I haven't seen much of PT Anderson -- I had mixed feelings about Magnolia and Boogie Nights, so haven't bothered with much of his recent work. PT has me curious to dive in a bit. Hulu is streaming Punch Drunk Love so I might start with that.

I have now seen everything but Hard Eight. (Well, I think I may have seen Hard Eight but I'm not sure.) The Math Greek had been trying to get me to watch Magnolia forever; however, since I resist all movies over two hours he did not have much luck until now. But I caved and we actually watched it as a double bill with Phantom Thread. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. His favorite PTA is Punch Drunk Love, which I remember liking a lot but I'm such a sucker for westerns that I'd have to see it again before I could rank it above There Will Be Blood.

I remember being a little confounded by Magnolia, although it wasn't unwatchable, but Boogie Nights is my favorite of his (I say that not having seen The Master or Punch Drunk Love or There Will Be Blood -- yet).

I have only seen Punch Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood. I liked them both well enough, but am not really tempted to see the rest of his work.

Saw I, Tonya tonight. It was fine.

As for Anderson, I liked Boogie Nights, but loathed Magnolia and did not enjoy Punch Drunk Love. I would never seek out his work, but might eventually watch the others.

I think Boogie Nights is the only one of his movies I've seen. I'll probably add Phantom Thread as #2.

I definitely want to see Phantom Thread, and of the others Punch Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood. You know, someday.

I love Boogie Nights and Punch Drunk and like the rest of his films.

I saw Boogie Nights and found myself basically indifferent to it at the end. Pretty much a sense of, "That was a thing I saw. OK." I didn't want to see Magnolia or Punch Drunk Love, and nothing I heard about them changed my mind. They seemed to have a lot of awful people being awful, and nothing much to make up for it, and I can watch the news as part of my cable package if I want that.

I hated Magnolia so much that I haven't been willing to watch any other PTA movies, even though I heard good stuff about Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love, and There Will Be Blood. (Because I also heard good stuff about Magnolia, and that was a goddamn lie.)

They seemed to have a lot of awful people being awful, and nothing much to make up for it

Because basically this. Ugh.

(To be fair, I also seem to be lacking the gene to appreciate Wes Anderson movies -- maybe it's just an Anderson thing across the board? -- but I didn't *loathe* Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums; I just didn't really get the point of them.) (Apparently I am meant to stick to superhero movies.)

For what it's worth, I found watching (parts of) earlier Wes Anderson movies painful, but was delighted by The Grand Budapest Hotel.