PTA on Why He Made IV

[Mark Wright]

All'y'all hating on Punch Drunk Love are just *wrong.* Try it again.
Sandler justifies/redeems his whole wretched witless career with this
performance.

On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
wrote:

>
> On 09.01.2015 23:48, John Bailey wrote:
>
>  PTA: "It's like Gravity's Rainbow—I've never got through it."
>>
>> Yikes. Perhaps he isn't our most qualified screen interpreter of
>> Pynchon's writing.
>>
>>
> That's what went through my mind, too, when I read this. More and more I
> get the impression that watching IV will be hard work and nothing I should
> be looking forward to ...
>
> Commenting an article from the 'Guardian' (which Dave posted here a while
> ago), a reader, whose view on PTA's work before IV comes very close to
> mine, writes:
>
> > I loved Magnolia and Boogie Nights, and thought There Will Be Blood was
> incredibly powerful if unsatisfying. Punch Drunk Love I hated: Sandler is a
> totally unsympathetic human being and the story was trite. The Master had a
> great two acts, then hit its head against the same damn beat for the last
> 40 minutes, because it didn't know where to go. But nothing yet directed by
> Anderson was as pretentious and self-indulgent as Inherent Vice, which I
> actually found insulting in its smug self-admiration. So yes, I was one of
> those people who walked out in the first 15 minutes. It's a shame, because
> he's a true original, but this director is way too far up himself right
> now. <
>
> Say it ain't so!
>
>
>  On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> "A phenomenally good interview. Bear with it. It's worth the full two
>>> hours of your time."
>>>
>>> --George Toles
>>>
>>> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866014/
>>>
>>> http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/english_film_
>>> and_theatre/faculty/toles.html
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.vice.com/read/inherent-vice-was-the-thomas-
>>>> pynchon-book-i-could-make-into-a-movie
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