Film: Phantom Thread (PTA/Daniel Day-Lewis)

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Mid January?

nobody knows

[The Argonaut]

I saw it, but I don't really know what it was about. It was pretty good, but I don't think I'll ever care to see it again

[B]

I thought Daniel Day-Lewis retired?

And, wow, I have no interest in that movie.

[The Argonaut]

This is supposedly his last movie.

[epilogue]

I saw it, but I don't really know what it was about. It was pretty good, but I don't think I'll ever care to see it again

Bummer

[Simple Torture]

I dug this movie, but similar to what strat said above, I don't have an immediate desire to see it again. That differs from most of PTA's movies that I love--when the credits hit for TWBB, I just want to start it all over again, every time. I had the unfortunate experience of watching Phantom Thread in 25-minute chunks while feeding babies in the middle of the night--I think if I really immersed myself in it for 2+ hours straight I might be more inclined to praise it highly. Saying "the acting was great" feels like a cheat because everyone knows it is / knew it would be. I think my favorite parts were when the characters let loose--so much of it is so stuffy and tense that when the characters let their guard down (I'm thinking of when they kiss on the street after taking the dress back from the drunk lady, or when they're driving in the car around the time of their first meeting) that it feels so fresh and earned. This is the opposite of how I felt in The Master--my favorite stuff in that was the intense one-on-one stuff, and the wide-open scenes felt like the moving taking a breath for the better scenes. Just an interesting reversal to me.

I think it's already clear that it's going to fit into his career-long focus on con-men, which I'm totally on board with.

In retrospect, I think I was wrong here.

[evenslow]

Loved this thing. Saw it twice in the theaters (I never do this) and look forward to seeing it again.

[LoathedVermin72]

The longer I sit with this movie, the more I absolutely fucking loathe it. It's to the point where I'm actually starting to dislike PTA in general because I hate this one movie so much.

[Simple Torture]

The longer I sit with this movie, the more I absolutely fucking loathe it. It's to the point where I'm actually starting to dislike PTA in general because I hate this one movie so much.

Reading over your comment, you know what this movie didn't make me do much of? I didn't feel much of anything while I watched it. I didn't love it, I didn't hate it; I didn't feel sympathetic for any of the characters, I didn't feel anger or disappointment over any of their decisions, I didn't feel relieved at their triumphs or sad at their failings; it was almost an entirely cerebral experience. That's not a great thing, and surprising for a director who made me feel sympathy for fucking Tom Cruise's character in Magnolia.

[evenslow]

Troglodytes, the lot of you.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tree_]

Probably my favorite movie of all time.

[LoathedVermin72]

lol

[tree_]

I thought you'd like this,LV. You're my archnemesis, apparently. You jerkface.

[VinylGuy]

I loved it. Beautifully crafted, framed and acted. Brilliant score that stand on its own and a marvelous scrip about love with so many layers.
PT at the top of his game.

1-There Will Be Blood
2-The Master
3-Hard Eight
4-Phantom Thread
5-Magnolia
6-Boogie Nights
7-Punch Drunk Love
8-Inherent Vice

[The Argonaut]

Punch Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood
Boogie Nights
The Master
Magnolia
Phantom Thread
Hard Eight
Inherent Vice

[VinylGuy]

Argo is a romantic.

Who knew right?

[tree_]

I'm liking this but confused why hard eight is so high and blood should be first and thread at least close to second

[LoathedVermin72]

Punch-Drunk Love
There Will Be Blood (due for a rewatch)
The Master
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
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Inherent Vice
Hard Eight
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Phantom Thread

[tree_]

Goddamn it LV