Review of Inherent Vice (2014) by Sleepytimetea — 15 Dec 2014

PT Anderson seems to continually make well acted films which start out promisingly and then go absolutely nowhere. It's almost his own genre, with the Coen brothers sometimes churning out similar fare when they feel bored.

I'm starting to think Boogie Nights was a fluke, because he totally nailed everything on that film and outdid the Altman and Cassavetes films he was emulating. Nowadays his movies just feel like an Altman movie that gets eaten by your VCR halfway though.

When the tape clears you just see that it was taped over a german scat porn, one where a director is trying really hard to take a dump on a reel of 70mm film. In the end the results are a lot less exciting than we could hope for.