MAGNOLIA (Tom Cruise film)

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Bryan W Gaint

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Hi, feel like I wasted 3 hours of my life watching this last night - anyone else feel the same when they watched it? Thought that it would all come to some amazing climax where it all fell into place and the previous 2 hrs 50 mins viewing would be justified - didn't happen for me - some good acting but story just didn't come together, and as for the frogs???? what a load of kak feel really annoyed"
 
Is that the one where he's wearing a mask because of disfiguration? What a load of pompous, self-indulgent twaddle. I hated it. I found I couldn't care less about any of the characters, they were all too unlikeable.
 
I think you're thinking of Vanilla Sky? but yes I agree, also a load of rubbish... Magnolia has lots of different characters that are all linked somehow (and the part Tom Cruise plays is a woman-hating American TV star who gives seminars on how to use and abuse women). Tom Cruise acts his part well, it's just that the whole film is really disjointed and really bizarre I think the viewer is supposed to draw their own conclusions at the end, which I think is a cop out on the filmmakers part! Thanks for replying though
 
To say Magnolia is a "Tom Cruise film" is doing it a huge injustice. The film is (imo) a masterpiece, and Tom Cruise is just one amongst many excellent actors in it.

Vanilla Sky on the other hand was poor. The original version is much much better.
 
An incredibile film IMO. And I agree that calling it a tom cruise film is doing it a serious disservice, although cruise was great in his role.
 
Magnolia is an absolute masterpiece. You obviously don't vary your cinematic intake enough.

I'm guessing you wouldn't like the Coen Brothers, Hal Hartley, David Lynch, Cronenberg etc either.
 
My taste in movies ranges widely, I "got" Magnolia, I thought the actors & performances were great, but the whole thing just left me wanting, I just didnt like it. Cant like'em all I guess.
 
Magnolia's one of my favourite films. Wonderful performances all round, and a great ensemble cast - Phillip Baker Hall, Melora Walters, John C. Reilly, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and in one of his very last appearances, Jason RobarRAB.
 
Why did you walk in in the first place? Didn't you know Tom Cruise was in it?
 
Didn't really intend to pigeon-hole Magnolia as just a "Tom Cruise film" sorry chaps that was a mistake - I thought all the actors were very good in their roles, it just wasn't my cup of tea - please can someone enlighten me as to the meaning of the film - I mean if it was just that what happens to us in our childhooRAB and our relationship with our parents have a lasting psychological effect on us all, it's hardly groundbreaking stuff is it??
 
I'm sure I've seen some of this film before...

Is this the film with the boy being pushed into going on quiz shows and he wets himself, and other stories such as Tom Cruise getting back into contact with his estranged terminally ill father (and I keep thinking his fathers assistant was Philip-Seymour Hoffman?), the policeman and drug-addicted womans "love story" (I'm sure she was meant to be Tom Cruise's characters sister or something?)

If so, I really enjoyed it when I watched it, but I've never seen it from start to finish.
 
Now it's clicking into place I think. The young woman who was addicted to cocaine wasn't the daughter of Tom Cruise's characters father, but the daughter of the TV presenter who hosted the show the kid was on wasn't she?

Hmmm, it's confusing!
 
it's ages since i saw it, but i really liked it too.

but i do tend to enjoy those sorts of films, where it's all about the multiple narratives, and not really knowing where they might lead, or connect.

Iain
 
One of my favourite films of all time. A modern masterpiece in my humble opinion. Full of wonderful performances (with Julianne Moore giving the performance of her career). Plus, this film converted me to being a huge Aimee Mann fan. What a soundtrack!!
 
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