Licorice Pizza (2021)

Haven't seen that.

My brilleaux theory - that I thought of just now - is that this is a "modern" film that is made for, and perhaps by, people who watch films while dicking around on their phones. They miss half the fucking film anyway so the plot isnt required to map specific points of relevant consequence. The film is just "moments". Oddly, this filme reminded me of Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland" novel which just loosely rambles along while barely making a lick of linear sense.

So I watched Licorice Pizza and didn't like it. I guess according to people who liked it the meandering boring direction the film takes is supposed to mirror life or w/e. I mean I see that and all but it would've been better if the different scenes were you know entertaining. It's supposed to be a comedy-drama but I didn't laugh once and the dialogue felt amateurishly written. Also the Haim's girl acting was pretty bad and I don't know why Hollywood always gives leeway to people breaking age of consent laws when it's a older women and younger man.

The title is extremely nostalgic for me, so I'm a bit scared/hesitant to watch it...There was a Licorice Pizza in the sleepy beach town of my youth. Right on the way home from elementary school, so before I could even buy or was interested in records, we would stop in and look around at records for a few minutes and then grab one or more free strands of licorice they had in a jar by the counter. Then I made my very first record purchases there. which I remember as the following:
YMCA - The Village People
Influenced by AM radio. Had no idea about the gay connections and no idea why I felt compelled to buy it when it was being played all the time on said AM radio. 1978, so I was 12 years old.

My Sharona - The Knack
Non-pic sleeve 7". This was actually an AM radio hit also. 1979, 13 years old.

The Specials - S/T
Late '79 or early '80 I guess. Maybe I bought the first Madness there also but soon I discovered a used record shop further down the main street, where I bought the first and second Devo albums, and then the small punk/new wave shop down the other way across from the McDonalds, Mickie D's, Maccas...San Diego was the home of that wonderful food concoction so I can still taste those pickles...Anyhow, that was the end of Licorice Pizza shopping for me...

I liked it better the first time when it was called dazed and confused.

 Yeah...Black licorice obviously but I think they had both colors in the jar or separate jars. 1978 seems so long ago yet I can still experience the licorice, the smell of the Specials clear plastic sleeve, the pickles, the pigeons congregating outside of Maccas, tilting the extremely old pinball machine at the 7/11 next to LP...