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DVD : Boogie Nights [DVD] [1998]starring: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán, Rico Bueno directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of Good Fellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it isn't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of 70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the 90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Boogie Nights - Tongue in Cheek'Boogie Nights' presents not only an incredibly impressive cast (I'm sure we wouldn't have seen most of them in this if it had been made 6 years later) but a sound script and tight dialogue. It's an interesting insight into how the porn industry used to be, but it's certainly starting to show its age. A good watch. Rating:  - severely indebted to GoodfellasAnderson's first movie is fun but its over long at 3 hours. It rips off the Scorsese/ Goodfellas winning combination of great music and plenty of long tracking shots with a voice over. Try something like that at College or University and you'll get done for plagiarism. 6/10. Rating:  - The definative review about Boogie NightsSince enough comments have been made about this horrifical, mastered version of an excellent film, let me share with you what you need to do to get your hands on an A+++ quality edition, as my recent epic journey has finally come to an end. For the last 2 years I have tried to find a properly mastered PAL version of this movie and no matter what I tried, I either found the same dubious DVR copy which Amazon UK is selling or it was the NTSC version from the U.S. England, ... Read More Rating:  - oh dear!I can't understand why this is such a highly rated film!! There is nothing good about it except mindless violence, drug taking and stupid sexual innuendos. Fair enough this film is based on the porn industry so I would be a bit confused if there was no sex in it whatsoever but it's just the way it's shot and acted that seems so tacky. I apologize to people who have put this at the top of their hundred greatest films list but I really disliked it! Rating: - Oh What A Night!!Ok before i start my review of this movie/DVD please note that the comments other people have made about the aspect ration being messed up are wrong! I found no problem what so ever with this disc and there was certainly no "oogie Nights" at the start! Now onto the movie.... This film rightly deserves to be called a classic. Why? Becuase it's unique. There have been a few imitations (Wonderland is one) but non have ever come close to the sheer power and honesty of this movie. Many people ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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