Stream it now Boogie Nights 1997

 

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A unique movie about the Adult film industry in the 1970s to the 1980s. The movie is really excellent. The story is about the rise and fall of a male porn star Dirk Diggler. How he enters in the adult industry business and become a huge star. The movie is very daring in its aprroach. Has sex, drugs, violence, nudity.

Acting was super specially by Mark Whalberg and Julianne Moore. Nice cinematography and nice sets. It had the feel of late 70s and early 80s. The background music was super and kept changing according to the mood of the scene. Loved the dialogue and was very engaging in most of the scenes.

The only thing I felt was incomplete was the ending of the movie, dont know why but I felt there was something missing.

Overall Boogie Nights was a good experience and enjoyed watching it. but it is Adults only movie.

The Ratings:

-Entertainment: 100%
-Performances: 80%
-Direction: 90%
-Cinematography/Special effects: 80%
-Background Music: 80%
-Duration: 80%

Overall: 85% ====> 90%

Boogie nights is a fantastic film. It takes a look at the rise and fall of the porn indistry in the late seventies and early eighties. Great perfomances by all and a remarkable comeback by Burt Reynolds. Paul Thomas Anderson decides to let his actors make the film by letting them act out entire scenes at a time with very few edits. Great directing and well written script. Boogie nights is flat out a awesome movie.

Paul Thomas Anderson is such a great director that he can take a huge cast and turn it into a character study for each and every role.

Boogie Nights has alot of kahonaz to show what's shown in the movie, but what is the final result? Top notch acting, excellent story and enough twists and turns to keep you guessing for the whole 2 and a half hours

The role Mark Walburg was born to play.

Boogie Nights is not just a movie about the porn industry, but a compelling look into the troubled individuals whose lives are absorbed and ever changed by the sex industry. The characters are perfectly cast, and the scenes are filled with tension and humor. The scenes that take place during the 80s are heartbreaking, but emotionally packed. I love this film.

Boogie Nights is a masterpiece. A 2 1/2 hour epic about the pornography industry (or more specifically, the people working in the pornography industry) in the late 70's and early 80's, Boogie Nights is packed with surprises. Sure, the rise-and-fall style story has been done before, but Boogie Nights still is a hugely refreshing film that's bursting with originality.

The most noticeable unique aspect of Boogie Nights is its cast - which is unusual for its size and eclectic mix of talented actors. Mark Wahlberg leads the film as Dirk Diggler, in easily his best performance. Wahlberg pulls off his character arc perfectly, being utterly convincing as both the sweetly naive, ambitious 17-year old and the cynical, burnt-out cocaine addict he would later become. Burt Reynolds also gives a possible career-best performance as Jack Horner, the laid-back pornographer who is both sleazy and easily likable. Julianne Moore is heartbreakingly good as Amber Waves, a broken porn star who has lost custody of her son and taken to mothering Dirk.

These three are supporting by a huge cast of actors including John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Melora Walters, Thomas Jane, and Alfred Molina, and not one of them plays a dull or half-baked character. I could honestly spend separate paragraphs talking about each individual character in Boogie Nights, they all seem incredibly human - complete with flaws and quirks and their own mannerisms. It's obvious that Paul Thomas Anderson had plenty of affection for his characters.

Perhaps even more impressive than the bucketful of insanely brilliant actors is Paul Thomas Anderson's directorial talent - especially considering this was only his second film! Anderson masterfully juggles the huge cast, amazingly never letting Boogie Nights splinter into complete chaos. Even if you took apart Boogie Nights scene by scene, each one of them is beautifully directed somehow - I particularly loved the loose, visually stunning long shots, where characters are allowed to bounce off each other and interact in a very life-like way. Anderson makes Boogie Nights one of the most energetic and invigorating films out there - even with the long running time, the film is so smooth and entertaining that, by the end of each viewing, I only want more. Boogie Nights could've been an hour longer and I doubt I would've noticed or cared.

Overall, Boogie Nights is easily one of my all-time favorites. There are very few other films that have left me this exhilirated, refreshed, and satisfied. Don't let the subject matter turn you off - yes, Boogie Nights has plenty of sex and nudity, but nothing here is meant to be pornographic. You could even say that Boogie Nights is anti-pornography, showing the out-of-control egos and drug problems that eventually come along with it - but at the same time finding plenty of surprising compassion and humor in a bizarre "family" of pornographers.

Paul Thomas Anderson's first masterpiece proved that it was possible to make an art film involving a family of pornographers. It's an unconventional character study with a great ensemble cast and uncompromising direction by Anderson.

Boogie Nights is one of those exuberant cinematic landmarks that gets you excited about movies. You feel like reaching out and hugging the medium.

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I seriously can't handle movies that are slow and DRAG. The movie is okay. I love Mark Whalberg. And Mark and John C. Reilly being all buddy movie = amazing

but this movie to me was eh.