Two beautiful women are caught up in a lethally twisted mystery and ensnared in an equally dangerous web of erotic passion. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/02/2003 Starring: Justin Theroux Laura Elena Harring Run time: 147 minutes Rating: R Director: David LynchPandora couldn’t resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let’s just say David Lynch, in Mulholland Drive, indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, “a love story in the city of dreams,” Lynch establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the film’s first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles and its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. Identities exchange, amnesia proliferates, and nightmare visions are induced, but not before we’ve become enthralled by the film’s two main characters: the dazed and sullen femme fatale, Rita (Laura Elena Harring), and the pert blonde just-arrived from Ontario (played exquisitely by Naomi Watts) who decides to help Rita regain her memory. Triggered by a rapturous Spanish-language version of Roy Orbison’s “Crying,” Lynch’s best film since Blue Velvet splits glowingly into two equally compelling parts. –Fionn Meade
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March 10, 2008
#1
I thought it would bo difficult to find a worse movie than “Crash” and “Natural Born Killer”. Yes, I found that “Mulholland Drive” is comparably bad.
I cannot believe that I just wasted my time and my money to be confused by a movie such as this (I have my husband to confuse me already!). I truly believe that the movie stars who gave great review for this movie were just being so sarcastic and full of revenge. They wanted as many people as possible to suffer the way they did.
March 10, 2008
#2
Some people will tell you that David Lynch is a genius. Some will tell you that he’s an idiot.
Me? I say he’s an idiot.
Consider the following: The only reason that this movie exists is because television companies would not buy it as a TV Pilot (Thank God!).
I’ll say right out that I did not understand the movie just buy watching it. That’s not why I hate the movie though. I can deal with a movie that is difficult to understand if I can find an explanation, watch the movie again and then see how the movie has that explanation. That’s not the case with Mulholland Drive. With this movie, even with the explnation that I found, the movie in no way points to that explanation. It’s just supposed to be inferred, and even with this explanation, too many scenes do not fit in with it and make absolutely NO sense. What the hell?
I have not seen anything else of Lynch’s, but from what I’ve read, most follow the same format as that of Mulholland Drive: dreams v. reality (which I don’t have a problem–I LOVED Vanilla Sky). It’s redundant though, and when a person can’t write anything else besides the same thing over and over again…well, you get my point.
Don’t see this movie. I usually say that if a movie looks good to someone, they should see it, despite what critics say, because a review is only an opinion after all. But I’m going to break my own rule on this one and say, trust me. DON’T SEE THIS MOVIE!
0 Stars.
March 10, 2008
#3
I’m so sick of people ranting and raving about David Lynch movies, jumping on the bandwagon about the “experience” and how epic his movies are. Aside from the constant lesbian action, DAVID LYNCH IS AWFUL!
This movie is yet another twisted, unclear, freak show brought to you by David Lynch, who also did that series that I never understood called “Twin Peaks”. I sat through this movie confused, unclear, and bored.
First it’s a girl in an accident, then no memory, then dyking it out. I’ll tell you this however, the only reason this movie scored points with me is because the main character was GORGEOUS. There’s a bunch of topless lesbian scenes where you’re blown away by that figure, but beyond that, the blond girl was stupid, and who the hell was the cowboy? I gave it a 3.
March 10, 2008
#4
Alright, to show you that I know GOOD, different, weird movies with cool endings (everything some people exclaim this movie to be), here’s a list. Donnie Darko, Memento, The Machinist, Vanilla Sky, The Others, Seven, Psycho, The Sixth Sense, 12 Monkeys, Frailty, Fight Club, and Existenz. In Jacob’s Ladder, it was all a dream, but was way better than this crappy movie. All of these movies were different, cool, and awesome ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE MOVIE, with a deeper message. I’d like anyone to argue Mulholland Drive is better then any of these movies. People are talking about how this movie has deep, significant meaningfulness and how this movie is special because it’s different.
It’s definately different because I haven’t seen such a bad movie since “Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” which I left 15 minutes in to get my money back. First off, you don’t start a movie with 2 minutes of dumb dancing. I almost turned it off there, but then I said to myself “give the movie a chance.” So I waited and I saw some kids get in a car wreck, which was kind-of cool, and this guy who sees this weirdo who looks exactly like the mummy behind a dumpster which was really weird.
But then NOTHING happens. It was so boring. Their was no COMPELLING deeper meaning, no matter how hard you try to tell yourself, because the movie doesn’t make you care about what is going on or make you think differently about life, which is what GOOD movies do. I understood what the director was trying to do (portray the darker side of the human mind in dream/really weird way), but he failed.
I love it when people (anyone who says this movie is good-emo’s) try to show off and act original, mysterious, and different by saying they identify with something few people understand, even though the thing they love so much is really dumb (this movie).
When making a GOOD movie, you have to keep the audience interested ALL THE WAY THROUGH. You can’t just throw weird stuff in every couples minutes, have a lesbian scene, and then try to pull it off at the end by saying it was a dumb dream.
Wow,It amazes me that people can actually sell such garbage, let alone watch it. I mean, did anyone who made this movie stop and say to themselves “this sucks” and maybe we should not embarrass ourselves and release this film? I felt embarrassed watching the movie because it sucked so bad. It is not artistic, not original, and plain NOT GOOD. It’s a crime against film making. I wish I could give it 0 stars. DO NOT PUT YOURSELF THROUGH WATCHING THIS MOVIE!!!
March 10, 2008
#5
There was no car chases or big explosions. Very bad movie. The ending was not that happy either and it was not a real feel good movie. Where was the hero? Or the love story. Not as good as a Sandra Bullock movie.