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post #1 of 17
12/7/02 at 1:27am
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This film is simply spectacular, and is my second favorite Lynch film (along with BLUE VELVET)! Also, if you think this isn't a horror film, I have to say that you're mistaken. The film is overwhelmingly dreary and grim, and every actor is at the top of there game, especially Bill Pullman, the utterly gorgeous Patricia Arquette, and of course Robert Blake as the fucking freaky as all hell Mystery Man! The scene where Pullman meets him at the party is one of my favorite scenes in any film, and is extremely chilling!

I still don't understand this film completely (who does?), but I could care less, as this is one of the most brilliant and best films of the 90s, and is a true favorite of mine! Of Lynch's stellar body of work, it is only surpassed by one of the top five best films of all time, MULHOLLAND DR., and is equalled by BLUE VELVET. I fucking long for this film on DVD in widescreen! Also, is it just me, or does this film seem underappreciated as hell? What are your thoughts? Long live Lynch!
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post #2 of 17
12/7/02 at 2:40am
Probably my 2nd favorite Lynch film after BLUE VELVET. I am still surprised how many people loved MULHOLLAND DRIVE yet didn't dig this film.

Great film to debate which scenes are reality versus which scenes are only occurring with Pullman's mind.
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post #3 of 17
12/7/02 at 5:41am
I really liked this film. However I can't watch it again because I prefer to remember it how I remember it...not how it really was.
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post #4 of 17
12/7/02 at 6:10am
I don't dig this movie a lot, but it has some great individual scenes. As a whole, it doesn't add up for me.

One day I spoke to the co-writer for awhile, and he explained everything...what I thought was an arbitrary switch was justified in a way.

I still think the movie is just Lynch trying to be clever though. With him, I either like it if he makes a good story with the undercurrents of weird (like Blue Velvet) or he just says heck with it and the whole movie is oriented toward non-story(like Eraserhead).
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post #5 of 17
12/7/02 at 6:43am
Not one I liked. Love a few good scenes, but the whole just didn't so it for me. Great cast too.
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post #6 of 17
12/7/02 at 9:42am
Probably the most underrated Lynch film. I absolutely love this movie, cast and all. Lynch even got a decent performance out of Bill Pullman! I think the film's central theme is "Be careful what you wish for." Think about it: Both Pullman and Arquette are very unhappy in love. But then all at once the Mystery Man turns their worlds upside down, changing both of them into completely different people...maybe more interesting people in his view.

I could be wrong but that's what I got out of it.
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post #7 of 17
12/7/02 at 10:35am
I wasn't ready for this one, and didn't open up to it as a result. Love Patricia Arquette...physically. Blake is quite spooky looking. It all seemed derivitive of other Lynch stuff. Adding Manson dated it. I probably need to give it another go, but I think I need substance over style.
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post #8 of 17
12/7/02 at 12:43pm
i love this movie. i saw it on my 14th or 15th birthday and it fucking amazed me. it was my first experience seeing a movie where at the end, the entire audience seemed to stand and say "huh?" in unison.
i used to think i understood it, but everytime i watch it i get a different idea so im not so sure anymore.
great movie. and it brought Rammstein to the massses long before "Du Hast" bored everyone to tears.
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post #9 of 17
12/7/02 at 2:09pm
I saw this film when it came out and It really weirded me out. I'd never seen another film like it before. It made me want to see everything else that the man had ever done before. A really great film.
By the way, I read once that the version of the film that was released is much different from what was shot. There was a lot more just weird shit out at the cabin that never ended up making it's way into the film.
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post #10 of 17
12/7/02 at 2:18pm
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Farmer Vincent's Fritters:
Probably my 2nd favorite Lynch film after BLUE VELVET. I am still surprised how many people loved MULHOLLAND DRIVE yet didn't dig this film.

Great film to debate which scenes are reality versus which scenes are only occurring with Pullman's mind.
Never underestimate the power of hot lezbo action.
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post #11 of 17
12/7/02 at 5:27pm
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Andrew Hein:
I saw this film when it came out and It really weirded me out. I'd never seen another film like it before. It made me want to see everything else that the man had ever done before. A really great film.
By the way, I read once that the version of the film that was released is much different from what was shot. There was a lot more just weird shit out at the cabin that never ended up making it's way into the film.
I don't know exactly what was cut, but it was about half an hour of footage.
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post #12 of 17
12/7/02 at 6:20pm
[quote]billylove:
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Never underestimate the power of hot lezbo action.
That is a very good point. eek!

I felt that Mulholland Drive felt segmented. Surely, if Lynch had filmed it as a full movie first (rather then a TV series pilot) the film would feel more cohesive (well... it is Lynch). I still liked the film a lot but not quite as much as Lost Highway. In LH I loved how reality kept forcing itself into Pullman's warped fantasy world.
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post #13 of 17
12/7/02 at 8:54pm
I bought the soundtrack to this movie a while back, but haven't actually seen the film yet. I want to though...
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post #14 of 17
12/8/02 at 4:16pm
A true piece of cinematic art. Period.

- Fixxxer
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post #15 of 17
12/12/02 at 5:37pm
[/QUOTE]Never underestimate the power of hot lezbo action.[/QB][/QUOTE]

Right. This has been my suspicion of how Mulholland Dr was so much better received than Lost Highway, as the problems people had with Lost Highway are in Mulholland Dr. Honestly I prefer Mulholland Dr. myself. Not that I am detracting from Lost Highway saying that. It's a simpler preference of tone. Lost Highway is so very heavy. That's not a flaw, it's what the film is. But Mulholland is brighter and has more humor. I breathe more easily watching it than Lost Highway. Plus, I didn't buy Getty. Seemed like he was not into the material.

I think of Femme Fatale with that lezbo action comment, too. It'll be interesting to see if that one actually goes onto people's top 5 or 10 lists this year with so many saying (mistakenly) that Femme Fatale is DePalma's best in 20yrs (!).
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post #16 of 17
12/12/02 at 5:57pm
Loved the movie

BEEG David fan

didn't like the mobsters character too much tho....not really evil....just threw his weight around

/shrug
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post #17 of 17
12/12/02 at 6:27pm
This is why I love Lynch. Everybody I know who has seen Lost Highway and Mullholland Drive has a different interpretation of each film. It's beautiful that a film can make you think like these do.
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