Finished Inherent Vice - certainly right up there with movies I hate, but I'm sure some will enjoy it. It's very smart-ass and if you're a fan of the marijuana cigarettes this will be right up your alley since the characters never stop smoking them. Since I abhor all drugs, you can imagine just how much I hated every frame of this 148-minute whatever it is. I also cannot stomach the leading man. It's based on a Thomas Pynchon book - I'm also not a fan of his either - it's filled with "funny" names that no one would ever have - one character lives on Gummo Marx Way - that's the level we're dealing with here. I'm sure Mr. Pynchon has never really left the year 1970, but some of us hated it then and hate it now even in retrospect. There's a mystery in it (the lead character is a pot-filled PI) but after thirty minutes, well, there's just no there there. This director has his FANatics, but even the couple of movies I could tolerate, like Boogie Nights and Magnolia, are not great for me - they have moments.
