Pynchon heresy

[Michael Lee Bailey]

De gustibus, etc.

Me, I might give OBAA a miss, much as I like Sean Penn - I picture Zoyd much younger - and changing his name to Lt Col Lockjaw?

It sounds like it’s going to be a testosterone-charged action-adventure which, must admit, I like as much as the next person, but Zoyd’s a musician, a person of peace, and the revolutionary shtuff was all DL & Frenesi. Girlie with a gun! Kunoichi attentives! Leaving out the best parts!

Too mucho macho, sausage-fest (which again, nothing against that per se)

Plus, the book is still always better than the movie

PTA heresy: I hated There Will Be Blood so much (right down there with Godfather & Glengarry Glen Ross - it just sucked…no fun at all…no simpatico characters…no relatable romance…no humor…no witty dialogue…just Adfus) that the only other of his films I’ve seen is IV which I admit was pretty good

If OBAA is Vineland PTAified so much they couldn’t even keep the title…meh… but there is a movie premiering Sept 26 I’m looking forward to: Gabby’s Dollhouse, with Kirsten Wiig, Gloria Estefan, and cats both live and animated.

Takes all kinds to make a world - hope those who see OBAA enjoy it (including, maybe, me, eventually, after watching Gabby’s Dollhouse, Fantastic Four, some Bollywood & Telugu films, and maybe Superman again - the new Superman is pretty great, with Nathan Filion as Green Lantern - got a Regal pass, 25$ a month for unlimited movies)

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM, J Tracy <[brook7 at sover.net](mailto:On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM, J Tracy <<a href=)> wrote:

> To be honest I find myself looking forward more to One Battle After Another than to the new Pynchon novel. I hope I am wrong. I really did like PTA’s Inherent Vice; not so much as an interpretation of the novel, but more in the way PTA gets the surreal hilarity and intensity of Pynchon on film.
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