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Originally Posted by SamCostello
I saw it on Friday. I was amazingly excited.
And then I fell asleep about 20 times during the film (that's not a joke and not an exaggeration).
I love Lynch, but this is a hard movie to love. It's three hours long, unfocused, and was shot without a final script. There are some funny moments, some scary moments, some great moviemaking. But it's also meandering, self-indulgent (there's a segment of about 25 minutes with no dialogue), and way too long. It looked to me like Lynch didn't have anyone keeping his indulgences in check for this one.
Worth seeing if you like Lynch, no doubt, but it's not the triumph that Lost Highway or Mullholland Dr. was.
Sam
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Bingo. Saw it several nights ago and my thoughts are practically identical to yours. Yeah, Lynch's wild, trippy, and nightmarish thoughts are cool to a point, but when there are three hours of unexplainable questions and no translatable answers, the film shows its flaws and immense length.