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Just got back from this and I loved it. I will say that even as someone who read the book, the last quarter of the movie felt a little convoluted. It just needs the breathing room that a novel affords once everything starts to fall into place and all the minor characters start getting rapid-fire namedropped. Still, it feels about as approachable as you could get with Pynchon. Joaquin knocks it out of the park, and I honestly think his performance is one of the best bits of physical comedy I've seen in a long, long time. Josh Brolin also steals every scene he's in. I've never been a huge fan of his, but drat if he wasn't great here. I was tearing up with laughter at the scene with Doc jumping on his car and the bit where Bigfoot eats all the weed.
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Bigfoot's scene felt to me like a way to visualize the historical arc that the story deals in; it's authority kicking in the door and literally consuming the culture. "Are you okay, brother?" "I'm not your brother." "But you could sure use a keeper." edit: And in that context I think it's interesting to note that Bigfoot both makes a point of taking a hit beforehand, and makes no attempt to hide the unpleasantness of eating Doc's weed. Grizzled Patriarch fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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