As far as Paul Thomas Anderson movies go , I ' d say The Master is going to be viewed as extremely influential , moreso than it already is . Every single thing about that movie was just great . I have always been , and will always be the biggest Philip Seymour Hoffman fan ever , and that theater experience was so odd . I was with my fianc at Bay Terrace in Queens , going to see some shitty movie on a Friday , and noticed they actually had The Master , so I begged my fianc to see it . Her knowing how much I loved Hoffman said okay , and the theater was full of the weirdest collection of people ever two elderly couples , scattered teenage groups , a few hipsters and single women that were definitely from Brooklyn , and us . People were CLEARLY uncomfortable during many moments , and most just seemed to not get it , by any means . My fiance truly tried , but I could tell she was bored to tears , which is odd because she ' s become quite the cinephile . By the end of the movie , during Slow Boat to China , there were AUDIBLE OKAY , WHAT THE FUCK ? !? from many of the remaining people who didn ' t leave halfway through . I was seemingly the only one captivated and LOVED it . The minute it ended , that theater was a ghost town . My fianc STILL won ' t let me live it down , she said she has never been so bored and uncomfortable in a theater ever . She HATES uncomfortable moments in Film , and gets super cringey during them , and from the outside looking in , I can see where she was coming from , if you weren ' t a fan of the style . One thing I made her realize though is that if a movie can make you truly HATE it , it ' s obviously elicited an extreme enough reaction from you , where it has to be doing something right . She does agree , and its often a conversation we have .