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Again I can't find this film in the special reserve DVD catagory. Why? I do not know, cause it is a classic film about the 70s pornography industry.
‘Everyone’s born with one special thing’, says Eddie Adams. The young Adams is spotted by veteran porn director Jack Horner, and soon to be known as Dirk Diggler, he and his 13-inch human love sausage take the pornography world by storm.
‘I like pornography, so I thought lets make a movie about the pornography industry’, says Paul Anderson (Director). However, Boogie Nights (1998) is much more than your average porn movie. A lot more. For a movie about the porn industry it is fun, tragic and touching at times. It is a very tender film, similar to Magnolia (2000), showing sides to the characters lives rarely shown in films.
It is a film about the pornography industry, however, it is not a porn film, it is a character study. The sex, drugs and violence are only there to fuel the plot for these characters.
The film is a thoroughly involving character study studying characters of all variety. What Anderson does best is show us their humanity as characters but it is the actors themselves that really give their characters soul. There are exceptional performances from the whole cast. Mark Wahlberg carries the film superbly as the naïve kid turn arrogant super star. We sympathise with his character at first as he tries to loose his wretched mother, but as his confidence grows he overestimates his talent, claiming that his movies have saved thousands of relationships, and as he becomes increasingly aggressive thanks to his cocaine addiction we hold a sense of hate for him at times. But he soon finds his ground as he comes crawling back to Jack and things are back where they started. Moore is great as the sweet mothering figure to Wahlberg’s character and Burt Reynolds’ charisma and experience shine through as the veteran porn director Jack Horner. H. Macy does an excellent job playing the part of Little Bill when hiding his outer rage when he has to cope with his wife’s constant sexual relationships with other men in public. We hold the deepest of sympathy for his character and are left stunned when he unexpectedly shoots his wife and the man she was sleeping with then shoots himself. Yet we have no time to consider what has happened because the film cuts straight away to a completely different setting.
It is a hilarious film as well as a tender and sometimes tragic one. John C. Reilly is brilliantly funny as Reed Rothchild. ‘Have you seen Star Wars? People say I look like Han Solo.’ His timing and precision of his lines are perfect and he really stands out although only having a minor part in the movie.
Boogie Nights does confront certain moral issues, but only weakly. It shows the dangerous consequences drug use can have on people, but only to minor characters. At times it seems to be an idealization of the pornography industry, as it does not confront the other issues such as AIDS, unintended pregnancy, and abortions which were the major problems of the pornography industry in the 70s. But Boogie Nights is not meant to be a true depiction of this; Anderson’s only concern to tell a story about peoples lives that just happen to revolve around the pornography industry because he likes pornography.
Well, at least he is honest.
‘Everyone’s born with one special thing’, says Eddie Adams. The young Adams is spotted by veteran porn director Jack Horner, and soon to be known as Dirk Diggler, he and his 13-inch human love sausage take the pornography world by storm.
‘I like pornography, so I thought lets make a movie about the pornography industry’, says Paul Anderson (Director). However, Boogie Nights (1998) is much more than your average porn movie. A lot more. For a movie about the porn industry it is fun, tragic and touching at times. It is a very tender film, similar to Magnolia (2000), showing sides to the characters lives rarely shown in films.
It is a film about the pornography industry, however, it is not a porn film, it is a character study. The sex, drugs and violence are only there to fuel the plot for these characters.
The film is a thoroughly involving character study studying characters of all variety. What Anderson does best is show us their humanity as characters but it is the actors themselves that really give their characters soul. There are exceptional performances from the whole cast. Mark Wahlberg carries the film superbly as the naïve kid turn arrogant super star. We sympathise with his character at first as he tries to loose his wretched mother, but as his confidence grows he overestimates his talent, claiming that his movies have saved thousands of relationships, and as he becomes increasingly aggressive thanks to his cocaine addiction we hold a sense of hate for him at times. But he soon finds his ground as he comes crawling back to Jack and things are back where they started. Moore is great as the sweet mothering figure to Wahlberg’s character and Burt Reynolds’ charisma and experience shine through as the veteran porn director Jack Horner. H. Macy does an excellent job playing the part of Little Bill when hiding his outer rage when he has to cope with his wife’s constant sexual relationships with other men in public. We hold the deepest of sympathy for his character and are left stunned when he unexpectedly shoots his wife and the man she was sleeping with then shoots himself. Yet we have no time to consider what has happened because the film cuts straight away to a completely different setting.
It is a hilarious film as well as a tender and sometimes tragic one. John C. Reilly is brilliantly funny as Reed Rothchild. ‘Have you seen Star Wars? People say I look like Han Solo.’ His timing and precision of his lines are perfect and he really stands out although only having a minor part in the movie.
Boogie Nights does confront certain moral issues, but only weakly. It shows the dangerous consequences drug use can have on people, but only to minor characters. At times it seems to be an idealization of the pornography industry, as it does not confront the other issues such as AIDS, unintended pregnancy, and abortions which were the major problems of the pornography industry in the 70s. But Boogie Nights is not meant to be a true depiction of this; Anderson’s only concern to tell a story about peoples lives that just happen to revolve around the pornography industry because he likes pornography.
Well, at least he is honest.
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Again I can't find this film in the special reserve DVD catagory. Why? I do not know, cause it is a classic film about the 70s pornography industry.
‘Everyone’s born with one special thing’, says Eddie Adams. The young Adams is spotted by veteran porn director Jack Horner, and soon to be known as Dirk Diggler, he and his 13-inch human love sausage take the pornography world by storm.
‘I like pornography, so I thought lets make a movie about the pornography industry’, says Paul Anderson (Director). However, Boogie Nights (1998) is much more than your average porn movie. A lot more. For a movie about the porn industry it is fun, tragic and touching at times. It is a very tender film, similar to Magnolia (2000), showing sides to the characters lives rarely shown in films.
It is a film about the pornography industry, however, it is not a porn film, it is a character study. The sex, drugs and violence are only there to fuel the plot for these characters.
The film is a thoroughly involving character study studying characters of all variety. What Anderson does best is show us their humanity as characters but it is the actors themselves that really give their characters soul. There are exceptional performances from the whole cast. Mark Wahlberg carries the film superbly as the naïve kid turn arrogant super star. We sympathise with his character at first as he tries to loose his wretched mother, but as his confidence grows he overestimates his talent, claiming that his movies have saved thousands of relationships, and as he becomes increasingly aggressive thanks to his cocaine addiction we hold a sense of hate for him at times. But he soon finds his ground as he comes crawling back to Jack and things are back where they started. Moore is great as the sweet mothering figure to Wahlberg’s character and Burt Reynolds’ charisma and experience shine through as the veteran porn director Jack Horner. H. Macy does an excellent job playing the part of Little Bill when hiding his outer rage when he has to cope with his wife’s constant sexual relationships with other men in public. We hold the deepest of sympathy for his character and are left stunned when he unexpectedly shoots his wife and the man she was sleeping with then shoots himself. Yet we have no time to consider what has happened because the film cuts straight away to a completely different setting.
It is a hilarious film as well as a tender and sometimes tragic one. John C. Reilly is brilliantly funny as Reed Rothchild. ‘Have you seen Star Wars? People say I look like Han Solo.’ His timing and precision of his lines are perfect and he really stands out although only having a minor part in the movie.
Boogie Nights does confront certain moral issues, but only weakly. It shows the dangerous consequences drug use can have on people, but only to minor characters. At times it seems to be an idealization of the pornography industry, as it does not confront the other issues such as AIDS, unintended pregnancy, and abortions which were the major problems of the pornography industry in the 70s. But Boogie Nights is not meant to be a true depiction of this; Anderson’s only concern to tell a story about peoples lives that just happen to revolve around the pornography industry because he likes pornography.
Well, at least he is honest.
‘Everyone’s born with one special thing’, says Eddie Adams. The young Adams is spotted by veteran porn director Jack Horner, and soon to be known as Dirk Diggler, he and his 13-inch human love sausage take the pornography world by storm.
‘I like pornography, so I thought lets make a movie about the pornography industry’, says Paul Anderson (Director). However, Boogie Nights (1998) is much more than your average porn movie. A lot more. For a movie about the porn industry it is fun, tragic and touching at times. It is a very tender film, similar to Magnolia (2000), showing sides to the characters lives rarely shown in films.
It is a film about the pornography industry, however, it is not a porn film, it is a character study. The sex, drugs and violence are only there to fuel the plot for these characters.
The film is a thoroughly involving character study studying characters of all variety. What Anderson does best is show us their humanity as characters but it is the actors themselves that really give their characters soul. There are exceptional performances from the whole cast. Mark Wahlberg carries the film superbly as the naïve kid turn arrogant super star. We sympathise with his character at first as he tries to loose his wretched mother, but as his confidence grows he overestimates his talent, claiming that his movies have saved thousands of relationships, and as he becomes increasingly aggressive thanks to his cocaine addiction we hold a sense of hate for him at times. But he soon finds his ground as he comes crawling back to Jack and things are back where they started. Moore is great as the sweet mothering figure to Wahlberg’s character and Burt Reynolds’ charisma and experience shine through as the veteran porn director Jack Horner. H. Macy does an excellent job playing the part of Little Bill when hiding his outer rage when he has to cope with his wife’s constant sexual relationships with other men in public. We hold the deepest of sympathy for his character and are left stunned when he unexpectedly shoots his wife and the man she was sleeping with then shoots himself. Yet we have no time to consider what has happened because the film cuts straight away to a completely different setting.
It is a hilarious film as well as a tender and sometimes tragic one. John C. Reilly is brilliantly funny as Reed Rothchild. ‘Have you seen Star Wars? People say I look like Han Solo.’ His timing and precision of his lines are perfect and he really stands out although only having a minor part in the movie.
Boogie Nights does confront certain moral issues, but only weakly. It shows the dangerous consequences drug use can have on people, but only to minor characters. At times it seems to be an idealization of the pornography industry, as it does not confront the other issues such as AIDS, unintended pregnancy, and abortions which were the major problems of the pornography industry in the 70s. But Boogie Nights is not meant to be a true depiction of this; Anderson’s only concern to tell a story about peoples lives that just happen to revolve around the pornography industry because he likes pornography.
Well, at least he is honest.