I found this film offensive
... to my entire generation.
I'm only in Show Biz by injection
I found it to be the most insightful look at your generation of any work of fiction ever set in the era.
And you should be ashamed of your generation, which failed to remotely uphold the radical ideals of the hippies. Your generation of baby boomers sold out all future generations: embracing self-interest and unfettered capitalism, dumping hazardous chemicals in the earth, giving yourselves absurdly expensive pensions and social security perks and leaving our generation to foot the bill, and ignoring all warning signs of global climate change.
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Thank you, BigWhiskey, and bite me, rally. You weren't there in the 50s to see what real evil was, or in the 60s to see how we tried. And the "radical ideals of the hippies" WAS my generation.
I'm only in Show Biz by injection
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BigWhiskey is a troll who posts random things, thought I'd let you know.
Your generation tried in the 60s and then gave up completely in favor of cushy jobs and suburban homes. You guys embraced the sex and drugs, without the peace and love. And as if that wasn't bad enough, your fellow 'baby boomers' sold all future generations down the river. Talk about the 'me' generation.
So you shouldn't be offended by a movie that at least places part of the blame for the horrible fate of your generation on nefarious governmental forces, not just on the "inherent vice" built into your 'me' generation.
Thank you, rally, for the update on BigWhiskey (who, from his last comment, is even worse than I thought). But I still take issue with your view that the baby boomers are responsible for the disastrous condition of the country today. Perhaps I'm being naïve, but I and all my friends went to work for 40 years or more and contributed huge percentages of our paychecks to Social Security to receive the pittances we get now that we can't work any more (even if there were any jobs left not taken over by computers). None of us are living in luxury. To my mind, the "me" generation was the one that followed mine. I came out of the first year of the baby boom, which I used to think meant children born to soldiers returning from World War II. Apparently the term stretches another 20 years. IMO it's the latter part of the boom that did most of the damage. If there's blame to be placed on my generation it's for spoiling their kids and having too many of them.
I'm only in Show Biz by injection
I grew up in the 70's. I too found this film to be offensive. I didn't even finish it. I found it to be THAT distasteful.
shareNo accounting for bad taste.
If you get personally hurt when anyone takes a critical eye to the world in which you live, then you might not like (get) this movie.
If you have a crummy sense of humor, you'll be offended by many a great work of art.
Thankfully, we have Thomas Pynchon who lived as an adult through the 1960s to report on the era with his keen eye for truth.
I was an adult at the time depicted in this film. It's dead on.
The hope of the Kennedy era was gone.
The assasinations peeled the scales from our eyes.
The paranoia had set in along with a melancholy sense of losing a grip on our dreams.
Nixon and Manson jerked the love children back into the cruel realities of life.
"a malcontent who knows how to spell"