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Paul Thomas Anderson

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Film director discussed in relation to his film "One Battle After Another" and compared to his other works like Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, and Phantom Thread.

Mentions (11)
"Saw the movie last night and loved it. I think it's simultaneously PTA's most fun movie and his least interesting. Probably my favorite movie I've seen since Killers of the Flower Moon though. And probably his 4th best after Boogie Nights, TWBB, and Phantom Thread (haven't seen Magnolia in a long lo"
This sub has gotten so predictable · u/Paula-Abdul-Jabbar · ↑302 · 2025-09-29
"In films i felt it the most strongly with PTA's punch drunk love because I'm just really autistic i guess lol"
"Now, obviously it's no Tarkovsky. It's no PTA. Christ, it's not even Tarantino."
"she literally exposes her tits to him then slaps him when he tries to touch them. whole movie she's just edging him but it shows her wanting to fuck him multiple times and lib critics are going ape shit over it because it's PTA"
"So a few weeks ago I met up with an old ex of mine who is really into films and asked her what she thought of Licorice Pizza because I'm a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson and really wanted to see it... people really sat through this whole thing and the only message they got from it is that Paul Thomas A"
"He'd be a lock if he'd hit his in-movie daughter with a chancla. Too bad Paul Thomas Anderson wasn't smart enough to think of this."
Leo best actor chances rising · u/Improvcommodore · ↑66 · 2025-12-07
"It was PTA's first movie without a director of photography so it feels like it's all him, it's so personal and painful. It's more understated than his other movies but when the crazy shit starts happening it works so well."
Phantom Thread is the best movie of the past ten years · johnny__apples · ↑57 · 2023-12-01
"If Boogie Nights was PTA aping Scorsese, Magnolia was where he began to carve that nakedly ambitious, maximalist style into something distinctive."
Magnolia rules · u/jrc727 · ↑44 · 2023-07-14
"lib critics are going ape shit over it because it's PTA"
"I met up with an old ex of mine who is really into films and asked her what she thought of Licorice Pizza because I'm a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson and really wanted to see it"
"If Boogie Nights was PTA aping Scorsese, Magnolia was where he began to carve that nakedly ambitious, maximalist style into something distinctive."
Magnolia rules · u/jrc727 · ↑44 · 2023-07-14
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