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Summary: "Superficial, psychotic...everyday L.A."
Review: I guess I should say I love freaky shows. Fight Club, Memento, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Basketball Diaries, Requiem for a Dream, Magnolia, Vanilla Sky, Eyes Wide Shut, Texas Chainsaw Massacre...You get the point. I could care less about the twists, this is a cool flick. I've only seen it once so far, but it's one I'll watch again. David Lynch must be one of the directors from another planet. David Fincher is in the same vein. The freakier, the better. I've never seen Blue Velvet, or the film starring Nicolas Cage. After watching Mulholland Drive I'll be more aware of this awesome director!
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Summary: Stale
Review: A return to the Lynch-canon in the worst way: a bunch of recycled old motifs waiting hopelessly for a clue, plus a bugaboo round the corner. By the way, arbitrariness is just not art. With films like this David Lynch surely is a director for the intellectually immature.
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Summary: A masterpiece that's not for everyone
Review: First off, most people will hate this movie. If you're familiar with David Lynch you should know what you're getting into. This film is just as confusing as Lost Highway, another Lynch film that most couldn't stand. Another movie this one could be compared to in the aspect of how unconventional it is and how confusing it can be, would be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey. I won't bother telling about the plot of Mulholland Drive, but I will say it's a surreal film about love and the devastaion love can cause. This film is very open for interpretation. Most people don't like to think when they watch a movie and all those types of people will swear that this one makes no sense. Mulholland Drive makes perfect sense to me, but I don't believe that there's one specific meaning to this film. It's more like a good painting or song that can mean different things for different people. This movie requires patience and you should expect to watch it at least twice in order to catch everything. A lot of people also complained about the lesbian parts, claiming they were unnecessary. These people totally missed the point of the movie. Sex has always been a huge taboo in the US, even when it's expressed artistically, and that taboo is multiplied that much more when homosexuality is involved. If you like this movie, I'd also recommend Lost Highway and Eraserhead, two other classics by David Lynch.
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Summary: I liked Dune better
Review: To me this film was a bunch of nonsense. I liked the directing. At times it is really amazing what the director of photography pulls off because some of his shots and depictions of LA were just brilliant. I also liked some of the acting along with the score. The lady that was the land lord complaining about the prize fighting kangaroo in the courtyard along with whoever played the cowboy were classic Lynch characters that I enjoyed thoroughly. Another stand out scene is the one in the Winkie's on Sunset Blvd. where the guy talks about his terrifying dream. Outside of that I found little in this movie that made sense or engaged me on an intellectual level. It becomes quite apparent in a lot of David Lynch's work (this film and the last 12 or so episodes of Twin Peaks) that Lynch is far better at complexifying the mystery and tangling plot lines than he is at solving them or giving any kind of meaningful resolution. Also, the masturbation and lesbian scenes were both totally gratuitous and did nothing but prove to me how ridiculous a film Muholland had become. If you want to see a good Lynch film go for Blue Velvet or the first 14 episodes of Twin Peaks. I also thought The Lost Highway was better and you might want to give that one a viewing as well. If you liked this film then I would also recommend Gummo and Julian and The Donkey Boy as those two films will be right up your alley.
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Summary: beyond reality
Review: a lovely and surreal film that explores the areas in between and various incarnations of the void. The deliberate and methodical style of taking the viewer into unknown, but strangely familiar surroundings proves eerie and soothing. One truly loses the self and becomes enveloped by this intense vision. For those who value escapism in all its glories and find visual images so sumptuous you can almost taste them...
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Summary: classic
Review: well this is just a classic movie i loved every second of it .. and even though at times you can wonder what is going on .. who cares !! it is just a masterpiece ok :)
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Summary: Just wanted to agree...
Review: Yes, this is a wonderous and complex movie. No, it's not easy to understand and I wouldn't recommend it for "everyday" viewing, since it can be a bit depressing. I was thoroughly, ahem, upset when I discovered that the entire movie is one big chapter on the DVD edition. Now, one of the main benefits of dvds; aside from the enhanced audio/visual, is the ability to go to a portion of the movie at the click of a button. Though I find it hard to imagine chapters titled "Blue Key on Table" or "Money in the Bag," I don't think this movie is *above* something practical like creating some sort of chapter division. My main complaint with this? If I accidentally hit the chapter button on my remote I gotta fast forward through the movie to get to the spot I was at. This gets very annoying if it happens more than once. Anyway, the DVD is still the only format I'd buy, just to thoroughly enjoy the music. Of course, you could buy the soundtrack for that. And you know what? I bet the soundtrack has "chapters."
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Summary: Lynch's best since Twin Peaks (the series, not the movie)
Review: Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001) Mulholland Dr. is everything Eyes Wide Shut failed to be-funny, sexy, mysterious, filled with a primitive awe. David Lynch got himself an Academy Award nomination for Best Director on this one, and was certainly the most deserving of the nominees (I'm still horked about the Academy's complete ignorance of The Others in the same year); Naami Watts and Angelo Badalamenti were nominated for more awards from more different groups than almost anyone else in film that year. Hell, it's even sitting on IMDB's top 250. (Not that the means anything, so is the deeply boring Manhattan. But I digress.) Trying to explain the plot would probably confuse more than enlighten, and since the whole thing is laden with spoilers from the get-go, I'm not going to try. Naomi Watts is calmer, cooler, and more clear-headed than she is in The Ring (and yes, the overacting is exactly what the character calls for). Laura Harring, the only thing that ever made Black Scorpion worth watching, does a fine job at somehow managing to be mysterious while staying unclothed for long stretches. The rest of the cast, including such luminaries as Ann Miller, Robert Forster, Dan Hedaya, Lee Grant, and Billy Ray "I can't believe Pax didn't cancel Doc when they saw me in this role!" Cyrus, all handle their roles exceptionally well (yes, even Billy Ray). One warning: this movie will make you pay attention. Like Lynch's too-brilliant-for-TV series Twin Peaks, Mulholland Dr. is loaded with symbolism, out-of-nowhere foreshadowing that doesn't make sense for two hours, important characters who only pop up once or twice, red herrings, Lynch's trademark use of chiaroscuro (the best in the business, hands down), and many, many other Lynchisms. Justin Theroux (of I Shot Andy Warhol fame) even makes a passable Kyle McLachlan impersonation now and again. All that's missing is Kimmie Robertson. Fantastic, and well worth seeing again if you didn't get it the first time. ****
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Summary: A Surprise Masterpiece!
Review: l'm not one for most of David Lynch's works, but this one blew me away - wonderfully crafted, sort of a two-parter,e.g, illusion vs. reality, and a brilliant performance by Naomi Watts. The movie requires a bit of thinking, and a second look would be most worthwhile. lt challenges the viewer and cannot be viewed in a superficial manner as one would, say, view Batman or some such shlock.
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Summary: Pointless
Review: Terrible. Started out as a great movie and goes completely off the rails in the last 15 minutes or so. Absolutely frustrating. The cast was brilliant - their performances are almost worth having to put up with the abysmal ending... almost.
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