Aja on 18/3/2009 at 06:25
Guys - Inland Empire. It's a movie designed purely to make you feel as scared and confused as in that fleeting moment when you awake from a nightmare and don't yet realize it was only a dream. But man, at three hours it's a fucking commitment.
Muzman on 18/3/2009 at 09:41
I didn't have any trouble with Mulholland Drive at all. She's so sweet and innocent yet a hilariously brilliant actress at steamy stuff in one half of the movie. Also: Billy Ray Cyrus.
It's pretty much what I thought Donnie Darko was initially, before doofus stopped listening to his editor and recut the film with his bad fanfic sci-fi bullshit. Namely a story about a fantasy of an alternate life, seen in the moment of death, only this one is about Hollywood instead of highschool. The guy in the alley is a red herring. A stray bit from the would-be TV show maybe, left as a bit of Lynchian spookiness.
Lost Highway I sort of put down to two realities intermingling and try not to go into details.
demagogue on 18/3/2009 at 15:32
Quote Posted by Muzman
The guy in the alley is a red herring. A stray bit from the would-be TV show maybe, left as a bit of Lynchian spookiness.
Really, for me he was an allegory to the whole story (... I'll grant he's not part of the plot, though). He was the first thing she saw after she made the "arrangements" that made her feel ugly and self-conscious about what she'd done. And then "later" (earlier in the movie) he was the first thing to invade her dreamworld to give the first hint of the ugliness just behind the surface, of herself and the city; literally, he's an ugly guy in the back in the alley.
AR Master on 18/3/2009 at 15:38
i have opinions about movies
Stitch on 18/3/2009 at 16:21
Thankfully for you there's a little something called the internet.
Queue on 18/3/2009 at 16:51
Quote Posted by fett
That's how I felt after watching Pulp Fiction 10 years ago. Turns out the problem was that the movie was just utter shite.
...felt the same way about
Rock n Rolla. How many times are we going to see
Snatch?
You suck, Guy Richie. And now that you no longer have Madonna's money-soaked teats to suckle from, your inadequacy and hackery are starting to show.
Did you ever notice that the "ground-breaking, brilliant and innovative use of scene juggling" to tell the story in Pulp Fiction more-or-less follows that of Faulkner's
A Rose for Emily (circa 1930)? The only thing I find interesting about a Q.T. film is his choice in music
...though I did love
Four Rooms--except for that last bit of inane predictability. Oh...
