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Post subject: Re: Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (Nov. 26, 2021)
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 5:51 am
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47119 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
OMG I loved it. PTA just kicking back and saying “let’s hang and have fun” for a couple hours. While it’s not The Master, the 20 minute stretch from Sean Penn & Tom Waits through everything with Bradley Cooper is up there with his best work.
Our modern lives are too compartmentalized, impersonal, and segmented. Everything back then just seemed so much more tactile and personal.
This movie has very good vibes without ever feeling sentimental. Great flick after two years stuck indoors and wearing masks.
Post subject: Re: Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (Nov. 26, 2021)
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 2:59 pm
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47119 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
tragabigzanda wrote:
OMG I loved it. PTA just kicking back and saying “let’s hang and have fun” for a couple hours. While it’s not The Master, the 20 minute stretch from Sean Penn & Tom Waits through everything with Bradley Cooper is up there with his best work.
Our modern lives are too compartmentalized, impersonal, and segmented. Everything back then just seemed so much more tactile and personal.
This movie has very good vibes without ever feeling sentimental. Great flick after two years stuck indoors and wearing masks.
Oh and the running motif that bothers some people: of course they were running all the time. Every scene with them running was built around a problem that today would be immediately solved by cellphones.
Post subject: Re: Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (Nov. 26, 2021)
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 4:44 pm
jeeeesus relax already
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm Posts: 36219
tragabigzanda wrote:
OMG I loved it. PTA just kicking back and saying “let’s hang and have fun” for a couple hours. While it’s not The Master, the 20 minute stretch from Sean Penn & Tom Waits through everything with Bradley Cooper is up there with his best work.
Our modern lives are too compartmentalized, impersonal, and segmented. Everything back then just seemed so much more tactile and personal.
This movie has very good vibes without ever feeling sentimental. Great flick after two years stuck indoors and wearing masks.
Agree. In still thinking about it. I’m sure I’m going to see it again next week.
Post subject: Re: Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (Nov. 26, 2021)
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 4:50 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am Posts: 2819
tragabigzanda wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
The pedophilia was my least favorite
tree_ wrote:
Apparently this movie is "disgusting", "incoherent", "problematic" and "offensive"... guess I won't be watching it
Argo and trees friends watched a completely different movie. There’s nothing remotely upsetting about this movie. It is very upbeat and pleasant.
hard agree, though i also suspect pta intended to mildly provoke political id crowd a bit with this & with the scene in which the white restaurant owner begins (consciously or not) to mimic his wife’s accent. pta is not a dummy. raises a question — must representation in film adhere to the political advances (or the political/moral positions held by the majority of people in a society) of its moment to be considered good.
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Post subject: Re: Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (Nov. 26, 2021)
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 4:52 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am Posts: 2819
not a super interesting question, but one americans continue to stumble over
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I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
Post subject: Re: Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (Nov. 26, 2021)
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 5:04 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am Posts: 2819
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
OMG I loved it. PTA just kicking back and saying “let’s hang and have fun” for a couple hours. While it’s not The Master, the 20 minute stretch from Sean Penn & Tom Waits through everything with Bradley Cooper is up there with his best work.
Our modern lives are too compartmentalized, impersonal, and segmented. Everything back then just seemed so much more tactile and personal.
This movie has very good vibes without ever feeling sentimental. Great flick after two years stuck indoors and wearing masks.
Oh and the running motif that bothers some people: of course they were running all the time. Every scene with them running was built around a problem that today would be immediately solved by cellphones.
trag — i really wish your sentence that ends, “of course they were running all the time.” was followed by, “People throughout history have always ran.”
immortality narrowly missed
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Jorge wrote:
I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
Post subject: Re: Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (Nov. 26, 2021)
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 6:46 pm
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47119 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Malloy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
The pedophilia was my least favorite
tree_ wrote:
Apparently this movie is "disgusting", "incoherent", "problematic" and "offensive"... guess I won't be watching it
Argo and trees friends watched a completely different movie. There’s nothing remotely upsetting about this movie. It is very upbeat and pleasant.
hard agree, though i also suspect pta intended to mildly provoke political id crowd a bit with this & with the scene in which the white restaurant owner begins (consciously or not) to mimic his wife’s accent. pta is not a dummy. raises a question — must representation in film adhere to the political advances (or the political/moral positions held by the majority of people in a society) of its moment to be considered good.
I think that much of this film stems from his own experiences growing up in Hollywood, as well as those of a particular kid who became a well known agent (this has been covered in interviews). My hunch is that those scenes are based on something that really happened.
Post subject: Re: Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (Nov. 26, 2021)
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 9:12 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am Posts: 2819
tragabigzanda wrote:
Malloy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
The pedophilia was my least favorite
tree_ wrote:
Apparently this movie is "disgusting", "incoherent", "problematic" and "offensive"... guess I won't be watching it
Argo and trees friends watched a completely different movie. There’s nothing remotely upsetting about this movie. It is very upbeat and pleasant.
hard agree, though i also suspect pta intended to mildly provoke political id crowd a bit with this & with the scene in which the white restaurant owner begins (consciously or not) to mimic his wife’s accent. pta is not a dummy. raises a question — must representation in film adhere to the political advances (or the political/moral positions held by the majority of people in a society) of its moment to be considered good.
I think that much of this film stems from his own experiences growing up in Hollywood, as well as those of a particular kid who became a well known agent (this has been covered in interviews). My hunch is that those scenes are based on something that really happened.
who is the agent?
im aware of the personal aspect of the movie, though im not convinced one needs to invoke historical fidelity to rationalize the inclusion of any of these scenes.
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Jorge wrote:
I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
Post subject: Re: Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (Nov. 26, 2021)
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 9:17 pm
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47119 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Sorry, he’s Tom Hanks’s producing partner, but I think he was a former agent. And much of the movie is based on his and PTA’s experiences growing up around Hollywood:
Post subject: Re: Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (Nov. 26, 2021)
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 9:18 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am Posts: 2819
tragabigzanda wrote:
Sorry, he’s Tom Hanks’s producing partner, but I think he was a former agent. And much of the movie is based on his and PTA’s experiences growing up around Hollywood:
I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
Post subject: Re: Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (Nov. 26, 2021)
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 9:19 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am Posts: 2819
tragabigzanda wrote:
And no I agree he doesn’t have to invoke fidelity…but I think it gives him added cover.
definitely
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Jorge wrote:
I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
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