REVIEW: 'Phantom Thread'
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4.8 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
It’s Oscars season and we’re reviewing the Academy’s big category picks. ‘Phantom Thread’ (starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Vicky Krieps) is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and has nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Lewis), Best Supporting Actress (Lesley Manville) and more.
Synopsis:
"Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutantes and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love. With his latest film, Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating portrait both of an artist on a creative journey, and the women who keep his world running."
We put the movie through our critically acclaimed rating system, which grades based on four categories:
1. Did we like it?
2. How did everyone look?
3. Will we steal stuff from it?
4. Is it problematic?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Did we like it? |
| 0:04.7 | And how did everyone look? |
| 0:09.0 | Always stealing stuff from it is a problem that it gets brunch. |
| 0:13.6 | Movie reviews. |
| 0:16.6 | Phantom Thread, what? |
| 0:18.3 | This is just going to be a fucking Reynolds-Wodcock celebration episode, so I guess we should just get out of the way. Phantom Thread is What? This is just going to be a fucking Reynolds-Woodcock celebration episode. |
| 0:21.4 | So I guess we should just get out of the way. |
| 0:23.1 | Phantom Thread is about a dressmaker who is miserable and he goes through women, but he never |
| 0:28.8 | lets them get too close to him. |
| 0:30.2 | But he's just such a dick and he's so prissy and he's such a fucking baby. |
| 0:34.8 | And he always looks great. |
| 0:36.5 | And fuck if that's not my fucking life goal. I did think of you being like when I was watching that movie I was like DJ is going to fucking love this character. I love that guy. That guy is fucking amazing. He says cool little sassy, bitchy things. He's such a bitchy. I love him. All right. So should we get into it? Yes. Did we like it? Out of four. |
| 0:56.1 | Let me preface this by saying, I did not like this movie when I exited the theater. Oh, but it... It grew on me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The more you think about it. It didn't do a lot for me in the theater, but it was one of those movies that stuck with me. |
| 0:50.9 | I had to think about it |
| 0:51.7 | for a couple of days. |
| 0:52.8 | The more I thought about it, |
| 0:53.8 | the more I liked it. |
| 0:54.9 | I ended up with a 3.1 out of four. |
| 1:17.3 | Okay. So this actually makes my experience, my misfortunes. Those actually helped me. So |
| 1:24.7 | devotees of the podcast will know I went to the to the movie to see it |
| 1:28.9 | uh kids ruined my time old people with tuna sandwiches ruined my time i had to leave halfway through it |
| 1:34.3 | but i really enjoyed it as i was watching it so it was already kind of starting to grow on me and i was |
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