Mullhuddord Drive.

Hobbes

Here is my review.


WHAT THE FUK?!!!?!?????????? (note excessive use of -> ?)

No seriously... I have never been more confused in my life.

Whats worse is the money shot was airbrushed out on the DVD version?

Hobbes

To give you some idea...

I had to read the movie review.

Then read the FAQ...

Then I read someone explaining the FAQ.

Now it makes sense although to be honest I still think the movie is crap.

CodeMonkey

Originally posted by Hobbes
Whats worse is the money shot was airbrushed out on the DVD version?

bleh, not renting this out on dvd then

Terminator

I thought it was a very challenging, mind-bending film and enjoyed it very much.

It helps to know that it originally started as a TV series but the studio cancelled it after seeing the pilot and it wasn't until about a year later that the director decided to pick it up again and release it as a movie.

All the cast had to come back to shoot additional scenes. That's why its so disjointed.

Anyway I thought it was class.

plastic membrane

David Lynch is one screwed up individual. which makes his movies hard to understand, and strangely menacing. I still have no idea what the hell went on in Lost Highway.

mike65

I hav'nt seen Mulholland Drive but I'd sooner see a few strange hours of Lynch or Cronenberg or Atom Egoyan than the non-stop Hollywood blockbuster tosh which cloggs up the cineplexes.

Mike.

DapperGent

I don't think you're really supposed to "get" David Lynch's films. You either like his style or you don't.
For the record I though MUlholland Drive was brilliant. I only wish he'd been allowed to make the TV series it was a pilot for.

I didn't really get Lost Highway when I saw it first but afaik whats going on is that the husband can't accept what he's done (murdering his wife) so he creates another world for himself or something and kinda wanders off into it and eventually wanders back.

I think.

Maybe.

Pigman

It started life as a TV pilot .... and the finished product looked like it.

Utter rubbish and I say that even as the Lynch fan that I am.

Goodshape

I thought it was good. I can't say I know what went on, but I have ideas. It definitly keep's the mind racing.

And as mike said, it's a lot better than half the cr*p that passes for a good show these days.

selling_irish

I'm gonna have a go at explaining just what went on in Mulholland Drive, the most confusing film of all time.

First of all, it was 2 months ago that I saw it, so I can't remember the character names. But I'll call them Blonde-girl and Black-hair-girl.

The blonde girl came to Hollywood looking for fame. She met and fell in love with black-hair-girl. Black-hair-girl had an affair with the director-guy. Blonde-girl went absolutely crazy and psycopathic as a result. She ended up killing herself.
All of the other scenes which were so confusing were just blonde-girl's psycopathic imagination.
I don't mean to make it sound straight-forward, because it was far from it. But as far as I can see, that was the story-line.

And did anyone else think blonde-hair-girl looked like Nicole Kidman??

Terminator

That pretty much sums it up.

All the nice, glossy bits are basically her erotic fantasy (the scene were she is masturbating furiously before her death)

Gosh - I'm surprised so few blokes have seen this film

justlurking

There's a great book published by Faber & Faber called 'Lynch on Lynch' written in a clear question and answer style; which is a great way to understand the man in question; why he makes his films the way he does and what he wants to leave for the viewer to experience.

In the same series there are books on Tim Burton & Terry Gilliam.

A big fan of Egoyan here, and like someone else mentioned i too would definately rather spend time thinking about the obcsure aspect of Lynch et al.