Reading Inherent Vice

http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/inherent-vice-review-new-york-film-festival.html

david edelstein review

it’s actually less coherent than Pynchon, no small feat.

Just excerpting at random.

And we have movie tie-in new book edition cover:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1N5EKWCIAAUoQV.jpg

I wonder if TP signed off on that, must have. Weird expression!

hey i didn't know martin donovan was in this

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.

NY Times profile of Anderson last weekend has him talking about Airplane! and Top Secret! as big inspirations for his approach to this (really).

Maybe for about 3 seconds.

u get a screener bro?

Pleading the fifth.

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.

in simpsons episode pynchon pronounces it like anderson did

Huh. I've been saying it wrong since I first heard of the guy!

The Simpsons may not be the most reliable of guides in such matters.

i suspect thomas pynchon knows how his own name is pronounced

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1791528/keywords

i suspect thomas pynchon knows how his own name is pronounced

canning his own red herring

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.

whoa when i read that format i can smell the library

new trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTRMkQzFYHI

by some miracle of coincidence I am going to have babysitting this weekend and will actually get to see this in the theater

oh goddammit no I can't, the screening in Oakland is already sold out BAH

Chicago too

where is it screening in Chicago?

loled hard at that cop shove

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.

not opening in Austin this weekend = aarrrrghgh!!!

NY Times profile of Anderson last weekend has him talking about Airplane! and Top Secret! as big inspirations for his approach to this (really).

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).

posting this w/ all "warts and all"/"don't shoot the messenger" caveats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIbp5C-5WXM

going to have to finally read this before I see the movie.

It's a fun/quick read

the trailer makes it look like a must-see for lebowski fans. very madcap.

Dargis likes it. oddly did not mention Lebowski once, which it definitely seems reminiscent of.

GOOD, Lebowski agnostic here

v intentionally not reading b4 film

seeing this saturday. glad ive read the book since i'd have no hope of following it otherwise.

J Phoenix sez don't bother following it.

i read the book, but didn't follow a lot of the plot. seemed to be beside the point.
xp

yeah I should add I didn't totally follow the book either!

last pynchon i read was against the day and i'm kinda looking forward to going into this cold

my only real complaint is that all the characters talk too fast for the general stoner vibe -- i get that there's a lot to pack into the running time, but if the plot doesn't matter, maybe slow the dialogue down a bit? also, do modern-day actors mumble more than actors of the past (mumblecore jokes here)? there are a lot of lines i wish had been looped in or re-shot to make them sound clearer.

i haven't read any early reviews or interviews about the film, so maybe this criticism has already been brought up elsewhere.

I can't wait to grow sideburns and go see this

Fantastic film. A scaled down production from TWBB/The Master but amps up weirdness to some truly awesome levels. Nailed the Pynchon vibe.

i enjoyed this a lot, but im gonna have to see it again i think. i agree this def struck a pynchonian vibe at times but it wasn't really as madcap as I was expecting. i found myself missing pynchon's narrative voice, which is a really ridiculous criticism to throw at a movie. hence the need to see it again. had the book in my head too much.

but for all that this maybe the most cinematically restrained PTA film? hopefully a grower.

also yeah there was a LOT of mumbly dialogue.

Opens here Christmas Day. I've never read Thomas Pynchon; assuming that won't be a problem.

xp yeah i found it pretty hard to hear significant amounts of dialogue. i also honestly don't know how much you could follow if you hadn't read the book. a lot of critics say they like it much better the 2nd time around. i think viewing one is for letting it all wash over you, the second viewing is where it coheres more.

it's sweet that the soundtrack features a song by his mother-in-law

this one btw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1kDd6yBQZ4

I didn't know about that. What a song that is.

it's in at least one of the trailers (at the end IIRC)

and yeah it's a great song