Logic review

What does this even mean? I don't like Logic.

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was PTA davidp this whole time?

yeah this was incredible

goes without saying but man sean penn acted his ass off in this, legit couldn't stop smiling everytime he was on screen

this also could've been like 5 hours fr, somehow felt short at 3 hours

Willa = Luke
Ghetto Pat = Obi-Wan
Sensei = Yoda
Lockjaw = Vader
Christmas Adventurers = Emperor

Even better on the 2nd watch

I’ve dead sold 10 tickets for this movie I need a check from wb

Honestly i’ve been finding the Lebowski comparison pretty surface level. Bob looks ragged with his robe, stumbles around and drops sarcastic one-liners which makes it a layup of a connection but Tyrone Slothrop is actually the better literary parallel having read Gravity’s Rainbow. That novel being as impossible as ever to adapt, I was really impressed and surprised that I may very well be watching the closet thing to a character from GR on the big screen.

Outside of the obvious “Rocketman” nickname and pancake breakfast line, to me the major points of comparison were:

Paranoia & surveillance: Both characters are defined by a creeping distrust. Bob with his suspicion of tracking, government monitoring, and his refusal to fully rejoin society mirrors Slothrop’s escalating paranoia about being manipulated and observed by faceless systems. Neither can fully relax into the world.

Disoriented protagonist: Bob is rusty, hilariously fumbling with codes, barely keeping up with the demands of his past life resurfacing and just on the edge of being captured. Slothrop spends much of GR stumbling through scenes he only half-understands, constantly one step ahead from the system yet behind in grasping the sheer scale. Both are more acted upon than acting, caught in forces bigger than themselves.

Past shaping the present: Bob’s ex-revolutionary past drags him back into danger. Slothrop, too, is entangled in decisions and experiments made long before he was fully aware, his entire trajectory shaped by history and systems outside his control.

Comedic incompetence: The humor isn’t “stoner zen” like The Dude but moreso disastrously bumbling. Their clumsiness makes them both tragic and funny.

I could go on about this! I really hope one of these interviewers ask Leo or PTA about Pynchon’s involvement or if Leo has spoken to him.

me and bro lol

lol this kind of checks out lmao

voiceover helped a lot there tbh. but yh imo might be up there w one of the best book adaptations ever

Martin Short was also great yh but Penn here plays such a colorful, deranged character. def a type you'd only find in a Pynchon novel lol

the entire Teyana Penn plot tbh, Pynchon loves himself some sexual perversion

Going to see this friday

One Viewing After Another

Thinking about it this morning

Bobs initial escape scene is kinda stuck with me

Him falling off the roof was funny

Having second thoughts about the payoff there tho when he easily just gets let out of jail due to a helping revolutionary

I guess that’s just his character though