3.10 to Yuma

Finally got this as an afterthought. My German Expressionism collection don't work, traded for four Marx Brothers (2-discs) and the Fly Collection (2-discs). The Fly Collection didn't work, traded it for this and Inland Empire.

I was expecting something uplifting, not to say it's not, just not in the way I was expecting. The ending you could see a mile coming, after all, it hardly comes as a surprise when you're basically rooting for the "villain" from the word "Go!", with his rakish charm and strange code of honour.
I'd think this didn't make the Malaysian shores cos of its ambiguous morals, and not that it's a Western.

Still, I feel slightly upset when the confession about how he lost his leg came about. Funny when Ben Wade threw the guy down the ravine for insulting his mother.

All in all, a beautiful Western that you might just call a re-revisionist version.

Inland Empire : A Woman inTrouble

I have a weird way of falling in and out of love with David Lynch. Sometimes, it's just a shot to the arm his movies are, other times, it's so what...

Inland Empire falls somewhere in between. At 3 hours, I would like to say it's an ardous watch but not so, as there's just too many things happening. Continuing the switched personalities angle started in Lost Highway, this one is not as perplexing,as it's into the character Laura Dern plays in a movie.

Not as jarring or startling as Lost Highway and certainly not as coherent as Mulholland Drive, this one might just drive you crazy trying to work out its logic. But damn,those anthropomorphic rabbits are cool.

A nice twist to the old movie in a movie sequence. My favourite bits are the dance sequence with the whore doing the Locomotion, and the neighbour's face melting. And the interview bits are rivetting.