Looks fantastic. Excited to see some of the darker themes of the novel work with the screwball comedy bits.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
looks great
jena malone voiceover? pta mustve watched moodyssons 'container'
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link
or uh Into the Wild
― Simon H., Tuesday, 30 September 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link
voiceover is joanna newsome, isn't it?
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
yea i think thats right actually
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ieLGhzi.png
― Number None, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
Glenn Kenny just now on Twitter: "I'm not yet prepared to write a full consideration, but my initial impression is that "Inherent Vice" is a capital-G Great Film." I asked him if it was faithful to tone/plot of the book; response: "Extremely faithful to plot and tone but with Anderson shifting the stresses at crucial points, making it his own."
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 October 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
Top comment from underneath the trailer on Youtube:
"SECULAR MOVIES/MEDIA ARE CORRUPTING OUR MORALS AND PUSHING US FARTHER AWAY FROM GOD, AND MORE TOWARDS SATAN. THIS TRAILER IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF EVERYDAY LIFE ON THIS SINFUL PLANET, WHERE THE WOMEN DRESS LIKE WHORES AND THE MEN ARE VIOLENT. I BET THERE IS PLENTY OF CURSING AND BLASPHEMY, TOO. BEWARE OF WHAT YOU WATCH ON TV AND THE INTERNET. PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN FROM THIS FALLEN WORLD. EVERYONE NEEDS JESUS CHRIST!
(I'd like to believe Pynchon wrote it himself)
― moonstone (soda), Sunday, 5 October 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link
More detail from Kenny
http://ow.ly/Cit50
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 October 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
NY Times profile of Anderson last weekend has him talking about Airplane! and Top Secret! as big inspirations for his approach to this (really).
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Sunday, 5 October 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
Jeff Wells didn't understand it, so that's encouraging.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 October 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Opening credits are set to vitamin c apparently
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 5 October 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/foyAOoVagWw
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 5 October 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/inherent-vice-review-new-york-film-festival.html
david edelstein review
― j., Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
it’s actually less coherent than Pynchon, no small feat.
Just excerpting at random.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
And we have movie tie-in new book edition cover:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1N5EKWCIAAUoQV.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if TP signed off on that, must have. Weird expression!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 30 October 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
hey i didn't know martin donovan was in this
― schlump, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 01:28 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if TP signed off on that, must have.
Publishers usually retain control over cover art. They figure authors may write books, but covers sell books.
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
Maybe for about 3 seconds.
― Eric H., Saturday, 29 November 2014 05:30 (nine years ago) link
u get a screener bro?
― Simon H., Saturday, 29 November 2014 06:19 (nine years ago) link
Pleading the fifth.
― Eric H., Saturday, 29 November 2014 06:24 (nine years ago) link
This is a lot of fun. Tiny, obnoxious quibble about the names of at least three Southern California towns getting pronounced wrong by the actors (Palos Verdes, San Ysidro... one other I can't remember). It didn't seem intentional, but it's weird given that PTA is So Cal born-and-bred. Then again, at the Q&A after the film, he kept pronouncing Thomas Pynchon's name as "Pinch-ON" with a pronounced and significant stress on the 'on.' It's more "Pinch'n," isn't it? Weird. Who knows.
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
in simpsons episode pynchon pronounces it like anderson did
― circles, Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Huh. I've been saying it wrong since I first heard of the guy!
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Monday, 1 December 2014 10:17 (nine years ago) link
The Simpsons may not be the most reliable of guides in such matters.
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
i suspect thomas pynchon knows how his own name is pronounced
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1791528/keywords
― gr8080, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
canning his own red herring
― j., Tuesday, 9 December 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
gr8080's link reminds me of the library subject headings for The Crying of Lot 49:
California--Fiction. Married women--Fiction. Administration of estates--California--Fiction.
― one way street, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
whoa when i read that format i can smell the library
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
new trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTRMkQzFYHI
― Number None, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
by some miracle of coincidence I am going to have babysitting this weekend and will actually get to see this in the theater
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
oh goddammit no I can't, the screening in Oakland is already sold out BAH
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
Chicago too
― forbodingly titled It's True! It's True! (Eazy), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
where is it screening in Chicago?
― gr8080, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
loled hard at that cop shove
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
vitamin c sounds so good in that!! i heard it playing in the elevator at the hotel where i work this week and did an eyebrow raise; would be awesome if it had a huge comeback this winter.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
not opening in Austin this weekend = aarrrrghgh!!!
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
saw inherent vice tonight at the new beverly. one of the pre-show trailers was for top secret (there was also up in smoke, the long goodbye, and the cheech & chong "basketball jones" animation).
― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 09:06 (nine years ago) link
posting this w/ all "warts and all"/"don't shoot the messenger" caveats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIbp5C-5WXM
― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 09:08 (nine years ago) link
going to have to finally read this before I see the movie.
― akm, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
It's a fun/quick read
― Number None, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
the trailer makes it look like a must-see for lebowski fans. very madcap.
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
Dargis likes it. oddly did not mention Lebowski once, which it definitely seems reminiscent of.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
GOOD, Lebowski agnostic here
v intentionally not reading b4 film
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
seeing this saturday. glad ive read the book since i'd have no hope of following it otherwise.
― ryan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
J Phoenix sez don't bother following it.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
i read the book, but didn't follow a lot of the plot. seemed to be beside the point.xp
― mizzell, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
yeah I should add I didn't totally follow the book either!
― ryan, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link