Okay, so why do I keep subjecting myself to things I know I'll hate?

So, I finally watched Mulholland Drive. Part of the reason was that it's an L.A.-based film, part of it was that it was so wildly acclaimed as one of last year's best films, part of it was that I wanted to see what the fuss over Naomi Watts was about. And I hated it. I was bored to tears. It was formulaic to the point where I knew exactly what was going to happen because I saw Lost Highway, another one of David Lynch's supposed "masterpieces." Naomi Watts' "main" character was so smarmy and so overacted that it made me hate her and not think she was attractive at all. And all the people in the film overacted.

That's one of the main problems I have with both of the Davids -- Lynch and Mamet. They make their actors overact and their dialogue is so stilted, it's impossible to get into the story because you're just blocked by the fakeness of the acting. It's stilted to the point of being unnatural -- people don't really talk in real life the way they do in Mamet and Lynch films. And, in my opinion, if you can't believe the actor, you can't believe the scenario or the story. Would you take someone seriously in real life if they spoke in such measured tones and unnatural speech patterns?

I knew I shouldn't have subjected myself to another Lynch film.