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Summary: Perverse Lack of Scene Selection
Review: First, let me say that this is truly an amazing film, unquestionably the best thing that David Lynch has ever done. I give the movie five stars plus. But if you are buying this DVD in order to dissect this complex work, BEWARE--there is no Scene Select feature!!!! This is the ONLY DVD I have ever purchased where it is IMPOSSIBLE to jump to a particular scene on an ordinary DVD player--if you wanna watch this, you've got to start at the beginning and go to the end. I expect a certain perverse quality in anything associated with David Lynch, but this is TRULY ANNOYING.
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Summary: Take an alternate route to movie enjoyment
Review: Tempting though it may be to use my allotted 1,000 words to thoroughly trash this perverse, voyeuristic cinematic drivel, I shall instead be brief. This seems to be one of those artistic creations that people tend to either love or hate. Count me firmly in the latter category. In several decades of avid movie viewing, rarely have I so regretted wasting my time and money on a film. I'll admit that the first half of "Mulholland Drive" seduced me into thinking, hoping, desiring a big payoff in the second half. But it was just a tease. The second half marks as rapid a descent into nihilistic depravity and madness as I've ever witnessed (and hope never to witness again). However, I can't claim I wasn't warned - after all, it was no secret that this was a David Lynch creation. Given the apparently uniformly raving critical response to this film, I felt compelled to make it known that not everyone concurs. I consider myself fairly intelligent and open-minded, but I just can't help assessing "Mulholland Drive" as a pot-holed dead end.
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Summary: Dare I criticize Lynch?
Review: ...Mulholland Drive was the worst movie I have seen in the past 10 years. This is MST3000 fare.I was a fan of Twin Peaks, and enjoyed its esoteric qualities, but this is purposefully dense and cryptic.
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Summary: This is a very addictive film!
Review: It is great to have this film on DVD, as it is somewhat long. Pause the film to attend to household distractions, as this is the type of film one must pay close attention too, to fully enjoy and appreciate.
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Summary: The Exorcist
Review: David Lynch continues to amaze me with his latest film "Mulholland Drive", a bizarre journey into psychosis and beyond. Subliminally, demons are exorcized while viewing subtle nuances of complete madness that will permeate subconciousness. This film was totally unpredictable and all of the performances were incredible. One of the defining moments of the film is where Betty fails to heed Coco's warning of the iminant danger in her apartment, she obviously did not get rid of the trouble and consequently, she is taken on a dangerous journey into a downward spiraled path she chose to follow. There is so much depth and complexity to this film, it is nearly impossible to draw any kind of significant conclusion. It's like asking someone why they are gay? So may theories and oppinions but in the end, it all remains subjective. Can you explain why Betty's shruken mother and father try and scare her to death? I sure can't, but this adds to the mystery of delusion. My theory of the meaning of this film is, I compare it to "Vanilla Sky" and "Jacob's Ladder". I think the first half of the movie is Diane/Betty's decent into death laced with nightmarish images of her subconsious, and the second half is what actually happened leading up to her suicide? And was that Betty/Diane actually commiting suicide in the bed? All of this makes you want to throw "the rubik's cube" as one reviewer put it, against the wall. In an ethereal aspect, "Mulholland Drive" is a hypnotic film that has a trance like effect on all of your senses. It soothes, compels, disorients, intoxicates, frustrates, excites, frightens, and teases. A pyschological mind-...that David Lynch orchestrates magnificantly to the open-minded, free-spirited lost souls of the world, in search of truth and meaning.
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Summary: Two thumbs down
Review: I guess I'm just a Philistine but I like a good STORY. And a tangible, followable plotline this film does not have. It does have nice female eye candy, though. But unless you're a glutton for artsy, disjointed, hard-to-follow disconnectedness, leave this one on the shelf.
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Summary: "It's A Wonderful Life" ...in Bizarro World.
Review: Following the dismally unwatchable trainwreck "Lost Highway", and the atypically mainstream "Straight Story", David Lynch redeems himself and proves he still has "it" with the brilliant "Muholland Drive". Compelling atmosphere and haunting images are blended with a surprising amount of black comedy and steamy eroticism to arguably make this one of Lynch's more consistently "watchable" films. All of the Lynchian trademarks are here--a creepy murder mystery, Dreams vs Reality, Roy Orbison songs, Fellini-esque extras (interestingly, no dwarves in this outing), overly made-up torch singers standing in front of red curtains...in fact at times one almost gets the feeling that Lynch is winking at the audience and doing a parody of a "typical David Lynch film"! A subtly layered star performance from Naomi Watts keeps things moving, and Laura Elena Harring (the new Laura Flynn Boyle? Discuss) nails it as the dead sexy, darkly alluring femme fatale. The much-debated storyline is really a no-brainer-in fact it is yet one more variation on the "twist" from writer Ambrose Bierce's classic "Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge" (sorry -that's a bit of a 'spoiler', but then again no two people interpret a David Lynch film the same way). Lynch fans will wet themselves.
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Summary: No hay banda...No hay orquesta
Review: An excellent film. Though I understand it completely I can also relate to those who do not. Try watching it twice back to back, I think you will then understand. As far as a review goes: David Lynch's style is hypnotic. Also extremely creepy (those old people...eek). Naomi Watt's performance is amazing, though it may not seem so at first...keep with it. An excellent movie to watch on the upcoming halloween night. Something about me always associated Lynch with Halloween.
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Summary: One of the best films ever
Review: There are two ways to watch this movie, as these reviews show. One is to watch it like you would any other film, as if something will happen and things will connect and make sense throughout the film. If you do this you will most likely leave the theater (or your couch) feeling nauseous and frustrated and pissed at not only David Lynch but the world as well. Then there is the other way. You know what happens when you try to analyze a dream while you're in the dream. You wake up, and the dream is over, and you are frustrated and confused. You have to watch this as you watch one of your own dreams--without judgment or speculation (that is, as if it had no point) and as if it were completely about you. Which it is. Well, not necessarily you, but everyone. This film is about identity and how we each create and massage our own to fit into different scenarios we encounter throughout our lives. Or it's about identity in how a naive person can often become a bitter person--how we change from carefree children to vengeful adults. In reference to its Hollywood setting, it's about acting and over-(re)acting. Whatever it's about, if you watch this as if you are every character, many points will come across. I'd love to talk about them here but won't spoil anything. But some things to think about afterward: ambition, expectations, self-esteem, masturbation, and selfish love. Concerning the DVD: Really this is a theater movie since at one scene, if in the theater, you end up looking at a mirror image of yourself in the theater (sparsely populated and all). You can't get that effect from video, even if you saw it in the theater your first time around. Even so, Lynch brings enough stunning visual imagery to this flick that it does well no matter what. The DVD transfer picks up all the succulent colors, foggy or brisk imagery and pounding audio that Lynch intended. Despite that one scene that nothing could be done about, the video is just as good an experience as the theater. I have to add, forsaking any intellectual merits of the film, as a typical girl-crazy man, even if this movie isn't for you, watching close-ups and lengthy shots of Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring for 2 1/2 hours isn't all bad. If you've ever watched a movie just to get a look at the presence on screen (we all have, come on now!), this film, without question, is the best ever made at giving one a visual depiction of intense beauty. If you don't finish this film completely and abysmally smitten with Naomi Watts, then you're either in serious denial or you've got yourself a damn fine woman.
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Summary: Warning: Watching This May Cause Distress
Review: What is this movie about? I rented it and watched it. By the end of the film, I wanted to scream. I couldn't believe I had just wasted money on this. Normally, I don't mind films that are weird and mind-bending, where you scratch your head and say, "HUH?" (after all, "Fight Club" is one of my all-time favorite movies, and it took a couple viewings for me to understand everything that had happened in it.) But this movie...I don't even know where to begin. Everyone I know who has seen it absolutely HATED it. By the end of the movie, you don't know who is who, or if anyone is anyone, and the ending was just TERRIBLE. If you don't like strange movies, don't even bother going down this road.
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