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Summary: Bouncing around in the spin cycle of David Lynch's brain
Review: What the heck did I just see??? That was my thought immediately after watching this film. I'm not sure why anyone would want to spend their precious time trying to find an explanation for what happens in this thing after seeing it. All attempts will fail. Or maybe all attempts will succeed. Either way, this is Bizarro world brought to the big screen. It's kind of creepy and it does wrap you up and hold your attention, even though as it progresses you have less and less grasp of what is going on. By the end I was confounded and dumbfounded. I give it five stars for keeping me riveted to the screen and zero stars for after-viewing satisfaction. I may watch this again to see if it actually does make some sense. But, as one of the great unwashed, unlike many of these pretentious, film genius reviewers who spend all day with this DVD in a loop and then countless hours disecting it because they decry being "spoonfed" their films (By the way, since that word seems to show up in so many reviews about this film, I wonder if Capra, Griffith, Keaton, Chaplin, or even Hitchcock ever complained about "spoonfeeding" their audiences with pure entertainment.), I don't need an answer to this puzzle or have a need to supply some film-school artistic interpretation. If you like being twisted around the mind of David Lynch, this is something for you. Otherwise, stay away...
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Summary: Post Freud, A Dark "Wizard of Oz"
Review: Freud suggested that dreams contained a sort of censor which cloaked disturbing thoughts from awakening us. And so it is that the heroine on "Mulholland Drive" dreams of how she would have liked her Hollywood adventure to be.But what of those daytime dreams that provoke us to leave our safe haven and naively make Dorothy think she can leave Kansas?
Heroic when the dream realizes itself; devastating when the dream becomes a living nightmare, from which only sleep and reverie can bring relief. Finally that is not even enough as the reality of what has happened and what she has done invades the dreams of the now jaded young Canadian. Only the ultimate "silenzio" can end the perturbation...she hopes. Of course, this movie should have gotten the Oscar for Best Film and the Oscar for Best Actress...but, of course, it didn't Thomas
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Summary: Somebody Forgot To Put In A Plot!
Review: I'm not one to watch David Lynch movies, though I did see Twin Peaks; Fire Walk With Me. I didn't understand it, but there were some really good scenes in it. There were no redeemable qualities to this. Actually I take that back. There were some good scenes in this, probably just little easter eggs to make you forget that the movie had no point. I suppose we're supposed to use our imaginations when trying to piece together this insanely scrambled plot. Well, I don't need to waste two hours in front of a television set in order to put my imagination to good use. I can do that by myself. Right now, I have a better, more imaginative story in my mind. It involves a couple of dancing bears.
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Summary: Exploitative, Manipulative, Unworthy
Review: I agree, you don't always have to "get" a movie, but there should be something intriguing and well done about it. MD has nothing but exploitative lesbian love scenes (obviously for the sake of male viewers), a director able to manipulate the audience into thinking there's some significance behind his audio-visual ramblings, and a movie unworthy of anyone's time, money, or thoughts. I even enjoyed Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, and some other Lynch tales. But he lost out on this one. We laughed through most of it, and then fastforwarded when we couldn't even find this trash funny anymore.
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Summary: A Cote De Chez Lynch
Review: Proust bit into the madeleine which entrained a series of memories from his grandmother's house in Combray. But we aren't in France at the turn of last century. We're in Los Angeles at the turn of this century. The heroine of our movie has opted for
masturbation over sponge cake as a psychopomp. Her autoerotic session zips her momentarily out of her grimy reality of unpaid rent and flagging dreams into a review of her hollywood career as she would like for it to have been. Lynch brilliantly explores our reveries in this film! Thomas
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Summary: An everchanging exposition
Review: Mulholland Dr. is just that, an anamorphic cinematic tool that brings new meaning to its characters, story and the viewer during and long after each viewing. An exquisite film.
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Summary: Junk
Review: I was amazed by how people tried to justify a junk as being "artistic" because of Lynch's reputation. This movie is definitely no "Blue Velvet"! However, I agree that Naomi Watts delivered an Oscar-winning performance.
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Summary: Emotionally Exhausting
Review: Mulholland Drive is hands-down the best movie of 2001. I always tell people it's "great," "genius," etc., but before you watch it, you really just need to know that it's *weird.* Easily the weirdest movie I've ever seen. Don't expect it to make 100% sense, or even 20% sense, really. (Salon.com has an excellent explanation for the movie, which makes the movie all the better.) All that matters about Mullholland Drive is that it completely wraps you up in this story of a girl, (Naomi Watts- devastatingly brilliant) who movies to California to become a movie star. (Or is that REALLY what it's about.......?) Maybe "insane" is a better adjective than "weird." After all, the line between genius and insanity...
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Summary: I watched this movie based on its critical acclaim.
Review: Critics overwhelmingly loved this movie, so I rented it. First off, the DVD isn't broken up into chapters. I couldn't finish it in my first sitting and was faced with a choice: pause it all day or restart it later. That should have been my first clue. I watch a lot of the DVD extras and hear directors grieving about scenes they loved but had to cut because it didn't drive the story forward. THIS STORY MADE ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. I paid attention to various plot elements, waiting for their meaning to come to bear later on. They never did. Just when you think you're lost, David Lynch throws in a huge plot twist (with that blue box) that confuses you twice as much. I loved Vanilla Sky, another movie with heavy plot twists; but Vanilla Sky tied up its loose ends. I still have no idea what this movie is supposed to be about. If Lynch's other movies are this nonsensical, then they should take away his license to direct feature films. And curses to all the reviewers that gave it such high marks. You let me down big time. (Note: The only redeeming quality of this film is a 60 second-ish lesbian love scene. It's decent, and I'm not a fan of lesbian love scenes.)
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Summary: highly overrated
Review: The only virtue that I can say that this movie has is that, unlike most movies, it leaves you wondering what the story is. Therefore, it not just another movie in that respect. In other words, if you think a plot that doesn't make sense makes a good movie, then this movie is for you. I wouldn't rewatch it to understand the story better.
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