Annoying pretentious rubbish

Rating: Null/10 (18 May 2003)

Let me say straight up that there's nothing I like more than a film that insists you engage your brain. MD however insists you engage brain and then take hallucinatory medication. It starts out with memento-esque pretentions, but ends up being muddled and pretentious.
I've read with extreme interest the plotlines as comprehended by other reviewers on this site. Magnificent job the lot of you! I reckon a hundred plots could be retro-fabricated to fit this endulgent swamp of dream and reality. Yes - there could well be some very interesting and deep ideas in the there somewhere - but Im choosing to believe that if present - such moments were the product of chance on the part of the director. In any case, you spend so much time trying to assess whether what you are seeing is real or not, that any message gets entirely lost.
WHat about the music? Was the score deep? No. The score was nothing - and like the rest of the film, drawn out, pretentious, stylised and lacking inspiration.
A friend recommended this one to me - and since I nearly always agree with his choices, I can only think he thought I'd go for this one because of the lesbian sex scenes. How shallow does he think I am?
Never got around to watching Twin Peaks. After this effort, Im thinking I've saved myself alot of pain.