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Summary: Here is the Solution
Review: David Lynch did a Pilot movie for a tv series.He was trying to recapture his glory days of Twin Peaks. But because of the fear of being deemed redundant and irrelevant as a director, he included a lot of freaky stuff that made no sense hoping that all the critics (failed visionaries with no visions of their own) would mistake overuse of pointless shock cinema moments and complete lack of coherence as 'visonary and artistic.' Fortunately (add an UN if you really like this stuff) the TV people who make the decisions run on a much more restrictive budget than Film people. They looked at this as just plain too wierd to even be a sleeper hit, so they pulled the plug. Lynch then decided to take the pilot which had no conclusion and recut it and try and stuff some other wierd stuff into it to make it silver screen material. But due to the lack of an actual complete story arc, the end result turned out to be a mess with no resolution of any sort. The Genius of the marketing of this film is that it duped the audience into trying to do the work that the director couldn't do...make sense of all these random wierd scenes....when there is actually nothing to make sense of. There is no understory. It is only a bunch of half-baked story ideas for a Failed TV series that tries to Stephen King-ize Hollywood. Any one of the many many different and wierd ideas might have been intriguing on their own if fleshed out and serviced properly, but instead the viewer is presented with a bunch of essentially animated (as in moving not cartoon) story board sequences, with no particular rhyme or reason but rather a gee look at this idea and now look at this idea methodology. TV quality acting in these soundstage set pieces does not help either . Sound Editing is very poor. The Commercial Break points are still evident and almost scream 'TV ADVERTISMENT GOES HERE.' Perhaps if the DVD came packed with an ounce of marijuana it might be tolerable, but frankly on its own the film is a bad trip. Unless you truly believe the being wierd and confusing and pointless and unconventional is all it takes to be considered an artistic and visonary, pass this turkey up. Otherwise, well misery loves company, so make sure you have someone you can't stand sitting next to you when you watch this shlock so you can atleast feel vindicated knowing someone else is suffering as much as you are...
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Summary: Mesmerizing work of art from David Lynch
Review: Trying to explain the "plot" of this film is missing the point. Mulholland Drive is the best anyone's ever come at translating a dream (or nightmare) to film. It perfectly captures the surreal quality, disjointed logic, and manic fright of a feverish dream. Like Lynch's other classic Blue Velvet, this movie isn't meant to be explained so much as it's meant to be FELT. Like all great art, Mullholand Drive will have a definite impact on you, even if you don't quite understand it - in much the same way a great painting or piece of music has a profound effect on us, even when we can't articulate the reason. This is truly a classic, a film that you'll remember long after you've seen it. After watching Mulholland Drive, you'll have the same uneasy, disoriented feeling you get when you first wake up from a particularly frightening dream. David Lynch is a true artist, and Mulholland Drive is his crowning achievement.
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Summary: Perhaps... u just have to take it for what it is
Review: So... obviously the reviews are greatly divided on this picture. Why, you may ask? Well, perhaps everyone is looking at Lynch's work in the wrong way. To say he is a living genius, and the greatest filmmaker out there today, well, that might be taking it too far. Yes, he is intelligent and creates more than meets the eye in his films, but the greatest? And to those who say, this is dribble, well, honestly, not every piece of art is self-explanatory. The joy of art sometimes, is figuring and deciphering it for yourself. Take what you will from this film, but do not dismiss it simply because there was no obvious beginning, middle and end. Using your mind is good occasionallyl. Just try it.
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Summary: The best movie of 2001 on an unexciting DVD
Review: The first time I saw 'Mulholland Drive' I enjoyed the filmmaking, but saw it as a TV pilot with a tacked-on ending that didn't coherently relate to the body of the work. Then I watched it again, months later. I have now seen it three times, and it is my favorite movie of 2001. Not only is it completely cohenrent, but Lynch has commented on the failure of the piece as a TV pilot with his movie ending. The movie is both the character Diane and director David Lynch's dream gone bad. If you have seen this movie and sort of enjoyed it but dismissed it, watch it again. The two "parts" do, indeed, form one sad, devastating story. And Naomi Watts, as I did recognize the first time I saw it, not only should have been nominated for an Oscar but should have won. Easily. Her performance alone is worth watching this movie for. Unfortunately, the DVD does not contain any extras or even chapter selections. If you can play multi-region DVDs, the French DVD is the way to go. Otherwise, this one is still worth getting. It's truly a masterpiece, and I don't say that often.
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Summary: Confusing
Review: I've watched David Lynch films before, but this movie made no sense. It was too bizzare. When the movie was over I was like I have no idea what the movie was about. It changed in the middle as if it was a dream but it wasn't. Too confusing for this movie lover. Don't bother, it's a waste of time.
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Summary: Lemme clarify this for everyone
Review: Anybody can splash some paint on the wall and say it represents life. Or death. Or anything. Well, okay, granted: it's a statement. So what happens when somebody splashes some paint on the wall and doesn't explain it? What if, instead, they give you "10 clues" to "figure it out"? What if it never meant anything to begin with? You all realize that Lynch is trying to pass this failed pilot off as a cinematic masterpiece, right? Didn't anyone find the lesbian scene a little out of place? Did anyone besides me get that bad TV vibe during the first half of the film? There's a distinct progression from PG-rated material to R-rated material... it's obvious to the point that it's distracting. The acting is amazingly inconsistant, but mostly bad. Subplots go nowhere. Lynch even shuffles around the names of all the main characters at the end. Is that supposed to be edgy? Is it supposed to blow my mind? I'll tell you what blows... And yet, people are just eating it up. I guess I'm in the minority... but I'm glad I have better things to do with my time than pretend bad TV is anything more than bad TV. For those who enjoy it for the sheer weirdness, I don't think you're faking. You probably did enjoy it... but if you're searching for a deeper meaning in Mulholland Dr., boy do you need help.
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Summary: Either you'll love it or you'll hate it
Review: David Lynch's work has a polarizing effect on the general public. There are those who love his efforts in film and television and those who hate it. For myself, personally, I find that Lynch's artistry varies wildly in quality. When it works ("Blue Velvet", the 1st season of "Twin Peaks") it flows together hauntingly and beautifully. When it fails, it tends to be merely a mish-mash of confusing, grotesque, often disturbingly violent images ("Wild at Heart", "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me"). Fortunately, "Mulholland Dr." is one of Lynch's better efforts. The plot itself is has been told a million times: the often dehumanizing effect of the Hollywood star-making machine, particularly on young women. Familiar Lynchian themes and images pop up in this film: innocence lost, weird-looking dwarfs, resurrected pop songs from the early 1960's, and the importance of dreams. However, the way this story is told is by no means conventional. What appears to be a straightforward mystery about a femme fatale ("Rita") eluding her potential killers and searching for her true identity with the help of an unbelieveably naive young starlet ("Betty") turns out to be a deeper commentary on the meaning of self, particularly in the cutthroat environs of Hollywood. The first time I saw "Mulholland Dr." I was totally confused, but a second viewing cleared up most of its mysteries. It's fun to watch a film where the director is one step ahead of the audience. If you fancy a familiar story told in an unfamiliar fashion, you'll enjoy this movie. Conversely, if you're the type of person who prefers a movie with a beginning, a middle, and an end (i.e., a conventional story structure), "Mulholland Dr." is not for you. Once again, David Lynch polarizes the masses.
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Summary: What the ....?
Review: I absolutely hated this movie. This rambling, pointless, incoherent piece of garbage wasted 147 minutes of my life. At no point did this movie attempt to tell a coherent story. If you haven't seen this movie, you already know more about it than you will after you have watched it. Mulholland Drive is a well-acted, well-directed, and well-filmed drug induced hallucination. If you like a movie that tells a story, or at least tries to make some sort of sense, stay away from this one.
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Summary: Bizarre movie, but a masterpiece
Review: When I first heard about this movie, it didn't convince me to go see it. Then when all the buzz at the oscars started, it made me curious. This movie was very thought-provoking, it made you think beyond the box, it pushes you to differentiate reality from dreams. There's alot of surreal scenes, and scenes that don't make sense, but it makes you draw your own conclusions.
There's no right or wrong conclusions. I like this movie because it's edgy, bizarre, unique, and surreal. David Lynch did an excellent job of bringing out the bizarre imagination in all of us.
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Summary: UGH
Review: I don't care if it was "enigmatic", "complex" and so on. This movie simply did not make sense. Sure i have to "look further into it" and I need to "try and understand the key aspects" but... it made me mad. When i watch a movie i don't wanna sit there and try and think about what the heck this is supposed to be about. I did not understand it at all, and it bored me to death for another part. Anyone that likes david lynch are the people out there trying to be noncomformists and all that other hibble jibble. Non-comformists are just like everyone else. People that try and be different, when everyone in the whole world is doing the same thing And when someone is like "i like david lynch because hes great and profound" they're really saying "i like david lynch because i wanna be different and confuse people with my big words" a david lynch movie is like putting these letters "alfajfdlkajf;af" and then having someone try and explain what i was trying to mean...
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