10 Most Elaborate Movie Climaxes Ever

Paul Thomas Anderson's third film is often the easiest to point at when you want to accuse the director of pretention, however, the essential novelty of the storytelling is quite unique. Anderson takes moments in the course of a day that, in another film, would last a scene or two, and play them out with the grandiosity and impeccable detail normally reserved for an epic tale.

A simple, subtle flirtation between a police officer and a frazzled drug addict spans three hours as opposed to a quirky introduction to a romance. An interview in which the subject is attacked for exaggerated public persona plays out across the entire film. Even awkwardly ordering pornographic magazines for delivery along with groceries takes a longer amount of time than any film normally allows.

It's no wonder that these seemingly everyday events demand God-like intervention. In this case, a hailstorm of frogs that affect each character's ultimate fate differently. For truthfully, much of those little moments come from bigger places. These are just things that happen.