I made it two thirds through out of a deep loyalty to DeWitt but the problem with post-post-modern metafiction that never coheres is that after hundreds of pages of it you’re just completely lost and bored.
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I made it two thirds through out of a deep loyalty to DeWitt but the problem with post-post-modern metafiction that never coheres is that after hundreds of pages of it you’re just completely lost and bored.
I love a movie that takes risks and I love a sci-fi adventure so there was a lot I liked here, risk-wise, and a lot of the early Lethal Entertainment scenes are perfectly creepy, but if only they could have cut out the overly dramatic, idiot-plot delaying tactics throughout the adventure, the movie could've been a tight, fun mindbender instead of a long and annoying slog.
I didn't make it through but I jumped to the end because the beginning was boring and I'm glad I didn't wait through the middle because the end was boring too; in a movie where the whole point is that the guy is a Limey it's kinda funny that the Limey character is sort of annoying.
This overly long short story collection is uneven with some hard-to-read, lengthy entrants, especially considering the relentless style they employ, but if it had been edited down a bit it would have been a masterpiece, because the ones that hit hit HARD.
I like Joaquin Phoenix and it's impressive how he disappears into a role but this is a ponderous story that can't decide if it's excited action or dramatic character drama and manages to be mostly disturbing and boring.
Someone needs to tell Paul Thomas Anderson "no" a bit more often because this could have been a beautiful Pynchon adaptation à la Inherent Vice but they strayed too far from the source, forgot to cut the first awful 30 minutes, and cast Leo instead of someone who can act.