Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, November 26, 2021) Movie • Page 15

Fartlow

 

Ew

 

you can smell acne?...

 

Barlow talking about smelling anything is a little too much of the worlds colliding.

 

I finally got to see this and I loooooved it, felt such joy throughout this entire movie.

and tomorrow I’ll go see The King’s Man with my future mother in law and probably feel indifferent towards it

 

This was really good.

 

Ugh I really want to see this in theaters but the timing is really bad with covid cases out of control here. Oh well if I’d love it tomorrow I’ll love it whenever I see it.

 

yeah, i'd be seeing this again right now, but i don't feel like pulling the trigger after hearing about 10,000+ cases today

 

didn't like the ending but otherwise thought it was really good, but need to see it on a better screen and not in a double feature with Red Rocket

 

Why didn’t you like the ending?

 

Everything but the last 2 minutes worked for me and would’ve led me to a 10/10. 9.5 right now

 

With all the talk of the age gap and the character doing an Asian accent, no one brought up Cooper's assistant? Or is he based in a real person?

 

this just really didn’t work for me, which makes me sad after all the hype for it. Just a bit too listless and just really dragged in parts. Lots of themes that made sense intellectually, but didn’t resonate emotionally at all.

 

Finally seeing this today !

 

Same, please don’t let me get COVID at the PTA movie

 

This might be my favorite of his. Absolutely loved it.

 

Not the best movie of the year (that’s Pig), but very cute.

 

the very last line did stick out to me. Insanely corny, and the movie had the *perfect* ending with the “hi” like two seconds prior

 

Loved this (aside from the Asian “jokes,” felt totally unnecessary), blown away by how natural Cooper and Alana’s performances felt.

 

*Urge to write up needlessly long post about Tolkien’s interpretation of Elven Life Years versus Growth Years as well as Aragorn’s history as a man of the Dúnedain and how their ages sync up intensifies*

*clears throat*

“Licorice Pizza was really good.”

 

Really really loved this. I can kind of understand the discourse on the age difference, but aside from the ending I don't think it's really played that bad. Alana killed it though, same with Cooper. Also loved that the entire Haim family popped up in this, wasn't aware they were all in it.

 

The film acknowledges, over and over again, that they can't be together because of the age difference. I don't know what people want other than to not be able to portray things at all? Her flirtation with Penn is far more honest about the relationships you really find in Hollywood and the movie business, but the one would would be legal despite the gap being two to three times larger.

 

Maybe I'm dumb, but I need this explained to me a little more, because I'm one of those people who can't get past the relationship of it all. To me, the movie was very unambiguous at the end about them actually being together. It wasn't like the ending to The Graduate or something where there is this air of the fucked-upness of it all. Over and over again, I feel, like the movie more takes the side of them finding their missing piece in each other. They're magnets that are constantly running towards each other and away from their problems and their reckoning with the real world.

I don't know, that's just how it registered for me. I also thought it was all incredibly boring, but I'm also okay with it just not being told in a way that I like.

I also just can't get past the idea if this was gender swapped, there's no way in hell we'd accept this even if it kept the exact same story.