed and stupidity of the pornography trade, then loses its moral compass and steers toward a sadly superficial ending.

In Paul Thomas Anderson's brilliant resume, this movie still comes out at number 1. The screenplay is multi-faceted, funny, touching, disturbing and sad. The casting is spot on and tempo for a 2 1/2 hour movie never slows. How Titanic won a best picture oscar and this wasn't even nominated for it is just laughable.

“My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.” Farewell to a screen legend. Burt Reynolds was a total bad-ass. Loved him in 'Boogie Nights', 'Deliverance', and much more. He made the 1970s Hollywood like mustache his own. R.I.P

Boogie Nights is one that lacks pace and direction as it has a mixture of ideas and plots in thoughts that do not come together in a coherent manner but however it does have some good acting.

I liked it tough it seemed Paul Thomas Anderson being somewhere halfway between Robert Altman and Martin Scorsese without being able to be neither one nor the other. The movie still remains a watchable movie because PTA is simply unable to shot a bad movie but here we're far from the real PTA masterworks.

Like all PTA films Boogie Nights looks stunning. A clever analogy for the beauty, innocence and art of cinema and celluloid, being replaced by cheap and nasty mass-produced video, made solely for profit and entertainment. What's interesting is how PTA is able the make such a sleazy and immoral environment seem so fun and innocent, within the first act. When the 80's arrive and everything takes a turn for the worst, the writing lost its way and Boogie Nights becomes a bit of a mess (I thought the same of Magnolia). We lose touch with the central characters and Wahlberg (who is great in the 1st half) doesn't have the chops to play the latter stages of his character's demise. The character/scene's which made the greatest impression were with Eric and his mother, based on PTA's own mother. Bogie Nights is still a great achievement, especially considering PTA was only 27 when he made it.