To anyone that's read Vineland, does the new trailer for PTA's film adaptation look promising? I know this is borderline /tv/ posting but I want to know what admirers of the book think, not fans of PTA.
>>24738824the book was "ok" but the movie looks fucking awful. i loved inherent vice, but i won't be watching this one. been caught stealing looks pretty mid for aronofsky, but at least watchable unlike whatever they're calling the vineland movie.
>>24738824PTA is far better at adapting the works of others than he is at writing. But he has not adapted all that many works of others so it is hard to say. What I get from him is that he is very good at understand theme but absolutely shit at developing theme; adaptations take up the slack of his weaknesses.
>>24738849>good at understand theme but absolutely shit at developing theme;you got an example?
>>24738893He nailed theme in both There will be Blood and IV, while theme in everything else he did was pretty much dude, weed. Half suspect I am forgetting a third adaption he did? Can't quite remember and don't care enough to look.
