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Haven't finished it yet, but the Inherent Vice movie seems actually great.
Don't entirely trust myself though. I'm just now able to enjoy anything at all after being stomped by illness. Still have bronchitis and laryngitis and can't do much, but got enough appetite back that I had some frozen potstickers and they were amazing. There should be a restaurant where they only sell that, I feel. So maybe I feel wrong about Inherent Vice. Been quite a while since I've seen a movie could be what it is.
Don't I usually hate this director? Didn't make much headway with the book, either.
Feels a bit like Pynchon's decided that the influence of Crying on Chinatown means he owns Chinatown. Maybe ditto with Big Lebowski. Definitely a feeling of something ... prior ... stirred up. His basic myth is a strong one (I'm the guy who liked Vineland), and somehow this presentation is making him entirely naturalistic, or proving he had been all along. Kind of an amazing feat. PT Anderson must only ever adapt. And these actors are so fun!
Don't entirely trust myself though. I'm just now able to enjoy anything at all after being stomped by illness. Still have bronchitis and laryngitis and can't do much, but got enough appetite back that I had some frozen potstickers and they were amazing. There should be a restaurant where they only sell that, I feel. So maybe I feel wrong about Inherent Vice. Been quite a while since I've seen a movie could be what it is.
Don't I usually hate this director? Didn't make much headway with the book, either.
Feels a bit like Pynchon's decided that the influence of Crying on Chinatown means he owns Chinatown. Maybe ditto with Big Lebowski. Definitely a feeling of something ... prior ... stirred up. His basic myth is a strong one (I'm the guy who liked Vineland), and somehow this presentation is making him entirely naturalistic, or proving he had been all along. Kind of an amazing feat. PT Anderson must only ever adapt. And these actors are so fun!
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Date: 2016-11-25 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-25 08:28 pm (UTC)Though the fight with censorship also drew the two media unusually close together, making Williams very important in film where he ought not normally have been. Even Roth, a bit, though he was more toward the tail end of that. But the noir/western thing persists where that one's pretty much over.
Had a better sense of the family tree involved once. Maybe some of that will come back to me.
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Date: 2016-11-27 06:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-27 09:11 pm (UTC)Pynchon himself show up? Felt like some of the many "name" cast members might have signed up largely for the chance to meet him.
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Date: 2016-12-07 06:08 am (UTC)B) the book's funniest scene doesn't turn up on film and it's just as well (i.e., the Stoners staring at this huge package of heroin, thinking it's some new kinda teevee set ..).
C) things the film brings: SOUNDTRACK a-and
somehow this presentation is making him entirely naturalistic, or proving he had been all along
indeed !
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Date: 2016-12-07 05:06 pm (UTC)