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Summary: Puzzling Work of Art
Review: People who understand and appreciate film as an art to explore will enjoy this movie. People who only liked to be considered as consumers, just go to the current blockbusters, and thought "The Sixth Sense" was too mind baffling will be confused out of their mind while watching "Mulholland Drive".It is reminiscent of the old 50's Hollywood. The main characters are Betty, an aspiring actress, Rita, an amnesiac who enlists the aid of Betty, and Adam, a director who is being forced to choose the star of his next film. The movie plays, pull strings and goes beyond the premise of the characters' situations. Personally, I think David Lynch revels in toying with moviegoers as they try to piece together this puzzle of a movie where pieces were never meant to fit into a complete picture. As Roger Ebert said, it's not like "Memento" where if you follow closely you can solve it, just enjoy each scene for what it is. I have my own theories of the movie's plot but I'll leave that for you to decipher.
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Summary: Time and Money well-spent - -> very intriguing!
Review: I could not wait for this to come out on DVD! Be advised, I am writing this review after only ONE viewing... I think that is the fair way to go about it. First of all, DVD quality: Picture - 3.0, Sound - 4.0. I cannot believe that a new film would not have a better picture unless it was filmed to look dirty and grainy. The sound is pretty good. Most of the soundtrack is classic David Lynch low rumbling and machinery-type noises. If you have good bass speakers, you will hear this throughout. I enjoyed the effect as it brought to mind "Blue Velvet". Low background sounds were not used constantly in "Blue Velvet" -- so in this movie it might become irritating to some. Just viewing on a normal TV you will probably not hear anything besides the dialogue and music. Music is used with humor. NOTICE: This DVD comes with two separate covers! The more popular cover depicts Laura Harring as a blonde but it contains an insert with the Naomi Watts picture. The other DVD case cover is Naomi Watts with, hopefully, the Laura Harring photo. I deliberated in the store for quite a while and opted to buy the popular cover, so I was relieved to find the Watts picture within. ALSO: For whatever reason, this DVD is one long, 147-minute single chapter. If you like flicking around, you won't be able to do it. My DVD software players can search and go to time indexes, so when I took a break and came back to the movie I just had to drag the index to the approximate time where I left off. Make sure that you can do this otherwise you'll be stuck watching from beginning to end. Usually I do not comment on plot points or acting and prefer to write about the technical aspects of the DVD. That said, if you are a David Lynch fan you will love this movie. I don't think the movie "gets inside my head and stays there" as written by Vogue. I know I will view it several times in the immediate future. There are two love scenes in the movie that far-and-away are my favorite parts. Naomi Watts is very pert and energetic, plus good-looking as a petite female. Harring is a much larger woman so it is extremely sensual to see Watts submit to her, if you interpret it that way. Included on the insert are 10 clues to help viewing this movie. I ignored them for my first viewing and will eventually get around to employing them for subsequent viewings. Indeed, searching for or noticing these clues brings a very intellectual element to watching "Mulholland Drive". Oh, there's plenty of strange things happening to keep your mind busy anyway. Enjoy!
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Summary: It's enough to say I really really really like this movie
Review: I don't think it's hard to understand at all. It's a very interesting story told in a very interesting way. The result is very entertaining. I just love it.
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Summary: Mulholland DIVE down the [potty]
Review: The only reason I gave this movie one star was because there was no option for NO STARS.
All I did throughout the movie was wait.
I waited for the movie to begin... I watched and waited and waited... after an hour, when i realized that it had in fact begun, I simply waited for something to bring the jumbled mess of mediocre acting and poor writing together... anything that would make the movie worth the dread of watching it...
When I could do that no longer, I then just waited for the credits to roll.
Those who claim that this movie is for film buffs and aficionados of cinema only say so to grasp a false sense of superiority over those normal and sane individuals that see this movie for what it is: garbage.
It's endless array of pointless scenes and characters was as equally entertaining as watching ice melt.
Actually, perhaps the ice melting could prove more enjoyment.
So, to all the pretentious individuals with gold sceptres up their [black holes]: It's ok to admit that the movie was horrible. Really, it was. Obviously this was not intended to be hollywood's typical straight-forward flick. But the [darn] thing was putrid cow manure and don't be ashamed to agree. The emperor won't get mad at you. He is, after all, the naked one.
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Summary: Watts' Up With That?
Review: Obviously, this film, like most David Lynch films (with the possible exception of "The Straight Story") provokes the stongest reactions from viewers. They either love it or they hate it. I like movies that tell their stories in unconventional ways, that challenge the intellect, and reward those who watch them more than once. This is such a movie. I won't rehash the plot details, there's plenty of that in the other reviews, but I must mention Naomi Watts' astounding performance. I haven't seen any of the five films that resulted in Best Actress Academy Award nominations (Okay, I don't get out much), but if there were five performances last year better than Naomi Watts' in Mulholland Drive, it must have been the best year for actresses in the history of motion pictures. Technically, it's a great looking and sounding DVD. It's a pleasure to watch, which is a good thing, because unless you're a quicker study than I am, you will have to watch it several times if you hope to ever understand the story. I don't say this to put anybody off, but this film is for people who are serious about their movies, and willing to put a little effort into their viewing.
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Summary: That darn David Lynch!
Review: This movie had me going forever! I watched it three times in a row. I stayed up until 4am! I was determined not to let a movie get the best of me. But I had met my match. This movie is so confusing that it makes sense. I know I might have lost you but follow me here. It starts off with a movie starlet in a limo. Certain events lead her to lose her memory and wonder into Betty, a sweet blond from Canada's life. Together they search for the starlet's identity which takes the viewer on a mysterious ride. Just when you think you know what this movie is about, you get lost. The characters names change and people arent who they seemed before. This is one of my favorite movies. More perplexing than Momento, this movie keeps you wondering if the band is really playing. if Rebecca Del Rio is really singing, and if Betty is really what she seems. A must see.
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Summary: Beauty and the Beast
Review: If you consider yourself an art house fan or a fan of complex films then this is a must watch. Granted this is coming from one of the biggest Lynch fans out there. Still, there's no arguement that what Lynch does indeed do is challange his viewers like no other director can. I can see how a commercial spectator could get confused with the sequence of the film, but it's really telling a simple story. One of love and betrayel, of the two faces of one's persona, and the importance of dreams, both of reality and of the unconscience. If anything watch this film for Naomi Watts' performance. To see an actress act so many different faces and to do so flawlessly was really a marvel of a feat.
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Summary: Brilliant, Disturbing DocuThriller
Review: Lynch at his best. Relatively closely based on the real-life story of an aspiring actress and her Hollywood tragedy. Naomi Watts is simply incredible; I have not seen such range from an actor in a single film before: It was like watching three different Meryl Streep masterpieces together. But beware: like most Lynch films it portrays a dark and twisted world. Overall, a smart, beautiful, thrilling piece of art.
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Summary: LA is a wonderful, magical place!
Review: Okay, David Lynch is a brilliant director. I don't love everything he has done, but when he does do a good movie, like Mullholand Drive, it is quite a wonderful thing. "Mullholand Drive" is a very beautiful and musical film. My appreciation is of the gestalt of the picture, characters and plot lines are vague and get blurred. "Mullholand Drive" really becomes an impressionistic work of emotion and imagery, with a crescendo of editing at the end that takes the senses elegantly from the bowels of fear out into a sad and mysterious light. The film has other important nuances, dealing with Lynch's on going obsessions, the music and styles of his youth (Roy Orbison's "Crying" sung in Spanish, the swing dancing that opens the film), mystical and odd characters (the cowboy, the burned man behind the wall), and seductive women. It is also a film about acting, and about how actors control our emotions and our sense, and how easily we fall under the spell of their illusional reality. For example, I would like to bring your attention to the uncomfortable casting scene where the young woman must share an intimate moment with the older man with orange skin. As they get into character, the camera completely looses the context of the scene, and for a moment we a transported into watching a different movie. This happens at other points during the film, but that scene immediately leapt to mind.
Excellent film, the only good film this year (Although I have not gotten to seen "Little Otik" yet). Highly recommended.
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Summary: Among Lynch's best
Review: I was a bit disappointed when I realized that there was nothing special about the DVD, but I could not make myself give it a 4 star rating because the movie is so good. Make sure your television is set up for a proper picture (ie brightness isn't too high) and enjoy.
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