saw this less than a year ago and already time to rewatch= the sign of a great film
― calstars, Friday, 2 October 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link
xp VG the book Inherent Vice is quite fun and imo similar to the movie, not as dense and knotty as other Pynchon. Crying Of Lot 149 is also great, and short.
― sleeve, Friday, 2 October 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link
joaquin's vast array of confused expressions was something to behold
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 2 October 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
i think if you enjoy the movie you should enjoy the book even more. (the book is actually funnier imo) now if you hate the the movie you should stay the hell away from the book...
― ryan, Friday, 2 October 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
movie gave me a Chinatown/Lebowski vibe, more w/r/t futile investigations & red herrings etc
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 October 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
really loved the opening, with doc running a hand lamely along shasta's departing car, sloooooooowly succumbing to an expression of total paranoid dread, and getting hit in the face with the neon title
also iirc some v good faces as eric roberts (also slooooooooooowly) describes his bad hippie dream. for free.
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 2 October 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link
i thought this was wonderful. joanna newsom is a totally great actress! the woman playing jade was incredible! yeah PTA has woman problems but he does cast well. god knows what he was up to casting belladonna but she was great too.
― goole, Friday, 6 May 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
I really like Pynchon, especially Vineland and Lot 49, and I /hated/ this. We rented it on iTunes and couldn't be bothered to watch it to the end. Just felt way too forced and dull. Phoenix is fascinating but he's super annoying to watch art length. That sense of meaning being just out of reach, which works so well in Pynchon's prose where there's goofy jokes and all those amazing sentences to keep you going - Phoenix making googly eyes is not a substitution for that.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 6 May 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
(Sorry)
Re reading this shit. So good.
― calstars, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
A game of "drink whenever someone rolls their eyes at how dumb Doc is" would be fun.
"there's a problem with Ouija boards" - best part of the movie for me. A little joyful moment in the middle of the madness, a little (valid) paranoia still there tugging at you. Brilliant realization of a distinctively Pynchon moment, good job PTA.
yeah PTA has woman problems
Yeah.
― lukas, Friday, 26 March 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link