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List Price: $26.98 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 16306
Released: August 29, 2000 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
From Hollywood's hottest new director comes the outrageous epic that throws the covers back on California's adult entertainment industry in the swinging seventies. It's a touching and often humorous portrait of a most unusual family of filmakers, brought
Description of Boogie Nights (New Line Platinum Series):
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 GoodFellas. 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 ain'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
Boogie Nights (New Line Platinum Series) Reviews:
boogie nights 
2008-11-17 - Lets look at the acting,that was done very well,by a cast of past superstars,acclaimed actors,and a story we all can understand.The point of haveing it all is when we throw it away.
Boogie Nights 
2008-11-17 - Boogie Nights is a funny Movie, I liked it a lot.. walberg was good and the characters were funny,,,,T & A can't go Wrong.
Boogie Nights Is A Cure For Insomnia 
2008-11-11 - To be truthful I ordered this film, because I had heard it was roughly based on the life of porn star John Holmes. I doubt there is much about Holmes in this movie, but I can't say for sure, because it is so boring I fell asleep a couple of times.
Burt Reynolds won his Oscar for this performance, but I can't imagine how. I can think of several actors who would have been as good as Burt, and many that would probably have been better, because the role doesn't demand much of an actor.
Mark Wahlberg was good as the young man in the movie, but he's been much better in several other movies.
Save your money. You've been warned. I rate this movie s-s-s-s-s!
BORED ME ALMOST TO TEARS
2008-10-31 - Wow. I guess you had to have lived this time period to appreciate this movie because Boogie Nights bored me to death. I couldn't wait for it to be over. Perhaps I'm a product of my generation where great porn is easily accessible on-line 24/7 or perhaps I'm just jaded altogether, but this movie wasn't even campy to me; it was just too long and too dull. Good performances by William H. Macy and Juliann Moore but that's about it. The story is about a young guy who is supposedly "gifted" (wtf?) who makes it big in the porn industry during the disco era. When a new recruit is added to the porn line-up, Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) gets jealous, loses it and gets fired, blah blah blah.
The final shot mentioned by almost all the other reviewers is almost comical. The thought of deer sausage in intestinal casing crossed my mind. It might have been an erotic shot if Dirk Diggler's "gift" had been alive instead of dead. And, I've been fortunate to have been presented with much bigger "gifts" in my life, wink-wink, nudge-nudge.
This movie is probably one for the old folks who lived the disco era. I don't recommend it to anyone born after that time period because you'll probably be bored like I was.
The Goodfella's of Porn....
2008-10-21 - Excellent flick, it can be watched about once a year without losing it's power. I wish PT would have explored AIDS along with the rampant drug abuse, but it's already a 3 hours movie. Breakout performances for Mark Wahlberg, Heather Graham, and probably Don Cheadle.
This movie belongs in everyone film buff's library.
-M
