Boogie Nights Jessie's Girl

[@KingsOwn19]

They were all great in this flawless scene, but Thomas Jane perfectly embodied that friend everybody has at some point that is a complete time bomb.

[@j.j.4228]

He was so good you forget that he was Thomas Jane.

[@shill1444]

@@j.j.4228 - Co-sign!! One of the best scenes in cinematic history!

[@joeytrimble1558]

@@shill1444 it really is ! .. i've never had that moment where someone tries to rip off the dealer .. or whatever but i've been at parties where you get so fuckin like just it's toxic you can just feel something about to pop off ..someones gonna fight ..someones gonna do something .. it's toward the end of the night and all the shit is building up ..the drugs are starting to deplete .. you just know someones gonna start something about anything .. i felt that scene for sure

[@RobWitchdoctor]

Such am underrated film

[@elbob17]

100%

[@poontang3zizo]

The mixture of suspense and comedy in this scene is unmatched.

[@zomeister8367]

+poontang3zizo What style mustache does Todd have?

[@poontang3zizo]

Gilbert Alexander Pornstache bro. He has a pornstache.

[@zomeister8367]

poontang3zizo I want one. Any particular name for it?

[@poontang3zizo]

Gilbert Alexander I just told you - pornstache

[@houstonsanderfield6074]

Yesss it was funny and fucked up at the same time.... especially when there behind the bar..... trying to calm Todd as down

[@RosettisRevenge]

can you believe Mark Wahlberg said he regrets making this movie like cmon man it’s the only movie you’re actually good in lol

[@ssnewp2340]

He really said that? This movie is great

[@GRAFFDEMON]

what the fuck, he regrets this but not any of the Transformer films? Hahahaha

[@deanroddey2881]

@@zJerryyyyy Uhg.... That's not his. He probably wishes it was.

[@Marcus-wk9ho]

Wahlberg is devoutly religious now. That explains why he would be against this movie.

[@mrskinszszs]

The Departed

[@cky1088]

When PTA holds that shot on Marky Mark's face and you see him come to the realization that he finally hit rock bottom and wants to quit all through his facial expressions is just so god damn powerful.

[@fullermrff]

I agree, that was the best scene in the movie for me......notice how the firecrackers stopped, also

[@MarkVaderr]

fullermrff I always took it that we were in Wahlberg's perspective and all he can hear is the music. Notice that Reilly says something to Wahlberg and we can not hear him.

[@nusandman]

Agree, the Wahlberg scene in this is so intense. It goes on so long. Fantastic!

[@cky1088]

Yep.

[@unreal513]

Strong stuff

[@nikdrown]

Fun fact. Jesse’s Girl was recorded at the same studio Dirk and Reed recorded their smash hit “You Got The Touch”

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

They still got the demos?

[@lefty7511]

You got the power!

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

@@lefty7511 YEEEAAAAHHH!!!

[@lefty7511]

@@andrewburgemeister6684 One of the funniest scenes in film history in my opinion.

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

@@lefty7511 particularly seeing Reid coked out and dancing next to the uninterested and dull studio technician 😂

[@carnolasluggs5417]

Aw, to think all Molina's character SINCERELY wanted to do was hang out & have a nice friendly time. Didn't even seem like the authenticity of the drugs made any difference to him one way or the other, it was all about enjoying good tunes, heavy drugs and just possibly getting the chance to play a little baseball.

[@NaughtyVampireGod]

baseball meaning gay sex?

[@andrewburgemeister6684]

@@NaughtyVampireGod sharing the crack pipe around what I thought.

[@dreeb2004]

@@NaughtyVampireGod he was talking about freebasing cocaine and passing the pipe around

[@NaughtyVampireGod]

@@dreeb2004 that sounds about right

[@Bertiesghost]

Molina’s character was based on LA nightclub owner/crime figure Eddie Nash who ordered the 1981 Wonderland murders.

[@DannyWilliamH]

One of the most anxiety inducing scenes ever made. You know the feeling even if nothing like this has ever happened to you.

[@isaacster5027]

Lol when he does that long empty stare that shit is so powerfully relatable

[@conkghey2511]

Paul Thomas Anderson is Soo good at building these anxiety inducing scenes

[@dillonwalshpvd]

No. You don’t

[@MegaMeco2]

@@dillonwalshpvd and you would know how ? If you did you wouldn’t know if you never have and if you have , you would never know what it would be like to never have .

[@dillonwalshpvd]

@@MegaMeco2 I guess I’m gay, dammit >.< every time

[@ForPeoples]

Thomas Jane is so underrated on this performance. Alfred Molina's performance is superb, but there is something wonderfully manic about Jane's energy in the scene.

[@isaacster5027]

The way he's practically crying once he goes to get the floor safe stuff 😂

[@ItsaKindOfMagic86]

I agree, espeically that part when he starts getting emotional working himself up while the 99 LuftBallons song by Nena plays in his final moment.

[@LAVATORR]

Dude's constantly making Daniel Plainview faces

[@TucsonDude]

Hollywood thanks your for your discovery of yet another UNDERRATED performance.

[@celticboy82]

That shot of Dirk staring straight at Rahad is immense. All of his pain, frustration and sorrow crystallised into one tortured gaze. Wahlberg doesn't hit heights like that again until The Departed.

[@Matt-ns8nb]

Departed isn't even close to this.

[@wangson]

That's not exactly how I read this scene - but I appreciate your particular reading....mine was that as he's listening to this particular song "Jessie's Girl" he hears EXACTLY the type of song that he and his pal (John C. Reilly's character) were trying to create! And he's just mesmorized by how perfectly it sounds to him and it takes him away from where he is in that moment....anyhow - that's how I took this scene.

[@davido5058]

I had two friends like this, always acting crazy and laughing it off the next day. One overdosed and died behind a supermarket after I didn't answer his call to go to a bar, the other was murdered when he started trouble in Buffalo, NY, again, after I didn't answer a call to go hang out. Since then, I always answer friends' calls because I learned that sometimes those friends who are always acting crazy and laughing like everything is amazing are the ones who need friends the most.

[@vickieden5022]

​@@davido5058I am so very sorry about your friends ☹️ I too have learned the hard way, to answer that call.

[@BlackBearNE]

Dirk is an addict, and this is his “moment of clarity”. Something about sitting on that couch, in that dealer’s house, watching him dance around in his underwear made him realize that he needed to change his life. He goes to Jack’s house, apologizes, and asks for help.

[@gertrudemcfuzz74]

Moral of this story, don't fuck with Doctor Octopus' cocaine and cash.

[@richiecuzzz1]

I didn’t even realize that was him lol. I knew his face looked familiar.

[@bugaloo67]

Precious tritium was actually in the floor safe in the master bedroom thats why he pulled out a shotgun and went so crazy.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

Lol

[@rogerwilco6355]

10/10 A +

[@nickytommymancinelli8066]

What are you fuckin kidding me kiddie?!?

[@generyan4043]

Wahlberg expression at 1:00 to 1:40 really sums up my youth. As much as I loved getting fucked up and hanging out when I was young, I eventually realized I was in a bad situation with bad people and that I had a lot more to offer the world. During those 40 seconds of the movie, I believe Dirk Is having those exact same thoughts. Very good job by both Paul Thomas Anderson and Mark Wahlberg!

[@thaistomp]

yeah I can definitely relate. It's all fun and games until you realize the people around you are fucked up. gotta get away from that shit.

[@dillonwalshpvd]

Saw some bad shit man

[@neonronin69]

Thought the same thing he’s just like what the fuck this is actually my life right now

[@supastar25]

He had a moment of clarity and he was basically saying "What am I even doing here? HOW did I get here...being this low in some coked up weirdo's home planning a robbery"...good acting by Wahlberg

[@stevenhochlander1630]

I grew up in the 80s and Alfred Molina is the epitome of every greaseball slimebag dope pusher back then. Terrific performance. Should have at least been nominated

[@stephenallen4625]

That long take of Dirk just watching him dance, and then realizing where he is, is some of the best stuff you could get out of movies. You know exactly what he's thinking.

[@daveygivens735]

You could see him clicking through the slide show of his life, through the rise and all the way to that moment.

[@951oct]

I've been in a situation like that when you know it's ALL BAD and just sit there and think how the hell to get out of that situation.

[@beckigreen]

@@951octI know what you mean.

[@look_ass5247]

Isn't it like that because of the lyrics of the song? I mean, the song says Jessie, isn't was his ex?

[@RyanB1987]

The way Mark Wahlberg delivers an entire dialogue that the viewer can understand with just his eyes and facial expressions is a lesson in master acting. One of the most perfect scenes ever filmed.

[@saliv88]

The way that the situation changes as “99 Luftballons” kicks on is ethereal filmmaking.

[@mickrusso]

💯

[@gigyoung7181]

Yeah, imagine if film makers couldn't rely on music to pump up their scene like Scorsese or Anderson...they'd be lost.

[@Antibeds_ABOU]

@@gigyoung7181 music and film go hand to hand

[@23jakesmith23]

@@gigyoung7181 You are foolish. Of all the modern filmmakers who respect the process and the old masters, PTA and Scorsese are THE ones.

[@cullyx2913]

💯

[@jonnidark1986]

the stare man, the stare. it's so perfect like he had a moment of clarity and realised wtf i've hit rock bottom. masterpiece

[@BrockLanders]

When your buddy changes up the plan without telling anybody. The worst!

[@robfnmaxwell]

😆😆😆

[@tonymatrisin4328]

Need a buddy like Ricky Springfield!

[@lenwennerberg1631]

@@tonymatrisin4328 Ricky Springfield.... Zah-buddy ah mine !!!

[@hiimtoilet.iflushthings.2182]

LEROY JENKINS!

[@fizz6i630]

@@hiimtoilet.iflushthings.2182 God Dammit Todd

[@austin12923]

Damn, this is one of the movies where after I watched it I got extremely mad at myself for waiting so damn long to watch this movie. Holy fuck this is a good one

[@LordQaqa]

No kidding you should be fucking ashamed shame on you

[@chrisbrownlie2297]

lol

[@MkeKen67]

You should check out Magnolia and The Master. Some really intense stuff.

[@vantastic9367]

Me too

[@emhughes7889]

I remember everybody frown upon this movie when it got realised because of the subject matter.... but then again these days, those critics are mostly on the 'only fans'

[@romanreyes753]

If you ever been wired in a dangerous situation, then this scene hits its mark with you, and you can relate. You’re scared shitless in your own head, but you try your best to keep your cool from freaking out.

[@Glimax]

Alfred Molina deserved an Oscar just for this.

[@psycho_maniac1389]

That stache was pretty darn sexy on him

[@frankfurlacker5219]

It's Cosmo, he's Chinese.

[@dns21st]

Glimax omg that's him. Wow

[@dns21st]

Glimax he wasn't acting. Lol. I know

[@tamdam]

Thomas Jane too, fucking great performances by both

[@LukeTrapwalker]

This is the best anti-drug PSA I've ever seen.

[@laminage]

+Jason Moore Did you ever see the one in the Late 1990's or early 2000's, about Richie A Drug Dealer and a Friend who didn't have any Money so he told her to bring herself and her Friend Charlotte to his Crib for a "Party". Can you imagine what he made them do to get The Drugs.

[@BENCHIPED]

Good point but i'm thinking there's a decent part of the population that would want to go out and do some coke after watching this scene...lol

[@adday.]

The look on Dirks face on te couch when he knows he us fucked

[@PrivateAckbar]

And anti dumb lowlife PSA.

[@JoshuaFrick3]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@xcalabur18]

I can't tell you how many times 'Jessie's Girl' has played at weddings and I've busted out the 'Ricky Springfield..he's a BUDDY of mine!'. Everyone just stares at me awkwardly...

[@danteduck9518]

lmaooo bro I wish I were there 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@danteduck9518]

I'd carry a few packs of black cats every time I'd know u be at a wedding 🤣🤣🤣 and just randomly pop them 🤣🤣

[@xcalabur18]

@@danteduck9518 haha!!!!

[@maniacmasturbator2411]

Make sure should add your own heartfelt ad-libs during the chorus like Alfred Molina does

[@Hamilton-bm4qj]

The reference doesn’t work if no one is any idea what you’re talking about.

[@loulou27sf]

Alfred Molina is so underrated as an actor! What a talent. He owns this scene!

[@jcor3532]

+loulou27sf like

[@BakeHarn]

He’s a badass. Very underrated. But Thomas Jane steals this scene for me. That speech he says before busting in the door and getting shot “we came here to fucking do something”. That’s one of the most powerful yet tragic speech’s. Brilliant acting. Well let’s just say, this is a flawless movie

[@EBUNNY2012]

Agreed.

[@StufiBuy]

An underrated singer you mean.

[@mizzury54]

Dammit, he is NOT underrated . He had a great career.

[@11Stucat]

Dirk's moment of clarity. Brilliant.

[@frankfurlacker5219]

And it took a creepy guy dancing and singing in his underwear to realize it.

[@BillySinnz]

Great moment of acting there, you can see it on his face he's like wtf am I doing here???? I gotta get out!

[@landerosinvestments2952]

11Stucat Brilliant. Agreed. A person that recognizes this has been through a moment of clarity. Thanks for the comment.

[@eriktruchinskas3747]

11Stucat someone has also ridden the addiction train Choo choo....

[@jltplease]

Really? I just thought it was a brilliant honest moment of spacing out. All that coke maybe killed some cells at the moment.

[@heatheringram6287]

All four were brilliant in this scene, but Thomas Jane was on another level. In my opinion, one of the greatest movies ever made and my personal favorite of all time.

[@ItsaKindOfMagic86]

Agreed. It is high up on my list. And it gets better with rewatches and with time. It came out when I was not of age to watch this so I had to wait a bit to appreciate it and it blew my expectations away and there is new little things I notice each time I watch it. Boogie Nights is a rare gem and a treat. I wish the director made more movies.

[@NalaRichenbach]

It was a great scene but those things popping in the background were freaking me out.

[@thegirlinquestion]

your name is really similar to heather graham’s! (roller girl)!!

[@tdizz88]

That long single take shot of Mark Wahlberg's face is amazing and there's a reason for it. His facial expression shows him realizing his fall from grace thinking "Wtf happened in my life. I was a rich porn star now I'm here doing this drug deal?" Such a great film.

[@gusolive5522]

that long off gaze into his life with a short smile then reality hits him, so electric of a scene

[@tedparkerfilms]

I've always wondered about his gaze - what the actual meaning of it was, especially since he didn't BLINK for a minute or so.

[@beernpizzalover9035]

I read a magazine article once where Mark Wahlberg mentioned he imagined himself playing a game of golf to achieve that facial expression.

[@marshb97]

I’ve also thought that he was listening to the lyrics and relating them to his life, in a stoned sort of “oh wow” way. Then shakes it off into “wtf am I doing here.”

[@TheLinuxYes]

yea, that was a gem. so believable too. you knew what he was thinking without saying a word.

[@tategibbs655]

This is undoubtedly my favorite movie of all time, and I notice something new every time I watch it, like how Todd is so coked out of his mind that he's certain he can pull a heist on a rich drug dealer, but isn't even coordinated enough to go around a lamp.

[@Pingaheimer]

lmao

[@kellychuang8373]

Yeah Todd really is blitzed out. Though in the aftermath of this I'm thinking that the bag of baking soda would later be used in making crack cocaine though that would be a side story in this.

[@hazor777]

It was too early in that era before crack became a "thang" - crack wasn't until '86.

[@yougetonthathorseyougottar6126]

AND THATS WHAT WE CAME HERE TO MOTHERFUCKING DO

[@cementkite9151]

I saw this movie in the theatre in the fall of 1997 and to this day this scene was the most intense scene I've ever seen in any environment.

[@mclovin7386]

Me too! It was the same feeling as telling the horror movie teens “Don’t go into the Barn!” Except it was “Just get up and walk out!”

[@lillyanp4]

💯💯💯

[@ChristianFitzpatrick-o5k]

Same with the doughnut shop scene.

[@mcnuggets2011]

One of the best scenes in movie history

[@ryonmailnurse]

+alex mcdevitt just what was going thru Walberg&#39;s mind to be able to pull the scene off.&#160; its great.. and if I have to get shotgunned to death I don't want to be listening to 99 red balloons while I die!

[@peterdarker1]

+Joseph R. Moore Man...THANK you for the phrase "rock-bottom epiphany" as that TOTALLY describes this take. It may seem a bit heavy-handed NOW, but that's only because the shot was so much of a revelation when first shown. NO ONE wanted to see 'Boogie Nights' with me when it first hit theatres....even my so-called 'film friends'. That was only because in 1997, the '70's' was STILL a time period (especially the Disco-era) that STILL wasn't being taken seriously en masse. Now, of course, we have the benefit of a more detailed history of that period which leads into the Eighties, Nineties and into the Post 9/11 era we live in today. 'Boogie Nights' and 'Paul's boutique' lead the way on this But yeah....this movie and this scene in particular hold a special place in my heart filmwise. It was the first film Mark Walhberg slapped me in the face with his talent as it was my intro to the genius that is Paul Thomas Anderson.

[@billy-tf4se]

+No One tom jane

[@MrNckissfan]

+alex mcdevitt I'm so jealous...she should be with me!

[@a-g3003]

+Joseph R. Moore Me too, I just hope people don't watch this scene without experiencing the whole lead up to it. It kind of means nothing without understanding why he is sat motionless for so long. Great film, great scene.

[@Wellington-nl7vm]

All I can think of is that Thomas Jane is such an underrated actor

[@CARETAKER89able]

Agreed Thomas Jane is the best.Prepared to risk it all,and put it all on the line, to get the Money, and the Cocaine!!

[@meangreen8873]

Well to be fair, everybody likes John Hamm. +Nick Laureano

[@NotMeNaNaNa]

Wellington that's what I GD came here to MFin do. and that's what I'm gonna Fin do! - one of many classic lines in a great film.

[@russellpaloor8225]

Not a big fan of him.

[@maulcs]

You should watch The Expanse, he's awesome in it

[@jamesa.meadow4711]

Mark’s acting as Eddie realizes he’s hit rock bottom is unmatched. That slight smirk turning into horror displays the tons of thoughts going through his head is impeccable. Incredible scene.

[@FlechFisher]

reed constantly looking back at him and todd all dazed and comfused and scared shitless makes it all the more memorable and funnier too lol

[@never_bin_outside3603]

its hits hard becasue all who's been there with drugs understands ... simple

[@Chorkaloopa]

It reminded me of the scene in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest when Jack Nicholson was just about to leave the asylum, but was delayed by Billy getting laid by Candy. He almost made it out and should have left when the time was right.

[@MkeKen67]

@@Chorkaloopa - But then we wouldn't have had the Randall McMurphy choking nurse Ratched scene. The whole Billy Bibbit thing where Ratched says she's going to tell his mother, so he ends up killing himself, was super disturbing. What kind of psych therapy is that? I would have wanted to choke her, too. So much sad stuff in that movie.

[@Chorkaloopa]

@@MkeKen67 Mac didn't know any better. Billy would have eventually (likely) killed himself over his mother's stranglehold on him, and Mac should have split the first chance he had. Maybe that was a metaphor where RP tried to choke Ratched to death, eye for an eye kind of thing. Anyway, Cuckoo's was a top movie for me. Every scene is justified in making the final cut.

[@irwinthepantydropperextror4708]

I love how Rahad just goes back to his house like he just finished watering the garden.

[@seancrimm6554]

I was going to say he goes back inside, he has to explain to the cops what happened to Todd and his bodyguard, why the house is all shot up.

[@DJIronMike1981]

I just thought the same thing watching this scene back. Like he just picked up the Sunday Morning Paper

[@D-Fens_1632]

Yeah Rahad was fucked, a coupla bodies in a house with more money than God and twice as much coke, crank, and smack in the goddamn fuckin floor safe, on top of probable weapons charges. Poor Rahad.

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

@@D-Fens_1632 Somebody like this would have disposed of bodies before. A lot of holes in the desert.

[@sitdowndogbreath]

Supposedly delete a clip shows him shooting out with the cops

[@Tipperito]

That look dirk does when he realizes he's hit rock bottom, i get that in school tests lol

[@MUFFINHEAD1985]

@Daniel 1 Tipper is right. He goes from smirk to horror.

[@dr.christopherdiaz4473]

I had that look when I was so desperate for weed in NYC that I was hanging out in project building lobbies.

[@8angst8]

Please shut up. The moment in the movie was profound.

[@Pingaheimer]

When you're looking at yourself in the mirror in the barber shop and realize it's gonna come out shitty.

[@maniacmasturbator2411]

Chris Diaz lol the bad old days when you had to get drugs like weed in seedy places

[@FJX716]

Sitting there, you don’t know what’s gonna happen and the whole time this Asian guy is lighting fireworks. Cocaine fueled craziness, music blaring in the background, guns and screaming. It’s literally the most nerve wracking scene in movie history.

[@TheGililgi]

I swear these are some Oscar level performances in This movie

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

Burt Reynolds got a best supporting actor nom.

[@victorrain]

Especially Cosmo!!!!

[@amanms1999]

@@flightofthebumblebee9529 Julianne Moore was also nominated

[@tiaaaron3278]

Paul Thomas Anderson somehow manages to get Oscar-worthy performances out of any actor he's worked with. And oftentimes, it happens to be their role of a lifetime.

[@TheChuck181]

Better than the Oscars. Oscars aren’t worthy of this quality of art.

[@jasondownsnet]

God damn this movie is good. I was a teenager the first time I saw it and just thought it was weird. But now that I am older and wiser, this movie is fucking awesome! It's funny, interesting, and tragic....awesome!

[@PiyushMaanDev]

I first saw it when I was 14, and didn't find it weird. It was good all along. I think you should watch these kind of movies when you actually have some experience in films. Mostly, the message and themes go over your head when you watch some thematic film randomly

[@cleonRIP]

They never mention it, but the fact the firecrackers are constantly being popped, just to cover any gunshots that might randomly occur...genius

[@frankfurlacker5219]

This might be the greatest scene in movie history, just the intensity and the way it was shot. It feels like you're there.

[@benashworth7653]

+Frank Furlacker ESPECIALLY, if you have ben in a situation like this one

[@dirty06maggot]

+ben ashworth do tell lol

[@raulgarcia8063]

Been thru shit like this ,,while being so geeked out like mark.....wtf ...meth takes us to some of the most screwed up evil places on this planet...lol...I'm one of the 15 percent who survived meth and now clean.....

[@merkitten953]

@Hans right? If youve ever gotten a little too into drugs you know you start putting yourself in sketchy situations just t o get what you want. It doesnt have to be a robbery. I had a friend who was like "i know this guy, hes a big dealer who only sells weight" but we were in our 20s and cute and he made exceptions for cute young girls. And no we didnt fuck him, he was too high f or all that, he just wanted us to stay there and get high with him, that was his "price" to just sell us a few grams instead of kilos. But he'd get high and manic like this guy, shooting up, nodding out then snorting coke and running around the room acting crazy, trying to "kill the mosquito" when there was no mosquito, my friend would say we gotta go and he'd be like "so fast? You just want my drugs?" (And we're thinking DUH) and we'd be ,like ok we'll stay 5 more minutes and he'd do another hit and start talking about the fbi sgents placing bugs in the attic... ive definitely felt like Dirk before, sitting there wondering if tonights the night dude flips his lid. If youve lived it, this scene is spot on.

[@robertburrows5375]

You're 100 per cent correct my friend

[@favrerules04]

This scene is so unsettling and intense.

[@psycho_maniac1389]

It had me at the edge of my toilet seat

[@Nateskers]

Psycho_ Maniac13 oh my god I'm the toilet seat too.

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

And has one of the most ineffective bullets in movie history. Taken by Thomas Jane.

[@cameroncrisamore2871]

@@psycho_maniac1389 same

[@cheerwhiner7829]

This is probably one of my favorite movie scenes ever - the mixture of the off-key singing, the intended robbery, the open robe, and the intermittent fireworks is genius 😀 The tension-building is spot on.👍

[@gvalley07]

The great John C Reilly. The most underrated actor in Hollywood.

[@ItsaKindOfMagic86]

yeah

[@Spurs210]

The part when the camera stays focused on todd sitting on the couch is my favorite. The heavy breathing, small sudden twitches, unsure look and hesitation as he tries to gather his courag to make the biggest mistake of his life

[@fortogarebel8872]

Finally! Someone noticed Todd in a state of psychosis, trying to get the courage up to confront the dealer.

[@HannibalOrJustRex]

To this day I always say "Ricky Springfield... He's a buddy of mine! 👍😁👍" whenever this song plays.

[@ryancharles8432]

Paul Thomas Anderson's magnum opus, and one of my favorite films of all time. From opening scene to final frame, it is flawless. The cinematography is perfect. The script and dialogue are rich; as goes for the entire cast. ****

[@gjones9831]

Agree. Underrated movie in my opinion for sure.

[@clubluchadormma]

G Whiz AMEN!

[@smokeylonesome4328]

The Master, There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, and Phantom Thread (In that order) are way better, but Boogie Nights is still excellent.

[@Merknilash]

Star Fucker the Master? That movie was one of his worst

[@thespacecatjenkins8539]

@@gjones9831 its on the list of the best movies of the entire 90s, and almost every one its in the top 10. so no, thats not what we call underrated....

[@dragonsky799]

Rock Bottom. That's what Mark Wahlberg's character was experiencing in this moment. And one of the main reasons he was so brilliant at it's expression, is he truly knows that feeling because he has actually experienced this in his own life.

[@Reb3nga]

Maybe a bit late to ask but....what? He experienced this? So he and 2 other coke-addict friends decided to stick up an even more coke-addict madman and it ended with two dead people? I'm pretty sure to say this is not the life "Marky Mark" had before haha

[@peterp2153]

I have no idea what the original commenter was getting at (2 years ago) but Wahlberg ran with a bad crowd as a teenager and was a coke addict. He did a short stint in prison (one of several arrests) in a possibly racially motivated attack on an Asian man and put out the guy’s eye. Whacked him over the head for no reason with a broomstick. It was serious enough that Wahlberg was charged with attempted murder and ended up sentenced to 2 year in prison (serving a little less than 2 months).

[@sam8793d]

beat me to it. totally agree

[@shooter7426]

Reb3nga i believe he was possibly referring to the interview Wahlberg gave at one point about his criminal background. At one point he had arrived at prison and was looking around at all the career criminals that reminded him of the street criminals from his neighborhood he had admired growing up and had moment of realization that a life in and out of prison being a career criminal was a pretty stupid lifestyle choice he had made for himself. it was after this experience he started trying to go in a different direction in life.

[@jasonfitzpatrick2197]

This might well be my favourite film.

[@s-plannone9605]

This is by far one of the greatest scenes in movie history!!..Just a tense situation where even the movie audience is trying to get out of that dudes living room

[@TheSnowdog21121]

That bodyguard is a terrible shot. He should be a stormtrooper.

[@JokerScars69]

Too Fat

[@duckduckbirdie467]

hard to aim with two handgun

[@dreadsocialistroberts]

Well, he was trying to shoot at somebody who looked like Han Solo.

[@dilbertdoe601]

Or a Brownshirt

[@jjw1072]

... Or not wearing sunglasses indoors.

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

Alfred Molina *so* deserved an Oscar just for this scene, which is loosely based on the major drug dealer Eddie Nash, who ruled cocaine distribution in LA, and John Holmes (Wahlberg’s character) and the horrific Wonderland murders (which were revenge for this botched robbery). Of course Burt deserved the Oscar so very much - he should have won in the main category since he truly carries the film basically. The “Sister Christian” part is so brutal - so nerve-wracking but also funny at key moments. The film’s whole tone changes in this scene - it isn’t the lazy, indifferent 70s anymore - guys like Nash and Escobar and the “godmother” Griselda Blanco in Miami (who worked for Escobar until her own murder) were absolutely brutal in the early 80s, and they never forgave or forgot anyone who crossed them.

[@ItsaKindOfMagic86]

Yes and yes. I will love this scene for Mark's character having that epiphany, but also just for Thomas Jane's performance, he goes out with a bang :p

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Alfred usually plays such dead-serious characters I love seeing him have fun and chewing the scenery also a huge credit to his acting range

[@douglas787]

I can't listen to "Sister Christian" without thinking about firecrackers

[@johnsangiuolo7459]

lol same for me

[@dilbertdoe601]

Not in this video

[@douglas787]

@@dilbertdoe601 I know not this video, I'm referring to "Boogie Nights" you fool.

[@Kimberlytheresam]

Me too! I always think of this guy and this scene!

[@nickstrom2306]

absolutely! i always say "wanna play baseball?'' anytime i hear that song

[@nickfromCO]

Ricky Springfield...HE'S A BUDDY OF MINE!!!!

[@bclmax]

actuallu he saus the fireman,,,cause he was one before becoming a star

[@caesar349]

She should be with mMeeh!

[@chris-o2v9c]

😂😂

[@beverlyskates]

Im so jellious hmp!

[@paul-egz4264]

I'm so jealous. .. she should be wit me!!!!

[@wspencerwatkins]

Alfred Molina, possibly most underrated/underused actor of all time

[@tiaaaron3278]

I wish he'd work with PTA again. He's coming back as Doc Ock, I hear.

[@nectarinedreams7208]

@@tiaaaron3278 He worked with PTA in another small role in Magnolia.

[@tiaaaron3278]

@@nectarinedreams7208 I know, I've seen all of PTA films.

[@nectarinedreams7208]

@@tiaaaron3278 Apologies, I misread your comment. But yeah, Molina is great, and I hope to see him back as Doc Ock. Spider-Man 2 is a delight and he's one of the best things about it.

[@tiaaaron3278]

@@nectarinedreams7208 It's a shame he isn't more acclaimed. When I watched Spider-Man 2 as a child. I thought he was one of those "Oscar actors" who plays serious roles most of the time.

[@chrisdemarcus4577]

I want what's in the safe! We want what is in the goddamn safe, in the goddamn master bedroom on the fuckin' floor in the goddamn fuckin' floor safe, that's all!

[@shytguy]

Nice job repeating"wow nice job repeating the lines in the movie that was awesome" whenever somebody says the lines from a movie.

[@nickytommymancinelli8066]

Hey! Hey!! Hey hey hey hey!!!

[@joekundtz1363]

I got a good plan

[@arktomorphos]

Tarantino only wished he wrote this scene.

[@Tusc9969]

What on earth does Tarantino have to do with this scene LOL

[@arktomorphos]

Joe Lazarus Because its kind of Tarantinoesque. The tension building up, the crazy antics and peculiar dialogue. But non of Quentin's films comes close to this.

[@antoniojohnson8443]

Ro man This scene is a rip off of the 1989 Rolling Stone article called The Devil and John Holmes by Mike Safer. In fact the whole movie is a rip off of that article and the 1981 movie Exhausted

[@jonathanturbide2232]

Antonio Johnson The fuck are you talking about, a rip off!? Sure the movie was inspired by that story and that porn star, but it doesn't take anything away from the brilliance of it and how it was incredibly well directed. Reading the story in a magazine is one thing, putting it on the screen is another.

[@TheGoodChap]

Tarantino does completely his own thing. This whole movie is clearly hugely inspired by Scorsese but apparently that's not a problem to people. Personally I love this movie so I don't care if it's borrowing from other amazing directors, same exact thing goes for Tarantino. The finished product is always completely it's own thing and going for something quite different.

[@dlprod11]

One of the greatest scenes in Movie History!

[@johnmcdonald1237]

The intense anxiety and excitement i felt watching the whole of this scene is one of the best/worst experiences of my life! You guys wanna play baseball!?

[@Onmysheet]

This couldn't be anymore tense.

[@jbot91]

Alfred Molina is a genius. Super funny in this. Plays the role amazing.

[@thomasgreen1557]

1:46 Todd's breathing really sets up what he is about to say. Thomas jane is so underrated.

[@ItsaKindOfMagic86]

he really is loovvve his work

[@nateman79]

Arguably best scene in movie history. The brilliance of it almost brings a tear to your eye. You feel like youre sittin on that couch prayin to get outside the door in one piece

[@layicorn]

Apocalypse Now opening.

[@kevinb3812]

I know I don’t want to be anywhere around that kind of crazy at this point in my life! (Maybe I had my moment of clarity in the early eighties.)

[@ItsaKindOfMagic86]

Yep yep. I'd be just like Reed in that scene, I just wanna go lol can we go now? lol let's just go please XD

[@michaelhelms2378]

This film gets better with each viewing. A masterpiece

[@dougtull4594]

Try listening to this song without thinking of this scene. You can't do it, can you?

[@psycho_maniac1389]

I did! I was watching porno with this song and this scene didn't cross my mind

[@MrEsova]

LMFAO

[@dougtull4594]

TMI, PSYCHO. LOL.

[@psycho_maniac1389]

Doug Tull yeeeee

[@casandrabullock9497]

Doug Tull every time I hear the opening to jessies girl I see this in my head!

[@Locadel2003]

Everybody his Oscar worthy in this movie and everybody is underrated. Especially Thomas Jane & Alfred Molina Everybody remember Mark whalberg and maybe even John C reilly, but Jane and Molina are really underrated, underused and awesome

[@CJCVictoriaDC]

Todd has an academy award winning scene here, right before he walks into his death. Catches the desperation of an addict perfectly.

[@therealbeaston]

That look on Marks face is his realization that he hit rock bottom absolutely superb writing and directing.

[@AlexanderM216]

Such a great scene. Still the best Wahlberg has ever been.

[@KoljaMineralka]

And he wasn't even the best actor in here...

[@ladyGZSeChu]

you forgot the departed

[@nox5870]

Alex M His greatest movie is Boogie Nights but his greatest performance has to be in the Departed.

[@nickpatrick7021]

He's really good in Fear as well - and by good I mean really unbalanced and terrifying

[@ronrockit1521]

@@ladyGZSeChu Departed is over rated and boring

[@Mostly_bad]

Mark’s acting was really solid here. Killer performance great directing.

[@landonlanderos4179]

The transition from Rick Springfield to Nena's 99 luft ballons. Brilliant- Todd's realizes and gets emotional- his frustration is excellent.

[@ItsaKindOfMagic86]

YES that is my favorite bit! The music also being upbeat pure 80s beat to a dark and seriously dangerous situation just gels well together to make this entertaining and intense all at once. Genius!

[@Onmysheet]

This film needs a criterion release.

[@austinwillcut4919]

It did on laserdisc! Remember those?!

[@danbam3411]

Secret Guy for real! On Blu-ray too I’d get it in a heartbeat 😎

[@yellaboy2617]

One of the most entertaining movies ever, in my opinion. All-Star cast and not a dull moment from start to finish. No matter how many times I watch it, I never get tired of it.

[@ItsaKindOfMagic86]

it gets better with time and with each rewatch I wish PTA was writing and directing more movies, he has genius talent with the camera and the pen and deserves to tell more stories

[@OLIWIECKI]

one of the best sequences in film ever.

[@blackgargamel]

I love the expression of Mark Wahlberg's face at 1:00 as if Dirk Diggler realized that his whole life is a waste..

[@AnahataMaryjane]

blackgargamel i read somewhere that he really did space out for that moment and they kept it in the cut.

[@JeffTheDudeAbides]

Anahata Love I have heard that they kept them awake for a few days and in this house to get everyone in this scene looking like shit, Wahlberg's reaction is indeed true and a wonderful accident in which he was supposed to say something at that moment but had a full on mental lapse.

[@Contakum]

That expression actually started at 0:55, but yeah a great point - love your comment !

[@Jimmy-fu3lq]

PTA purposely had that scene happen, it was amazing acting from Mark Wahlberg tho that expression was flawless

[@tommyorr5304]

Samuel Esposito ur mailman lives in fantasyland

[@Andy-kw5nw]

I never felt the same about the song “jessie’s girl” after this.

[@wendyraye]

Ugh I loved that song.

[@Danceeagle9725]

Me too. As well as Dont Stop Believing after seeing the final episode of the Sopranos

[@TheLinuxYes]

i think "i wish i could hump jessie's girl" would have worked better in the song, though.

[@oldmanbacala5571]

Yeah I love it now. The same can be said about the song called "Sussudio" by Phil Collins when it was played in the Movie "American Psycho"

[@asmundukkelberg8741]

I can't hear "Singing in the rain" without remebering another famous scene from movie history.

[@davidgee2988]

When I saw this in the theater I was so on the edge of my seat like I'd never been before. The intensity here is about as thick as it can get.

[@ReverendBenzo]

I was on the edge of my seat watching this scene in the theater.

[@xXRoNaLD0xX]

must have been amazing in cinema :D they dont make movies like this anymore, this is just classic

[@JackHorner69]

Same. It had this grip on me like no scene ever has. It was 1997? I still remember.

[@RavnerRavner]

97?!?! Holy shit... I'm an old man.... :(

[@bennywoo1918]

what a game it is hours days weeks years. bang crash

[@jimw.4161]

This scene is fantastic! You will NEVER see better acting! A masterpiece!

[@oracle8589]

“Will NEVER see better acting”😆😆😆Calm down kid, just cuz it’s your favourite movie no need to oversell it like that

[@axlpisa]

The incredible thing about this scene is that Todd really looks like Ron Launius, the member of the Wonderland gang...the director was a genius!

[@napoleonsolo5929]

Tood got off light compared to Ron Launius, a quick death compared to being beaten by a tire iron.

[@bumpasaurus487]

One of the best scenes in one of the best movies of all time. Straight up movie classic 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@sjang816]

I'll never forget watching this scene for the first time...the combination of the loud random firecrackers plus the crazy/stupid friend plus the crazy high guy and the tension, the music..and then that weird frozen smirk mark wahlberg gives..what a scene!

[@reelmeritfilms6949]

Thomas Jane's Performance in this was astonishing

[@jonathanmoreira4825]

0:55-0:40 is some of the greatest acting I've ever seen. You can tell what he's thinking without him even saying a word...

[@JenniferBrigitteOpticalVortex]

Jonathan Moreira people sleep on Mark's acting. He's fantastic. Some of his films are beneath him

[@saliv88]

Jennifer Brigitte What? Noooo.

[@ziggybammurphy1645]

The real question is---------What happened to Cosmo??

[@captainknapton]

Lmao ....I would love to know lol

[@BrianMacDougall722]

He's got coke and he's got cash!

[@Herreken]

He's got more money than God. He's got TWICE as much coke, crank, and smack.

[@kellychuang8373]

And I think after this night he will discover crack well that's like some side after story. Like maybe he needed to smoke and discovered the guys bag of baking soda and after mixing voila Crack is born. Well that's how I think would play out.

[@anorakus8272]

In the master bedroom. Under the bed. In a floor safe. UNDERSTAND?

[@chrisfegan81]

What the fuck is the matter with you Tod?! Let's go!

[@anorakus8272]

@Fella Einstein We want something else from you

[@FoxBodyBlake]

"I'm so jealous... She should be wit mmmmmmmme"

[@MrEsova]

lmao

[@hawaiidream1]

Can't stop watching that part, so hilarious!!! 😂

[@frankgarrett3953]

Best part that yayo is kicking in Hard 👍✌

[@blee818]

I’m really happy doc ock found a universe where he’s just letting loose and having fun.

[@4D4plus4is4D8]

The ironic thing about this scene, or one of the ironic things, is that all they had to do was say to this lonely rich guy "Hey can we hang out and get high with you and maybe take a little with us when we go?"

[@masterzombie161]

Every actor in this scene deserves an award, such a great movie.

[@fanwithnoname]

Boogie Nights is better than Pulp Fiction. Change my mind.

[@BigHat83]

Christopher Walken

[@TheLinuxYes]

there's good argument for that. Boogie nights was more true to life than PF.

[@BigHat83]

Steve Buscemi played a waiter in Pulp Fiction. brilliant casting

[@forman208]

Boogie Nights is great, Pulp Fiction is a masterpiece. They're simply on different tiers

[@wimbledan]

Love them both for different reasons. Can't say one is better

[@beatlefan713]

Most tense scene in cinematic history! And anyone who’s been in a similar situation like Dirk you know how tense it really can get

[@neworleansguy10]

The best scene in a movie absolutely chock filled with brilliant ones. Amazing stuff!!

[@demianboots8654]

Alfred Molina is a beast

[@funnyshite83]

You can't help but feel sorry for Todd at 3:34 with 99 Luftballoons by Nena in the background. It's probably the best dramatic scene to use this song in. You can clearly see that Todd was coked out of his mind to want the cash, want the drugs. You can't help but want to help that friend, and beg him to stop, which Wahlberg and Reilly try to do. Perfect scene, perfect movie.

[@forman208]

I don't feel sorry for Todd at all, dude was a fucking dirtbag who unnecessarily put Dirk and Reed's lives in danger

[@ohwell94]

forman208 way late but don't you think that walking into a drug dealers trying to pass off baking soda as coke just might had put them in danger to begin with?

[@chris-o2v9c]

😂😂99 luffballons! you can't

[@ItsaKindOfMagic86]

Yes! That is my favorite bit! You summed it up perfectly! And it mirrors the scene earlier when Mark's character Eddie/Dirk has his breakdown and argument with Jack. Captures how the drugs ruined them. So while Eddie here regains back control of his life, Todd loses all control and his loses his life seconds later. PTA shows how this type of lifestyle and lack of control can take you in either direction when your willpower is at the mercy of excess of the 1980s.

[@CEOkiller]

I can’t listen to this song without some Asian guy lighting off firecrackers in the background

[@johnytamale8814]

I like the way that guy just casually walks back to his house when wahlberg burns off in his corvette, what a way to end an intense scene

[@RolfHartmann]

From what I've gathered about John Holmes (the inspiration for the movie) the Thomas Jane character is much closer to how he was, but they must have known they had to change things to make Dirk more sympathetic.

[@subsamadhi]

John Holmes started out a lot more like dirk. Unsure of himself and shy. Then as he progressed to when this happened with eddie nash he was more fucked up. This is true. He did in fact rob eddie nash and they got away with it

[@subsamadhi]

Swiatek702 yes but the only reason that eddie nash found out was because they tortured john holmes to get him to confess about who did it. So technically they did. I know the details. Im just pointing out in contrast to this movie they did do the robbery

[@chisicilian]

Legit one of the best movie scenes ever

[@justinport95]

Wow. Top 3 movies I’ve ever seen Thank you PTA

[@j_m_b_1914]

Me: "Hey man, time to roll." *Friend's mustache starts twitching* Me: Fuck

[@Jack_Hyde]

Todd, listen to me, let’s just split, man. Let’s just split right now! This is not the thing. This was not supposed to be the thing, Todd!

[@darthapocawrith1017]

Thanks a Million times for this upload. ... fantastic each and EVERYTIME.

[@yasseral-quasmi1649]

This movie is one of the greatest movies ever made