Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Thomas Pynchon is not my favorite author. People who like him always recommend reading a different book than the one I've read, but I think I've read enough to make my decision on him. Everything I found difficult about the novel of his I've read, I also found difficult about this adaptation. In addition to the various plot and character issues, there are aspects that simply don't translate to the screen (names!). The film seems like it's about to take off in the middle but quickly stops, the larger themes around the main character seem unexplored, and a lot of the gags simply don't work. Granted, I felt this way about The Big Lebowski (a definite cousin if not brother to this film), but that film has Walter Sobchak's loud insanity that steals the film whenever Goodman's on screen. This did not -- kudos to PTA for trying to adapt this, but it doesn't work for me.
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