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I just get tired of it - its narrative leaps are nonsensical, there's no "forward motion" in the plot, and I don't care about the lead characters. I blame the source material - not a big fan of the way Gifford structures his stories.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

also, ilx be hating Nic Cage

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

people hating nic cage must not understand just how fantastic raising arizona is.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I honestly don't get Lynch's appeal - I find his films cold, uninvolving, meaningless and boring.

Having said that I liked Twin Peaks, mostly because it was funny.

xpost - yeah he's great in that. And in Adaptation.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i personally love wild at heart!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link

The Straight Story gets better and better; in its quiet way, as subversive as Mulholland Drive. What beautiful music – some of the best scoring I've heard in modern film.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

wild at heart is a comedy.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.skaityta.lt/img/KingStand.jpg

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

wrong thread!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

and while lynch's films are, perhaps, cold & meaningless they're certainly not uninvolving or boring!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

wild at heart is hot

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

don't jump back so slow, i thought rabbits were supposed to be fast.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

this is rockin good news

― account settings (account), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

my dog barks some

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Enough jibber jabber, get me one (1) trailer for Inland Empire

― Should've Never Give Jimmy Mod Money (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

He has a new animation DVD out, but I have a hard time paying money for some crappy Flash series he put together learning the program.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link

wild at heart is a comedy.

i've thought of it as a david lynch airplane! movie, gags every 30 seconds. not all of them connect, but the ones that do are boffo. and since it's a lynch airplane!, it's also scary-weird, but that's just a different kind of gag. sherilynn fenn picking her brains out -- funny, disturbing or just icky? all of the above.

it's his Pop movie. i love it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

also, i think only some of his movies are "cold." eraserhead, maybe, although that's too dreamy to really be cold. dune is chilly, he didn't really engage with that one. and lost highway is definitely cold, which is what i don't like about it -- it's the only one of his movies that really feels nasty to me, and egregiously. blue velvet and mulholland drive are warm and dark.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

gypsy -- sherilyn fenn involved in any kind of picking is hot.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link

hot, right, that was the other option.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link

lynch should work with harry dean stanton again.

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link

also, i think only some of his movies are "cold." eraserhead, maybe, although that's too dreamy to really be cold. dune is chilly, he didn't really engage with that one. and lost highway is definitely cold, which is what i don't like about it -- it's the only one of his movies that really feels nasty to me, and egregiously. blue velvet and mulholland drive are warm and dark.

-- gypsy mothra (meetm...), March 16th, 2006.

otm

― latebloomer aka rembrandt, the fifth ninja turtle (latebloomer), Thursday, 16 March 2006 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i watched the long ass dune i taped off tv back in the day. its like 4 hours or something. it was kickin ass.

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 16 March 2006 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Kephm, good news: Harry Dean is in INLAND EMPIRE.

― WitchBaby (witchy), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd guess this was the DVD mentioned a little earlier:

Room to Dream

Sez it's free, though -- and apparently there's Inland Empire behind the scenes footage on it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

oh um, no... oh wow, maybe.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JLVH4BXlPc4&search=david%20lynch

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I finally saw Eraserhead for the first time last night. I mean, holy shit, probably the most unsettling thing ever. I loved though the classic Lynch trick of have-a-wtf-noise-going-for-the-duration-of-a-scene-then-tie-off-the-scene-by-showing-us-what-was-making-that-noise (a la the suckling puppies).

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

It was also like painfully funny in a couple places; Mary's chipper dad, the eraser factory scene, etc.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy shit, imdb says Jack Nance was MURDERED!?!?

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, he was shot by someone he got into an argument with i think. in a donut shop or something like that, IIRC.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.lynchnet.com/absent/nancepre.html

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

there's something peculiarly Lynchian about getting murdered via a brawl with the patrons of a donut shop.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Eraserhead had it's moments, but was also boring and art studenty. I think these days I appreciate Lynch's straight movies the most, i.e. Elephant Man and Straight Story. He should do more of those.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

dude it invented "art studenty"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I rewatched Polanski's The Tenant a couple of weeks ago, and there was a definite Lynch-like vibe in it. If he ever saw it, it must've given him an idea or two.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

same with N Young's "Human Highway"

― Total Fucking Darkness (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

cf: Blake Edwards' "Experiment In Terror"

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

cf: Blake Edwards' "Skin Deep"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 June 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i liked twin peaks but not much else.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 12 June 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Movie-maker David Lynch has filed for divorce from his wife of a month. The Twin Peaks visionary and Mary Sweeney wed in May after years spent working together on movies like Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story, which Sweeney co-wrote, edited and produced. Lynch filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences" on Monday after separating from Sweeney at the weekend. The couple has a teenage son, Riley. The month-long wedding was Lynch's third.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"month-long wedding"? that's a long ceremony.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Human Highway is too hilarious to be Lynchian.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a deeper connection than style. lots of actors that would become part of Lynch's stable are in that film.

― Total Fucking Darkness (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

go back to film school.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

what's your problem?

― Total Fucking Darkness (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

JUST A BIT OF FUN, LET'S BE COOL.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Human Highway has Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, concerns surrealistic small-town goings-on, and was filmed four years before "Blue Velvet." I'd wager Lynch was one of the only people to see this film when it came out.

― Total Fucking Darkness (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i just watched the 1st episode of on the air last night and it has to be the strangest thing ever on tv. the part at the end when the cavemen walk by with the inflatable raft slayed me.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I think the first episode is brilliant, beautifully absurd slapstick. It's the only episode Lynch directed, though, and the rest is pretty mediocre. Though the last episode (which he wrote) is quite special, and probably even stranger than the first.

― Orange (Orange), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

the rest is pretty mediocre

YOU ARE WRONG WRONG WRONG

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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