Yesterday was a two-movie day.<\/p>\n
First saw A Beautiful Mind<\/a> with Tracy. Good movie, though a bit schmaltzy. Does a good job of drawing you in and then quietly pulling the rug out from underneath you. The movie does fall into the “heartwarming triumph of the human spirit” category, but that doesn’t make it bad. <\/p>\n Also saw the midnight showing of Mulholland Drive<\/a>. I’ve decided that David Lynch has become a self-parody. His use of gratuitously weird imagery, situations, etc, is just getting in the way. And am I the only person who thinks the Bum in this movie is a retread of the Man in the Planet from Eraserhead? That said, I do think the movie is interesting. I don’t regret having seen it. Shoot, he could have had Laura Harring<\/a> just standing there for two hours and I probably would have been entertained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday was a two-movie day. First saw A Beautiful Mind with Tracy. Good movie, though a bit schmaltzy. 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