IT'S RAINING FROGS: 1,000's of frogs rained down on Kansas City in 1873. Also, a storm of raining frogs was reported in Serbia in 2005.

This film is a masterpiece. It's been part of my movie collection for years. One of the greatest ensemble casts ever. I never thought I's say this, but Tom Cruise deserved an Oscar for his performance. FUN FACT: This movie was inspired by the music of Aimee Mann. Much of the music, from her 2000 album "Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo." also appears on the Magnolia soundtrack.

I love everything about this movie, but one of my favorite things about it is how realistic the dialogue can be. People are speaking in broken sentences, just as they do in real life. Good examples are the conversations between Claudia and Jim on their date, or Earl's entire monologue, where he's even switching between past and present tense as he explains his regret. Every once in awhile they play this one on tv (if you have cable, of course), and every time I decide to put it on just for a little while, but I ALWAYS get sucked back in and stay until the end all over again. Because, just like you pointed out, each scene with each character sucks you in and you become compelled and invested. It's a great rewatch, too! And yes, the acting is absolutely incredible.

Never saw this coming. Favourite movie ever

I love this movie and the soundtrack.

This is one of my favorite movies and Tom Cruise performance. The entire cast is brilliant!

Wow, great choice dudes!!!

Thanks, Cameron! Thanks, Isaiah! 🐸 Paul Thomas Anderson's history of directorial excellence will become evermore apparent.

Cam: “I don’t want to make predictions about it because I don’t want to sound dumb.” Also Cam: “He’s going to f^ck that peanut butter sandwich!”

This soundtrack has always been in my playlist rotation. In fact, Save Me and Wise Up were playing just this morning when i hit random on my music.

Oscar snub. Tom Cruise gave the performance for the ages. Academy wasn't able to see him as a supporting due to him being a lead moviestar. Tom Cruise truly is the greatest moviestar of all time

I'm so corny but I love the scene where they're all singing to the same song...gets me every time. The idea of all these characters in crisis and breaking down comforting themselves to the same obscure Aimee Mann song is a cool idea. And emotional. PTA is a great director.

One of my favorite films of all time, by one of my favorite directors of all time, featuring one of my favorite ensemble casts of all time, and one of my favorite Tom Cruise performances of all time! You guys are spoiling me halfway through the week, you really are!

The movie was shot in parts in my neighborhood. The bar with Henry Gibson and William H Macy is called “The Fox Fire” and it’s on Magnolia Blvd in the Valley. A good friend is sitting in the background. Also one of the best soundtracks ever.

Jason Robards, 2 time oscar winner, played Big Earl (Tom Cruise's character's father). In real life Robards was dying of brain cancer. When the director called Robards and offered him the role,Robards confided his health problem and hooked to IVs. Paul Anderson said,"Great that will save money on props." Robards said, "I want to work this son of a bitch."

When Rose confronts Jimmy about Claudia… that scene did it for me 👏🏾👏🏾 and Tom Cruise gave the best performance of his career in this film

This and "Born on the 4th of July" are probably Tom Cruise's best roles ever, those that truly show his talent, the scene with Jason Robards might be his best acting. And then of course there is Les Grossman...🙂 There is only one other channel I have seen react to this masterpiece, thank you guys!

I remember seeing this back in the day. Definitely put Paul Thomas Anderson on my radar. I actually have heard of stories of frogs falling from the sky from a distant tornado. Tornadoes can loft debris hundreds of miles from the location of the tornado up to 40,000 feet up and sometimes even higher.

The rain of frogs is inspired by a couple of things. One is biblical as there is a rain of frogs in the book of Exodus in reference to forgiveness and redemption. It's also based on an actual phenomenon when frogs get caught up in a tornado that went over a body of water and then fall from the sky.

This is one of his masterpieces. Boogie Nights and The Master. There Will Be Blood. The Master is Top 10 of all time for me, though. I hate Tom Cruise and his horrifying cult, but there is no doubt that he is a brilliant actor. This is his best work.

"Punch Drunk Love" is definitely another PTA movie to check out. Also, another ensemble kind of movie in the vein of Magnolia is Robert Altman's "Short Cuts". Both great movies in their own right.

I literally gasped when I saw that you guys had done a reaction to this. It's an amazing movie, but the deus ex machina of the frogs (as well as the Aimee Mann song that's sung in the middle) really does turn some people off. I think it's brilliant, and I'm glad you guys reacted the way you did. You were spot-on about the score and the acting. Everything about this film is incredible, and it should have won more Oscars than it did.

I love this movie! Such great acting. This is the first movie where I noticed Melora Walters, who I now absolutely love.

You sweet summer children. A 187 is murder boys. 😵 On a serious note, this is one of my all-time favorite movies and I cannot say how excited I am to be watching your reactions. It’s even better upon rewatch (promise).

This one was one phenomenal movie when it came out in 1999. Tom Cruise was a beast and one of his best roles. Great reaction guys!

Since you're watching PTA films, it's time for one of the best films of the century, There Will Be Blood.

PT Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" is (according to Wiki) widely regarded as one of the best films of the 21/st-century. I have to agree. Daniel Day Lewis is terrifying.

Old Testament .Plague of Frogs

Another caretaker/not as haunted character is PSH’s Phil Parma. PTA made this film in the aftermath of his own father’s death. Ernie Anderson was an omnipresent voiceover/announcer through his career. For a period of time he was basically the voice of ABC, very recognizable as the announcer of the Bob Saget episodes of Funniest Home Videos. In addition, he was the announcer for the early seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and an early comedy partner for the infamous comedic actor Tim Conway. This was the great actor, Jason Robards (Earl Partridge), last film role before his passing. And he was actually suffering from the cancer (lung, just as the character is) that would eventually take his life when this was filmed. You can’t go wrong with much of PTA’s filmography. I especially recommend Boogie Nights, Hard Eight, There Will Be Blood, and Punch-Drunk Love.

This is a masterpiece y’all!!! Tom Cruise’s scene with his father dying is so emotionally jarring, it kills me EVERY time 😔

Wow, About to watch. Thanks to Ryan for recommending.Love this film. Tom Cruise should have won the Best Actor Oscar for this one.

The brilliant Aimee Mann should have won the best song Oscar that year for Save Me (I think Phil Collins won for a terrible song in a silly Tarzan Disney movie...Ugh). Her music is integral to this film. Fun fact..... Aimee Mann played the nihilist in The Big Lebowski who contributed her toe to the extortion scheme.

No explanation for the frogs. “These things just happen.” You should definitely be doing more modern classics like this! Not that there are any quite like *this* but PT Anderson has some others worth watching, especially There Will Be Blood. More Coen brothers (Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink) would be appreciated. And how about Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige? I loved this reaction gentlemen!

Good catch on that line Cam. Spot on.

" I thought this was a new thing" It's kind of been slowly developing since dawn of the internet

Good job on this one!!! Great insight.

What a special movie. I agree, the final frame gave me goosebumps. Great reaction, as always!

Awesome reaction of my favorite movie!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊

Great reaction! I love the zoomy remark. The frogs bring everyone together🐸. You 2 are wise beyond your years and give me hope for the future. You really got it. The frog thing has really happened before.

If you guys like this film, you’ll definitely love Boogie Nights. In my opinion, the best PT Anderson film The same feel as Magnolia, but with comedy.

Gray-haired man, sitting next to William H Macy at the bar is Henry Gibson, who voiced Wilbur in the original Charlotte's Web

There's a great reason beyond the frogs falling. The director father died a few years before this film. At the funeral he couldn't understand why or how. His dad passed away. His cousin or friend just came out saying. "FROGS COULD FALL FROM THE SKY AND WE COULDN'T EXPLAIN IT." Same reason why people we love die. It happens and we are shocked and can't explain why. The director remembered that and put it in the film.

Great reaction! This represents everything I look for in a reaction. Thanks for the extended commentary, and not cutting the movie segment itself too short. With far too many examples, there isn’t enough meat on the bone. (Not yours, but the work of others.)

Very intelligent and emotional reaction. You nailed it!

You guys are legends 🔥

Tip of the hat for reacting to this film. It’s one that has stuck with me since first seeing it. I think it’s amazing

The phone number for Seduce and Destroy was a real number in 1999. I called it and it was a message with Tom Cruise in character advertising the program.

Time to watch Boogie Nights

It really is a fucking masterpiece, and I feel like it’s sadly been forgotten and under appreciated, both in the cultural and cinema zeitgeist, and the careers of Tom Cruise and Paul Thomas Anderson.

Great vid. The acting in Magnolia is off the scale, although I think Julianne Moore goes a bit "soap opera" with her hysteria. Cruise should have won best supporting actor, he's never been better.

Wow! You guys! I've never seen this movie before. It was really intense! What a ride. My emotions were so up and down. I need to lay down now! 😂 Great job, guys! Waterspouts 🌪 can pick up fish, frogs, and all kinds of crap. Then it all comes down miles away after being aloft in the air!

My dudes, this is the greatest film I have ever seen, I’m so glad you watched it. Keep it up!

One of my favorite movies of all time! Check out how many times the numbers 8 and 2 show up on screen over the course of the film. It happens a lot. At least three times in the first 10 minutes. And later when the game show is about to start, there's someone in the the studio audience holding up a sign that says Exodus 8:2. In the Bible, the passage Exodus 8:2 reads: "If you do not let my people go, I will plague your city with frogs."

I drove 8 hours to see a 3 hour movie in '99. This was that movie. Michael Caine won best Supporting Actor that year for The Cider House Rules beating out Tom Cruise for this role. It's one of the great travesties of wrong call wiffs in Academy Awards history. Michael Caine in that movie was wonderful. But Tom didn't just give that years best performance. Cruise swung for immortality and got it. It's lightning in a bottle. We've since had 25 years of Tom becoming the American Jackie Chan guy. But, once upon a time, he was this. Tom was That Guy. I think he still is. The good news the projects he's announced with the auteurs attached is him once again shifting gears and making a long awaited return to small big art house swing dramatic roles with Avant Garde talents. When Tom goes for it in a quality part with an A list director, it's poetry in motion and that in and of itself is its own amazing deaf-defying stunt. Pfft. Frog Team 6. B*tch, you almost made me smile..... ;)

Magnolia is my favorite movie!!! So glad you both covered it and "got it". I find a lot of people who watch this movie don't get it, so I was pleasantly surprised that you understood it completely. Was a pleasure to watch guys. Raining frogs is meant as a symbolic cleansing. There have been reported cases in history of raining frogs. Raining frogs originates from the Bible. Tom Cruise lost the Best Supporting Actor Oscar that year. It is considered one of biggest Oscar snubs that he didn't win. At the time in 1999, this was considered one of the best movies ever made, but it didn't really gain much traction in mainstream movie goers. Paul Thomas Anderson is a genius, I encourage you to watch many of his other famous movies; Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice, Licorice Pizza.

After a little break, it is time for an actual masterpiece! Instant click!

Very nice of you to get to PTA. Hopefully we'll see more reactions from his filmography, such as There Will Be Blood (Daniel Day-Lewis at his most method), Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love (Sandler's most underrated performance) and The Master. 🐸

Fantastic final performance from the great Jason Robards (Earl)

35:05 Ricky Jay, one of the best sleight of hand magicians

You two will love Boogie Nights. Much of the cast from Magnolia are in it. PTA is a top tier director.

when the reactor's instincts are so, so terribly off at the very start, but then they find their groove.

One of my favorite movies of all time, and I'd have a hard time telling you why. It's more a feeling I get when I watch it, something like melancholy mixed with nostalgia and a slow creeping fear of.... something. I love this damn movie. Edit: And oh yeah Julianne Moore gives one of my favorite performances in this movie as well, in fact the entire damn cast is insanely good in this.

this is basically a week imitation of the brilliant Robert Altman film Nashville from 1975

Your both amazing to watch 😊, so much fun

Not sure if you seen it but this is the same Director that did Boogey Nights. You guys need to check it out. Pretty much the same cast. This movie is amazing, always loved this movie.

I saw this back in '99 in the theatres. All the actors in this were fantastic.

Consider the movie "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things."

My all-time favorite film.

Please watch Licorice Pizza and Boogie Nights.

I mean since you did this movie and experienced a PT Anderson movie, you guys gotta do Boogie Nights!!

Please react to PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE next! Directed by the director of Boogie Nights and Magnolia. And it’s a dramatic Adam Sandler film.

Great reaction, well worth the length.

Director was like 29 when he did this. We are all failures but try to enjoy your lifes still :D Also the score is excellent but it's nothing compared to Once Upon a Time in America's score. Watch that if you can, another long and great movie.

Nice

Welcome to PTA. :)

It's as if PTA predicted Andrew Tate with Tom Cruises character.

Do: The Killing, The Night of the Hunter, The Last Detail, Being There, Apocalypse Now (Theatrical Version), Poltergeist, Full Metal Jacket, Raising Arizona, Dead Calm, Dead Alive (Braindead), Alive, Sneakers, Flirting With Disaster, Boogie Nights, The Game, Existenz, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Deadwood : The Complete Series (36 episodes + 1 movie), There Will Be Blood, Zodiac, The VVitch, Mother!, Green Room, The Lighthouse, and Annihilation.

Regret….forgiveness

Now I'm curious: What was with the fits of laughter here when the frogs fell .... is that the usual response when people watch this film today? I remember seeing this movie and the whole room was silent when this happened. I didn't think that the rain scene was meant to be funny. Was I wrong? Thanks.

Hell yeah

About 6 minutes in, Cam is bobbing his head but it's completely silent.

Apparently 187 is code for Murder. This movie was a trip. Well done. Another weird movie with Tom Cruise is Vanilla Sky. But the quiz show portion immediately made me think of the movie Quiz Show (1994) (obviously lol). An amazing movie you should watch

Love your reactions…. You guys make me laugh….. I hope you guys checkout two awesome underrated shows …. #ManInTheHighCastle and #HemlockGroove …

I loathed this movie when I saw it in the theater - it was an endless torture of cringely awkward scene after awkward scene. It was raining and I hadn't driven us there, and I seriously considered whether or not I could jab the straw from my drink into my eye hard enough to reach my brain to escape the misery. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood to appreciate the film or something. I recognized at the time that everything about it was superb, but it just didn't work for me.

Not knowing what 187 means u didn't grow up in the 90s, no hate towards u guys

Can you start watching decent movies?

DISCLAIMER: No peanut butter sandwiches were harmed in the making of this film. 🥜🧈🥪