.....starring Joaquin Phoenix but enjoyed it less the longer I watched.
It's a comedy/drama/mystery/romance co-starring Josh Brolin and Owen Wilson, screen written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson from a novel by Thomas Pynchon.
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To be fair, this movie initially reminded me of the vibe, but never the substance, of "The Big Lebowski."
However, I finally decided "Inherent Vice" was overly long, definitively incongruous and that it lacked the iconic characters and quotable quotes which made the Coen Brothers' flick memorable.
To be honest, I didn't dig their flick featuring Jeff Bridges' laconic loser that much the first time I saw it, but it grew on me greatly with subsequent discussion and more viewings.
So have "Caddyshack" and "Fletch" and the comic stylings of the Marx Brothers.
I've never warmed to the Three Stooges.
I thought they deserved all the slapstick abuse they gave each other.
And Ben Stiller has been an acquired taste for me, also.
Much of Wes Anderson's stuff simply misses its mark if aimed at me.
All that's my loss, although I try to keep up,
On the other hand, I've always found anything and everything which Woody Allen offers to at least be interesting (whenever it falls short of profound epiphany).
You might enjoy "Inherent Vice" more than I did, it offered much.
But, to me, it seemed as if this Phoenix rising was too much embedded in Hunter S. Thompson's ashes while still channeling Johnnny Cash (at least visually) and I simply was unable to walk that line.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, my opinion, man.
Anyone seen it?
It's a comedy/drama/mystery/romance co-starring Josh Brolin and Owen Wilson, screen written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson from a novel by Thomas Pynchon.
The Link
To be fair, this movie initially reminded me of the vibe, but never the substance, of "The Big Lebowski."
However, I finally decided "Inherent Vice" was overly long, definitively incongruous and that it lacked the iconic characters and quotable quotes which made the Coen Brothers' flick memorable.
To be honest, I didn't dig their flick featuring Jeff Bridges' laconic loser that much the first time I saw it, but it grew on me greatly with subsequent discussion and more viewings.
So have "Caddyshack" and "Fletch" and the comic stylings of the Marx Brothers.
I've never warmed to the Three Stooges.
I thought they deserved all the slapstick abuse they gave each other.
And Ben Stiller has been an acquired taste for me, also.
Much of Wes Anderson's stuff simply misses its mark if aimed at me.
All that's my loss, although I try to keep up,
On the other hand, I've always found anything and everything which Woody Allen offers to at least be interesting (whenever it falls short of profound epiphany).
You might enjoy "Inherent Vice" more than I did, it offered much.
But, to me, it seemed as if this Phoenix rising was too much embedded in Hunter S. Thompson's ashes while still channeling Johnnny Cash (at least visually) and I simply was unable to walk that line.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, my opinion, man.
Anyone seen it?
