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[blunthead]

I'm doing a host of other things while watching movies most times. Every once in a while I will sit and just watch the movie, but it is rare.

Lately I've watched two movies (Mulholland Dr and The Equalizer) which require undistracted attention from the beginning to the end, from scene to scene and shot to shot. With closed captions enabled I still miss things. Nevertheless, I say that Mulholland is not a movie a person can ultimately figure out. One can only become satisfied with his solution and live with it.

 

[kingricefan]

Mulholland Dr. (aka, Mulholland Drive). If there ever was a movie needing to be watched more than once this is it. My lack of expertise in general understanding movies prevents me from commenting much on this one. It is one of my favorite movie mysteries (...if there is a mystery... - Roger Ebert). Halfway through, anything the viewer knows about what's going on he is forced to stop knowing. The story is beyond thought provoking. Recommended for those who don't mind their minds being blown.

I don't have the focus to watch this movie. Too many weird, dreamy things, is it real? is it not? who is dead? WTH? KRF, explain it to me.

OK, here's my answer: there is no answer really to what is going on in this movie. I've watched it countless times now and each time I pick up something new. It's a commentary on Hollywood. It's a ghost story. It's a hard look at what inner madness is when dealing with multiple personalities. It's a murder mystery story. It's a love story. It's a revenge story. The two in red are my own theories. It's unexplainable- it's a film that you HAVE to see more than three times to pick up on what's going on. David Lynch has stated that he will never reveal what this film is actually about as he doesn't want to ruin it for everyone else. I think it amuses him to have people trying to analyze it and give it a label. If I was a director, I wouldn't want my audience to see my film just one time and leave the theater satisfied- the film medium can be used for more than sheer escapism- it can be used to provoke dialogue and musings. You cannot be distracted while you are watching this- one tiny moment away from the screen and you miss a crucial point, one missed spoken snippet of dialogue and you're lost. Most people who see it don't want to see it again because it challenges their mind. David doesn't spoon-feed his audience, it's that way in all of his films. He wants to get inside your head and mess with your perspective of things. DJ, I urge to watch this film at least twice- no distractions- and tell me that you haven't teared up at the end.
*please keep in mind that Naomi Watts performance in the first 20 minutes is deliberately stilted and false. There's a reason for this....

 

[Sigmund]

Experimenter (Netflix)) In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority.

Loved it!!! The director rocked it IMO.

August:Osage County (Netflix) A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Ack! How one toxic person can injure and negatively impact on the children who grow up wounded/damaged and go on to continue the cycle. I don't know whether I'm more sad or angry.

 

[Sigmund]

OK, here's my answer: there is no answer really to what is going on in this movie. I've watched it countless times now and each time I pick up something new. It's a commentary on Hollywood. It's a ghost story. It's a hard look at what inner madness is when dealing with multiple personalities. It's a murder mystery story. It's a love story. It's a revenge story. The two in red are my own theories. It's unexplainable- it's a film that you HAVE to see more than three times to pick up on what's going on. David Lynch has stated that he will never reveal what this film is actually about as he doesn't want to ruin it for everyone else. I think it amuses him to have people trying to analyze it and give it a label. If I was a director, I wouldn't want my audience to see my film just one time and leave the theater satisfied- the film medium can be used for more than sheer escapism- it can be used to provoke dialogue and musings. You cannot be distracted while you are watching this- one tiny moment away from the screen and you miss a crucial point, one missed spoken snippet of dialogue and you're lost. Most people who see it don't want to see it again because it challenges their mind. David doesn't spoon-feed his audience, it's that way in all of his films. He wants to get inside your head and mess with your perspective of things. DJ, I urge to watch this film at least twice- no distractions- and tell me that you haven't teared up at the end.
*please keep in mind that Naomi Watts performance in the first 20 minutes is deliberately stilted and false. There's a reason for this....

Hi sir! I have to look back and figure out what movie you are describing. I want to see it. Is it on Netflix?

 

[kingricefan]

Hi sir! I have to look back and figure out what movie you are describing. I want to see it. Is it on Netflix?

It's Mulholland Drive by David Lynch. I don't have Netflix but I have it on bluray- you can come on over and I'll cue it up for you.

 

[Sigmund]

It's Mulholland Drive by David Lynch. I don't have Netflix but I have it on bluray- you can come on over and I'll cue it up for you.

Dahmit, it's not available for streaming on Netflix. Okay! You cue up the movie and I'll cook us a ton of food to munch on.

 

[kingricefan]

Dahmit, it's not available for streaming on Netflix. Okay! You cue up the movie and I'll cook us a ton of food to munch on.

I got cheesecake for dessert......

 

[Doc Creed]

Experimenter (Netflix)) In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority.

Loved it!!! The director rocked it IMO.

August:Osage County (Netflix) A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Ack! How one toxic person can injure and negatively impact on the children who grow up wounded/damaged and go on to continue the cycle. I don't know whether I'm more sad or angry.

I watched August:Osage County last summer and I couldn't believe how bitter that woman, Violet Weston, was. It was just so depressing. I did like the moment when

Violet gets car sick and gets out and starts running into an endless golden hayfield. Her daughter chases her and says "Mom, where are you going?! There's nowhere to go..." That was just so poignant and painful. How many of us have just wanted to physically run away from our problems. But there's no where to go.

I am not a prude but strong profanity throughout a movie bothers me, I just don't like it. Bad memories of parents fighting, drinking, etc.
It's strange, as much as I disliked that woman for what she did to her family and how she lashed out, I still felt pity for her. She'd brought it on herself but it was still heartbreaking. You just wonder by the end which family members will make it.
On a final note...I'd much rather endure a vitriolic personality like Violet's than a manipulative, spineless passive-aggressive. I despise passive-aggressive types. Wow...where'd that come from? Sorry.

 

[Sigmund]

I watched August:Osage County last summer and I couldn't believe how bitter that woman, Violet Weston, was. It was just so depressing. I did like the moment when I am not a prude but strong profanity throughout a movie bothers me, I just don't like it. Bad memories of parents fighting, drinking, etc.
It's strange, as much as I disliked that woman for what she did to her family and how she lashed out, I still felt pity for her. She'd brought it on herself but it was still heartbreaking. You just wonder by the end which family members will make it.
On a final note...I'd much rather endure a vitriolic personality like Violet's than a manipulative, spineless passive-aggressive. I despise passive-aggressive types. Wow...where'd that come from? Sorry.

Hi sir.

Thanks for your thoughts. Very cool. I disliked her because she inflicted emotional and psychological abuse on her daughters (IMO it was calculated and planned abuse) knowing how painful it is to be hurt by a parent she did it. When her daughters complain about it she dismisses their pain because the abuse she inflicted on them is not as *bad* as what she endured by her mother. WTH?!

(Have mercy. When those horrid people start to make fun of the young woman's vegetarianism, her mother- Julia Roberts- not only doesn't defend her daughter, she doesn't tell her family to shut he he11 up- she actually joins in! She accuses the daughter of eating bacon cheese burgers on the sly. I don't care if the teen ate a calf, piglet and ten chickens you don't call out your kid like that. Ugh. )

Toxic family...save yourself!!!!

 

[Doc Creed]

LOL...I agree. She was definitely a whole lotta special, that one. Very calculating...those cold crocodile eyes. Thank God the youngest child, Julia's daughter, got away. The Big Secret that is revealed was so cruel. Why didn't someone speak up until it was too late? So tragic.

 

[Dana Jean]

OK, here's my answer: there is no answer really to what is going on in this movie. I've watched it countless times now and each time I pick up something new. It's a commentary on Hollywood. It's a ghost story. It's a hard look at what inner madness is when dealing with multiple personalities. It's a murder mystery story. It's a love story. It's a revenge story. The two in red are my own theories. It's unexplainable- it's a film that you HAVE to see more than three times to pick up on what's going on. David Lynch has stated that he will never reveal what this film is actually about as he doesn't want to ruin it for everyone else. I think it amuses him to have people trying to analyze it and give it a label. If I was a director, I wouldn't want my audience to see my film just one time and leave the theater satisfied- the film medium can be used for more than sheer escapism- it can be used to provoke dialogue and musings. You cannot be distracted while you are watching this- one tiny moment away from the screen and you miss a crucial point, one missed spoken snippet of dialogue and you're lost. Most people who see it don't want to see it again because it challenges their mind. David doesn't spoon-feed his audience, it's that way in all of his films. He wants to get inside your head and mess with your perspective of things. DJ, I urge to watch this film at least twice- no distractions- and tell me that you haven't teared up at the end.
*please keep in mind that Naomi Watts performance in the first 20 minutes is deliberately stilted and false. There's a reason for this....

I promise, someday, I will give this a good try. I usually make it uninterrupted to where she finds the girl naked in the shower, from that point, I've seen snippets, and I don't think I have ever truly seen the end. I will try.

 

[blunthead]

OK, here's my answer: there is no answer really to what is going on in this movie. I've watched it countless times now and each time I pick up something new. It's a commentary on Hollywood. It's a ghost story. It's a hard look at what inner madness is when dealing with multiple personalities. It's a murder mystery story. It's a love story. It's a revenge story. The two in red are my own theories. It's unexplainable- it's a film that you HAVE to see more than three times to pick up on what's going on. David Lynch has stated that he will never reveal what this film is actually about as he doesn't want to ruin it for everyone else. I think it amuses him to have people trying to analyze it and give it a label. If I was a director, I wouldn't want my audience to see my film just one time and leave the theater satisfied- the film medium can be used for more than sheer escapism- it can be used to provoke dialogue and musings. You cannot be distracted while you are watching this- one tiny moment away from the screen and you miss a crucial point, one missed spoken snippet of dialogue and you're lost. Most people who see it don't want to see it again because it challenges their mind. David doesn't spoon-feed his audience, it's that way in all of his films. He wants to get inside your head and mess with your perspective of things. DJ, I urge to watch this film at least twice- no distractions- and tell me that you haven't teared up at the end.
*please keep in mind that Naomi Watts performance in the first 20 minutes is deliberately stilted and false. There's a reason for this....

Imho, Roger Ebert provides the best commentary...

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-mulholland-dr-2001

 

[blunthead]

I promise, someday, I will give this a good try. I usually make it uninterrupted to where she finds the girl naked in the shower, from that point, I've seen snippets, and I don't think I have ever truly seen the end. I will try.

Not necessarily for you but for many this movie will always be terminally frustrating. (For me, movies about ice skating will always be.) I love "psychological thrillers", in novels, movies, sculpture, painting, anywhere I can find it. It's why I love Salvador Dali, Hitchcock, and maybe now David Lynch (Mulholland's director) as I do.

 

[kingricefan]

I promise, someday, I will give this a good try. I usually make it uninterrupted to where she finds the girl naked in the shower, from that point, I've seen snippets, and I don't think I have ever truly seen the end. I will try.

From the point of discovery of the naked woman in the shower is where it really gets good!!!!

 

[kingricefan]

Not necessarily for you but for many this movie will always be terminally frustrating. (For me, movies about ice skating will always be.) I love "psychological thrillers", in novels, movies, sculpture, painting, anywhere I can find it. It's why I love Salvador Dali, Hitchcock, and maybe now David Lynch (Mulholland's director) as I do.

Have you seen Inland Empire? Even I can't get my head around what that one's about.....

 

[danie]

terminally frustrating. (For me, movies about ice skating will always be.)

Why is this?

 

[kingricefan]

Why is this?

I'm thinking Frank is joking about the ice skating movies.......mostly.

 

[danie]

I'm thinking Frank is joking about the ice skating movies.......mostly.

Hmmm. Okay.

 

[ghost19]

Hadn't seen it in a while, watched "There Will Be Blood" last night. Daniel Day Lewis is just a helluva actor. I still can't figure out what makes this movie so interesting to watch but it's really good.

 

[Kurben]

Saw Gone Girl. Affleck was horrible. Best actor was she that played the cop. I got irritated about the same things in the book. But here i had Affleck to add to my irritations.