I got what I wanted from it, but all the hot lesbian action in the world couldn't make me care about the story.

Rating: 3/10 (10 August 2006)

Surrealism isn't my thing. I need a coherent narrative to enjoy a movie, and Mulholland Dr. does not have that. What it does have, is a few short, probably superfluous, yet nevertheless highly enjoyable, lesbian scenes involving Naomi Watts.
Not to denigrate David Lynch's talents as a director. I'm sure he's a brilliant filmmaker and all that, I just really don't care. If this is the kind of movie you enjoy, surrealism and symbolism and vivid imagery and muttering "What the f**k?" every couple of minutes, then yeah, it's a good movie (symbolism or no, the dialogue made me cringe. Maybe that's intentional; like I said, I don't care).
If you only have an interest in this because of the 'adult content', as they say, there are probably more effective ways to get what you want, unless you really... REALLY... like Naomi Watts.
It strikes me as odd, however, that Lynch specifically requested that the DVD not be divided into chapters as almost all movies on DVD are. The reason given, that people would be more likely to watch the movie in one sitting, makes a certain amount of sense. Consider, however, that through his action, Lynch attempts to 'force' the viewer to view the movie within certain time constraints by making it inconvenient to do otherwise. Restricting the entire film to one chapter also makes the film more prone to become inoperative. Older rental movies with visible scratches frequently screw up in my DVD player, and I usually bypass this by skipping to the next chapter and rewinding. What Lynch has done has made this either vastly more difficult, or impossible.
I think that's rude, and I also think it violates a kind of gray area, where the director's perception leaves off and the viewer's perception takes over. By even TRYING to dictate the manner in which the film is watched, Lynch assumes a sort of authority I don't think he's entitled to.
But hey, what do I know? I'm not one of these 'surrealism' people. I'm just a guy with a headache from watching Mulholland Dr. I give this choreographed insanity 3 stars out of 10... all of them for Naomi Watts.