THERE WILL BE WEED or THE GRASSTER: Movie review of Inherent Vice by Howard Casner

Posted: December 19, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2,716 Comments »

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Warning: SPOILERS

inherent viceI’m afraid that when it comes to me, myself and writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson, the honeymoon may, at last and alack, be over.

I mean, this was no one night stand.

When I first met Anderson, he took me with his Hard Eight. And we then spent many Boogie Nights together. I did think that with Magnolia we didn’t quite come together as we once did. Still, though it may not have totally worked, it was far, far…far more stimulating than many films that did. And with Punch Drunk Love he just, well, punched, drunked and loved me.

I was delirious.

But time marches on and, like so many relationships, people change, circumstances change, conflicts emerge until the relationship starts hitting some rough shoals. Read the rest of this entry »