New PTA Film

[Erik T. Burns]

this review (of Vineland) makes it seem awfully prescient, 20 years later
(and 35 after the book came out). Maybe time to read it again...

Pynchon’s Vineland: The War on Drugs and the Coming Police-State
<https://www.thesatirist.com/books/Vineland.html>

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> That armed revolution is hard to make funny is why it might be the gravity
> that deepens.
>
> Catch—22-like.   Others.
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> at least not in the trailer!
>> (and is Benicio del Toro supposed to be Takeshi?)
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > and no fucking Kojira!
>> >
>> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> yeh this doesn't look like it follows the VL plot very closely. and I
>> will
>> >> be extra disappointed if there's no transfenestration
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM J Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > It could be a funny or cringy nonsense( hard to make armed revolution
>> >> look
>> >> > funny at this time) but any connection to Vineland looks improbable
>> to
>> >> very
>> >> > distant. Kinda bummed, was definitely looking forward to sn
>> iadaptation
>> >> of
>> >> > Vineland.
>> >> >
>> >> > > On Mar 28, 2025, at 11:49 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I love it, luv it, but I would....."loosely based" is right on.....
>> >> > >
>> >> > > C'mon, that Vive La Revolution is funny as a funny bone hit...
>> >> > >
>> >> > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > >> howdy
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> new trailer for PTA's new film loosely based on Vineland I have to
>> >> say
>> >> > is
>> >> > >> pretty underwhelming. all the charm and goofiness in the book
>> seems
>> >> > gone,
>> >> > >> but it is a trailer.
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> and is that really the title?
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >>
>> >> >
>> >>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOQFKv2Lw4&ab_channel=WarnerBros.UK%26Ireland
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