Mulholland Drive

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Summary: The Reason Motion Pictures are Made
Review: For all of the idiots out there who can't think their way out of a wet paper bag, for all the morons who think an Adam Sandler movie is entertaining, for all the mindless robots who like to 'plop' down in front of the Almighty box with a bag of pork rinds and watch professional wrestling, for all of the fools who think Julia Roberts can act and all the rest of you who didn't 'get' this movie, I say stick to something simple, like Police Academy XV because this movie is light years ahead of your sub-simian understanding. America is doomed

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Summary: It's all about the girls!
Review: Alright, I'll be the first one to admit that I have no idea what this film was about. I was lost throughout and it didn't help that my maid was chasing young Hermes around the billiard room the entire time I was attempting to watch it. But I can tell you one thing - the two girls in the movie are AMAZING and both get naked.

I've yet to see a movie with quality nudity that didn't get 5 stars outta me!

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Summary: Egocentric and Incomprehensible
Review: On one hand, this film is filmed beautifully and looks like the high budget film that it is. For those of you who are into lesbians and don't what to rent something from the x-rated section, you'll get an even better thrill. But other than that, the film rambles on for far too long in an incomprehensible mess of imagery which I'm sure Lynch is half pround and half giggling that people here get.

Ever go to a modern art exhibit where the artists are talking about their works? For the most part it is about self-absorbed individuals who are completely wrapped up in their own desire to be unique and clever without realizing that most in the room are holding back laughter. While they ramble on about symbolism and all sorts of unrelated issues, you sit there thinking "I feel very sorry for this person who is trying so very hard to pump up what brilliance they have created by telling me that their piece of crap is genius because you have never seen something like it before and thus it is original!" I'll say this much. Just because it's original doesn't mean it is great. It's still crap with a different package.

Yes, that went on a little longer than expected but after you watch the movie you'll feel sad that something so visually pretty and that has some compelling moments ends up being just a crappy collection of imagery to watch for over 2 hours. It's a collage of crap that is supposed to make sense with subtle "clues" according to the author and people here in a way that is so thin that you could miss them instantly. Trust me that you don't want to watch this crap again.

Now, the finishing point of why this is crap. I'm guessing that these idiots also thought that the inferior DVD released without chapter points was intentional too? Perhaps it was released cheaply and Lynch thought -- "hey, these idiots will probably find some other esoteric reason why this inferior release has been done for artistic reasons!" I've never seen a DVD where you literally have to fast forward the movie to any scene because yes, there are no chapters. I'm guessing that anyone who bought it should receive a new DVD should it come out. Oh yes, I forgot, Lynch didn't want you to skip scenes so they were intentionally left off.

Get real all of you...

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Summary: A very odd, yet interesting, movie
Review: This movie is confusing at first (especially the last half-hour or so), though it is quite funny in some areas and erotic in others. It becomes extremely interesting and distrubing after a little thought and analysis. It's at least worth a rental--it's an interesting movie, but I don't know if I'd buy it. If you're having trouble coming up with your own interpretation, please check out www.mulholland-drive.net for some pretty good articles, before writing off the movie completely.

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Summary: A David Lynch formula movie; playing musical scripts.
Review: I had a dream that David Lynch explained to me what this movie was about,and I still don't get it. I really believe that Lynch considers Hollywood to be the gateway to hell. Anyway...here goes. Girl goes to Hollywod to become a star, and feeling betrayed by the whole movie industry, she murders her lesbian lover who takes her starring part and then kills her and then becomes her in the afterlife.

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Summary: Terrible. Simply terrible.
Review: Here's my only point of a review on this movie: Can anyone honestly tell me what this film was about?

That's all.

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Summary: I was too lost to really enjoy it
Review: Sorry to go against the hip popular opinion grain on these kinds of flicks, BUT, although the imagry, atmosphere, and acting, etc. are great, This movie just made my brain hurt too much while you're watching it.

Trying to be cool and cutting edge are one thing but come on. Just like Blue Velvet, I kept sighing through the whole thing, wondering what the hell is going on. I hate movies that just don't give you a clue until the end, and this one didn't even do 'that' for me. I got it that one woman actress put out a hit on the other etc, etc. But I still don't know who the heck the bum behind the building with the little blue box was. Or the two guys in the resturant.

Maybe if I watch it a couple more times I'll catch something I missed. But I'm not really interested enough to see it again . It made me tired and somewhat bored. (That's the problem with some movies, they make it easy to miss stuff on first viewing so you have to watch it again. Hmmm, a brilliant marketing ploy?)

Anyway, if it was a dream sequence and one woman putting herself in the place of the other, and fantasizing that everything was different than it really is, well I for one would have never figured it if I hadn't read some of these other reviews. What's the point?

I just feel you can entertain an audience without keeping completely them lost throughout the entire movie.

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Summary: Sensual and Surreal
Review:
No surprise that David Lynch has created this incredibly sensual and highly complex masterpiece. From beginning to end, viewers keep asking themselves, "What's going on here?" And that is Lynch's brilliance - he keeps the viewers mentally riveted to the storyline while attacking their senses with visually surreal settings and mesmerizing scoring. Viewers have to watch Mulholland Dr. a second time to try to figure it out. They also want to watch it again just to experience it again.

No need to provide a synopsis of the film. Previous reviewers have done an excellent job of that. But I would strongly recommend to those that haven't already seen Mulholland Dr. to watch the film first then read the reviews to decode it. Being blown away by it the first time is half the fun.

Naomi Watts should have been Oscar nominated for her role. She was absolutely terrific and absolutely hot.


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Summary: A Great Film,Needs More Credit
Review: Look,i've seen 3 David Lynch films (Blue Velvet & The Elephant Man) and he's different from all the other directors.David Lynch writes brilliant films which can tend to be extremely confusing.Why is he different? When Lynch writes a movie that makes you think he doesn't care if you figure out the movie and he doesn't care if you don't understand it. He knows what he created and he's fine with that.This film is one of those movies.
The first time I saw it,when it was over I kind of asked myself.What the heck was that about? I watched it again and still didn't understand it which ticked me off. So I turned to my trusty friend the internet and now I know what the movie is about. I'm not going to say cause if you want to figure it out so bad go to Google and find out so i'm going to give you a synopsis.A woman (Laura Elena Harring) is sitting in a limo when it stops on Mulholland Drive and the driver points a gun at her and tells her to get out of the car.As she's about to a bunch of drunk teenagers hit the car.The woman wakes up and wanders into a womans house.She's alone until the woman's neice Betty (Naomi Watts,Academy Award Nominee: Best Actress "21 Grams") arrives from Deep River Ontario to become an actress. Even though Betty finds the woman as an intruder in the house she befriends her and the woman begins to use the name Rita (a name she lifted from Rita Hayworth off of a movie poster.) The movie really begins to take shape and eventually becomes weird. Roger Ebert gave this film a great review,but said it didn't make sense.Another critic said the movie was horrible.Why did he say this? The 1st half,before the movie becomes REALLY confusing was originally a TV pilot submitted to ABC. ABC rejected it and the critic accused Lynch of tacking on a dumb ending that made no sense.I think what Lynch did was basically shorten an idea he had.I presume if Lynch had made this a series he would have had the same ending except it would have been the last episode and some chracters that should have been main characters (like Robert Forster)
woulds have been main characters instead of being on screen for less than a minute.But there is two scenes in the film that are spectacular. I won't say what they are but the initials for it would be LSS. See the movie,you'll understand. But I can't see these two scenes on television. Had it been on television though people would have tuned into "Mulholland Drive" every week.
A-.