Oscar Predictions for 2015

[Dave Monroe]

WHO SHOULDN'T BE HERE: Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice

One of the few award nominations for Inherent Vice seems to be a
consolation for Anderson bringing a Thomas Pynchon novel to the
screen. Sure, an author can write a dense piece of work that is hard
to make into a movie, whether it's Pynchon, James Joyce. Margaret
Atwood or David Foster Wallace, but just because a filmmaker comes
along to adapt it doesn't mean its necessarily one of the best.
Confession time, I saw Inherent Vice a month ago, I just can't bring
myself to review it until I see it again because what I saw was a
sometimes funny, sometimes incoherent mess that lasted maybe 45
minutes loner than it should have. This book came out in 2009, and is
basically Pynchon's version of The Big Lebowski, which became
Anderson's version of that film. It's puzzling that it's here.

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