Pretentious and not worth renting

Rating: 1/10 (3 May 1999)

Looks like a MTV video which is a minus. I personally cannot stand the pretentiousness which afflicts all modern music videos save a few (Radiohead, Pulp, Aphex Twin) which is like a disease in this movie. Comparing this trash to "Eraserhead" is like comparing a Hershey bar to a Toblerone. Not even close. I hope Mr. Lynch didn't feel too bad when something so pitiful and pathetic was compared to his masterpiece.
The story was a neat idea about the mystery of number systems and how it controls modern civilization but the mathematics used in the movie are so elementary that it looks like a joke. Any literate and publicly educated person who took algebra 1 knows that all the equations used in the movie had nothing to do with anything.
I just hate seeing people misinterpret a movie making it greater than it could ever aspire to be just because of the mass-hype it proliferates and generates.