Inherent Vice

[scootermcc]

Rambling incoherent story that made no sense at all, it was a long hard slog getting to the end of it.

1/10

http://www.cinemabang.com/inherent-vice-review.php

[bhanz]

Just a head's up, you've got quite a few errors in your review.

PTA wrote the screenplay, adapted from the "unfilmable" Thomas Pynchon novel.
It's Benicio, not Branco Del Toro.
Owen Wilson doesn't collaborate regularly with PTA, think you're thinking of Wes Anderson.

[scootermcc]

Just a head's up, you've got quite a few errors in your review.

PTA wrote the screenplay, adapted from the "unfilmable" Thomas Pynchon novel.
It's Benicio, not Branco Del Toro.
Owen Wilson doesn't collaborate regularly with PTA, think you're thinking of Wes Anderson.

Thanks for your comments and hopefully the errors are now sorted, the review was done in a bit of a rush due to being on holiday this week, poor excuse I know and a D- and a slap on the wrist for me. Good to see someone's taking the time to read it.

Doesn't change the fact that the film wasn't particularly good.

The story goes that when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were trying to get a film company to pick up the script for Good Will Hunting they took it to various studios and most if not all of them were keen to make it into a film.

The pair then met Harvey Weinstein from Miramax who had read the script the night before the meeting. Weinstein commented that the only problem that he had with the script was an oral sex scene between the two professors on page 60. He felt that the scene didn't fit into the rest of the film. Affleck and Damon had apparently added the scene to test which studio executive had actually read the script, Weinstein was the only studio executive that noticed it and Miramax got the deal.

Unfortunately mine wasn't a deliberate mistake but I like the story.

[n24545]

just awful .. it didn't make sense to me.. I wanted to walk out after the first 5 minutes but I stuck it out.. unfortunately the film did not get any better 0/10

[scootermcc]

just awful .. it didn't make sense to me.. I wanted to walk out after the first 5 minutes but I stuck it out.. unfortunately the film did not get any better 0/10

With hindsight I don't know why I even gave it a one, your zero score seems more appropriate. A rambling mess of a film.

I watched film 2015 and they loved it, can't think why.

[kevinknapman]

Paul Thomas Anderson scores another hit with the rambling dope-fuelled 70s private eye shaggy dog story Inherent Vice. Joaquin Phoenix stumbles out of the free-loving hippy paradise of the 60s into the dark uncertain paranoia of Nixon's America of the 70s as a handful of cases all seem to lead to the door of a shadowy sinister organisation called The Golden Fang.
Who is doing what to who becomes increasingly convoluted in the spirit of the best film noirs and Phoenix makes for an amiable and likeable guide, giving a performance that mixes comic befuddlement and deep melancholic sadness. Backed by an impressive supporting cast (his scenes with bullheaded cop Josh Brolin are a particular highlight) and an excellent soundtrack, the meaning of it all may be tough to pin down but it makes for an enjoyable journey.

[TheBoySeggy]

Yawn... which is what I did through most of this. Credit to the director/producer for getting such a good acting lineup, then managing to churn up such a mind-numbing experience.

Maybe I needed to be doped up to enjoy it?

[alythonian]

I went to see this thinking I'd hate it and came out pleasantly surprised.
It was clever snd very well acted, it made me keep thinking all the way, so not a film to relax into.