I love Mulholland Drive! Love the look, love the story, love the performances. It's one of my favorite anti-Hollywood movies - up there with Sunset Boulevard, Barton Fink, In a Lonely Place and The Bad and the Beautiful. The story [spoiler]
which is mostly a fantasy by a suicidal woman who got dumped by her female lover
evokes the danger and appeal of Hollywood's illusion-making.
I even love all the stuff with the director (the actor who played him went on to write Tropical Thunder), especially the creepy Cowboy.
Per usual wrt to Lynch (Lost Highway excepted), I agree with Hec.
Mullholland Drive always makes me wonder where they were going to go with the series if it had been picked up. I suspect nowhere as interesting as where the movie went.
"Taken" is such a bad movie. I mean damn. It's a shame that's at the top. It was as bad or worse than "Righteous Kill."
Really? I loved it. I had never had a crush on Liam Nisson until that movie. Also, it had tons of HSQ moments for me.
I thought
Taken
was ridiculous. The boys here love the action, but for me, the setup was so absurd. "Hi, let me drop anvil after anvil the possible danger to my daughter so the (stupid) viewers will know what's happening when it happens exactly the way I said it could." I couldn't get past that.
I watched Taken the other night. Did they ever show what happened to the
other girl the daughter was with when they were taken?
Did I miss something?
Also, was it really necessary for Liam to kill all those people? Couldn't he have just winged a few more of them? Also, re: my question above, couldn't Liam have saved a few more victims who weren't his daughter? It seemed kind of cold to just leave them all behind.
With all the best of and decade lists around I started trying to think of movies in the 2000s that stayed with me (in no order):
Tsotsi
Billy Elliot
Brokeback Mountain
Memoirs of a Geisha
Amelie
Cold Mountain
The first Bourne
Where the Wild Things Are
Momento
Away from her
The Incredibles
I actually stopped paying attention halfway through, Tom. No clue.
Tom, Liam Neeson's character found her in the 2nd brothel--handcuffed to a bed, dead from a drug overdose.
I enjoyed the movie. Yeah, there were anvils but the action was well done. I hated the daughter but I thought it was interesting that all three brothels were identical in scheme--with doors/curtains in labrythian setups and the girls drugged out of their minds. They just got fancier the more money the guys were spending.
I saw a GREAT interview with Liam Neeson that made me love him--someone asked him about how difficult it was doing the fight scenes for a man of his "advanced age." He said the fight scenes and stunts weren't difficult at all--it was the running! LN's a smoker so he was really tired after they made him run after all those perps.
I laughed at the anvil virginity will save you life! 'Cause that's funny.
Toy Movies: Smurfs, Care Bears, and Play-Doh Adapted For The Big Screen (VIDEO)
Imagine if Peter Jackson turned "The Smurfs" into an epic war movie. Or if Wes Anderson put his spin on Teddy Ruxpin. It'd be pretty awesome. In Dan Meth's "Toy Movies," all your favorite childhood toys are re-imagined through the eyes of famous directors. We'd shell out for David Lynch's "Koosh Ball."
