Licorice Pizza - Speculation & General Reactions

[Robyn]

If Licorice is about to get Lady Bird-level of reception, then I apologize for the person I will become in the upcoming months.

Haha, why? You'll be giddy with joy?

[pynchonikon]

I mean who of us won't, LB was a huge banger back then. I quite like it, but its universal consensus view always impressed me. (It's actually better reviewed than anything PTA has ever done except perhaps TWBB)

[Yes]

Lady Bird was just a great showcase for Greta Gerwig as a storyteller and revealed a born filmmaker who managed to capture her endearing onscreen quirks behind the camera with bold empathy and precise film grammar. It was a breath of fresh air to experience female relationships expressed on mainstream screen so piercing and warm.

Obviously PTA is in a much different boat here lol. But everything so far we know about this from trailers to screening reactions to interviews indicate it's an immensely sweet movie that reaches a level of accessibility that's been out of his grasp. Sounds like a nice valentine from a master filmmaker

[RudyBlatnoyd]

Personally found Lady Bird deeply mediocre, but even so I'm not concerned about the comparison. Insiders who saw Phantom Thread were describing it as being like Fifty Shades before its release, so I doubt that Gerwig's and PTA's films will have very much in common besides some basic narrative elements etc.

PTA seems too authentically strange of a filmmaker to ever make a true 'crowdpleaser', but I guess we'll see.

[Drenk]

Mistress America, co-written by Gerwig and released before Lady Bird, can be seen as a sequel. It's also a funnier and richer movie.

[Yes]

Personally found Lady Bird deeply mediocre, but even so I'm not concerned about the comparison. Insiders who saw Phantom Thread were describing it as being like Fifty Shades before its release, so I doubt that Gerwig's and PTA's films will have very much in common besides some basic narrative elements etc.

PTA seems too authentically strange of a filmmaker to ever make a true 'crowdpleaser', but I guess we'll see.

Why would you even be concerned that this movie is compared to an extremely universally adored movie in the same genre lol?? Weird how so many people are overlooking the actual news that this movie is screening and playing very well

[RudyBlatnoyd]

Personally found Lady Bird deeply mediocre, but even so I'm not concerned about the comparison. Insiders who saw Phantom Thread were describing it as being like Fifty Shades before its release, so I doubt that Gerwig's and PTA's films will have very much in common besides some basic narrative elements etc.

PTA seems too authentically strange of a filmmaker to ever make a true 'crowdpleaser', but I guess we'll see.

Why would you even be concerned that this movie is compared to an extremely universally adored movie in the same genre lol?? Weird how so many people are overlooking the actual news that this movie is screening and playing very well

As I said, I'm not concerned. But something being compared to Lady Bird doesn't really do anything for me, sorry. It's a new PTA film, that's more than enough for me to be excited. If Lady Bird fans also end up seeing and loving LP because of the comparison, then that's all the better.

[PaulElroy35]

Wilburfan you have any set photos  that havent been uploaded yet?
Just to keep is fed for a while.

[jviness02]

Seventies Porn

"I think it could have evolved into something because it was snuffed out before it had a chance to breathe. In the 70's you had porn filmmakers trying to inject plot, story and1 characters. These were people trying to attach something to what was basically fuck films. At the same time you had mainstream Hollywood which was being so subversive, so cutting edge and so cool during the Seventies. So it was like two locomotives that were coming at each other. Porn films trying to be legitimate but still catering to their market, and legitimate films that were getting more towards Clockwork Orange and Midnight Cowboy. Momentarily it seemed like they were going to collide and straight, legitimate films would have collided with porn and it would have resulted in some really interesting stuff. Porn got derailed by video and the wonderful Hollywood stuff in the Seventies got derailed by Star Wars."

https://cigsandredvines.blogspot.com/1998/03/interview-down-with-pta.html

I found one reference to what I was thinking of. I remember him talking about Jaws & Star Wars ending the 70s golden age and how sad that was, regardless of their merit as films. Perhaps in one of the BN commentaries?

Jaws and Star Wars were the main factors in ending the 70s Golden Age. That's pretty much an accepted fact by everyone who cares about this stuff. Believing that doesn't necessarily mean you dislike those two films. I adore both of those films. It's not those films' fault that Hollywood took the wrong lessons from them. Considering PTA has said positive things about both, I would think his comments about them ruining the American New Wave were meant to be matter of fact.

[wilberfan]

Wilburfan you have any set photos  that havent been uploaded yet?
Just to keep is fed for a while.

I've been changing my avatar a couple of times a week.  That's not enough for you animals? 

[PaulElroy35]

Wilburfan you have any set photos  that havent been uploaded yet?
Just to keep is fed for a while.

I've been changing my avatar a couple of times a week.  That's not enough for you animals? 

Haha i know was just hoping for maybe a gallery of them a better quality

[Pringle]

Is it true that Drumstick's keep getting smaller and smaller?

[wilberfan]

That one was a lot smaller than I remember them... But it was 116-F (46-C for you infidels) that day, so no one was complaining...

[PaulElroy35]

Just watched the trailer again for the 100th odd time and was thinking what shots of scenes intrigue you guys the most or have you curious about?

A few thay stood out to me were.

Theres a short of Hoffman running down the street  through traffic with outstretched  arms. Theres lots of running in the trailer but this shot fascinates me.

The scene of Hoffman haim and a young girl outside a house pool side.

Hoffman looking into Joel Wachs  office.

In a car what looks like interviewing Joel.

Plus Tom Waits what looks like drunk directing is something I need right now.

It seems theres alot of things that will happen in this film on top of the young love story . Fingers crossed we get a couple tv spots soon like with phantom thread with a couple extra shots we havent seen yet.

Theres trailers showing in cinemas with some different shots . I saw 1 before bond a few weeks back. However since that showing I havent seen the trailer or any version play once before any other film which is sad.

Seems its playing alot in the states but over here in the UK not so much.

[wrongright]

So will there not be any preview screenings? Feels like if there were, they would've been announced by now.