The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)

[Pop Trash]

Watch Boogie Nights MadMan. It's very entertaining.

[Pop Trash]

The Master is very good you guys. I'll have to let it digest a bit, but it's probably his most low key effort since...Hard Eight maybe? His most focused effort to date, hardly any setpieces (maybe none at all really), and I quite liked the lack of crazy shit happening at the end. Don't expect any frogs, bowling pin assaults, or large penises. Think more of the ending to Punch Drunk Love.

OBVIOUS STATEMENT ALERT: Philip Seymour Hoffman is a great actor. Also, I don't care what anyone says, I think he's better here than Daniel Day Lewis in TWBB.

I don't think it's quite at the level of other recent great American films like The Tree of Life, Take Shelter, or Margaret, but obv. your opinion might be higher depending on how much you like PTA in general.

Anyways, I'll be happy to answer further questions, but tip your waiter, and rep me.

[Sven]

OBVIOUSly wrong STATEMENT ALERT: Phillip Seymour Hoffman is a great actor.

Fixed for truth.

Though seriously, as it has been pointed out here before, PTA definitely gets Hoffman's best performances, and I look forward to this one. I'm just still reeling from the tremendous offense of Capote.[/loves basking in the righteous minority]

[Pop Trash]

Fixed for truth.

Though seriously, as it has been pointed out here before, PTA definitely gets Hoffman's best performances, and I look forward to this one. I'm just still reeling from the tremendous offense of Capote.[/loves basking in the righteous minority]

Go to bed.

[Sven]

Go to bed.

How did you know?

[Milky Joe]

Sven's hatred of PSH is one of the most confusing match-cut quirks. I love so much else about you, man. You just have to go and live up to your reputation somewhere, don't you?

[Sven]

Sven's hatred of PSH is one of the most confusing match-cut quirks. I love so much else about you, man. You just have to go and live up to your reputation somewhere, don't you?

The sight of him gives me a pinching pain in my guts.

[MadMan]

Watch Boogie Nights MadMan. It's very entertaining.

So I've heard, Pop Trash. So I've heard.

And I love PSH. So far my favorite performance of his though is Brandt in The Big Lebowski. That one doesn't get mentioned enough.

[Milky Joe]

I sometimes wonder what kind of freakshow Twister might have have been without his invaluable contributions.

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"Red meat! We crave sustenance!"

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"Oh I've seen the Extreme in high gear!"

[Boner M]

PTA cited Apichatpong as his favorite filmmaker of today at the film's Venice press conference.

[Henry Gale]

Interesting to hear that some chunks of footage from those first teasers apparently aren't in the actual film. Particularly the stuff with Phoenix being asked about violent incidents and him yelling at Hoffman in a cell.

Maybe you could verify that, Pop Trash. Not sure if means the final film consciously chooses to make Phoenix appear more innocent, but I'll probably leave that sort of thing to decide for myself after I see it. Just seems odd since I think Anderson edited those promos himself.

[Mysterious Dude]

I think the trailer for Magnolia also had some stuff that wasn't in the movie.

[Ezee E]

Happens frequently actually.

[Raiders]

Trailers have to be out before the final editing of a film is finished, so it only makes sense.

[Henry Gale]

I just think the key distinction is the teasers weren't assembled from some third party for a studio. Anderson edited them himself, and considering that they weren't released too long ago, it's interesting to think that the film must have been only taking shape really recently.

Or he purposely included those bits to have them out there in people's minds even though he knew they wouldn't end up in the final cut.

[Pop Trash]

Interesting to hear that some chunks of footage from those first teasers apparently aren't in the actual film. Particularly the stuff with Phoenix being asked about violent incidents and him yelling at Hoffman in a cell.

Maybe you could verify that, Pop Trash.

Hmm...I don't remember the violent incidents scene being in the actual film, but I could be wrong. There is a scene where Phoenix and other WWII vets are briefed on what to do with their lives now that they are home. The scene in jail is most definitely in the final film (at least the cut I watched...I'm curious if PTA will pull a Kubrick/Malick and recut the film after these initial screenings) and is quite amusing.