Mulholland Drive

You will find it makes next to no sense as it was initially meant to be a TV pilot (The next Twin Peaks)

Bloody great film though, fun trying to figure out the dead end clues.
 
Longsden_7 said:
You will find it makes next to no sense as it was initially meant to be a TV pilot (The next Twin Peaks)

Bloody great film though, fun trying to figure out the dead end clues.
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The story itself makes some sense if you pay attention to some parts and disguard others, as for whether its worth understanding? I would say no. Its better enjoyed as a partly abstract movie much like Blue Velvet(only nowhere near as good).
 
Mulholland is more accessible I'd say. It was the first Lynch thing I saw back when it came out, and I also know a few friends in school at the time who loved it as well, this was in like year 10 or something.

Wild ad Heart & Eraserhead are the ones I certainly wouldn't start with.
 
Me and a few mates sat around for hours after we watched it, figuring it out. We got there in the end, but I forget it all now. Hope this helps!
 
I'd say Blue Velvet, Straight Story, Elephant Man and Wild at Heart are his most accessible films. And if you liked Mullholland Drive then I'm sure you'd like Lost Highway. I didn't think much of Inland Empire, though. And I've yet to see Eraserhead.
 
There really aren't any real clues to figure out IMO. There are some nice scenes in the film, but I felt quite disappointed when everything breaks down.
 
Lost Highway was nice and I loved Blue Velvet.

I don't think I've seen anything else from Lynch except for some collection of art films he did during his UCLA days. My old pretentious film student roommate loved that one but I can't really remember anything about it.

Oh, and Twin Peaks of course which is an incredible show that scared the shit out of me as a kid.
 
Lost Highway was creepy as feck.

On a side note. . .may I recommend The Tenant by Roman Polanski? it's probably as creepy as Lost Highway if not more.
 
Spoony Youngblood said:
Lost Highway was creepy as feck.

On a side note. . .may I recommend The Tenant by Roman Polanski? it's probably as creepy as Lost Highway if not more.
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Seems interesting. I'll check it out. Polanski is a director I have almost completely managed to overlook. Possibly because of the whole perv episode.

Haven't seen anything except Chinatown which is actually one of my favourite films.
 
It does sort of make sense if you sit there and work it out from the beginning. But it was a bit annoying the first time you watch it, you're left very confused and sort of like "that can't be the ending... what, it didn't end did it?!?"

I prefer films to be just films, unlike in Mullholland Drive's case where you have to work it out like a riddle. That's not what the movies are about.
 
MrsGiggs said:
It does sort of make sense if you sit there and work it out from the beginning. But it was a bit annoying the first time you watch it, you're left very confused and sort of like "that can't be the ending... what, it didn't end did it?!?"

I prefer films to be just films, unlike in Mullholland Drive's case where you have to work it out like a riddle. That's not what the movies are about.
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What are movies about, Mrs G?
 
Iron Stove said:
Seems interesting. I'll check it out. Polanski is a director I have almost completely managed to overlook. Possibly because of the whole perv episode.

Haven't seen anything except Chinatown which is actually one of my favourite films.
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Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant and Repulsion are a must.
 
Spoony Youngblood said:
What are movies about, Mrs G?
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Being entertaining, maybe having a moral in them, maybe being moving and stirring emotion...

Point is they should tell their story, and that be it. I know others might disagree with me here but imo we shouldn't have to work out what the movie is about by way of solving riddles and working out clues.
 
MrsGiggs said:
Being entertaining, maybe having a moral in them, maybe being moving and stirring emotion...

Point is they should tell their story, and that be it. I know others might disagree with me here but imo we shouldn't have to work out what the movie is about by way of solving riddles and working out clues.
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well, it entertained me and many others. Films are a form of art. . .and anything goes really. What you're doing is creating boundaries and deciding what this art form should and shouldn't be about. Which totally goes against the meaning of art (just because you didn't particularly like it). But as I said, a lot of people did enjoy it.

We're not all wired up the same way.
 
I'm pretty sure there's no way of figuring out MD completely due to non-linearities in the timeline. I enjoyed the film though.
 
MrsGiggs said:
It does sort of make sense if you sit there and work it out from the beginning. But it was a bit annoying the first time you watch it, you're left very confused and sort of like "that can't be the ending... what, it didn't end did it?!?"

I prefer films to be just films, unlike in Mullholland Drive's case where you have to work it out like a riddle. That's not what the movies are about.
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I know Spoonys already said this but movies are most certainly an art form and no-one can really say what they are about. Surrealism has been around for a long time in other art forms (painting for example), it's just another method of expression and a highly entertaining one IMO.
 
Its got Naomi Watts doing a lezza scene, worth going through the rest of the film for that.
 
It's really about dreams, without ruining it for anyone. How real life experiences / characters manifest themselves in the dream form
 
Uncle Junior said:
I'm just more than halfway through in this movie, where's the horror part? Where are the ghosts? :confused: What the feck is going on? :s
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It's more about the way the film is shot and the suspense, I kept thinking something was going to happen :D

VeevaVee said:
IMDb :: Boards :: Mulholland Dr. (2001) :: Did this movie scare the crap out of an...

Is you?
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No :lol: but glad I'm not the only one

MrsGiggs said:
Being entertaining, maybe having a moral in them, maybe being moving and stirring emotion...

Point is they should tell their story, and that be it. I know others might disagree with me here but imo we shouldn't have to work out what the movie is about by way of solving riddles and working out clues.
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I agree with you to a certain extent MrsGiggs, but as DouLou said, I don't think film has to be limited to strictly entertainment, it can be an art form. I stay away from over the top art films as they make my head hurt, Mulholland Drive bordered on that level near the end but was far easier to make sense of it once I got the narrative down. Now I can actually sit down and analyze what the symbols and metaphors mean, which begs the question, what truly is the point of art? What human needs are satisfied by art?
 
What the feck did I just watch? :confused: Intelligent my ass. Some random turds put together to make a bigger lump of shit.

Is it one of those movies where we watch a scene and then figure out what it was, and go, "Oh, that's art, that's cinema."?

feck me, it was terrible.

High-five for fantastic lesbian scenes though.

Even Southland Tales was better.
 
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