Reviews

The characters were mainly middle school kids in their late 20s, with the usual groupsmean girls, cute girls, bully boys, good athletic boys. ...

This movie is drenched in the most decadent part of the Hollywood movie culture and all its self-absorbed dysfunction. ...

Its not a great movie, but its fun if you ever enjoyed Dr Evil or The Avengers (the old 1960s version of course). ...

This is important for this movie since Turner is portrayed by Spall as an obese, grouchy, unappealing guy who is nearly non-verbal, communicates largely in grunts or snorts and spends much of the movie making gross noises as he moves phlegm around his respiratory systemnot a flattering portrayal. ...

Some of the grittier scenes in the movie had to be shot in Detroit in order to find enough empty vandalized, decaying, graffiti covered buildings. ...

I read some of Thomas Pynchons books a long time ago (V and Gravitys Rainbow are all time favorites) but never got to Inherent Vice, so I didnt come into this movie with much in the way of preconceptions. ...

Aside from Cooper, its not an actors movie or a movie where dialog counts for much. ...

The movie keeps the story compact and intense, following the activities of the small group of Hut 8 code breakers as they try to turn their basic geek qualities into an essential part of the war effort. ...

I also thought the movie would have been better if the story of her mother were condensed and played out early in the movie so her hike could be her act of moving on rather than being haunted all the wayand then, suddenly, she comes to the end of the trail and the movie is over. ...

Scott got on my list way back when with one of my favorite flicks of all time, Blade Runner, but its been uneven for a while with his movies. ...