Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Mulholland Dr - 2001

I was asked to watch this movie by a friend. And I usually enjoy David Lynch movies, so I did. But I have to say, right at the offset, that people are so ODD in David Lynch movies. Even I'm not this weird.

This is a long movie. I'm 90 minutes in, it's mildly interesting, but only mildly so. And not nearly as weird or understandable as I expected.

Ahhhh, some hot Lez Action! Pity we can't see anything. And what's with the shakey cam all of a sudden..

Okay, so two hours in, and we're finally, and completely off the tracks. Although the magic scene in spanish was pretty cool. But what's the point of a woman singing (or pretending to sing) a spanish version of Roy Orbison's "Crying"?

Ahhhh great. For the second time in three days, I'm watching a movie where major characters are figments of people's imagination. This is beginning to be a habit. But hey, it's another hot lez action scene, and this one is better lit. Say, Laura Harring has some nice tata's. I saw here awhile back in All Soul's Day. Didn't think she was that well built then. Thanx, David Lynch.

And Anne Miller! If you haven't seen her sing and dance "It's Too Damn Hot" in my wife's favorite musical Kiss Me, Kate, you haven't lived. This was her last movie appearance, and she does a fine job, for someone who's got cancer.

And James Karen (pity about that last name) got a bit part. I loved him in Return of the Living Dead. Wish his part was bigger, or weirder.

Hey, those little people are the folks from the airplane at the beginning who got in into the limo and started acting weird. Wonder what that was about?

Okay, so enough of the stream of consciousness stuff. But it seemed appropriate for this movie. Like I said above, it's another movie where much of what you see either didn't really happen, or at least didn't have the same number of people. What this results in is a movie where people can argue about who or what was real, and what it meant to the fevered brain of Naomi Watts.

Unfortunately, it was SO DAMN LONG that I began to loose interest, even when it started to finally get weird (and thus interesting). I'm too bored with it to care what was real and what wasn't. Guess I'm just not sophisticated enough. Oh, and no extras except subtitles. Boooo!

Three beers out of five (and two of them were for hot lez action scenes)