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Finally got around to seeing this and really enjoyed it. Something that helped was the advice to not worry about what was going on so I didn't try to hang on to names or plot points, which was mostly fine except for a couple scenes where it's nothing but names and plot points. I laughed a lot, I think there was at least one good, isolated laugh in almost every scene, which was really interesting because the funny thing was just like a little spike on top of the rest of the scene (SOMETHING SPANISH). There were a couple moments I kinda tuned out or wished the movie would get along to something else but it was worth it for the high stuff, like the Martin Short scene (he's amazingly good in this) or the whole sequence at the rehab facility, which is one of the best things Anderson's done, up there with the New Year's scene in Boogie Nights or the He Needs Me montage in Punch-Drunk Love, that kind of dizzying, alcoholic feeling where the movie comes off the screen and absorbs all sense of time. I think I felt the movie more than I watched it. edit: "F U C K I N G-ing" "...'fuckinging'?" Magic Hate Ball fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Seaniqua posted:The scene where Doc is at Wolfmann's mansion and his wife is throwing the party, and there are cops wearing their loving CHIPS style helmets while swimming and grilling hot dogs was one of my favorites. For some reason the bit right before that where the server girl brings in a bunch of drinks and shoves her rear end in Doc's face, muffling his voice, had me laughing for like five minutes.
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Jan 16, 2015 20:27
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I tried to read Gravity's Rainbow in high school (to prove how cool I was) and all I remember is a bunch of people living in a blown-up building filled with banana trees and the main character diving into a toilet to retrieve a harmonica.
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Jan 16, 2015 20:57
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madeupfred posted:Having never seen a Paul Thomas Anderson movie Woah, this needs fixing, stat!
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Jan 23, 2015 09:11
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I think it's also part of the "inherent vice" - there's a part of us that always wants to be on the other side, whatever or wherever that might be.
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Feb 2, 2015 10:52
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Also if you try to go too far in the other direction you get late-period Godard and nobody wants that.
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Doc Sportello might be the first stoner-mystery protagonist that I'd actually like to meet in real life.
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