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Summary: truly amazing
Review: David Lynch comes up with another stunner.Hypnotic,beautiful,enigmatic,challenging and brilliant.Just brilliant.I've watched this about 10 times so far.Jaw dropping stuff.Great looking image and a rich,warm DTS track.
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Summary: Waste of Time
Review: I stayed up very late watching this movie becuase I was waiting to see how it would come together at the end. I'm still waiting. It started out with intruiging plot lines then disintegrated into artistic babble. I wasn't aware of this director's history prior to buying the DVD. Had I been I would have passed. If you are the type that can find deep meaning in a painting consisting of splatters and splashes then by all means buy this movie. If you're looking for something with a comprehensible plot check elsewhere.
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Summary: This movie made we want to chuck the T.V. out the window.
Review: As if that wasn't enough, eh? First mistake, knowing that this movie was a critical darling, most of those are way too over the average joe flick (like me) kind of guy. Second mistake was not leaving when it started.Right from the opening credits, this movie made no sense at all, as swing dancers dance away to a mostly purple colored background. Events lead to the car crash, etc etc. (You've probably read the synopsis, I won't bore you any more than this movie does) Watts puts on such a goofy performance in the first hour or so, and her lines are so sappy that you want to reach for the mute button. Though the idea is that the performance and lines play into Lynch's little mind bender, it is a huge turn off to the movie. Now, the only people who will get the plot are film majors, critics, and rabid movie fans with too much time on their hands. Now if this had been written like Pulp Fiction, with witty dialogue, humorish situations (exception noted to the hitman scene), and the same jump around philosophy, it wouldn't be as bad. But this was awful, especially the cowboy guy. No clue what I'm talking about? Same here, Lynch gives us no insight to ANY of the characters except Rita and Betty, and Adam (who looks like he is a long lost member of Weezer), though even with these characters it doesn't make sense though. To sum it up, this is a real thinker movie. Those looking for something to sit down, snuggle up to, or just watch for the heck of it, STEER CLEAR OF MULHOLLAND DRIVE AND TURN SOMEWHERE ELSE!
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Summary: whaaaat?
Review: I heard from others that I would probably have to watch this film a few times to get it, but I honestly don't think I could go through watching it again. It's just too all over the place for me to keep track of it without going insane. I attempted to sit down and figure out where everything connected once the movie was done, but my mind felt like it had been spun in the washing machine at top speed. The only reason why I am not giving it one star is because I agree with everyones' opinion that it's an extremely intellectual movie, like Memento. Unfortunately, if I'm going to spent the money to see it in the movies or rent it, I want an explanation of what the hell went on.
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Summary: Academy Award material? Right...
Review: Umm, yeah. I was forced to endure this dog of a movie for over 2 excruciating hours and the best thing i can recall is the cameo with Billy Ray Cyrus (if that tells you anything). Whatever schmuck nominated David Lynch as a movie making genius should just stay away from normal humans. Apparently I'm not intelligent enough to grasp all of the deep, hidden film noir-esque hints, clues, whatever else. I'd rather be subjected to brilliant classics like Dude, Where's My Car. Thankfully this pig didn't win any big awards. How do these movies get made? ...
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Summary: What was that???????
Review: I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person and I enjoy all kinds of movies, television, and literature, but this movie has me dumbfounded. I found the first 2 hours of this movie to be excellent. The acting, directing, and music were mesmerizing (That's why it got 2 stars instead of 1). Then David Lynch pulled....well he pulled a David Lynch on us. I know, I know there were all these hidden meanings and messages that we were, and in some cases weren't, supposed to get that put all the mumbo jumbo together. Furthermore, I am sure if I watched it again I would understand it all a little better. However, the bottom line is I already wasted two and a half hours of my life the first time. Why put myself through it again. Other reviewers compared "Memento" and "Magnolia" to this movie in that it left you with a lot to think about afterward. For me, the biggest difference between this movie and those two was that I actually had a desire to understand them after it was over, and truly couldn't stop thinking about them for days. This one, however, isn't even worth the effort, and I guarantee you that as soon as I submit this review that will be the last I ever think about this movie In the end, I found the acting great, and the two lead actresses were definitely nice to look at, but the ending ruins the performances and makes the whole experience disappointing.
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Summary: Don't buy this one
Review: This DVD does not have scene selection--the first DVD I have ever seen that does not have this feature. Other copies of the same movie do have that option. Read the fine print on product description before you buy. ...
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Summary: Terrific, though you'll have to watch it twice
Review: It's a shame that people who don't understand this movie (that the first part of the movie is a dream made up of fragments of her real life that follow in the second part) are so quick to dismiss it as something that doesn't make any sense. It does make sense and it is a terrific movie, every bit as good as David Lynch's other masterpiece, Blue Velvet. I never buy movies and I bought this one. If I have one criticism about this movie is that there is no chapter selection for the DVD, nor any special features. But that does not take away from the fact that this is a goldmine for movie buffs. Two big thumbs up!
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Summary: Fragments of Cack
Review: I once read that David Bowie used to construct his song lyrics by wrting random phrases and words on strips of paper and then plucking them out of a proverbial hat and assembling them as they came.
Lynch apparently employs a similar approach with his film making, as this admittedly visually appealing mish-mash of symbolism just skitters from one scene to something completely unrelated until the credits roll.
The acting is ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL. I have to stress this, as everyone else here comments on Oscar nomination performances, but trust me, the level of acting is comparable to Yankee soap operas (perhaps purposely?) and everyone just ambles about spouting vacuous lines at one another.
I've seen some tripe in my time and this is up there with J-Lo's Angel Eyes.
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Summary: What? But wait.. what?
Review: I'm optimistic that someday it'll all make just some sense to me. No doubt, this movie will redefine the genre of weird movies. I'll admit that I had high expectations to begin with, so I might have been taken aback, although that seems to be the general feel of the movie. I was mesmerized, startled, ambivalent, confused, all in the first ten minutes. I expected to see something unique, dream-like, maybe even subtly profound, but the first thirty minutes or so seemed like a parody...characters who like shockingly like actors, cartoonish car crash, goofy detectives, spooky homeless monster man behind the fast-food restaurant. On the one hand, I can see that maybe its meant to make the impression that in LA, everything looks like a TV show, and is a parody of Hollywood. On the other hand, I still feel that, any way you put it, that Lynch is eccentric, genius, unique, subtle, transcendental - he's still laughing at you - ... He's not only ridiculing Hollywood filmmakers, he's also surreptitiously mocking it's film viewers. That said, the film is amazing. It's funny (the scene with Adam and the Cowboy has to be a top comedy moment in film history), and yet you'll be surprised that there is drama (albeit, far far removed when you're still struggling to comprehend), and mysterious. After a while, after immersing myself in the aura for a while, the acting became really quite wonderful, and the setting increasingly mystical. There are really several stages that you have to go through to finally 'realize' this movie. I can't say that this is one of my favorites yet. I'll still have to study it, and even so, it's incomparable to any other type of movie that I've seen, I don't know where or how to place it. It is an unsettling and haunting film.
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