Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) Movie • Page 16

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god damn

 

All of me wants to go, but I’m going to a show the night prior and I don’t think I could do both

 

Spoilers.

 

Make the Case: Why ‘Phantom Thread’ Deserves Best Picture

 

sean fennessey must read

 

Good article.

I like this movie more in retrospect, and would appreciate it more on further viewings. I think, looking back, I was uncomfortable by the story and themes explored in this film. I was disturbed by the subtle (yet completely in-your-face) emotional abuse shared almost lovingly between the two characters. I believe I was disturbed by how comically this played, challenging the way the film explored how all relationships consist of (in their own ways) a ritualistic dynamic shifting between two partners and their individual personalities, in discovering a mutually-accepted power balance. This concept is extremely heavy, but comes through so naturally between Alma and Woodcock that it's received by the audience as banter. Very beautiful, and feels disturbingly real.

I haven't seen them all but my PTA ranking so far would probably look like this:

Magnolia > Boogie Nights > There Will Be Blood > Phantom Thread

Still gotta see the others though I've heard bad things about Inherent Vice.

 

It's not bad. It's just not as good as many of his other films.

 

Yeah Inherent Vice gets way too much undeserved hate. It's obviously not on the same level as some of his other films, but it has some really great performances and is also easily PTA's most "fun" movie. I will say, though, as I usually do when discussing Inherent Vice, that I did read the book prior to seeing it so that might color my opinions on it somewhat.

 

I don't know that I've ever agreed more with anything I've ever read written about a movie.

 

It's so funny to me how much my girlfriend hated the movie. I think she gets caught up in the fact that the story is very simple and isn't particulary rivetting. This movie is basically a character study about Woodcock and the dynamics of a toxic relationship, both with work and with your significant other.

I want her to watch There Will Be Blood, but I feel like she'll feel the same way she does about PT. Ugh.

 

My fiancé vehemently despises PTA's work, always gives me crap for showing her There Will Be Blood (which she calls "the worst movie [she's] ever seen"). So I feel your pain on that one.

 

My girlfriend also disliked Phantom Thread. She's never seen There Will Be Blood but I feel she'd probably be bored by it. It might have to do with PTA's fascination with the male antihero.

 

I've noticed my girlfriend stuggles to comprehend reprehensible characters and gets zero enjoyment or intrigue out of them. She always seems to expect a finale, or a conflict to overcome, and resolution. When this and It Follows ended she said "That's it?".

@OotyPa nailed it that PTA has fascination with the male antihero. I personally love it.

 

God damn the final shot of It Follows is so effing perfect though

I feel like Phantom Thread movie actually has a pretty definite resolution, though, personally.

 

Omg

 

i’m just imagining XO playing during the omelette scene

 

Solid film, I feel like I'd enjoy it alot more on a second viewing, it was alot funnier than I expected lol.

 

I this movie I have to go see it again asap

 

how is that even fucking possible

 

haha, just realized your username

 

She just doesn't enjoy it, I don't know.

 

Paul Thomas Anderson movies are not for everyone. They are on the verge of mainstream, but they can be a little bit too weird for the average person to sit through. Half of my theater walked out of The Master.

 

He struck something pretty universally appealing with TWBB though. Idk how anyone could watch it and not find anything to like. Theyre really just not paying attention at that point. The first 30 minutes of that movie is maybe the best opening in all of cinema.

 

Or people have different tastes?

"They're really just not paying attention at that point" ffs