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Summary: No story line, very unorganized and sloppy
Review: Okay! I'll admit I liked, no I loved the girl-girl scenes between Laura Harring and Naomi Watts (especially the bedroom one). Besides those, there was no other good part to the movie. I think the ending [stunk] majorly, not summing up the story in any way, and the whole name change thing was confusing. Tere are some people that liked this movie, and who am I to argue, I can understand liking it for its mystery, it just wasn't my type of movie.
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Summary: Bizarre and thought provoking
Review: David Lynch leads the viewer into a film noir reminiscent of nothing I've ever seen. I can't decide if I liked or disliked this movie. It starts out with a stirring storyline as we meet a beautiful woman who has lost her identity after a freak accident. Along comes Betty who has just arrived in Hollywood on a bus from Ontario. The girls become fast friends, and Betty who comes upon our needy beauty, who has decided to call herself Rita for the time being, is bound and determined to help her find her identity.Lynch throws in scenes that are there just to make you think and if you are trying to figure out the second part of this film just forget it and go with the flow because once Pandora's box is opened life will never be the same for any of our characters. Names change, characters do about faces, and the roller coaster ride begins as you try to piece it all together. Lynch seems to enjoy leading the viewer on a merry chase to no place, and if you think you will ever get there, think again because you won't. Take away what you like; it is up for grabs. This is a movie for the person who thinks outside of the box and the answers are unique to each person who sits down to watch it. At one point I felt like I was waiting to see a car crash and I couldn't turn away, the disappointment was that nothing ever came of it. Kelsana 8/15/02
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Summary: My humble opinion...
Review: I only just saw the movie in a theater, and most Danish reviewers rambled on about how Lynch had gotten weird again. Well, I saw it with a friend, and after the movie we just looked at eachother and agreed that 1) it was great, and 2) not weird. We felt we understood it, what with timeshifts, alternative and parallel universes and somesuch. I'm not saying that this is what it's really about, but who cares? That's what we came up with, and that's enough. The movie's flawless, the acting great, the score fantastic (especially the scene in Club Silencio). Well, maybe my friend and I are just insane, or we have a different chain of thoughts that most other people. Afterwards we went out on town, and all the time I felt like being in a Lynch-movie, that's the impact the film had on me. Watch it. You'll not be disappointed.
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Summary: For those of you who "just don't get it"
Review: Please stop writing reviews of Mulholland Drive. And I couldn't agree more with the reviewer who said Naomi Watts should have taken home the Oscar.
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Summary: Does it all have to make sense?
Review: David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" has been lambasted as everything from pretentious junk to a cinematic puzzle with no solution. Maybe it is, if all you're looking for is a simpleminded Nancy Drew mystery with a solution that locks everything up and puts it to bed. But "Drive" is more ambitious than that: it's an abstract noir in which the pieces are not quite as important as the experience. And yet somehow all the pieces fit together perfectly in the end -- maybe not in a logical way, but in an emotional way. The whole movie is a fevered dream, where bits and pieces that were formerly out of context come together in the last 20 minutes and reveal their true significance. Okay. Let's be dead honest. A lot of people are still going to hate this movie -- call it pretentious, stupid, incoherent, what have you. They're not watching. They're looking, but they're not watching. I had more "AHA! I get it!" moments during "Mulholland Drive" than I've had in almost a solid year of movies before that. The movie opens with a classic noir device: a woman in danger. An unnamed brunette is threatened at gunpoint in a limousine, but her killing is cut short when a pair of drag-racing cars slam into them at full-tilt. Bleeding but alive, the woman staggers from the car, her memory a loss, and begins walking through Los Angeles at night (never a good idea). Eventually she hooks up with another woman who's come to seek her fortune as an actress, and the two begin to put together the puzzle (often literally) of her identity. Now, the joke of the whole thing is: that isn't even really the plot. That's what HAPPENS, but that's not the real story. After about the halfway point, Lynch begins to hint that what we are seeing is in fact all illusion -- that it's the fevered creation of someone's mind, and that the reality is in fact a scrambled version of everything we've seen. I don't know if a "complete" unscrambling of this movie is even possible or desireable -- Salon Magazine tried to do something along those lines and still came up with a lot of "we don't know what the heck this means, either" disclaimers -- but there is a sense of progression, a sense of closure, that most legitimately plotted movies never afford. David Lynch has always been a difficult case. He veers between brilliant and moving work -- "Eraserhead," "The Elephant Man," "The Straight Story" -- and incomprehensible nonsense like "Wild at Heart" or "Lost Highway." I even admired his "Dune," even though it was a lost cause to squeeze such an intricate book into 2 1/2 hours (the recent TV version is a far more enjoyable adaptation). I sometimes wonder what would have become of "Return of the Jedi," had he accepted the offer to direct it; he turned it down, saying it was "Lucas's thing," and he didn't feel qualified to work on it. Much of this film features standout Lynch trademarks: creepy sound, Jack Fisk's production design (which somehow makes ordinary things look evil and sinister), slow takes, and tons of weirdness that somehow stand shoulder-to-shoulder and create a unified effect. Originally the film was commissioned as a pilot for an ABC-TV series, but the execs at ABC took one look at it and declared it unreleaseable. Lynch got some extra funding from France's Canal+, shot wraparound footage to close off the loose ends, and the end result is a masterpiece instead of a salvage job. It's really something. In fact, it might be the most accessible of Lynch's experiments yet, and a heralding of a great new phase in his career. After the annoying indulgences of "Wild at Heart" and "Blue Velvet," this is like watching a whole new filmmaker at work.
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Summary: Surrealism at a high point
Review: I absolutely loved this movie. It immediately became one of my favorites. This movie is not for everyone, I have watched it with many of my friends who ended up completely hating it, saying that it was pretentious, drawn-out, and made no sense. I think the people who gave bad reviews should try watching it again, and paying attention to the whole story, and learning the order of events. I can watch this movie over and over again, and I still wont be sick of it. If you don't settle for the normal movies that our put out every week I most definitely recommend this movie. If you plan on seeing this, pay close attention to the clues, they are more obvious then they seem. Overall I just have to say I love this movie.
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Summary: A fun drive
Review: I enjoyed the suspense and the visual of this movie. If I have to make a meaning out of the movie, I would say I do agree that in everybody's illusion, one's self image is always positive and innocent, and everyone wants to rationlize and make sense out of what he/she has become and what is happening in his/her life, even by making lies. For this exact irony, I didn't bother to try to rationalize and make sense out of this movie. Isn't it what the movie teaches us?
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Summary: I absolutely detested it. And absolutely loved it.
Review: I am a Lynch fan, and expected to enjoy this film. Which I did, I think. See, every twenty minutes of watching I would jump between two extremes - loving the movie, and then hating it. At times I told myself I have to buy this tomorrow (I rented it), and then I'd be wrenched with horrible disgust, I'd want to stop it and break the dvd into bits. As a movie, I don't want to own it. But, usually if a movie invokes a strong emotional response, it's great - right? I don't know - you just have to watch it. It was a good movie because it made me feel so much. It was like a roller coaster (for lack of a better comparison). It picks at your brain. If you want to experience this, watch this movie.
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Summary: What's not to get?
Review: I was amused to the point of laughter the first time I read a viewer's review commenting on plot holes in this movie. I believe the actual review referred to Mack truck-sized apertures and the like. And I have this to say. There are no plot holes in Mulholland Drive. It is literally IMPOSSIBLE for this movie to have plot holes. Not an easy thing. I have seen the movie only once, but I heard so much about it before hand that I was prepared for something bizarre. When people just start watching this, expecting a relatively simple noir...I pity da' fool! But in all seriousness, for those people who just don't get it, think of it like this: the WHOLE movie is a dream. The last half hour, where everything seems to start coming together is actually merely the moments just before awakening where the dream starts to become more real, without truly being reality. Or something like that. Who knows? Well, love it or hate it, one has to admit that the actual DVD is somewhat disappointing. I understand that David Lynch likes to let his movies stand alone. Therefore, I can understand the lack of a feature commentary and even, y'know...scene selections. But come on! Gimmee something.
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Summary: This movie is breathtaking.
Review: Fantastic depth + extremely tallented movie. I could not take my eyes for a second away from the screen while it ran.... On another hand, it is deffenitely not a mass product.... So, if you enjoy watching Spiderman (& stuff....), do not even bother.
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