Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Wordiezett So much average

PodBill Just what I expected

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

merelyaninnuendo Inland EmpireThe depiction of the tale in here is more convoluted than the script, along with an eerie camera work which has always been the maker's window of luring the audience into its dark fictionalized world that actually resembles a lot to the practicality of it. It is rich on technical aspects like sound department, production design and its finely edited product that is perfectly cooked and served to the audience. The writer takes too much time to make its point in here which makes sense and feasible in here considering the outcome it provides the audience as they find themselves getting lost into the projected world very quickly. David Lynch is no short in execution as always and is supported well by an amazing cinematography that may be inedible for some viewers but surely is though-provoking and ground breaking. Laura Dern easily carries off the whole feature without breaking a sweat which proves her majestic acting skills and is supported decently by Jeremy Irons and Justin Theroux if not accurately apt for it. Inland Empire is an empire that builds itself up only to collapse on terms of its self-created restrained imaginative bubble that actually could have had wider range than was provided.

garthlotel David Lynch is clearly taking the **** at this point. He is laughing while plebs pretend to think this low-budget joke of a movie is brilliant, and he is grinning down at the bank while the confused controversy around this film brings him dollars. He is not a genius, he is a troll.

Charles Herold (cherold) I've had dreams like this. Everything's confused and mushed together, you find yourself trying to fix something using a method that will make no sense upon waking. Not a nightmare so much as an annoyance, an endless period of unpleasantness.That's the experience of Inland Empire.The first time I watched this movie I gave up about half an hour in. It wasn't just that it was random and incoherent, but also that it was painfully slow. Every scene dragged. Rehearsals for the movie Laura Dern was working on revealed a really boring movie, and we saw a lot of it.But a few months later, after watching Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks: The Return, I thought maybe I should try again. Maybe, as with Mulholland, it will all click together.There is debate on whether one should even try to make sense of Inland Empire. Some argue you should just *experience* it. So the first thing to mention is I did not enjoy the experience. The movie is just so slow, with so little happening. There are good elements; Dern is excellent, especially when telling grim stories to an unnamed man, and there's an oppressive sense of dread that I like, but overall I was just bored. Mulholland Drive made sense to me by the end, but even if it hadn't, I could still say I enjoyed the experience of watching it. I can't say that of Inland Empire.After I watched the film I read some analysis. Some people began by saying, "this movie isn't that hard to understand once you get the key," but these people have radically different analyses. So no, this is not easy to understand, although there do seem to be some points of agreement. But I think the reality is, as one writer suggested, that Lynch was just messing around with his friends and his digital camera and at a certain point had so much material that he thought he might as well turn it into a movie. Lynch himself said he didn't know where the movie was going. So while yes, you can create a narrative out of it if you play with the chronology and the characters, it's probably nothing to do with Lynch.This is the Lynch of Eraserhead; the artsy guy who isn't afraid to bore or annoy his audience. Some people love that. Some people hate a movie that is comprehensible, wanting something loose that allows for interpretation. This movie is for those people. If you're not one of those people, I would suggest skipping this.And if you want to see a really great movie that blurs the line between movies and reality, seek out the anime Millennium Actress.

sean-57842 After devouring the incredible journey that was Twin Peaks: The Return, I went on the hunt for more things Lynch. Inland Empire is probably his most obtuse and difficult film, yet I must admit that I enjoyed it. I won't pretend to you that I had any single clue about what was going on for the majority of the feature, and whilst at times it did come across like a student film (you can thank the use of the Sony PD-150 for that) I was left feeling very unsettled at the conclusion.Simply put, nobody does dream sequences or dream worlds like David Lynch, and considering this entire film blurs the lines between dream and reality from beginning to end, this is the ultimate expression of that art-form. The budget is minuscule, but you will be left questioning what is real, and what it is that really matters, if anything. Laura Dern is excellent, as usual, and there is a pure- Lynchian (sorry to use that term!) scene where she gets stabbed with a screwdriver, and the people around her continue the most morbid conversation, in the most nonchalant way. It is hard to describe, you just have to watch it to see how twisted it is.