9 Times Actors Famously Expressed Their Dissatisfaction

To this day, it's Boogie Nights is Paul Thomas Anderson's most audacious work, and that's no small accomplishment. Delving headlong into the 70s world of pornography without flinching had not yet been done, and it was fertile territory. The only film to previously even come close was Bob Fosse's uncomfortably bleak Star 80 about the life and murder of Dorothy Stratten, but it would be years since the actual years of John Holmes would be explored.

There's no denying Boogie Nights is a great film, and it doesn't shy away from porn's darker issues, however one might walk away feeling too comfortable about everything. These are people, after all, who used to put their cigarettes out on their female co-stars.

Nevertheless, if it was Paul Thomas Anderson's goal to replicate a 1970s movie with rose-coloured lenses, it succeeded.

Perhaps secretly Mark Wahlberg actually loves Boogie Nights particularly for what it did for his career and his wallet and he loves the nudity. But he also loves being seen as a pillar of Boston, and that means Catholic, so he thought it would help his PR to make this bonehead statement:

“I just always hope that God is a movie fan and also forgiving, because I’ve made some poor choices in my past... Boogie Nights is up there at the top of the list."

Please, Mark. Think hard, we'll wait. Isn't there something else more pressing you want God's forgiveness for?