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Re: Who here has seen Inherent Vice [Re: Ezuma]
#23558347 - 08/19/16 09:12 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah I went over to IMDB and checked out the Inherent Vice message board, and a lot of them were saying that it's the type of film that needs to be seen literally several times to actually pick up on a lot of the things that were happening.
I could definitely see that the film had/has some potential -- but yeah you're right, it did feel really aimless (although I do think that was somewhat intentional) and was a little boring & slow in stretches.
I think it would be better with a few more repeat viewings...but I don't know if I liked it enough the first time around to invest another 5 hours on it for another couple of viewings.
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Re: Who here has seen Inherent Vice [Re: Niffla]
#23558413 - 08/19/16 09:34 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I should also add I saw it on a 10 hr flight during which i had a fever, so that maaaay have coloured my experience somewhat
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Re: Who here has seen Inherent Vice [Re: Ezuma]
#23560007 - 08/20/16 01:39 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I love love love Inherent Vice
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akira_akuma
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Re: Who here has seen Inherent Vice [Re: Niffla] 1
#23560268 - 08/20/16 03:29 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Niffla said: Watched it last night. Tried to drink a few beers and took a couple of rips, but man this headache was fucking with me. So admittedly I wasn't as into it as I wanted to be.
But yeah I'll have to try it again at some point. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed and that plot was as complicated as a plot as I've ever seen I think
I sat through the duration and I still really have zero clue what the fuck I saw or what happened
Niffla...guess what...the book's better.
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Niffla



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Re: Who here has seen Inherent Vice [Re: akira_akuma]
#23560280 - 08/20/16 03:34 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I did hear that the book was really good. I should probably check it out.
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Re: Who here has seen Inherent Vice [Re: Niffla]
#23560296 - 08/20/16 03:42 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Pynchon is good. i've read Gravity's Rainbow. it was the best book ever. i'd read it as well. i plan on reading all his books, because i wanna reading like all of an author's repertoire because then i can say i did it; but moreover because it's also immense, and also some shit that is truly easy to read.
some books like to do that. i find Infinite Jest also good for that. you're looking at a book that has both the sense of constancy in it's ability to confound the reader with bullshit, but it's just that, bullshit, literally in IJ, it's meant to make the more intelligible reader to skip the notions of drug-names and the literary fuckery, and just read quickly.
same goes for Pynchon. read it quickly, and avoid taking it too seriously, and it ends up being awesome. otherwise, it won't be as enjoyable. the pastiche is too perplexing to truly understand in realistic terms, thus trumps the imagination, lest one can think of it like a cartoon or some kind of loony film. -- TL;DR, read it quickly (not at a clip, this isn't Stephen King burgers and fries) and it's immense. Inherent Vice is probably just as confusing as any of his other books, and Gravity's Rainbow....
but point is: i know it's probably really quite good. but probably quite a loose cannon.
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Re: Who here has seen Inherent Vice [Re: Niffla]
#23560301 - 08/20/16 03:46 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Saw it in theaters, it was really good!
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