'Inland Empire' (2 Viewers)

[Wilbert]

Jesus Wilbert, you haven't been teaching your pupils such whopping falsities have you???

If you have, then may God have mercy on us all...

Just saying what I heard and that is the least of the falsities I've been teaching over the years.

 

[I Bleed Black]

He's been sitting on a deckchair on the corner of main streets in LA with a cow and a billboard type poster of Laura Dern with 'For your consideration' printed on it. Do you think he's trying to get somebodies attention? I've heard she puts in a stunning performance alright.

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Oh ya it's INLAND EMPIRE not Inland Empire!

 

[Yurn!]

Just saying what I heard and that is the least of the falsities I've been teaching over the years.

Partial credit!

 

[Mitchum]

He's been sitting on a deckchair on the corner of main streets in LA with a cow and a billboard type poster of Laura Dern with 'For your consideration' printed on it. Do you think he's trying to get somebodies attention? I've heard she puts in a stunning performance alright.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut6zdE8qWj0

Oh ya it's INLAND EMPIRE not Inland Empire!

She was asked by a Guardian journalist what she thought of INLAND EMPIRE recently & she said she didn't know what it was about or what her role in it was but that she think's Mr. Lynch is a genius & she trusts him.
*derisive snort*

 

[Unclealo]

I think Lynch has been living in a cave for the last 20 years. An obscure, over-indulgent pretentious cave of his own making, only to come out into the light for A Straight Story, which, though minor, was cleverly anti-American in that it was about a man not using a car and going very SLOWLY. He has never equalled the twin peaks of Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, and has gone down hill since. The fact that he supported the war in Iraq has absolutely nothing to do with my view of his films, though I can't help feeling negative about the man.

You don't like Lynch, we get it.

 

[Mitchum]

You don't like Lynch, we get it.

Just making room for debate, innit.

 

[Unclealo]

Just making room for debate, innit.

No offence, but I for one don't like getting into a film school debate about movies I like.

 

[Mitchum]

No offence, but I for one don't like getting into a film school debate about movies I like.

Poor little lamb.
I just think there's a case of Emperor's New Clothes when it comes to Lynch's fillums & felt like saying so.

 

[Unclealo]

Poor little lamb.
I just think there's a case of Emperor's New Clothes when it comes to Lynch's fillums & felt like saying so.

Yes and noone agrees with you

 

[Mitchum]

Yes and noone agrees with you

Well, quite.

Try googling 'David Lynch is rubbish'.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Did you not like Twin Peaks, Mitchum?

or Wild At Heart, even?

 

[Unclealo]

Well, quite.

Try googling 'David Lynch is rubbish'.

Noone on this thread

 

[Mitchum]

Did you not like Twin Peaks, Mitchum?

or Wild At Heart, even?

Twin Peeaks was okay...ah good tv (like Lost) but a bit dull.
Wild At Heart was really uneven and daft.
I do like Eraserhead & Blue Velvet but have absolutely no time for Mullholland Drive (well I've watched it twice) or Lost Highway.

 

[Nate Champion]

Laura Dern was incredibly funny in Alexander Payne's Citizen Ruth. The film he made before Election.

Her style of acting and her appearance are built for roles in Lynch's films.

However I find 'Wild At Heart' a little overwrought. But I guess that's the point. Harry Dean Stanton is brutally murdered too. And we can't be having that....

I love Twin Peaks - now that I have the whole series I'm just finding an apt time to watch it in a whole week. I get giddy just thinking about watching Twin Peaks. I will occasionally dance and click my fingers sliding across a kitchen...

 

[I Bleed Black]

Mullholland Drive (well I've watched it twice).

It requires at least 10 viewing before judgement can be passed

 

[Hair Iron Madin]

It requires at least 10 viewing before judgement can be passed

lost highway deserves a second or third look.

One of the most disturbing lines in the film when bill pullman is in bed having sex with the missus and she whispers into his ear "you'll never have me".

what a nightmare.

 

[Mitchum]

It requires at least 10 viewing before judgement can be passed

When you watch films like Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr. a second time, you see they're just collections of diverting, amusing or quirkily contrived scenes that collectively amount to very little.
I'll go and see his new one in the cinema because it'll be stylish and it'll have some suprising or amusing moments. But it's begun to get a bit exasperating. And when you look at The Elephant Man and The Straight Story and see that Lynch is capable of making films that are moving, human and also coherent and gripping from a narrative point of view, it's a shame that he has to keep ploughing his wilfully weird furrow to nowhere.

 

[Mitchum]

Sorry...when *I* watch films like Lost Highway etc.

btw there's a really interesting essay by novelist David Foster Wallace on Lynch in his book 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do'. 87 pages long & Lynch gave Wallace an all access pass during the filming of LH.

 

[Unclealo]

For someone who hates David Lynch you sure spend alot of time talking about him.

 

[Mitchum]

For someone who hates David Lynch you sure spend alot of time talking about him.

I don't think I should apologise for being a dissenting voice re: Mr. Lynch.
There's more to say about his films than they are good/bad.
IMO!!!!!