A sheer piece of crap

Rating: 1/10 (11 February 2002)

This is quite possibly one of the worst films that I have ever seen. Don't get me wrong; I didn't go into the movie thinking that it was going to be something easy to watch. Also, don't think that I'm some simpleminded "True Lies"-watching moviegoer who has no appreciation for the art of cinematography. I've watched and appreciated many of the greats: "Citizen Kane", "The French Connection", "Blue Velvet", etc. just to name a few. I just can not believe what moviegoers let David Lynch get away with these days. He can make completely nonsensical drivel and people automatically assume that it is "art." I must say that this movie was well filmed and stylistically quite beautiful. Purely from a cinematography perspective, this movie is great (take, for example, the filtration on many of the lights in the movie and the completely blown-out backgrounds to create a dream-like effect). However, the lack of a plot towards the end (which makes the movie completely boring) and the voyeuristic, testosterone-driven lesbian scenes make this movie almost unwatchable. These scenes were so long and drawn out that I couldn't help from laughing; not because lesbian scenes make me uncomfortable, but because it was such thinly disguised softcore porn and yet people believed they should take it seriously! I have a hard time believing that people can fall into David Lynch's ever-so-predictable trap of making something completely weird but yet unbearably boring and still end up thinking that the movie has some sort of meaning or value. Yet, I must excuse myself. I'll admit, this is purely a rant, but I can't believe I paid money to see this trash.