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I read the book (my first and only Pynchon book) years ago when it first hit. It was pretty good although I didn't remember much until I saw the movie again. I found it kind of hard to follow in parts with the editting and such. Plus there seemed to be a lot of mumbling. At least I had read it before I so I knew most of it, but still I could see how first time viewers may get lost. The casting was actually pretty spot on for some of them, Phoenix looked almost drat close to how I imagined Sportello and Brolin was pretty great. I remember him being more of a hard rear end dick in the book and was more likeble in this. Especially the changed end was rather nice. Not sure how I felt about the final car ride , I think the book was a little better there. The movie did capture the very melancholic sensation of the end-of-an-era as it became co-opted and failed, and it also didn't try to rose-tinted-glasses nostalgify it which I thought was pretty good. Otherwise, it wasn't really that good of a movie and could have used some better editting, transitions and camera work. Xaris fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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