• LICORICE PIZZA (no spoilers)

    From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 24 10:59:54 2022
    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less
    young than he by 10 years. Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas
    Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA. As usual for him, Anderson's narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly. (A hefty dollop of post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.) Well recommended.

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  • From trotsky@21:1/5 to moviePig on Tue May 24 16:53:38 2022
    On 5/24/2022 9:59 AM, moviePig wrote:

    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less young than he by 10 years.  Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA.  As usual for him, Anderson's narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly.  (A hefty dollop of post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.)  Well recommended.


    What the fuck does the title mean?

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to trotsky on Tue May 24 18:22:48 2022
    On 5/24/2022 5:53 PM, trotsky wrote:
    On 5/24/2022 9:59 AM, moviePig wrote:

    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman
    less young than he by 10 years.  Such is the bare opening of Paul
    Thomas Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA.  As usual for him,
    Anderson's narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly.  (A hefty
    dollop of post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's
    lengthy trivia page for this flick.)  Well recommended.

    What the fuck does the title mean?

    Well, that's part of what I learned in the copious trivia...

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  • From Bill Anderson@21:1/5 to moviePig on Wed May 25 11:35:47 2022
    On 5/24/2022 9:59 AM, moviePig wrote:

    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less young than he by 10 years.  Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA.  As usual for him, Anderson's narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly.  (A hefty dollop of post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.)  Well recommended.

    I couldn't finish it. Made it as far as them leaving the house they'd
    been "cleaning" and spotting the client, Barbara Streisand's boyfriend
    or something, walking back to the house and I realized I had been hating
    every minute of this thing and decided to bail.

    --
    Bill Anderson

    I am the Mighty Favog

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Bill Anderson on Wed May 25 12:45:58 2022
    On 5/25/2022 12:35 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:
    On 5/24/2022 9:59 AM, moviePig wrote:

    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman
    less young than he by 10 years.  Such is the bare opening of Paul
    Thomas Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA.  As usual for him,
    Anderson's narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly.  (A hefty
    dollop of post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's
    lengthy trivia page for this flick.)  Well recommended.

    I couldn't finish it.  Made it as far as them leaving the house they'd
    been "cleaning" and spotting the client, Barbara Streisand's boyfriend
    or something, walking back to the house and I realized I had been hating every minute of this thing and decided to bail.

    How have you fared with Anderson's other stuff?

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  • From alvey@21:1/5 to Bill Anderson on Thu May 26 06:56:43 2022
    On Wed, 25 May 2022 11:35:47 -0500, Bill Anderson wrote:

    On 5/24/2022 9:59 AM, moviePig wrote:

    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less
    young than he by 10 years.� Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas
    Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA.� As usual for him, Anderson's
    narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly.� (A hefty dollop of
    post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.)� Well recommended.

    I couldn't finish it.

    Ditto.
    It was a major disappointment.



    alvey

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to alvey on Wed May 25 22:46:37 2022
    On 5/25/2022 4:56 PM, alvey wrote:
    On Wed, 25 May 2022 11:35:47 -0500, Bill Anderson wrote:

    On 5/24/2022 9:59 AM, moviePig wrote:

    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less >>> young than he by 10 years.  Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas
    Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA.  As usual for him, Anderson's
    narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly.  (A hefty dollop of
    post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.)  Well recommended.

    I couldn't finish it.

    Ditto.
    It was a major disappointment.

    (I'll try not to take this mutinous uprising personally...)

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  • From alvey@21:1/5 to moviePig on Thu May 26 17:49:31 2022
    On Wed, 25 May 2022 22:46:37 -0400, moviePig wrote:

    On 5/25/2022 4:56 PM, alvey wrote:
    On Wed, 25 May 2022 11:35:47 -0500, Bill Anderson wrote:

    On 5/24/2022 9:59 AM, moviePig wrote:

    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less >>>> young than he by 10 years.� Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas
    Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA.� As usual for him, Anderson's >>>> narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly.� (A hefty dollop of
    post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.)� Well recommended.

    I couldn't finish it.

    Ditto.
    It was a major disappointment.

    (I'll try not to take this mutinous uprising personally...)

    It's not personal sonny, it's strictly business...

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  • From william ahearn@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu May 26 18:48:13 2022
    On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 11:00:02 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less young than he by 10 years. Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA. As usual for him, Anderson's narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly. (A hefty dollop of post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.) Well recommended.

    There is nothing "engaging" about this movie. Not the lead actors, or the superficial script, or the music that is mostly good but has nothing to do with what is going on screen. Even the title is stupid and has nothing to do with anything. A total
    misfire.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to william ahearn on Fri May 27 10:18:58 2022
    On 5/26/2022 9:48 PM, william ahearn wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 11:00:02 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less
    young than he by 10 years. Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas
    Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA. As usual for him, Anderson's
    narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly. (A hefty dollop of
    post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.) Well recommended.

    There is nothing "engaging" about this movie. Not the lead actors, or the superficial script, or the music that is mostly good but has nothing to do with what is going on screen. Even the title is stupid and has nothing to do with anything. A total
    misfire.

    At Metacritic, LP appears to be far and away last year's critical winner
    -- which I'm assuming all four opinions so far expressed here (including
    mine) were ignorant of. As the only one of those four who quite enjoyed
    this flick (though I went in expecting not to), I'm a bit puzzled.

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  • From william ahearn@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri May 27 08:14:49 2022
    On Friday, May 27, 2022 at 10:19:08 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    On 5/26/2022 9:48 PM, william ahearn wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 11:00:02 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less >> young than he by 10 years. Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas
    Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA. As usual for him, Anderson's
    narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly. (A hefty dollop of
    post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.) Well recommended.

    There is nothing "engaging" about this movie. Not the lead actors, or the superficial script, or the music that is mostly good but has nothing to do with what is going on screen. Even the title is stupid and has nothing to do with anything. A total
    misfire.
    At Metacritic, LP appears to be far and away last year's critical winner
    -- which I'm assuming all four opinions so far expressed here (including mine) were ignorant of. As the only one of those four who quite enjoyed
    this flick (though I went in expecting not to), I'm a bit puzzled.

    I never use Metacritic (or IMDb). I'm puzzled as to how you enjoyed it. It was almost a spoof of an indie created by someone with ADHD.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to william ahearn on Fri May 27 11:33:56 2022
    On 5/27/2022 11:14 AM, william ahearn wrote:
    On Friday, May 27, 2022 at 10:19:08 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    On 5/26/2022 9:48 PM, william ahearn wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 11:00:02 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: >>>> In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less >>>> young than he by 10 years. Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas
    Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA. As usual for him, Anderson's
    narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly. (A hefty dollop of
    post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.) Well recommended.

    There is nothing "engaging" about this movie. Not the lead actors, or the superficial script, or the music that is mostly good but has nothing to do with what is going on screen. Even the title is stupid and has nothing to do with anything. A total
    misfire.
    At Metacritic, LP appears to be far and away last year's critical winner
    -- which I'm assuming all four opinions so far expressed here (including
    mine) were ignorant of. As the only one of those four who quite enjoyed
    this flick (though I went in expecting not to), I'm a bit puzzled.

    I never use Metacritic (or IMDb). I'm puzzled as to how you enjoyed it. It was almost a spoof of an indie created by someone with ADHD.

    I use them mainly to root out really lame stuff -- which they do a fair
    job of, and which I need because of my anti-foreknowledge religion. But
    as I said, till after I'd posted, I didn't realize how beloved LP was.
    As to 'how I enjoyed it' (easier to address than, say, 'why'), I found
    it at once boringly real yet consistently surprising. Probably also
    helped that I remember its '70s era if not its San Fernando locale.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat May 28 08:02:15 2022
    On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 4:53:41 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    On 5/24/2022 9:59 AM, moviePig wrote:

    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less young than he by 10 years. Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA. As usual for him, Anderson's narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly. (A hefty dollop of post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.) Well recommended.
    What the fuck does the title mean?

    Licorice Pizza was a record store chain in Southern California in the 70's.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat May 28 11:10:28 2022
    On 5/28/2022 11:02 AM, [email protected] wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 4:53:41 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    On 5/24/2022 9:59 AM, moviePig wrote:

    In the early '70s, a precocious 15-year-old is smitten with a woman less >>> young than he by 10 years. Such is the bare opening of Paul Thomas
    Anderson's B.P.-nominee, LICORICE PIZZA. As usual for him, Anderson's
    narrative goes everywhere, and always engagingly. (A hefty dollop of
    post-viewing enjoyment can be found throughout IMDb's lengthy trivia
    page for this flick.) Well recommended.
    What the fuck does the title mean?

    Licorice Pizza was a record store chain in Southern California in the 70's.

    ...from the nickname for a vinyl disc, aka an LP.

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  • From Ed Stasiak@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 30 05:57:00 2022
    moviePig
    Bill Anderson

    I couldn't finish it. Made it as far as them leaving the house they'd been "cleaning" and spotting the client, Barbara Streisand's boyfriend
    or something, walking back to the house and I realized I had been hating every minute of this thing and decided to bail.

    You made it farther then me, I bailed on the flick after about 10mins
    as I found the story and characters boring.

    How have you fared with Anderson's other stuff?

    “Boogie Nights” and “Inherent Vice” are good movies but this one ain’t.

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