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Here's who does not jump out at me as someone I am really anxious to see in this:

Charlotte Gainsbourg



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Mulholland Drive (2001) - Took another look at this. I find it to be a very good movie that turns kind of goofy. I have read theories trying to reconcile the shift in gears that takes place - people want to make sense of it by saying the first part is someone's dream.

Unfortunately I buy that. Although it bore no particular resemblance to a dream, given what happens later, I suspect that was David Lynch's intention. Which is crappy IMO. I find dreams to be the ultimate lazy dramatic device. If I thought he was just being weird-for-the-sake-of-weird and it was just some fun artsy claptrap, I would like that better.

The dream thing, I find stupid.

But I don't really know. I haven't gone looking for any comments from Lynch.

But I enjoyed watching the movie for the most part. 7 out of 10. Could have been higher but plunged a bit as it wound down.
 
Samsara, The Strangers, Derailed, Street Fighter and Stranger Than Fiction.

All excellent recent views.

Off The Black, Heidi Fleiss documentary, Death Row, Sordid Lives, Blood Creek, The Darwin Awards and Against the Dark.

All recent blahs/flops/whatevers.

Watched third episode of Sons of Anarchy. Sucking me in a bit more.
 
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - Best Picture Oscar Winner for that year defeating, among others, It's a Wonderful Life.

Good old movie. Weak title. Like so many movies of that era, the acting is very inconsistent. It has a few unintentional laugh-out-loud hammy moments , but what the hell. It also has Theresa Wright who was IMO the hottest piece of 1940's ass out there.

Nice story about men coming home from the war and trying to pick up the pieces in differing circumstances. Real life double amputee (i.e. hooks instead of hands) Harold Russell won the Supporting Actor Oscar. A lot of it seems downright cornball now but I suspect parts of it were edgy in its time.

7.1 out of 10.



Wanna go back in time and do her:


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