Are you kidding me? This crap has ~90% on Rotten Tomatoes? Gould's Marlowe is an unfunny, mumbling, bumbling, obnoxious, cringy idiot. They replaced the signature crime noir protagonist speaking from the off with this guy speaking to himself no matter if there are people around or not. He's a clown in need of psychological help. The plot is full of things that make no sense. [spoiler]Marlowe running after Eileen and getting hit by a car, ends up in hospital? What? Why? Waste of time. Verringer hitting Roger in the face and Roger not killing him in return? Ridiculous. Augustine never laying a hand on Marlowe after all the sht he says? Yeah, sure. Marlowe knowing somebody brought the money and who it was? GTFO![/spoiler] The only top 10 seconds of the movie was the final scene with the hammock. And even that got ruined by the ridiculous harmonica dance nonsense that followed it. In conclusion: I had hoped for a hard-boiler crime noir thriller for adults, and got some kind of clown fiesta for kids.

"Excuse me, I don't see any Courry Brand cat food here." Young Mr. Schwarzenegger had a great mustache! Anyway The Long Goodbye works because of the amazing performance by Elliott Gould. He simply sucks you in at the beginning of the film, saying hi to his lesbian neighbors, trying to buy his cat some specific cat food. Cat food isn't available and now he tries to trick his cat. Epic stuff. We follow Elliott Gould who plays Philip Marlowe a private eye as he tries to discover the truth about his murdered friend and his wife. The mystery slowly unfold to a killer conclusion. The way Gould talks to himself and his great wit is what makes this film great. Also these sudden stuff like very scene with his neighbors, he asks them to look out for his cat and they just simply ignore him or when somehow we have a 5 second shot of one dog humping another one. Or the epic sign that says "El Porto del Gato". The more I think about the Long Goodbye, the more I love it. It is simply a must watch.

Mindless astray stoner noir, with a script that mirrors that same clueless baffling stoner view. Marlborough Man, aimlessly trying to track down his friend, a cash trail, a dead wife, and a cast of characters that pass in and out. Would I call it an amazing movie? No, but movies like Inherent Vice, The Big Lebowski, Under a Silver Lake, etc owe quite a bit of themselves to it.

Well, the quick review is that it hasn't aged well. Elliot Gould is fine in the lead role. He's got a charm to him as a slightly off-kilter guy with above-average smarts. The rest of the cast are pretty standard with crap 70s acting. There's a short appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger in his Mr Olympia 1972 shape and the guy is enormous next to normal men! The plot is the usual nonsense that becomes inter-related and then has a twist. The twist here is predictable about 20 minutes out... And the other twist is completely out of character and makes no sense. 6/10

"It's OK with me." What a great movie.