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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus
I hate Mulholland Drive. It's simplistic, self-indulgent and overly transparent. Gee, David Lynch, I thought Hollywood was awesome for everybody. Wow. You showed them. Also, Naomi Watts is like a starved, autistic Nicole Kidman. Hate her. I was told I didn't get Mulholland Drive. That's funny, because I get Eraserhead, I get the Holy Mountain, I get Naked Lunch (the book), I get MPD Psycho, I get James Joyce's Ulysses. I guess David Lynch is smarter and more experimental than JAMES FUCKING JOYCE. Also, I hate Stanley Kubrick. I think his movies are oppressive, tyrannical, selfish and disrespectful to source material. I also think some of them are quite dull. I get a lot of shit for that. Then I ask if they've read the books and almost invariably, they have not. I too am not crazy about Don't Look Now. I find it icy and slow.
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Someone else who didn't like don't Look Now. I thought this film was so overrated. It seemed to take itself far too seriously and seemed to be trying to say something that just didn't work. Yes I get the 'Red' sumbology, but thought the story was dissjointed. (Gasps, expecting to be shot down in flames!).
And with regards to Kubrick-hurray for someone else who realises he deviates from or changes the source material to his own ends. AClockwork Orange was a morality tale of growing up and becoming a respectable member of society. By completely omitting the last chapter of the book, Kubrick removes the moral and ultimately the reason for it being written in the first place. But I do like The Shining-Sorry:o