I haven't walked out on a film since I saw "Divorcing Jack" back in 1998. I used to appreciate both PTA as a Director and JP as an actor. I really enjoyed "The Master", and I'm not an impatient man when it comes to watching films categorized as "slow". I don't need an easily digestible plot. But this film proved too much. Walked out after about 2 hours and 10 minutes. Felt like I couldn't breathe anymore.
Films starts out as slightly more gritty Big Lebowski and then pops over to a more drug fused Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Heavy on the paranoia but still funny. Had it been trimmed down then maybe it could have worked. Instead the plot just drifts away over the horizon and when a corny sex scene goes on for way too long you just feel done.
That fake documentary that JP did, pretending to become a hiphop artist really helps to explain the mood of this film. It's as pretentious and self absorbed.
Still I'll give it 3 points cus of Josh Brolin's hilarious sushi scene.
Films starts out as slightly more gritty Big Lebowski and then pops over to a more drug fused Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Heavy on the paranoia but still funny. Had it been trimmed down then maybe it could have worked. Instead the plot just drifts away over the horizon and when a corny sex scene goes on for way too long you just feel done.
That fake documentary that JP did, pretending to become a hiphop artist really helps to explain the mood of this film. It's as pretentious and self absorbed.
Still I'll give it 3 points cus of Josh Brolin's hilarious sushi scene.
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