This film has incredible significance to me, as my first PTA film and as a young man. I was 16 and living for, at the time, a little over 2 months in a small town called Maple Ridge, British Columbia direct from a lifetime in Windsor, Ontario. I was maybe a few years in as a legitimately budding cinephile after years of loving movies, at least on a visceral and visual level. That was a very troubling and sad time though, as I had lost a wonderful girlfriend to a car wreck just a month or so before moving away from my friends and family. My first job there was at a place called Robitronics Video, seemingly one of the last mom and pop video shops in Canada. I put on a happy face and was hired on because of my enthusiasm for film, but since I wasn't old enough yet to work inside the store, I was hired on as a sign holder for outside the store. After my first shift, my amazing boss's son Mike (8 years older and also a film buff) threw me 20 bucks since I was just a high schooler with no money of my own. My first act with that 20 was to rent a couple movies called Man Bites Dog and Punch-Drunk Love (a perfect double bill, of course lol), since those were on my radar for quite some time, especially since I strangely grew fonder of Adam Sandler at that time. I won't make this lame ass tale longer, but I'll say that throughout PDL, I felt so entranced and in awe of it in a way I really never felt with a film before. I had fortunately seen a lot of great films in my young life, but this one hit my soul in an almost inexplicable way. By the end of that hour and a half sitting on the edge of my bed with my mouth open and in abject bewilderment and melancholy over what I just experienced, I ended up sobbing uncontrollably and unloading everything that I had a lot of trouble getting out because I thought it was the right thing to do. I felt so unburdened after that and was able to get along in the most wonderful way for the 6 years I lived there, before moving back to Windsor. The film truly did change my life, and made me appreciate cinema in a way that has exponentially grown at a rapid pace, and at 31, it's clips like this that make me love the art even more. Anyway, if you read all this, I appreciate your time. Long live cinema ❤

@yurimelo6742

9 күн бұрын

Fuck yeah man

@reservoirdude92

9 күн бұрын

@@yurimelo6742 ✊🏽

@methylphosphatePOET

9 күн бұрын

That is definitely the power movies have. Thanks for sharing.

@reservoirdude92

9 күн бұрын

@@methylphosphatePOET yessir, I wasn't prepared for it but I'm eternally grateful that it came when it did.

@owenstephen8317

9 күн бұрын

Salutations from Richmond, BC, brother. Great story about a great film!

Would love to see Mr Pitt in a PTA film, it could bring out interesting things in him as an actor.

@reservoirdude92

9 күн бұрын

He went with DiCaprio for his new film, maybe he'll call Brad next time haha

@chrisjfox8715

7 күн бұрын

​@@reservoirdude92 on paper, Brad Pitt paired with PTA would excite me more than Dicaprio

@Tusc9969

7 күн бұрын

​@@chrisjfox8715 I still would like to see one of them work with PTA one day.

@Garrett1240

2 күн бұрын

Especially as Brad ages and loses his leading man looks, I think PTA could really do something with that.

"i have love in my life that makes me stronger that anything you could imagine". I remeber this films the first time i saw was in my late grandparents appartment, where i used to come on weekends to stay after boarding school week studying abroad. My mother just died, my father was away in other country, and i had come back after the funeral to stay there and tv or something. I was staying there alone among all the stuff that was familiar to me from childhood. The newspaper and glasses where still on the table near the bed in the other room. Nothing was touched for years, and i was in the guest room on sleeping on the couch and this movie was on, and it made me fill with so much comfort. It was weird for my age, but it resonated with me so much, i rented it again the next weekend. After that was the begeiing of great era of american indipendent films, with clever wrting, witty dialogs, superb acting. This was the film that set it off diffeent kind of cinema for me and made PTA my favorite director. Little did i know that There Will Be Blood is comming to theater soon and my perspective on movies would change once again forever.

My favorite scene is the beat down after the car accident, when he finally channels that rage appropriately and for a good purpose. I found it super romantic.

@reservoirdude92

9 күн бұрын

That scene is shot so beautifully. The camera movement plus the blue lighting really adds to the more subtly fantastical aspect of the whole thing.

@penndavis471

4 күн бұрын

The music in that scene by Jon Brion is incredible too

Barry is the only Literally Me character who is actually literally me lmfao. That scene where he goes to his sister’s house is like, hauntingly good.

@reservoirdude92

9 күн бұрын

Barry Eagan is a LOT of us. Sandler should have won best actor at Cannes for this.

This flicks about Superman. Barry's suit in Blue with a red tie. He learns how to FLY anywhere on Earth for the rest of his life. He breaks the handle of an "unbreakable" plunger and slams a car door shut so hard the camera shakes. His love interest is Leena Leonard, L.L. like Lois Lane. Pieces of his homeworld make him freak out like, like Kryptonite to Superman, which is why he's always uncomfortable around his sisters and goes nuts when they're present. Just mention his sisters and he'll beat up a bathroom. His favourite DJ is DJ JUSTICE because he "tells it like it is." Truth, Justice and the American Way. He has an arch-enemy with a 60's villain name, Mattress Man. The story of Superman starts with a crash from his pod to earth while this film opens with a car crash leaving him the harmonium, his fortress of solitude. Superman is from another planet. Barry has "seven sisters" which is the name of a distant star cluster known as Pleadies. Solar flares who up when Leena is around, Superman gets his power from the sun. And while he's mostly in blue. the end scene is her walking in in Red and hugging him from behind, looking like a cape.

@BruceWayne-zj1kw

9 күн бұрын

Sure

@ct6852

9 күн бұрын

Woah. Never even remotely thought of it like that. Has the director ever mentioned Superman?

@RyanDesmond

9 күн бұрын

@@ct6852 Nope. I’m a movie theory guy. That’s how I watch movies. I crack codes.

@ct6852

9 күн бұрын

@@RyanDesmond There was a video on here about Eyes Wide Shut last week. Hope you leave a comment over there. Because I have some questions. lol

@RyanDesmond

9 күн бұрын

@@ct6852 tough nut to crack! I can break down The Shining for you but Eyes Wide Shut ive only scratched the surface. I can tell you how MacReady is The Thing in The Thing, how’d that be?

I recently came across this film. And, it was dynamite! One of Sandlers best. Went in cold not knowing a thing about it. An excellent picture! PTA does it again. 👏

I have a love in my life and it makes stronger than anything you can imagine

Punch-Drunk Love was the film that changed my outlook on Adam Sandler because before seeing this film I was in the group of people who wasn’t a big fan of his comedies outside of Happy Gilmore and Wedding Singer but the moment I watched this film my opinion went from hate to respect because Punch-Drunk Love is one of PTA’s greatest films and personal one of my favorite movies of all time.

When you see how all his sisters talk to him and about him all the anger makes complete sense. It's like they won't allow him to actually be himself for more than six seconds.

I think it's probably Sandler's best acting...Uncut Gems is close...but I think the tightly wound intensity of Barry's character in PDL is much deeper and more nuanced than the character in UCG.

They almost worked together in Inglourious Basterds. That would have been pretty sweet.

@reservoirdude92

9 күн бұрын

In the original screenplay, Donowitz had a whole flashback sequence set in Boston in which he says goodbye to the neighborhood before shipping off, and he has a scene with an old woman from the neighborhood who gives him his baseball bat. The old woman was going to be played by Cloris Leachman, too! I can visualize it as much as I want, but I would have loved to see that scene in the film if Sandler wasn't doing Funny People.

@billc5433

9 күн бұрын

That's honestly the only thing I would change about that film, but man, I think about it a lot.

@reservoirdude92

9 күн бұрын

@@billc5433 it's gotta be Tarantino's best screenplay, at least to me.

@truthspirit4433

9 күн бұрын

He could have played... The Baseball Bat.

“I relate to the movie title because I too punch my loved ones” -Brad Pitt😊

@TheEditorChris

9 күн бұрын

When drunk too!

@tylerjhunter

3 күн бұрын

gottem

Puts Sandlers comedic-rage-psycho character into a more realistic setting.

PTAs greatest movie will always be Boogie Nights … but PDL is a close second for me at least

Didn’t PTA get the idea for Adam doing this after watching sketch “The Denise Show” from SNL? I thought I heard that in an interview with him but can’t be sure.

You should do a vid on David Foster Wallace talking about David Lynch. The reference is an interview with DFW and Charlie Rose.

"Here we go." ---Jon Brion

@reservoirdude92

9 күн бұрын

Hands and Feet is the best piece of that score. To me, Jon Brion's masterwork is Magnolia.

Hot take: Punch-Drunk love is Sandler’s funniest film.

@reservoirdude92

9 күн бұрын

Nah, that's Anger Management, but PDL is definitely funny.

@andreiiancu2501

9 күн бұрын

Thats my boy is a comedy masterpice

@FastEddie86

9 күн бұрын

@@reservoirdude92no way. It’s bulletproof

@reservoirdude92

9 күн бұрын

@@FastEddie86 BRO I haven't seen that in aaaaaages, gonna have to revisit!

@jordanboyd3329

9 күн бұрын

*best

if anyone would know about love punching its Brad Pitt!

Why do your videos have this weird echo effect on the audio?

Have to do Adamn Sandler on Curious Case of Benjamin Button now

👍👍👍

He could be and kinda is a new Gene Wilder

Next up from James Whale Bake Sale, "Roman Polanski on Lolita"

Brad Pitt on Harry Potter?

@crappymcdick

9 күн бұрын

Brad Pitt on assaulting his wife and children?

It's such a memorable film for Brad, he can't even remember the title.

@paultaylor1927

9 күн бұрын

Punch.... punch glove love? 😂

adam let him talk damn

Alfred Hitchcock on Police Academy 3.

@spinin1251

9 күн бұрын

Alfred Hitchcock on the Police Academy series

Pitt sits around and just watches movies

@burgermind802

9 күн бұрын

So do I

@reservoirdude92

9 күн бұрын

@@burgermind802 so AM I haha

@poindextertunes

9 күн бұрын

its research fam

@user-rc9nf4gx3g

9 күн бұрын

@@poindextertunes not your fam

This was bad, Brad didn’t say anything really about the film. Weak edit. Do better.

No mention of Emily Watson here and just a very brief clip of here at the end. Curious.

Pitt says nothing here. Clearly he saves his energy for screaming at and intimidating small children and women.