Granted, I'm also not sure if this movie is aimed squarely at me or if I'm the last person who should see it: the screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline (based on Cline's novel) seems to be weaponizing my own personal nostalgia for John Hughes, Monty Python, «Buckaroo Banzai» and other objects of obsession from my late teens and early 20s. (thewrap.com)
Imagine Grace Kelly as James Stewart's object of obsession in «Vertigo.» (sfchronicle.com)
There is nothing wrong with either, but, as Dreher communicates so well, if the two become the object of our obsession, to the exclusion of everything else, we end haunted by emptiness. (firstthings.com)