Magnolia

Pros: Witty story-telling, great actors, interesting
Cons: Long, seemingly abstract because of its simplicity

Having only recently listened to Paul Thomas Anderson, director of 'Magnolia', chattin' up Teri Gross on NPR, I'm feeling ever more vindicated in my appreciation of this picture. While I was astonished at the film's 3+ hour length, I was also amused and...

Pros: The Surprise Ending
Cons: Phillip Seymour Hoffman

If you think about movies in the 1999-2000 movie season the first word that comes to mind is "long". With movies such as the Tom Hanks epic "The Green Mile", Stanley Kubrick's misunderstood "Eyes Wide Shut" and Oliver...

Pros: Good acting and excellent plot(s)
Cons: A bit long

Magnolia

This movie, like the flower for which it is named, derives its beauty from the myriad parts that meet in a delicate harmony to form a whole which is much more than the mere sum of its parts.

I had the opportunity to attend...

Pros: Strong performances and thorough character development
Cons: Much too close for comfort.

We went to see Magnolia. I would not take my mother to see this, but I wish my father and sister would....
All performances were excellent, but the whole movie was really disturbing to me. In fact, I would recommend Paxill or Prozac before going to...

Pros: A definite movie buffs movie- and an actor's dream
Cons: rather long playing time

Walking into Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. Walking out at the end, I felt just as confused. This is by no means a slight to Anderson's masterpiece. Magnolia is a complex movie that you don't simply forget once...

Pros: Introducing Tom Cruise. Tour de force direction, acting, soundtrack
Cons: Trite Message

Whatever this film is - artful, contrived, full of crap, profound, scatological, moving, trite, beautiful - and it's all that and more, you can't fault director Anderson for lack of ambition - this is his Magnum Opus, a telegraphed attempt to DESIGN a...

Pros: magnificent movie with great acting and writing
Cons: long

WOW! I am indebt to my decision on the spur of the moment to see a midnight movie. I picked Magnolia since it was the best choice, time-wise when i arrived at the theater despite the fact that it was over three hours long. (Most good movies nowadays...

Pros: Different storyline, great cast
Cons: Leaves you yearning for more answers

So, it was a typical Friday night. I was thumbing through the newspaper looking for a good movie, when I come across the ad for Magnolia publicizing that it was written by the same guy that wrote "Boogie Nights." Hmmm...the guy that won Burt...

Pros: good acting
Cons: Length, writing, editing, plot

Good performances can't save this over-long, pretentious, masturbatory tale of the saddest sack of characters since Happiness (which was actually a comedy). This ultra-bleak look at inter-woven lives and what happens to bad people who do bad things was...

Pros: Some good acting
Cons: TOO MUCH SEX AND BAD LANGUAGE

After seeing Boogie Nights and sort of enjoying it, my friends and I were HYPED to see this film. We chose it over many movies showing....BIG MISTAKE!!!!
This movie to me, WAS COMPLETELY DEGRADING TO WOMEN. THE FACT THAT IT CONTAINED A SEMINAR...

Pros: well acted and written
Cons: the length

(I wrote this opinion after seeing a sneak preview of MAGNOLIA several months ago. When I went to see it, I knew very little about it.)

I went to see a free screening of MAGNOLIA this evening. The host told the crowd it was 3 hours long. I...

Pros: great story lines
Cons: way too long

First let me start by saying that I don`t watch a lot of television and I never go to the movies. I do on occasion though like to rent videos.

In my opinion, this video was a total waste of money. It`s not that I didn`t like the movie, I just...

Pros: Excellent acting. Great story line.
Cons: None.

Magnolia is hands down one of the best movies I've ever seen.

To begin with it starts out like a documentary which talks about how there are no coincidences in life. If you have a problem believing in fate or divine intervention then you may...

Pros: Best movie of the year, and excellent replay value
Cons: minor details I would like to know about are not explained

This cannot be just a coincidence.

This new film by P.T. Anderson (Hard Eight and Boogie Nights) shows the lives of nine people whose paths wind together down a plane of time. Showing us that it is a small world after all. Each...

Pros: Great soundtrack
Cons: Confusing, pretentious, BORING

Sometimes, when you can't quite explain the plot of a movie, it means you're watching something brilliant. Well, Magnolia is NOT one of those movies. It's LONG, confusing, boring, LONG, pretentious, overacted, and LONG. (What the heck was the editor of...