after 30min: what the heck i am watching here ? after 60min: ok, i got the story. So what now ? after 90min: what?! Are you serious. That makes no sense. What a s****y movie. after 120min: wow! just, wow! after 147min: what a totally great movie. Typical Lynch, but it make much MUCH more sense than "Lost Highway". Totally liked it. Rating: 8/10

I just realized that I never wrote a review of this, even though I watched it like 3 weeks ago. Well, frankly, I do not like it. I find no enjoyment while viewing this thing. There are deep explanations for every scene, every shot, every everything. But while watching this through one time, it is all over the damn place in what the hell is happening. Sure, you can go through and tell me all about what all the pieces mean. For the most part, I am totally fine with a film needing to be viewed multiple times to get all aspects out of it. In fact, that is a great attribute of the best films. However, the first viewing should still be understood. It should not be this questionable and confusing upon a single sit through. The first view should tell you what happened, and future viewings flesh it out even more. I get it though. That is my taste in film, not a rule of law. Those who disagree with me on this simply have very different tastes in this aspect. But me... I have no ambition to watch it again. At the same time, I'd manage through it just fine as well.

This was my first time viewing "Mulholland Drive". I'm bothered. Am I not bright enough to "get" it? Was it trying to call me stupid? What did I miss? Dreams, dreams, dreams. Another film about a dream. Or a dream within a dream. I'm sick of movies with dreams. "Inception" made me angry because I didn't like it yet felt like I had to rate it highly because everyone else praised it. I didn't want to come away looking like a movie mouth-breather. Now along comes this. Not again. The way "Mulholland Drive" unfolds makes little sense to me, but Hey...I liked it! So I'm not going to try and figure out its secret meaning, if there even is one. I'm not remotely interested in trying to dissect it. I'm pretty sure that "Mulholland Drive" is pointless. I want to know more about Betty and Rita, but not really. That might take away the mystery of their strange, fascinating relationship. Would most people hate this? I'm happy that I endured this film without it being a chore. I want to know that people who bought tickets to watch "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" or "Grown Ups 2" at the mall theater thought this was a Lifetime Channel movie about two girlfriends and then turned it off before it finished. That way I can be certain that I'm cooler than those people. Those people who just don't "get" it. "Mulholland Drive" is the kind of movie that can legitimize me as a film snob if I can just prove to others that I understood what the Hell it was about. But I can't. So, I'm one of THEM. That, and I kind of liked "Gods of Egypt". I'm doomed.

Too confusing to enjoy IMO