Boogie Nights (1997)

Rated R

 

Runtime: 2 hours and 35 minutes

 

Genre: Drama

 

Director and Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson

 

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, Nicole Ari Parker and Philip Seymour Hoffman

 

Budget: $15,000,000

 

Box Office: $26,413,025

 

Positives:

• Great performances, cinematography and dialogue

• Brilliant craft work for everything that is going on in the film

• Interesting world setup

• Emotional depth scenes

• High tention editing

• Smart development on genre mixing

Mixed:

• Smooth soundtrack, but some songs has the volume too low

• Characters seem to have motivation, but decisions were poor

Negatives:

• A lot of brutal scenes that are not fun to watch

• Some scenes that are not nice

• Minor style issues

• Why doesn't Bill do something about his wife?

• The production scenes while shooting on film felt like their in a television series

 

Overall Verdict:

Story 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (8)

Character 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (8)

Dialogue/Diction 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (8.5)

Pacing/Timing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (5)

Background/Sets 0 1 2 3 4 5 (4)

Background Music/Audio 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3.5)

Camera/Editing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (5)

42/50                                           8.4/10