Did anyone like this? Is it worth the time? PT Anderson is generally not a complete waste of time but I generally can't stomach Gen X buttholes pining for the 70s like boomers.
Did anyone like this? Is it worth the time?
Did anyone like this? Is it worth the time? PT Anderson is generally not a complete waste of time but I generally can't stomach Gen X buttholes pining for the 70s like boomers.
the truck scene is kino of the highest order
I love PTA, but personally I didn’t like this one. Starts off strong but becomes a meandering mess. In some ways it reminded me of OUATIH, but for whatever reason I preferred that movie way more. I found Licorice Pizza very underwhelming.
I saw it on a plane but it wasn't bad
It was refreshing in the sense that there aren't many mainstream movies like it
I liked it. It was sweet and I liked the two central characters enough to care about them and want to see them get together. The central character feels like it was written for a far more attractive girl though. It's almost distracting how many people fawn over her and compliment her beauty when she's very apparently nothing special.
she isn't pretty but she's an older woman and she uses what charms she has to great effect
She is actively pursued by five characters throughout the movie, who all comment on her beauty, and three other characters comment how attractive she is.
Big israeli nose
She was so ugly I couldn't watch the film. It felt almost like Netflix casting.
very few black in this, which immediately awards the movie 10 handicap points for comfiness alone
He hasn't made a good movie in 12 years.
Yep, directors peak at 40, have 10 more decent years and then they're finished. Line up every director and you'll see it's universal.
>He hasn't made a good movie in 12 years.
Phantom Thread was kino
It's pretty comfy and sweet. Not his greatest work but I don't regret watching it.
the main female character is so ugly that the movie is unironically unwatchable
It’s very good on second viewing
Sean Penn’s wiener nose just keeps on growing doesn’t it?
>Did anyone like this?
Yes I loved it
>Is it worth the time?
Yes, if you like good films. This board unironically only hates it because they don't find Alana hot enough to be a lead.
The more valid issue is that the entire story centres around a 15 year old kid falling in love with a 26 year old woman. But the film doesn't encourage it so it's not that big of a deal (but reverse the roles yadayada)
It's a really funny coming of age film. It's the sort of film that your average PTA fan thinks they're too "good" for. Like the reaction of way back when he said he was going to follow up Magnolia with an Adam Sandler film and everyone in the audience laughed.
It's good. But if you're a pretentious pseud who only likes a certain type of slow paced boring arthouse drama then you'll hate it.
>The more valid issue is that the entire story centres around a 15 year old kid falling in love with a 26 year old woman.
Why wouldnt he?
Bizarre that anon considers that an issue. I don't know anyone who didn't have a crush on a young teacher as a teen. Even the ugly young teachers could have had their pick.
It goes the other way. It's a bit iffy/paedophilic portraying an adult falling in love with a 15 yo
>It's a bit iffy/paedophilic portraying an adult falling in love with a 15 yo
And that is why this world is gay and stupid and I refuse to play the normie game.
I like the idea of it but it's mind rot.
You don't gradually win over women. They either love you or hate you in the first 5 minutes. None of this bonding nonsense
Also why was this movie so pointlessly racist towards asians? fricking israelites man.
He doesn't win her over in the sense you're thinking. That's literally the point of the film.
She crashes and burns multiple times and then settles when she realises that he's the only guy who isn't trying to use her and who actually likes her for her
>You don't gradually win over women.
I understand this is anecdotal but:
In high school one of my friends, who was not attractive but was extremely popular, went after a new girl that came to the school was smoking hot basically pursued her aggressively for the better part of a year with her politely keeping him at arm's distance before she finally agreed to date him. They were 15 when they got together and 24 years later are still married and have 3 children.
When I was in my early 20s a friend kept pursuing a very attractive bartender for months at a club we frequented. She acted outright disgusted by him for so long I distinctly remember telling him he was wasting his time but lo and behold he wore her down, they dated for years and eventually married. No idea what happened later and if they're still together though. Completely lost contact.
It is good. Better than punch drunk love and phantom menace.
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, John Michael Higgins plays real-life restaurateur Jerry Frick, proprietor of “The Mikado.” Frick is married to a severe and disapproving Japanese woman who apparently doesn’t speak any English, although she seems to understand it fluently. She certainly understands her husband, who doesn’t speak Japanese but does speak English, when he’s speaking it to her, in a cartoonish Asian accent. If Frick is meant to be a satire of how white men are racist towards Asians… How? Just by the fact of him? In his second scene, he shows up with a different wife, explaining how his first wife has left him and this is the new Mrs. Frick. The joke is either that Frick is a fetishist, or that all Asians look alike.
Here’s a third option: maybe the joke is that both of his wives are stentorian ninnies who have married a man who does not speak their language and, since they understand English, must know that he’s affecting an accent to speak to them. Got it. There will be a lot of rearguard action amongst PTA’s defenders that this is actually incisive cultural critique suggesting that Asian women who marry white men are complicit in their subjugation and humiliation and that anyone upset about it should relax. Here’s the thing, it shows up in a movie by Paul Thomas Anderson–a filmmaker I adore–and even mentioning it gets most of your allies exchanging glances behind your back. There goes the mouthy chink, overreacting again.
Everyone who’s talking about this as a Richard Linklater-ish gem of a shaggy-dog hangout movie will contort themselves into pretzel shapes to find the surgical, Noël Coward-dry social commentary of a white man “talkee rike dis” in 2021 to a stern Asian businesswoman who “no spreekee Engrish.” Which is it, James Agee? Shit like this gets Asian women killed. Anyway, enjoy Licorice Pizza–or as my people would call it, “Ricolice Peeza.” Ees goo’ fo’ you! Numba one, Joe!
it's a funny joke, josh
you can stop crying now
Whoever wrote that originally is on too many psych meds.
Sounds like a shit film though.
>Whoever wrote that originally is on too many psych meds.
So, a normal millennial Hollywood writer.
Alright, point taken in all the responses. I'll give it a watch. What about the cinematography?
I was not very impressed by Phantom Thread, but it did have two of Anderson's best moments visually (the New Years Eve party with the falling balloons and the scene of the ghost of Woodwiener's mother in the old dress standing near the doorway). Does this movie offer anything worthwhile in that department?
Only visual thing I can remember is a recurring motif of two characters running towards each other.
PTA is his own cinematographer now. Started with PH
>I generally can't stomach Gen X buttholes pining for the 70s like boomers
same
i just can't watch it
PTA fans cream themselves at any movie he makes but not all of them are great - even if he clearly puts a lot into them. Licorice Pizza was the very definition of a film being 'fine'.
I much preferred Phantom Thread.
I genuinely believe israeli nepotism is so bad that IDF alternates between posting BBC threads on pol, and then coming here to say this ugly c**t isn't ridiculous to look at. It's on par with having Samwell Tarleys actor as James Bond. If she was an Anglo or a non israelite, you would never hear anyone say she and her movie aren't trash to look at.
Yeah she's ugly, but I just want to watch a newer movie that isn't complete shit. It's rare enough.
You get enamoured with her because of her personality and ‘availability’ rather than her looks. She’s a cute girl for us 5/10s
Yeah she's hideous, I like PTA but still haven't seen the movie simply because I can not buy that the MC or anyone else would find her attractive. Rattiest israelite I've ever seen and that's saying something about israelites
It's just PTA's own weird obsession with her. He has directed many of her music videos. Not everything is a ZOG psyop
It really is out of control. They’ve always run Hollywood of course but you look at the names involved with any project these days and it’s eighty percent members of the tribe. Surely non-channers have to be noticing?
better than phantom thread, worse than inherent vice. He hit his high water mark with TWBB and The Master
Inherent Vice is one of his better movies. I also liked The Master, despite some of its flaws. I'm not terribly fond of There Will Be Blood but it's impressive. I didn't like Phantom Thread but mentioned before that it has some of his best visual moments in my opinion.
I read that this one is alongside Michael Bauman.
Dropped as soon as I saw that nose
I like a lot of his other films but I thought this one was terrible tbh.
>Intelligent movie about an aristocratic couple
How do I force myself to watch this? I feel like this is a movie made specifically for upper class or at the very least upper-middle class type of person. Imagine me sitting alone watching this in my shitty apartment, I feel like I'm making fun of myself putting myself through this.
Am I wrong? is this movie made to be enjoyed by normal shitty people like myself or did PTA make this for his rich friends?
>How do I force myself to watch this?
it's actually about BDSM and you need to watch it
You scared to watch Frasier too?
no because frasier is just a comedy show with dumb jokes.
>Intelligent movie about an aristocratic couple
Literally not about that. Just watch it and enjoy. Don’t think about genre or setting
The guy is an aristocrat, the woman is working class
I liked it.
Is anyone else completely tired of Sean Penn? I never liked him much and don't want to see him in anything else. I probably won't watch since he's in it.
He is the wrong director for PTA in this pretentious boring phase of his. 90s PTA with Penn would've been great.
Didn't even remember he was in it. He at least used to be a good actor tho. He was great in Casualties of War and Carlito's Way. Even if he has gone mental IRL
It was okay, if you're not a PTA fan you can probably skip it
>"licorice pizza"
>that fugly poster
>pta
ayy no thanx