Boogie Nights

I recently picked up the Boogie Nights 4K Steelbook and intended it to be my 150th watch of the year, however I seen that it was getting a re release in cinemas and thought it would be rude not to, I’m not overly familiar with all of PTAs work, of course I watched OBAA and that’s what put some of these other titles I had only heard of on the map, and I watched Punch Drunk Love a few years back after a rewatch of Uncut Gems, but out of the three I’ve now seen Boogie Nights might be my favourite, I briefly mentioned in work that I was catching this one tonight and someone made a remark about this being Mark Wahlberg's only good role, and while I like his other work this more than likely takes the cake for my favourite role of his, but it’s not just him, it’s a star studded cast of people’s names you will regonise, and I wouldn’t argue with saying they all have there best work here, everything feels so realistic, I was watching those cocaine fulled rants and speeches and placing myself back at the ripe old age of 18 in someone’s Uni Accommodation, everyone’s dialogue just feels so on point and there’s so much given away through dialogue rather than shown which for me is just the chefs kiss, But it’s also everything else in this film that just makes it work so much for me and makes it special, it’s filmed and looks gorgeous and the music was getting me dancing in my seat, so many good recognisable bangers, it also doesn’t shy away from raising some stereotypes and backlash people involved with Porn face and I’m happy it does because not only does it raise awareness it doesn’t paint Porn to be a glamorous picture like many people would probably be led to believe, it really makes me feel nostalgic for a time I wasn’t even around for, it does feel like I’m watching something ripped straight from that time period, the humour is on point and had me laughing out loud multiple times, but then the film throws one of the biggest shocks I’ve seen in a while and the film takes such a dark turn, but through all of that it manages to stay quirky, witty and funny Speaking of the dark turn I did think for 10 minutes at the start of the 2nd half, it’s going to do a full metal jacket, but it quickly managed to pull me back in, so much so I was on the edge of my seat really feeling for these characters because despite all there flaws being stuck fighting there demons, seriously that last half hour is so intense, nerve racking and very uncomfortable viewing, even when Alfred Molina makes a brief cameo, he’s one of the funniest parts of the movie but it’s still unbearably tense and uncomfortable, I could take or leave the ending, it probably could’ve been a bit darker and maybe that would’ve fit more but it’s only a minor nitpick and it does pay off the question I was asking the entire movie, This would normally be the part where I summarise my feelings on this movie but I can’t really find the words to, so I’ll end with saying, I never thought I’d rate a film that makes such a big deal out of Mark Wahlberg’s Penis 5 Stars but stranger things have happened at sea