I love movies that hold together this well while at the same time being totally unpredictable

Rating: 10/10 (13 July 2006)

Easily one of my favorite movies, by my favorite actor. I've always like Jeff Bridges, but he usually plays someone fairly together and knowing exactly where he's going and how he's going to get there: here, he may be together in a unique sort of way, but he has no idea where he's going and he doesn't care how he gets where ever he's going. Just going' with the flow.
As with so many great movies, every character is a gem, and even actors I don't normally like are excellent.
When I first watched this movie, I was in a room with my extended family (wife, in-laws, my in-laws in-laws) and within 10 minutes, all but three of us had left the room, overwhelmed by the swearing and a bit disgusted with this character with no apparent redeeming features. Besides my brother-in-law and myself, my brother-in-law's 80-year old Jewish mother-in-law stayed. At the end of the movie we had all laughed a lot, but the best line was reserved for "bubby" who said "I've never heard the word f___ used in so many interesting ways".