Blogcritics Comments on Movie Review: Mulholland Drive

Comment by Thomas M. Sipos on Movie Review: Mulholland Drive

Fri, 2 Jun 2006 18:36:36 EDT

Watts also owes something to the context of the story (the whole writing and direction), and to the Badalamenti's music score. Take away that music and show that lesbian scene out of context of the film, and it's likely to look like an outtake from a cheap porn film. ]]>

Comment by Jules on Movie Review: Mulholland Drive

Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:29:48 EDT

I'm probably going to step in it here, but whatever. Lynch has been, for many of his films, a horrible writer. I think that while his thanking of Naomi Watts was probably in earnest, that what he didn't realize was that a lot of actors just couldn't 'nail' a role that lacked motivations, obstacles, objectives, etc. But this? This was his best writing effort of his non-linear films. (Personally, "the straight story" is high quality stuff, even if the plot's thin.) One of his few films where an actor could actually form a believable, consistent character. What David didn't realize, perhaps, was that he had improved. ]]>

Comment by richard on Movie Review: Mulholland Drive

Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:16:42 EDT

aren't this a review of mulholland drive, NOT the ring nor the shaft? if so, why not her oscar-nominated film 21 grams, or the universally praised king kong? if you were such a lynch-ist and could only talk about lynch and nothing else in this review, you should have known that lynch said he had to thank naomi for nailing every scene in the film for him. i also like lynch but the success of mulholland drive was not entirely his, it was partly watts'. ]]>

Comment by Jules Alder on Movie Review: Mulholland Drive

Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:45:14 EDT

I'd be more inclined to say that the writing had more to do with her performance than the direction. That tends to make the vast difference between good acting and bad. A good director can enhance, sometimes, but can't, more often than not, extract a stellar performance from a cut-rate one. If the writing's there, all else tends to follow, and she can act just fine. Huckabees, a comedy with less motivation than Mulholland, showed some range, and let's not forget the mild dialect barrier. Since she always has to worry about her accent, that adds a dimension to her acting that American actresses don't have to worry about. Meat Loaf. That's funny. ]]>

Comment by Thomas M. Sipos on Movie Review: Mulholland Drive

Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:27:16 EDT

I meant the most innovative and interesting that I've seen. And yes, it's subjective to an extent. I also believe that Meat Loaf is the greatest living singer of our day. Not everyone would say so. Naomi Watts? Yes, she was good. But she was nowhere near as good an actress in The Ring, nor in that Lift remake. Good, but nowhere near what she did in Mulholland Drive. Makes me think that Lynch had something to do with her performance. ]]>

Comment by richard on Movie Review: Mulholland Drive

Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:09:43 EDT

this would have been a better review if other than talking about lynch, some words were given to commenting on the brilliant performance of naomi watts as betty & diane. a few film critics actually said this was not only a lynch's film, but also a naomi watts' film. ]]>

Comment by Jules Alder on Movie Review: Mulholland Drive

Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:44:58 EDT

"David Lynch is the most brilliantly innovative and interesting filmmaker working today, and Mulholland Drive is yet another masterpiece." I'm a Lynch fan since Dune but this statement arouses my curiosity. There are a lot of innovative, interesting directors out there, and at least one I can think of who's, hands down, better than my man David: Pedro Almodovar. Of course, this is highly opinionated, but did you mean American? ]]>