Mullholland Drive vs Jeepers Creepers

[Scott]

Just finished Mullholland Drive and Jeepers Creepers here are my thoughts

MULLHOLLAND DRIVE - This film starts out so great and then kinda looses me at the end, but its still a good film. That creature that slides out from behind the garage made me really jump. It was great ! Some of the characters were really strange which is my kind of film. A lot of lesbian action here so don't show it to the kids. Again it kinda looses my interest at the end. The last 20 minutes or so. I do like Lynches style.

JEEPERS CREEPERS - I really enjoyed this film and I don't see all the pedefile references many have mentioned here earlier. The film had great images especially with the truck and the driver sending the bodies down the tube.
It had some weird scenes like the waitress coming out and telling them that the guy just came out and smelled his clothes. How about the old lady with the cats? That was fun. The film was really great and actually scared my wife. How about the ending where the creature has the guy in his workshop and he's sitting there like anyone person might do, only differents he has wings. For me the only part I didn't like was the creature outfit, but other than that it was great. Did this film remind anyone of these movies?

Gargoyles (winged creature)
The Birds (crows)
Micheal (the regular winged guy)
Duel (with the truck)

[Vermin Boy]

I like Mulholland Drive (David Lynch is one of my all-time faves), but I can't help but think of what might have been; it was originally shot as the pilot episode of a TV series, but ABC backed out at the last minute and Lynch shot the new ending. As unique as the movie is, I think it would have been better as the series it was meant to be.

[Mofo Rising]

I don't know, MULHOLLAND DRIVE probably would have been great for the first season and then lost steam at a tremendous rate after that.  Like TWIN PEAKS.  And it may have been an impossibility that it would ever find its t.v. audience.

I really liked the movie though.  I think it's sort of the apotheosis of all Lynch movies to date, in that it reconfigures and recontextualizes almost all the elements of his previous films.  I think after this, Lynch is going to have to find some new ways of expressing his weirdness, for fear of repeating himself into irrelevance.

Not that I wouldn't watch that anyway.

[John]

>I don't know, MULHOLLAND DRIVE probably would have been great for the first
>season and then lost steam at a tremendous rate after that. Like TWIN PEAKS.

That's because somewhere along the way, Lynch forgot that you actually need a story to base the weirdness around.

[J.R.]

I did not like Mulholland Drive. It was very disjointed and uneven, a side effect of being a TV pilot. I'm just not a Lynch fan; I think he piles together lots of weirdness without actually piling it together in a way that makes any sense. But that is the essence of Lynch: never make sense. That way anyone who says they don't get it is deemed uncool. Very devious...

[BoyScoutKevin]

I liked "Mullholland Drive" myself Maybe I just like wierd directors. Ken Russell is another of my favorites. But, if you want something a little less wierd and by Lynch, then check out his "The Straight Story" w/ Richard Farnsworth and Sissy Spacek.
Enjoy!

[wheresthecarrot]

There are few "monsters" in a movie that creep me out more than those two maniachal old people with their shrieking laughter and old people claws......