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Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Philip Baker Hall, Jason Robards, and Jeremy Blackman in Magnolia (1999)

Review by xaapaas

Magnolia

3/10

So pretentious

Best movies are immersive experiences. You forget you're watching a movie. You just identify with the characters, you want them to succeed, to overcome, to get there. Whatever it is, not die, get the girl, fall in love, get their ex back. You forget it's a film, you believe it actually happened. You don't analyse camera movement, or the colour grading or the cinematography or the music or soundtrack.

This film is exactly the opposite. You never forget that it is a movie. You never forget that these are actors. You constantly feel aware pf camera movements, or the lighting. The music is unrelenting and almost continuous, it totally kills the film instead of enhance it.

You are not lost and immersed in a story, you are aware of the concept, of what the director whats to achieve. This movie is so pretentious and it is 90 minutes too long. Any rookie editor can cut this down by half.

Slow, boring, portentous and just straight awful. I struggled to finish watching this film, the only thing that made it possible to labour through it were the stelar performances of the amazing stars line-up.
  • xaapaas
  • May 25, 2021

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