Under the Silver Lake

My God, this is an abortion of a movie. This is literally one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Indescribably bad. This is not an understatement, it's goddamn awful. Grab the children, save yourslef.

This is one of the most symbolic and twisted movies I’ve ever seen. The cinematography is incredible, the symbolism touches on some of the most prevailing aspects of the entertainment business and the most problematic.

Please don’t listen to the reviews. All lies. Please don’t watch. Time waisted don’t make any sense.

Could have been something really clever and really inspired but falls down terribly and is ultimately beneath contempt. It might have been an update on “Chinatown,” or at least “Body Double.” But no, it takes far too many totally nonsensical and stupid left turns and undercuts its sense of dread and unease with stupid and easy narrative fixes. Not to mention the pull-you-right-out-of-the-movie head-scratching platitudes to explain characters’ motivation, that are so disappointing given Garfield’s obviously committed performance and the locations budget of this thing. But it’s mostly just misogynist and stupid. For example, is every alluring woman in the piece secretly an escort or call girl? Yes! Not one is a Web designer, a C.E., or a coder as a side-hustle? Wouldn’t a skill like programming or graphic design have been way cooler *and* more unnerving to A.G.’s slacker protagonist, than having every woman he meets be a prostitute? Not sure why no one provided 900 obvious suggestions as to how they could’ve easily improved this script.

DO NOT RENT IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO LOSE YOUR TIME AND MONEY.

Closer to Inherent Vice than The Nice Guys. Enough good ideas, just diffuse execution.

This is the dumbest most pointless movie I’ve ever seen. Wish I could give it zero.

Brilliant and the funnest movie to watch in a long time. Zachary S. Childers

It feels like a cross between Mulholland Drive and Big Lebowski!

Mesmerizing. A total blast. Career best for Andrew Garfield. But, every character, as played and directed, was fascinating, regardless of “size” of roll. Plot was well plotted and and never plodded and made me feel very pleased to be an ex-LA-an. The film captured, and astoundingly without parody or satire, the unique experience of being pointless. Which is the point, the empty nutshell, of LA. Not Southern California. LA. I LOVE that no one really had any ambition beyond solving the real but unsolvable solvents, and to escape. Whatever the parcipants likely non-delusional result. Brave and pointfull filmmaking most likely made possible by Garfield’s commitment. And, MAN, was he committed. I understood every step he took — EVERY ONE — and loved where he and the director and the cinematographer and the location scout and the production supervisors and the designers took me. A GORGEOUS film that I never wanted to end, because I knew it would not end. It would just stop. Just. Loved. It.