Reminder that PTA is the greatest living american directorr

reminder that PTA is the greatest living american directorr

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If the Coens died right now, maybe.

heh..nothing personel boys

not even close

>korine
hello r_ddit

Korine is okay but cmon son

>muh nihilism
>muh irony

Unironically speaking Spring Breakers was far better kino than Inherent Vice or Hail Caeser.

Reminder that the master is pure cultkino

PTA is the dictionary definition of entry level cinema. He not only steals from better directors, but he does it without any irony like Tarantino.

I am personally fine with it though. Because through PTA, all these freshmen college students will discover Robert Altman, who was the real deal. They will discover Scorsese, the most important American film director of our time, they will discover Kubrick, and the Coen Bros.

Through Altman, they will discover Renoir, through Kubrick, they will discover Ophuls, Scorsese to Fellini. Suddenly they realize PTA was just a child with no original thoughts in his head, that his films just revolve around quoting better directors while adding epic catch phrases like "I drink your milkshake!" and "Pig fuck!" Really there is no bigger clue in to how meaningless his cinema is when the only thing people discuss when mentioning his movies are 'le epic catch phrases, dude!'

You might say great artist steal, but what Picasso meant by this is that great artists are able to understand what works and manipulate it. PTA merely 'mimics'. This is why it is completely obvious who he is mimicking from film to film.

Yeah, he is one of the few directors that makes great spiritual kino. I love him

I agree

non ironically,

i hate this guy so much. He thinks he is one of the greats when is films are just okay.

Hack.

>Harmeme Redditine

Not even in the same league

good posts

>2017
>still no movie to come close to The Master

Will it be topped lads? Or should be just go ahead and declare it the movie of the decade already?

you should watch more movies

The Master = synthetic kino made by pretend auteur

Agreed, it was pedantic and cold. The characters were acted well, but the situations and the extremely calculated (every shot in rule of thirds meticulously, perfectly lit, no chaos) way in which it was shot takes away from any real emotion.

Spring Breakers is by far a better film.

Martin Scorsese & David Lynch are still alive and working.

That doesn't mean anything

Control is the central theme of the movie, so it makes sense.

"No!"

>so it makes sense.
every PTA movie looks and feels like that
he's a hack

Pic related & Malick.

>implying any living American directors are great

I don't know about you, but I was watching Scorsese, Kubrick, and the Coens long before I got into PTA.

Don't post that hack ever again.

when are you going to stop making these stupid threads, Paul?

>epic catch phrases like "I drink your milkshake!" and "Pig fuck!"

They're all on around the same tier in terms of accessibility. The phase 2 IMDBcore for the 15 year old who has decided he'll broaden his horizons beyond capeshit and Nolantino.

He has gotten better over time. His earlier stuff like "Magnolia" is so self-important and melodramatic. You could tell he had talent, but it was all a bit much. I really like his later movies like "The Master" and "Inherent Vice".

Magnolia sucks but boogie nights was great and inherent vice sucks bit the master and twbb are great. He is probably the most inconsistent director alive today

Magnolia was three hours of stupid nonsense

Inherent Vice, The Master and Punch Drunk Love are his only good films. Stuff like Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood is puerile video game inflected IMDB fodder.

>Stuff like Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood is puerile video game inflected IMDB fodder.
sup pleb

Those are his plebbiest movies. Dig beneath the artifice of legitimacy and you will see that the heart of capeshit is what is beating deep within those flicks. The CGI explosions and quips replaced with meme acting, epin long takes, and the evocation of an age of lost hollywood auteurism. The pro-entertainment audience serving capeshit heart still beats away.

THRUM...

THRUM....

THRUM...

>t. Kevin Smith

did you think that was funny?

It's the truth. Out of all of his films those two are easily the ones that are most accessible to cheeto dust snorting "entertainment" viewers. That's why they're so praised by entry level IMDB children while something like Inherent Vice is relatively maligned.

>greatest living director

Meh, I'll give you that he is among the best ''famous'' directors.
That said I've always found his movie rather inconsistent. The cinematography is always technically perfect, but it comes up as evident (imho you shouldn't notice it) and almost always derivative (you can almost easily pinpoint the cinematographers that influenced PTA).
His stories always deal with seemingly deep concepts, but it never trascends on them. This results in plots filled with satisfying scenes, but still unable to be coherent and comprehensive. Having read many of his interviews I know for a fact that this is not a deliberate choice, and it stems from the fact that PTA is ultimately a poor writer.

PTA is closer to a comic writer than a novelist.

no, it was terrible
>Tom Cruise hates his father and gets upset when interviewer asks him questions
>Julianne Moore is a bimbo and gets upset when anyone tries talking to her
>Philip Seymour Hoffman buys Playboy magazines
>William H Macy is obsessed with getting braces for no reason. Also hates his father
>Little kid hates his father and pees his pants
GREAT MOVIE DUMBASS

Magnolia is his plebbiest film.

It's certainly on the shittier side of his filmography but I don't know if it's his plebbiest since I don't see video game hotpocket types embracing that movie anywhere near the degree of There Will Be Blood for example.

When the autistic kid is screaming at his mother in the supermarket I'm not hearing Magnolia quotes coming out of his mouth.

But There Will Be Blood is actually good.

Please tell me the story of the autistic kid

When why are enemies of art enabled by it? It may as well be star wars or a porn film if it's putting smiles on the faces of infantile video game players.

He peaked with There Will Be Blood. The Master had good moments but was incoherent as a whole, and Inherent Vice was even worse in that regard

it's good at jerking off Sup Forums's ego when they deciper all the contrived symbolism

pta has nothing to do with videogames
his movies are art and he is literally one of the best working directors. twbb is a masterpiece
are you autistic?

I agree

An artist transcending the memes of so called "coherency" is a positive thing. He grew up and stopped making films that catered to audiences.

Daniel-Day Lewis is the guy who sold the movie to plebs. Everyone sees him as a true artist and his filmography is excellent, therefore no one will shit on that movie, especially considering that it is not that hard to watch. The plot is linear and there is really no aesthetic choice that directly goes against the average joe's taste.

That said, I can't really think about any big flaw in that movie, and I can see in it lots of merit.
I don't see why should I disparage it, considering that I don't really care about what plebs on reddit think about it.

The master is his best film, redditor

>stopped making films that catered to audiences

Yeah, a movie with perfect editing, a strong, polarizing plot, extremely charismatic characters and visually perfect is totally not catering to the audiences.
Give me a break, There Will Be Blood is not an obscure, hard to follow movie. It is as straightforward as it gets.

>pta has nothing to do with videogames
So it's just a coincidence that 95% of the people who would call There Will Be Blood one of the all time great films have played (and some even continuing to play) video games? You seem pretty fresh from the normie "movie buff" zone where your entry level views can go unchallenged. Come here from a different board to talk about the oscar nominations?

>coherence is a meme
l m a o
show me any movie - blockbuster, mainstream indie, arthouse or experimental - that lacks coherence and still manages to be good

This is what happens when the only people you talk to are people from Sup Forums and reddit.
Leave your fucking house and talk to actual cinema enthusiasts, and stop taking seriously random people on the internet.

There Will Be Blood is pleb fodder. Read the post I was replying to. TWBB represents PTA catering to audiences. I was implying that The Master and Inherent Vice were him moving away from that desire.

Seeing the master inn theaters was the greatest movie experience of my life. I imagine this is what it was like to see 2001 in theaters: history being made

I'm a cinephile. I've watched all the greats
TWBB is fantastic

Which film of his has the most technically engulfing visuals? IMHO There Will Be Blood

wtf why is it supposed to be good, the story sounds fucking shitty and i didn't like there will be blood

Should I watch The Master?

Scorsese died?

I feel that PTA's best is yet to bloom out. As some anons already said, his style was merely cinephiliac piggybacking of the great american directors. Now, with Inherent Vice (which was a terrific opportunity for neo-Altman), he seems to have found his own way of doing things, treating the scene and the actors. I look forward for his next films, but the rest of his filmography, with Punch Drunk Love as an exception (not really outstanding, but still) is pretty worthless to me.

>a film must be incomprehensible to most people to be good

fucking pseud

It's got two fantastic lead performances, great cinematography, and is just a pleasure to watch. Score is a little overbearing at times

Inherent Vice is about as good an adaptation of a Pynchon novel as you could possibly get, which is impressive given that 99% of other directors would fail at such a task completely.

Favorite pta scenes?
1. No blinking
2. Limo scene with rollergirl/cut with dirk beaten up
3. Oil explosion

1: no blinking/first processing
2: scene where they do heroin and get stopped in the car
3: pheonix and hoffman in jail (acting is great)

The type of so called "cinema enthusiasts" who actually go outside are mostly just plebs who's heads are filled with second hand reddit bullshit regurgitated from the popular consensus of the mainstream "movie buff" circle jerk which is in turn informed by the rotten tomatoes approved pleb critic bloggersphere.

Last time I spoke to somebody about films in the flesh they were talking about shit like Whiplash and Interstellar as if they were incredible masterpieces with a completely straight face. At first I was about to laugh but then I realized they were serious. If you want discerning opinions about film then I'm not man. Not some retard who falls for some crap film like Arrival that was constructed with the very purpose of tricking him into thinking it was impressive.

Most so called film fans are happy to just let the critics fill their heads with the correct opinions and then find validation among the company of their like minded peers. Mainstream film discussion is all just a con to trick people into thinking they're not alone, into thinking they matter. Who among them is willing to shed blood for their so called "beliefs".

Pig Fuck scene in the Master
Jail scene in the Master
Joaquin walking between the window and the wall in the Master

Why is the master so GOAT bros? First hour and a half at least

hahahaha

I don't know which is worse; the stupidity of this post or the amount of underage edgemeisters who think this is informed criticism.

The extent of PTA's "stealing" is literally a few visual homages. He doesn't steal literal stories, styles or mannerisms, just the odd shot to reference the films that he loved.

And more than that, Kubrick and the fucking Coen brothers are a hundred times more mainstream than PTA. No one watches a PTA film and then finds them, but the opposite happens frequently. You're detached from reality to try and argue otherwise.
But then the way you reference two lines that the internet memes as if they're legitimate criticisms confirms that you have no intellectual ability to evaluate and are simply jumping on the contrarian bandwagon

name five american directors better than PTA
you literally can't, you fucking pseud

>Score is a little overbearing at times

That's my only major pet peeve with PTA. 'Magnolia' is by far the worst offender in that regard. 'The Master' is relatively subdued in comparison.

Man, this is serious advice: get outta here. Start reading critic blogs, talking in the coments, and selecting people whose opinion matters or are very cultured; maybe doing it yourself, even if you suck at it (which most do).

Sup Forums is not the place where "educated" discussion happens. It's a lil bit more hard to find.

This post reeks of antisocial cinicism, and r

>Spring Breakers is by far a better film.
Spring Breakers is a terrible film and you should feel bad for indulging that hack Korine who literally made a 5 minute music video last 2 hours

In your opinion, what are the top 10 films of 2007?

>using buzzwords to criticise without actually expressing anything
what did he mean by this?

>being accessible is bad
Tell me more about how The Counselor is the greatest work of American art

>He doesn't steal literal stories, styles or mannerisms, just the odd shot to reference the films that he loved.
Imagine being this naive. PTA is trying so hard to be Altman at times it's palpable

The master by far

>actual legit criticism in a PTA thread
Dude, you're supposed to meme about how he's a worse Tarantino or praise him for being a qt indie darling

I think The Master is one of the best written films of the 21st century though

Malick
Coens
Mann
Gray
Lynch

Interstellar was a good fucking movie you autist

>Sup Forums loves the master now
All is well

I don't think that it makes sense to compare them. They all go for different aesthetics, and they always 100% succeed in achieving it.
There are many faults in his movies, cinematography is not one of them.

It may be derivative, but it's still eye candy at its finest.

>the condescending, clueless plebeian
the thread is now complete

>no u
Is this the first time someone's actually bothered to disagree with you so you don't how to respond to arguments?
Or are you just a dumbfuck?

Explain how PTA is trying to be Altman please

>arguments
please.

>Explain how PTA is trying to be Altman please
how many altman movies have you watched? how many pta movies have you watched?
only someone that hasn't delved deep enough into their works would even ask this

Altman
Ford
Griffith
Keaton
Welles

Didn't say alive, my boy!

If alive: Eastwood, Linklater, de Palma, Benning and Mann

so basically you can't answer? cool
it's nice of you to admit that you're mentally impaired

Once in my life I would have happily named you a list of films that I thought I had been impressed by. The types that would have inhabited the top 10 lists of critics or been rated highly by online film communities. But at some point I grew up and realized that film is worthless. It's all one giant Jew controlled system of fraud to collect your dollar and that's all it is. Any notions you have about art having value is something you're going to have to put aside. You could watch The Assassination of Jesse James. Or you could watch Jack and Jill. Or you could spend 3 hours jerking off. None of it matters. It's all distraction.

Movies are out there to trick you. Every time you see value in a film is a moment of personal weakness. Think there was some profound truth within this film that resonated with you? They got one over on you. It's all a meme intended to keep you pumping money into their machine.

>Eastwood
Jesus Christ hahahahahaga

PTA has many times stated the heavy influence Altman has on his work

grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/good-disintegration-paul-thomas-anderson-and-robert-altmans-special-relationship/

so you haven't watched any altman, I suppose?
go away, child

pleb, pure and simple

Eastwood is amazing, as an actor, director, as a person.

You can change him with Fincher if you're that much of a pleb.

did you get those 2 mixed up?

I'm aware of that. Being influenced by someone doesn't mean that you're trying to be them
Tarantino has frequently admitted that was influenced by Scorsese, would you say he was trying to be Scorsese?
Watched loads of Altman. That's why I know you're full of shit