dissapointing

[Mark Thibodeau]

And don't tell me there wasn't room for the Vegas detour! Hell, there was
SOOO much room for tightening up the film as it currently sits.

Jerky

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I didn't much care for it on first view, but I will give it another shot.
>
> I love Joaquin Phoenix as a performer - he's top notch - but he didn't
> feel right for Doc to me. In fact, I think another one of the film's stars
> - Owen Wilson - would have been better suited to the role.
>
> It all seemed a tad slow and mumbly, not sharp at all - with a few scenes
> being exceptions to that rule. I thought Martin Short was great, and the
> scene at the Triscelladon (sp?) was well constructed. I kind of missed the
> Vegas detour.
>
> I think part of the problem is that the film suffers from a lot of the
> same flaws as the novel - the too-on-the-nose coincidences that are
> supposed to seem like paranoia coming to life, but which feel like... well,
> a bunch of dumb luck coincidences.
>
> In my estimation, IV is Pynchon's lesser work (I prefer Bleeding Edge by a
> smidge). So there's that, too, coloring my view.
>
> Jerky
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I would have written the equation thus: The Long Goodbye + The Big
>> Lebowski = ....
>>
>> .... until I saw the film.
>>
>> Nonetheless, I've seen it three times now, and it FEELS like the novel to
>> me.
>>
>> Or, @ any rate, I ha the same feeling reading the novel as I did
>> watching the film.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Toby Levy <tobyglevy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yes it was great to see the novel in graphic display on a big screen,
>> but as
>> > a discreet work of art, the film fails on all levels that I measure
>> movies.
>> > If any objective viewer was to view The Big Lebowski, The Long Goodbye
>> and
>> > Inherent Vice in short order would know exactly what I am talking about.
>> >
>> > Toby
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>>
>
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