Now it's been forever since I've seen this, I thought (maybe 20 years?), but having been impressed with Mulholland Drive I thought I'd watch it again.
Probably I didn't see it, since the only scene I remembered was the one where the cop is vaporized by the trunk, otherwise it was all as fresh as if I were seeing it brand new. And absolutely brilliant, a little tighter plot-wise than the typical David Lynch, full of irony and surreal humor. If anything survives the 80's it should probably be this...
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After a run of 3 in a row (watching more movies than usual, catching up..) - 2 bad, and 1 not my cup of tea, I watch Mulholland Dr. Which, oddly, given my regard for David Lynch, I'd been rather avoiding. Silly me, it proved excellent, moody, atmospheric, and curiously worthwhile. I give it 2 slippers, 3 bananas and a troop of Mountain Goats. Saved me the trouble of my own restless dreams...
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So encouraged by the abundant good reviews and the fact that it appeared somewhere or another on lists of films to see I download Serenity, Firefly. Which apparently is movie spinoff of a series I've never seen, for good reason as it turns out.
Think "Cowboys VS Zombies in outer Space", add to that a cast of mostly good looking people who can't act, old-style western shotguns and revolvers, people overacting and speaking with ridiculous accents, preposterous dialogue, a ridiculous plot and lots and lots of spaceships and you get the idea. Bad, bad, bad. I just saved you 2 hours of your life. Take my word for it.
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And so I've downloaded "Force Majeure", Eddie Izzard, which I believe to be a Danish film about a relationship that goes bad when the wife discovers proof of her husbands cowardice.
It opens in English, over-the-top graphics, a comedian on stage in London, Wembley Arena, charismatic, talking on stage to an overly amused audience. And I watch it for 10 minutes, it's not funny, the jokes, "intelligent", but not, obvious, peculiar, and I keep waiting for it to cut to the drama, the Avalanche, but it's not happening, and after 20 minutes I finally fast-forward through the rest of it to discover that in fact there is a real comedian by the name of Eddie Izzard and as over-the-top as I found the opening this is apparently a real video that people watch to be amused.
Perhaps it was the fact that I was expecting something else, something - well, brighter, with a little more depth, but I'm amazed that this passes for entertainment, that people buy into this, attend the shows, laugh, buy the DVD, I'm missing something, and while he's definitely not my cup of tea I learned something new, mainly, what other people like, and I wouldn't have believed it if you told me...
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