The final scene where Claudia smiles directly at the camera is the most touching ending to any movie I've seen. She's the most broken character, and deserved to find some ray of hope.
@johnjamesleahy4065
4 күн бұрын
Yeah it was really beautiful and sweet, i also tried using my empathy/sympathy (i always forget which means what) to be in her shoes, and to hear those words that the guy was saying to her, really went straight to my heart, then to see her smile! Oh man!! I rewound that part like threr times the last time i watched that movie! 🤗
@threeminuteshate
2 күн бұрын
My favorite ending to a movie
@MM-hc1cq
6 ай бұрын
Love this movie. Saw it in theaters twice when it came out. Great reaction Mike!
@mikewatchesstuff
6 ай бұрын
Hey thanks for watching with me! Was the theatrical version also 3 hours?
@MM-hc1cq
6 ай бұрын
It was. First time I saw it there were a handful of people in the theater. Second time I saw it a week later and the theater was empty haha.
@izzonj
5 ай бұрын
@mikewatchesstuff Paul Thomas Anderson has said he wished he had edited this down a lot. I love it all but more people would maybe have seen it if it wasn't so long
@jaym8257
2 ай бұрын
@@izzonj It's a good movie to take in at home when you can just sit down and go with it.
@robertshows5100
6 ай бұрын
Someone holds up a sign with an Exodus number whatever the number. The same way signs with Bible quotes at football games. That quote is the one about pharaoh and the frog curses
@gggooding
6 ай бұрын
The bible verse is hidden throughout the movie. The wires against the wall in the intro, on street signs, other places I'm forgetting.
@izzonj
5 ай бұрын
You really have to rewatch this a few times. You are brave to talk about it after one viewing! Aimee Mann wrote most of these songs for this movie and they are great!
@ct6852
4 ай бұрын
I didn't know she wrote the songs specifically for the movie. PTA always had great soundtracks.
@ruicorreia8059
5 ай бұрын
The reason why in the final scene Jim's voice is muffled beneath the song, although we can understand what he is saying, is because the most important are the lyrics of the song. The camera is on Claudia's face while she is listening to Jim and the lyrics reflect her thoughts and wishes, particularly in the chorus, "But can you save me?, Why don't you save me?, If you could save me", and when she realizes that the man she's fallen in love with is indeed going to save her, she breaks the forth wall, looks straight at us, and we get that glorious smile that makes for one of the most beautiful endings I have ever seen on the screen. Magnolia is one of my favorite movies alongside Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood For Love and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Parts One and Two and Bram Stoker's Dracula and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life and John Ford's The Quiet Man and a few other's. An absolute masterpiece. I watch it lots of times and sometimes I watch just the dizzying and absolutely frantic and genius first half an hour, my favorite intro to a movie alongside the first three minutes of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
@jaym8257
2 ай бұрын
I loved Blade Runner from the get go. I recommended it to a friend and his wife and my best buddy said no way they'd watch a stupid dystopian sci fi movie. But they did and they pondered it and they loved it And you nailed the final part of Magnolia. The ending is in the lyrics. Jim is what she needed. You may also know that in the script Claudia's final words spoken at the restaurant "Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing each other again" was pulled from Aimee Mann's Deathly which is credited in the sound track. I've seen several videos where Paul Thomas Anderson was interviewed about what the movie is about and it varied. But in one he said it started with those lines in Deathly with Claudia and moved out from there. As I think about it, it was Claudia and Jim's arc I cared most about. I wanted something good to happen to Claudia. And that was the simple, unpretentious towering Jim. And surprisingly, my next favorite was Frank T.J. Mackey. But Melora Walters was a gem in this movie.
@michiganjfrog366
2 ай бұрын
This movie has been in my top 10 list since the first time I watched it back in probably 2000... I own the movie and the soundtrack which is also amazing. The song save me was nominated for an academy award and a Grammy😁
@wendydarling5790
Ай бұрын
Just saw Aimee Mann for the first time this summer. She sang Save Me. Ahhhh! 🙌
@-MVP-
6 ай бұрын
One of my favourite movies of ALL TIME! Really enjoyed your reaction. There aren’t much reactions of this film out there. Glad you checked it out. It’s really amazing I have new insights from your comments and takeaways from this film. Magnolia is really rich in fine detail that way, which is why I love it sm!
@mikewatchesstuff
6 ай бұрын
Hey, thank you for watching with me and for leaving a comment! I wasn't sure what people would think of this one, because I was so confused in the first half of this movie I feel like. But in the end, hopefully I was coherent :)
@gggooding
6 ай бұрын
The intro is all stories from "Ripley's Believe it or Not!" As is the frogs falling from the sky (kinda...it was fish in Kansas, I think).
@mikewatchesstuff
6 ай бұрын
Hey man! It's good to see you in the comments, I see you found my newish movie reaction channel. Nice comments on this one, now i need to go back and find all the exodus hidden Easter eggs
@kevinmassey1164
Күн бұрын
I’ve always felt the film is about regret, forgiveness, and the shit that we carry through life
@dreambrother82
6 ай бұрын
Haven’t seen this in years. Great call out to “Requiem for a Dream” I think they’re both great, but I can never watch Requiem again. I have seen this more than once which adds to the experience. Great Reaction.
@mikewatchesstuff
6 ай бұрын
Hey thanks for watching! I know exactly how you feel about Requiem... I have seen it more than once but gosh, it's really tough to watch at some points
@DUANEYAISER
4 ай бұрын
Exodus 8:2 If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. 82% chance of rain The rope on the roof of the building by the suicide jumper forms an 82 Part of Frank's phone number has an 82 in sequence One of the door numbers has an 82 in sequence There's quite a bit more I can't think of right now. You caught the "Exodus" sign right before the first frog drops, I never caught that before!!
@wendydarling5790
Ай бұрын
PTA: Gotta put in a word for Phantom Thread. Really knocked me out. It's a thinker, too. Another great soundtrack, though very different.
@hemlock399
4 ай бұрын
This is a great movie. Thank you for reacting to it!
@mikewatchesstuff
4 ай бұрын
Thank you for spending your time watching with me!
@jons.105
Ай бұрын
When I first rented this on VHS in 2000--two cassettes!--I had to take a half-a-day break between 1 & 2 just to catch my breath.
@gloriamariev961
4 ай бұрын
Great reaction! Just found your channel, watched " Sleepers" and "Boogie Nights". Just as a side note. Lived through the 80's in Hollywood. My husband and I worked for Hustler and knew Larry and Althea Flynt.
@gggooding
6 ай бұрын
In answer: I _don't_ suggest Liquorice Pizza for a reaction. Its sort of a love poem to 70's LA without much of a plot. _I_ enjoyed it a lot, but I like weird, arty stuff more than most everyone. From PT Anderson I *highly* suggest The Master and Punch Drunk Love. I think you'd really dig both those.
@paulelroy6650
2 ай бұрын
as great as the master and punch drunk love are its weird you would suggest reaction to those over licorice pizza
@blakemeads9225
Ай бұрын
When Paul Thomas Anderson wrote this film, he had so many stories he wanted to tell, and he couldn’t decide which one he wanted to write, so he just said “fuck it, I’m doing them all!”
@prettybullet7728
13 күн бұрын
It's dark alright. It reminds me of Pulp Fiction. There's several different storylines going on and they are all connected in some way. And it all occurs in one day. You'll have to watch it more than once to fully understand the storyline.
@Anubisblack
4 ай бұрын
There will be Blood is one if his best. Complicated characters.
@kevinmassey1164
Күн бұрын
This is a colossal film
@jaym8257
2 ай бұрын
Remember in Jim's tribulation about the loss of his gun in the rain and with his flashlight, he prayed that God would help return his gun. I thought it was so silly for Jim to pray to God about his gun. Well????
@DUANEYAISER
4 ай бұрын
I'd love your reaction to "A Ghost Story." It's a completely different kind of film but seems to hold to some similar themes.
@MsNewsted
Ай бұрын
This was a GREAT film!
@mikewatchesstuff
Ай бұрын
Hey I know your avatar! Their best album! Also thanks for visiting
@hannahnguyen2674
6 ай бұрын
My first time for Magnolia too ... thank you for posting, please do Minority Report, Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion and The Last Samurai... you won't be disappointed .
@mikewatchesstuff
6 ай бұрын
The first time you watched this film was this reaction? Wow, thanks for watching this with me then. And thanks for your comment! I have seen The Last Samurai already, but I'll add these others to the request list
@crose7412
5 ай бұрын
4:26 The group Rapeman wrote 'Budd' about Budd Dwyer's televised suicide.
@yesitislikethat
6 ай бұрын
Didn’t watch _Boogie Nights_ at the time, but did see this one in the theater. *Loved it.* Bought the soundtrack and got the VHS- which I still have, haha. Such a wonderful film, with great performances. 🩶 Edit: 38:33 I forgot that they re-enacted that scene in _Barry._ 😂 Not funny here, but hilarious in that context. 52:10 Well… 🐸🤭
@andrewreisinger6860
5 ай бұрын
So I'm sure u did a deep-dive into this film. So u can go through all the times 82 is referenced. Exodus 8:2 is the frog pestilence. 82 is EVERYWHERE in this film, at least 10 times. On the plane that fights the fire, vines where Stanley jumped, times, humidity, booking mugshot, etc.
@robertshows5100
6 ай бұрын
The poster was nice and nice pictures and not much info. Old ladies thought it would be great for their groups. In the first thirty minutes about one tenth of the audience walked out in a huff. That terrible language pissed them off. This was especially true in the South. They saw a Magnolia and couldn't help but think of moonlight and magnolias of the old south.
@mikewatchesstuff
6 ай бұрын
You know, ironically, that's also the reason I never thought to check this movie out when I was younger. Just the title of the movie alone sounded like something I wouldn't be in to
@Schwansonian_Townsonian
9 күн бұрын
How are you able to film the movie scenes without getting flagged for copyright? I am legitimately asking because I want to do reaction videos, and filmed a few but I was told I could only show less than a few minutes for a completed video.
@mikewatchesstuff
9 күн бұрын
@Schwansonian_Townsonian So you're only allowed to use a few seconds of uninterrupted footage at a time, 4 or 5 seconds, depending on the movie studio. Anything over 4-5 seconds will not be allowed. That's why you have to put a few seconds of something else between parts of the film you're showing. I tend to use blurred screen with my face in the center because that seems to satisfy youtube. Sometimes there's even more restrictions. I have learned you have to play around and test different things sometimes. Feel free to ask anymore questions if you need more info. PS nice Creepshow avatar!
@Schwansonian_Townsonian
9 күн бұрын
@@mikewatchesstuff Thank you! I'd love to pick your brain.... even just how to edit. And thank you bout the avatar. My fav movie since I was 7.
@mikewatchesstuff
9 күн бұрын
You can email me at yeedeed@gmail.com if you have questions. If you want to see examples of an easier way of editing videos, there is a playlist in this video's description of movie reactions from my main Yeedeed channel. Some of my earlier movie reactions were done with less editing. They don't look as nice as they do now, but the methods still work on those. Reach out any time!
@reservoirdude92
5 ай бұрын
Bro, what's there to be lost about 😂
@siobhan5486
6 ай бұрын
Hell yeah love this
@ThommyUnderhill
3 ай бұрын
Def react to all of his movies
@Lemon_Force
6 ай бұрын
Did yall ever watch Jurassic Park 3?
@mikewatchesstuff
6 ай бұрын
Yep we did, I am still working on the editing for the video. Hopefully will have it up soonish
@digu97
5 ай бұрын
this movie is about Karma.. simple
@nadronnocojr
6 ай бұрын
Do you like movies from the action background, older of course 70’s 80’s Like gator, gone in sixty seconds, bullet, stick, for a few , Dirty Harrys ? I know you get a lot of suggestions ,just offering a few more.. I like your let it breath style, a three hour movie ,and reaction over an hour is great, a lot of reactions take godfathers down to 25 min.. just not for me. Keep it up. Glad to see the old ones get dusted off
@devlinallistair-zx5by
5 ай бұрын
Btw. No such thing as an incel. Any man can get a woman. Even if he has to pay for her.
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