Boogie Nights – Full Frontal Edition

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For a movie that celebrates the excesses of the 70s adult film industry, an extended cut makes absolute sense, and it almost the essential way to experience Boogie Nights. I loved getting to watch this packed-to-the-gills version of a great hangout movie, put together seamlessly for maximum grooviness. My only quibble would be the Becky and Jerome sequence dragging on a bit too long -- it's a moment of actual tragic violence and drama in a movie whose moments of seriousness are otherwise entirely leavened by comedy or irony. A bit of trimming of that scene could leave the tone completely intact and get the viewer to the car crash a bit faster.

However, that's a very minor tonal nitpick that doesn't change the fact that this is the only version of Boogie Nights anybody needs going forward. A terrific job. Neglify, "you've got the touch."

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Just watched this nice Extended Edition. Good work. Very good work. I knew the deleted szenes before but reintegrated in the movie it makes boogie nights even a fuller experience. And even if they are not in HD they are very well integreated so that they fit neat with the whole washed up 70's look. Thank you for this fantastic experience you gave me to watch boogie nights in this way.

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A simple, but well-executed insertion of deleted scenes. They were a bit jarring, however, assumingly because of the worser video quality - and, more importantly, the audio quality. It's unavoidable, so maybe I'm being harsh in docking stars for it, but I think it's worth noting if you're interested in checking out the edit though.

As mentioned in the listing, this edit is NOT meant to replace the original. But, if you're a fan of Boogie Nights, you'll appreciate the work done here and probably enjoy the bloated runtime.
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I'm going to differ from the other reviews here by not making any sex puns and just giving it to you straight. Hmmm... Well, look, this was only my first re-watch of Boogie Nights and I think it hasn't aged as well as I'd imagined. I think a lot of what I loved about the film was its unpredictability, that I didn't know what to expect from PTA's style, or from latter-day Burt, or from young Wahlberg and cast. Everything was refreshing. But now we've seen a lot of these elements repeated in other films, and it's hard to go back. So how does that affect this edit?

Well, having all these deleted scenes back in (expertly, I might add) seems like it might be too much of a good thing. Wahlberg doing his "earnest, high-voiced" thing, Don Cheadle deadpan riffing, and oh my god...John C. Reilly. Now that we've seen his over-the-top improv statements in so many other films, I found it almost impossible to believe him as a character in this. It just made every scene into Step Brothers. This is probably intensified by the nature of the deleted scenes, that most of them are extended riffing... the "Under the Table" doing-coke-heist-planning-scene in particular just seems to go on for-ev-er. I mean, it's good...they're ALL good...but added back in, they change the tone of the film. (It's also problematic in that the only "black" relationship in the film is now portrayed as a jarringly discordant abusive relationship, as opposed to all the loving white relationships...)

I'd advise watching the movie like this ONCE. After you've seen it, and you're a fan, invite some people over and have drinks and laugh at it. But watch the original cut first so you can appreciate the drama of this misshapen f*d up porn family. The original cut probably has juuuust enough dark humor to make the drama hit. But a giant, extended thanks to Neglify for cutting together this very interesting alternate way to view the film.

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