The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension! (1984) 6.5/10 - Good cheesy fun. Could have been much better, though. The movie doesn't really explain things to well, and the characters and their relationships (which should be the highlight) get practically zero development, and take backseat to... I don't really know what to tell you the truth.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) 7.5/10 - I like to consider myself almost a Monty Python fanatic. That means I think they're the funniest thing ever, but I've only seen Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and a handful of Flying Circus episodes. It's a problem. I tried to alleviate that by watching this. I was a little disappointed. It's still outrageously funny, but its clear their best jokes were behind them. To top it off, many of the sketches ran a little too long. Still great fun, though.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) 8.5/10 - Very well made film with great performances. Not an easy watch, though.
Mulholland Drive (2001) -
...I don't even know. I just finished watching it so these thoughts are kind of off the cuff. Well, I'll start by saying it was very well done. Very good style. Very good, um...
Okay this movie makes no f*cking sense.
Or does it?
I'm not sure. But I think I liked it. A lot
Yeah, a lot of questions were raised, and I don't think I got any answers. But who cares, really? I could tell pretty early on that I wasn't going to get answers. And I've seen Eraserhead, so I kind of knew how Lynch rolls. I don't think it's really about the answers. At least, to me it's not. Well, I'll admit I hated it for a bit after it ended, but then I thought more about he film I had just watched, the whole thing. When it started to get good, I was on the edge of my seat until the end. I loved that. It was a thrill ride. It had great characters, themes. Part of me feels like Lynch said "f*ck it," and threw away the story for the final third. You know what? that's okay. It makes it that much more interesting. Yeah, I don't know what was really going on. But I like a good ambiguous film. There's a lot of different things that could've been happening. And I got some theories.
So, yeah, I think I loved this movie. Maybe tomorrow I'll hate it. Maybe I'll love it even more. Right now, I'm giving it a 9.5/10