Boogie Nights is a great film. So many classic and intense scenes. Unfortunately that idiot Don Cheadle is in it.
I enjoyed that movie and he did a great job as usual. I might feel the same in his shoes after more life experience, but it was a fun entertaining movie.
He does not need to feel bad about smoking pot with a teddy bear either. That was good fun too.
IF he wanted Gods forgiveness then he should have donated his earnings for that film to a worthy cause.
It was funny as all hell. Usually don’t hear them apologize for a really good movie.
Wahlberg is what I’d call an ‘everyman’. In a movie he seems to play a role we could easily imagine ourselves in.
He isn’t stand out handsome, athletic, or much of anything else. He’s built, but he just seems to be the guy next door type.
If you went to the bar, you’d run into him, someone who kind of seemed average, just like him.
I think that’s why I enjoy his movies so much. You’re comfortable with the guy and the way he reacts to things in a movie, because it seems just about like what your reaction would be.
He has come up with a great niche, and I enjoy his movies a lot.
Racy premise, sure.
VERY poignant.
Mostly an indictement of porn as a refuge for lost souls.
he did something pretty terrible when he was young- but thankfully has since turned his life around-
Mark Wahlberg is seeking a pardon from the state of Massachusetts for an assault he committed in 1988 that left a man blind in one eye
Wahlberg, now 43, served 45 days in prison and was tried as an adult even though he was just 16 years old at the time
Documents show he called one of his victims a ‘Vietnam f***ing s***’ and that he later chased a group of black children, shouting: ‘Kill the n*****!’
The actor, who has always been vocal about his troubled past, is now a married father who attends church every day
Great movie. I wouldn’t apologize for being naked with either Julianne Moore or Heather Graham.
The movie was professional directed and represented the epitome of of the porn industry in the San fernando valley and the upheaval of those who worked in the golden age of porn abd were transitioning to the cheaper method of using cheap cameras and distributed on VHS tapes. It also shows ordinary dumb people becoming engrossed in the Industry and ruining their lives because of it.
I’ve never seen it either. For those who have seen it, is it even worth watching to make fun of or is it just too gross?
Boogie nights was great.
Particularly if you had engaged in many Antics like I Did or observed, cuz some Shiite even I can’t tolerate...
He is one of the best actors in Hollywierd. Always plays a normal guy you would like to meet.
Well, the film did show the moral bankruptcy and ruination the high life of drugs, porn and perfidy can bring - the graphic manner in which much of this was portrayed helped heighten the drama and impact - Wahlberg shouldn’t have to apologize.....
Actually Heather Graham suffered the most long term psychological damage from her participation in “Boogie Nights”.
Great guy, love the wisdom. I really feel we should up the age of the Presidency to 50 simply based on increased life span of the average human.
Very good man, I have a thirteen year old daughter, amen:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XwMGq7Uo-Cc
Didn’t even know Wahlberg was conservative! Very pleasing to hear since I always enjoy his movies. I even loved The Gambler, even though it seemed to not get good reviews, probably because my undergraduate degree is in English and I thought about becoming an English professor like he is in the film.
Late to the thread, but I have to say I’m impressed by the comments here. The Left constantly obsesses about conservatives as if we were buckle-hatted Puritans ready to put the blasphemers in the stocks. “Boogie Nights” is a perfect movie for its era, looking back on another, not very far distant era. It’s provocative, no doubt, funny and sad at will. Very smart about what it is to be human, good and bad. This is a very good thread. That was a very good movie.
Boogie Nights is one of the finest films ever made (with a truly amazing supporting cast), and it’s ridiculous that Walburg claims to feel ashamed:
1. it’s probably the finest acting job of his entire career,
2. it’s partially a film about redemption: nobody kid rises to porn “stardom”, fame and money go to his head, he eschews the people who helped his rise to faem, he gets into drugs which destroy his career and life, he hits rock bottom in a robbery that goes bad, finally asks his former friends for herlp, gets off drugs, and starts to recover his life.
3. the film also does show how many of the makers of porn live squalid lives, with “Amber Waves” (Julianne Moore) losing custody of her child, the porn film financier “The Colonel” (Robert Ridgely) gets busted for child porn, goes to prison for life, loses everything and is shunned by all of his former “friends” and associates, and the cinematographer (William Macy) commits suicide because his wife is essentially a whore.
(The movie is also a parody of Hollywood and is hilariously funny to boot.)
Well, that film did cement Julianne Moore’s identity as a porno star, much as Jane Fonda became a prostitute identity for her films.