Inherent Vice (2014)

[Dave Monroe]

I thought the voiceover was a good way to (1) preserve @ least some of
Pynchon's prose + (b) fill in backstory/help account for so many
characters/keep it moving/whatever (esp. given the running
time/character + episode excisions).  Where it needed it most,
unfortunately, was SPOILER ALERT @ the end, which I find genuinely
touching in Pynchon's novel, + which SPOILER ALERT is a very different
(albeit in Hollywood terms understandably so) creature in Anderson's
film.

Recall the ending of either adaptation of Ulysses, or John;s Houston;s
excellent one of Joyce's "The Dead" (or of various Great Gatsbys
[Gtasbies?])

I would have @ least appreciated a SPOILER ALERT pull-away to outbound
traffic on the LA Freeway (+ somehow, an allusion to Pynchon's
allusions to the Internet, but ....) ....

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:51 AM,  <msacha1121 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not terrible, but not particularly substantial either (sorta like the book in that sense). All the doc/Shasta interactions seemed wrong, and I wish PTA had resisted the book-movie adaptation trope of having a character narrate over the film. Well, it's a silly flick and enjoyable enough in its own right, and it looks pretty nice in 35mm if you can find a theater that's screening it that way.
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>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 12:10 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Enjoyed it.  Liked it fine.  My only real misgivings (so far, though
>> I'm seeing it again Friday, + again ...) are @ the very beginning +
>> the very end.  Completists should stay through the credits (see
>> misgivings).  My party (three out of four of whom have read the book;
>> one reviewed it way back when, even) largely agreed. Let me know.
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