hmmm...the reactions seem familiar

Rating: 6/10 (26 April 2003)

for some reason or another, people currently seem to be in love with movie, such as mulholland dr., that have nothing more to offer than giving the viewer the chances to figure out what the hell is going on. granted, i think lynch did a very clever job of planting clues to aid you in figuring out the story, but so what?!
there must be more to a movie than a bunch of random events and people that in the end turn out to all be related. if people continue to gush over movie like this (memento being another example) than within several years movies will have turned into nothing more than extended logic puzzles on a very large scale. i want more out of my 2 hours than confusion with the possibility to put the puzzle together.
i want to learn something. or at the very least, feel something! these mindbending movies are completely emotionless.
bottom line: this movie (and others like it) may be fun to piece together, but beyond that are completely pointless and leave the viewer feeling absolutely nothing