02-03-2005, 10:45 PM
Galt Wrote:Magnolia wasn't bad. A few of the story lines weren't that great (Thomas C Reilly's and William Macy's were especially lame), but Tom Cruise's was awesome, the little kids in the TV show were funny, and the frog thing was done well. It was also interesting how it wasn't like Pulp Fiction with 4 different stories, but all the different vignettes tie into one story.This is the only the third movie which has earned Tom Cruise an Academy Award nomination, and it was his first Supporting Actor nomination.
But the movie was over 3 hours long and could have been cut down by at least 30 minutes just by taking out or shortening 50 unnecessary 30-second zoom ins for nearly every shot. The song they all sang was a dumb.
I own it. 2 1/2 stars
I own this dvd, and I think it's a good movie. Not great, good. I liked the John C Reily storyline, only in terms of the coked out chick he was trying to get in the pants of. I thought Tom Cruise was awesome in this, and it helps that he's not the lead character, but also you can't really have a lead when you have 10 different point of views in one movie.