“I’ve seen ‘Wild at Heart,’ I’ve seen ‘Twin Peaks.’ I’ve already seen this movie.”
-my friend Paul, as we exited David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive”
While I basically agree with him, Lynch is still a welcome change from the grey expanse that has been the movies in 2001. He’s abandoned the measured reality of “The Straight Story” and gone back to the weirdnesses he’s famous for. It’s said that he shot this story as a possible pilot for a TV series, although I doubt the topless lesbian love scenes would have made it onto CBS. It is overdone and needlessly Lynchian, but it’s fascinating in its own way. And he does amazingly well with scares – even if you can see them coming a mile away, they still make you jump out of your seat. I would love to see Lynch do a full-out scary movie.
Now where did I put those “Twin Peaks” tapes?