the film that most captures my high school experience in the 1970s is still Dazed and Confused. It was a more rural and much less sophisticated world than that depicted in Licorice Pizza.
― Dan S, Monday, 12 September 2022 23:52 (two years ago) link
PTA was only just born in 1970 so he does not really know from experience what 1970s high school was like. The movie seems like a fantasy from a kid’s point of view about high schoolers and adults back then
― Dan S, Monday, 12 September 2022 23:56 (two years ago) link
maybe that's what redeems it though, kind of. It still seems very shaggy and unfocused
― Dan S, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
I don't think this film is making very much of an effort to portray a realistic high school experience either
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 08:58 (two years ago) link
It's definitely making very much of an effort, that's for sure.
― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 10:38 (two years ago) link
I've decided this is Telegraph Avenue: the Movie.
― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 11:00 (two years ago) link
When I’m pausing and coming back to the movie over multiple days during my first viewing of it is probably not a good sign of where I’d place it in my PTA power rankings. Have no problem that it’s nowhere near grounded but maybe it was a little too far off the ground for me.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 8 October 2022 04:44 (one year ago) link
I just don’t much care for PTA when he seems focused, at the end of the day
― Eric H., Saturday, 8 October 2022 05:11 (one year ago) link
some of the reactions to this — lolita, really? — are so predictably bourgeois… anyway I really enjoyed this review I saw on letterboxd:
https://boxd.it/2pUpCn
― auld gang syne (k3vin k.), Wednesday, January 12, 2022 4:47 PM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink
thank you for posting this review, it's really great and very precise about what's going on with the central relationship of the movie.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 21 October 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link
That is a great review
― Nhex, Friday, 21 October 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link
Phantom Thread is the only one of his movies I still haven’t seen.
Loved LP.
Inherent Vice is the only dud.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 21 October 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
*clutches heart* ah you wound me :(
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 October 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
also that review is so good - illustrates so clearly what i loved about it — now i wanna watch the movie again
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 October 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t think PTA has at least three duds
― Eric H., Friday, 21 October 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
I really liked this film, but Alana carries the overwhelming majority of it. Didn’t think the Gary role was very well acted.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 21 October 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
he just smiled and gave me a licorice pizza
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 21 October 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
I finally saw Hard Eight, leaving Phantom Thread as the only one I haven't seen. Hard Eight is fine, a little slight and way too in thrall to that whole '90s thing of how every flick had to turn needlessly bloody and violent in the final act, but Philip Baker Hall and John C. Reilly save it from being a dud.
Of the ones I've seen I'd probably rank 'em
Boogie NightsMagnoliaInherent ViceLicorice PizzaThere Will Be BloodHard EightThe MasterPunch-Drunk Love
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 21 October 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
Descending order:
Phantom ThreadThe MasterInherent ViceBoogie NightsThere Will Be BloodHard EightMagnoliaPunch-Drunk Love
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 October 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
i watched hard eight pretty recently and its better than my memory of it (which was favorable btw), v direct & affecting imo
― johnny crunch, Friday, 21 October 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
I would have loved the hell out of Hard Eight had I seen it back in 1996, but from 2022, I wanted more of the first two thirds - just Hall and Reilly talking and bumping up against Vegas weirdos.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 21 October 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
Magnolia is the only one I think is bad.
― Chris L, Friday, 21 October 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
PTA is 9 for 9, fuiud
― insane oatmeal raisin cookie posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 22 October 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
i haven’t seen hard eight but i agree w whiney basically
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 October 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
What am I missing in Inherent Vice? I watched it a second time and likes it even less. It just…. wanders. It’s kinda like the Big Lebowski if you drained the humor out of it.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 22 October 2022 03:50 (one year ago) link
inherent vice is very funny
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Saturday, 22 October 2022 04:07 (one year ago) link
if josh brolin chewing and swallowing a lit blunt doesn’t make you laugh, idk
inherent vice is a whole vibe & it is gloriousi mean fuck, it’s basically freaked-out chandler + weed x paranoia … what could be more enjoyable
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 October 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
and yeah, it’s funny as hell
It's a weird movie for sure. I like it a lot but I get why people don't. There's so many similar vibe, shaggy dog neo-noirs from the '60s/'70s that leave me cold and I'm still not sure why Inherent Vice worked for me when like, The Long Goodbye didn't
― Nhex, Saturday, 22 October 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
Just watched this, can I say it's simultaneously a good movie and a lousy one?
Good: Alana Haim is spectacular, Hoffmann is convincing enough, I did believe the relationship (though I don't have great hopes that it will last, it's so contingent on the specific points they're both at in their lives), I appreciate the continuing Haim family multiverse (see also "No Body No Crime")Bad: the plot that moved the characters between emotional checkpoints...boring and way too long. Especially the Hollywood stuff that I've seen before. I wish I could have seen the same characters in a different film.
Ultimately the only PTA I've liked is Inherent Vice (have not seen The Phantom Thread), maybe we're not meant to be.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 15 January 2023 23:17 (one year ago) link
rewatching, can confirm still great“Ugh, Danielle I’m eliminating property tax for the elderly and saving the mountains and you’re talking about free Pepsi”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 00:29 (one year ago) link
that part in licorice pizza where you hear the todd rundgren radio ad is the closest i've come to experiencing asmr— boss crude (@bosscrood) December 15, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 01:31 (one year ago) link
lol i love that part
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 01:56 (one year ago) link
the way Alana is reading Jack Holden’s face like an ancient text for ANY clue of what the fuck he’s talking about
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
For some reason (the title I guess?) I thought this was a movie about the music industry in the 70s; I watched it for about an hour last night thinking "Enough with the waterbed shit, when is s/he going to get a record deal?"
― fetter, Monday, 1 July 2024 10:54 (two months ago) link