The All-Time 100 BERRY Worst??

I've never seen those movies.Is it a coincidence that Britanny Murphy(R.I.P.)is in both of them?Do you not like her?

As for MULHOLLAN'DR....well,I don't know if it's called surrealist or art film,but I do like movies like that where weird things without explanation happens.I love Charlie Kauffman's movies,and even though I didn't think EYES WIDE SHUT was excellent,I liked it.You see,even though one tries to uncessfully find an explanation for the weird things,it's not really that important,at least when there's a great story hapenning around.But what if the stories themselves are the weird things without explanation?How can you enjoy it?

Originally posted by BurnHollywoodBurn Actually, I just remembered, I have seen "Once". Yeah, I didn't care for it either. There's no real story to it, just filler in between each song.

No, there actually was a story.

As I mention with any David Lynch movie, you have to high understand them, because they are usually random scenes that don't add up to anything.

Not really. I saw Mulholland Dr. with no history with David Lynch and I loved the movie.

Originally posted by BurnHollywoodBurn Originally posted by moviewizguy Originally posted by BurnHollywoodBurn Actually, I just remembered, I have seen "Once". Yeah, I didn't care for it either. There's no real story to it, just filler in between each song. No, there actually was a story. Yes, there was. But it was a very simple story and came across as just something to fill up time in between the songs.

It's true.If you use a timer,you'll see that more than half of the movie is used on the musical numbers,which aren't bad individually,but the music style doesn't changes,and it's hard to enjoy it.

That's what you get when the director/script writer is a musician.

Originally posted by moviewizguy   Originally posted by BurnHollywoodBurn As I mention with any David Lynch movie, you have to high understand them, because they are usually random scenes that don't add up to anything. Not really. I saw Mulholland Dr. with no history with David Lynch and I loved the movie.

Maybe so,but you had to go into a deep analyzing first.You can't posibly tell me that you left the theatre happy,that you didn't feel shocked and/or angry the second it ended.If you say yes,you won't admit you didn't like it.

It's not bad when they focus more on the music than on the script?I mean,one thing is to write songs,and then write a script built on those songs,like the classic SINGIN'IN THE RAIN,but they still worked more on the script.

I forgot to say that SEMI-PRO should be there too.

Originally posted by BurnHollywoodBurn Yeah, I got to agree with Vits. Musicals should be an even balance between songs and story, but with "Once", it was all about the songs and the story was an afterthought.

But Once was actually critically praised. It was on many critic's top 10 movies of that year and it won an Oscar for one of it's brilliant songs. I can't help but see you two being in the minority when you two think it wasn't that great. It's really realistic as a musical because the cast doesn't break and sing in the middle of the streets. It's real and authentic and it's really sweet. 97% on RT sure helps my case as well.

Originally posted by moviewizguy But Once was actually critically praised. It was on many critic's top 10 movies of that year and it won an Oscar for one of it's brilliant songs. I can't help but see you two being in the minority when you two think it wasn't that great. It's really realistic as a musical because the cast doesn't break and sing in the middle of the streets. It's real and authentic and it's really sweet. 97% on RT sure helps my case as well.

Well, this is not one of my usual "this movie sucked b***s and is proof Hollywood needs to die" posts. In my humble opinion, I just didn't like the movie. Like you said, it's not the phony "everyone suddenly jumping into sing and dancing in unison" musical, but at the same time, I just didn't care for the movie overall. Everyone knew well in advance how it was going to end, and as I said before, the movie just seemed like a way to showcase the songs, like a demo tape with motion pictures than a motion picture with a background soundtrack. Maybe it's because I don't really care for music that much, I like movie scores better, like the John Williams' classics.