The movie

[Dave Monroe]

3rd viewing yesterday.  May (or may not) have confirmed Pynchon cameo.
Also, stay 'til after the credits, after "The End."  THAT should have
been at the beginning.

I'll go @ least a couple/three times more, w/ various friends,

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm ready to see it again!
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>> On Jan 10, 2015, at 9:32 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Third thoughts...perhaps it missed the emphasis on Manson, Altamont and the
>> end of the sixties in more ways than one....
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>>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Brolin's scene with Phoenix where they go jaw-to-jaw is a
>>> peak scene, imho, acting is pretty terrid, with Brolin leading.
>>> Phoenix harder to do movie-length so, nods unto Jeff Bridges a couple
>>> three times.
>>> Reese and Mull pros.
>>> I liked the music.
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I liked it. Believeable well-crafted translation of the book. I liked
>>>> the close-ups, lots of them, they were in our face in a watch closely
>>>> kind of way --and the shots of bodies with no heads...I thought the
>>>> visual puns kept the from the book. Voiceover did not bother me, since
>>>> it enabled us to get key plot points and more of P's words...the
>>>> inherent vice explanation. for example...less moral ambiguity when Doc
>>>> kills Puck and Adrian Prussian...i did miss the cars up the mountain
>>>> road ending since that struck me so, since that has changed
>>>> everywhere.
>>>> it is still, as is Inherent Vice, more thematically minor than say,
>>>> Anderson's last two.
>>>>
>>>> In a recent novel, Coetzee has the character discussing later Leo
>>>> Tolstoy, when the considered opinion is his work got weaker as he lost
>>>> the breadth of real life ambiguity in exhange for stronger polemical
>>>> skills and the character says that to Tolstoy it must have seemed that
>>>> he was being clearer and simpler and his beliefs more evident.
>>>>
>>>> TRP ain't more polemical, imho, but IV is a simpler clearer embodiment
>>>> of a lot of P's vision and the movie gets that OK.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The actress who
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