robertsona
03.11.11 | inspired of course by my fb status |
acorncheesee
03.11.11 | Such a fuck of a movie. |
Yotimi
03.11.11 | Great movie |
robertsona
03.11.11 | also, really really fucking good movie. about a third of the way through, i was like "this is dumb" and then afterwards it sort of "grew on me" to the point where i couldn't think about anything except watching it again. the main romance in the first half of the movie, no matter how bizarre or short-lived, is absolutely beautiful. |
TMobotron
03.11.11 | word |
acorncheesee
03.11.11 | "i love you. i loovvveeeee youuuuuu"
boner |
TMobotron
03.11.11 | laura harring in that movie looks so much like someone i hooked up with (way out of my league) and i can never see anything else |
robertsona
03.11.11 | NO
HAY
BANDA |
robertsona
03.11.11 | hey pretty girl time to wake up |
TMobotron
03.11.11 | the movie has such a great atmosphere throughout it |
DiceMan
03.11.11 | No matter who I watch it with and tell them that the most important scene is in the first 3 minutes they never understand it until I explain it to them... |
robertsona
03.11.11 | big emphasis, i think, on the senses and how we rely on them (this could be expanded to the lynchian "dream sequence"/vignette structure of the film but you guys can ponder that one on your own)...the "no hay banda" scene, especially, lynch is playing with us. the "bandleader" repeats to the on-screen audience (i.e. the two women) and the film's audience (us) that it's "all recorded", over and over again. no hay banda, no hay banda, etc.
and then the women starts singing, and it's gorgeous and heartstopping and all of that. incredibly gripping scene. and then when she falls, we're all surprised, even though that conclusion has already been predicted on-screen a million times. we've already been told the ending, and we're surprised when it comes. brilliance |
aok
03.11.11 | favorite movie ever!
hottest lesbian scene of all time |
DiceMan
03.11.11 | ^best part of the movie^ @robertsona not the person who is fucking retarded enough to watch an amazing
movie and only be like OMG LESIBANS!!!!
Aside from when the blonde chick is acting with the really old guy (who just happens to be a pretty
shitty actor but whatever) that part is absolutely hypnotizing.
but the lesbian part is pretty awesome too |
aok
03.11.11 | i always think of the scene where she unlocks the cube as her opening some kind of pandora's box and each scene from there on exists in some sort of parallel universe. |
robertsona
03.11.11 | well i mean that's intentional (sorta) edit: this was @diceman's "shitty actor" comment
but the parallel universe thing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulholland_Drive_(film)#Dreams_and_alternate_realities
essentially |
TMobotron
03.11.11 | i mean you shouldnt come out thinking omg lesbians but... it was pretty fucking hot |
aok
03.11.11 | no like, not the scene, but the development. if i wanted lesbian sex, i'd fucking google it, but just the way it develops as a total and genuine friendship and then turns into something that is so complete and gorgeous virtually out of nowhere. and from then on the whole dynamics of their relationship changes, the whole course of the movie is thrown into a twist and i am completely and utterly transfixed by this unexpected transformation |
TMobotron
03.11.11 | dude i popped a fat chub in that scene though |
DiceMan
03.11.11 | I always thought of the first part as Diane's dream, because in the last 1/3 of the movie she's in her house the entire time just flashing back to different points in time. In her dream she has power over Rita whether it be intellectual, sexual, whatever and that's a really big point to pick up on. But then the creepy looking dude behind the restaurant is supposed to be a metaphor for Hollywood... On the front it is clean, shiny, perfect plastic while behind the front there is this evil, seedy portion compromised of the people that don't make it there. Just like the seedy underworld portion of the small town in Blue Velvet. |
robertsona
03.11.11 | that said i feel like there is definitely a plot, it's just told in a different order and basically
half of it is a dream...(check wiki link)...this may be a "theory" but it makes too much sense for me
not to believe that it wasnt lynch's intention
@diceman, bingo, never really thought about the restaurant scene though. it may also be a meditation
on dreams/us being "haunted" by them or whatever. "accept the mystery?" (via a serious man. also,
everyone watch a serious man) |
DiceMan
03.11.11 | ^yeah robertsona has got it right... It all gives it away in the first 3 minutes with the face going
onto the pillow then the cowboy wakes her up after the box is opened.
Also, I understand that the acting is supposed to be intentionally poor at some points... It's
supposed to feel cheesy sometimes cause it isn't real. It's a dream. Note that the acting in the last
1/3 is actually a hell of a lot better than the first 2/3ds. |
Jruined
03.11.11 | Watch Lost Highway, Wild at Heart, and more importantly Blue Velvet. Eraserhead goes without saying, but you know what you are in for on that one. Blue Velvet is...Just f'n fantastic. |
Electric City
03.11.11 | FUCK YES 2 I KNEW IT
also yeah my favorite movie |
MUNGOLOID
03.11.11 | me and my step brothers used to call that bum the doo doo guy. |
ConsiderPhlebas
03.11.11 | Zizek has some interesting stuff to say on this film, especially the singer/fainting scene. The guy behind the restaurant is genuinely frightening. |
DocSportello
03.11.11 | Movie is the Kid A of film.
Mulholland Drive > Twin Peaks > The Elephant Man > Blue Velvet > Eraserhead > Inland Empire > Lost Highway > Wild At Heart > Dune
|
aok
03.11.11 | I like Lost Highway more than elephant man, blue velvet, eraserhead but i'm pretty sure i'm in the
minority there. i really gotta see inland empire though
@phlebas, zizek is the man |
