Sheryl Lee is almost as heartbreaking as Naomi Watts.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 August 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
fwwm is great. so is wild at heart. the rest of you can go suck it fwiw imho
― dell (del), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
too many acronyms to worry about
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
this is one weird-ass movie so far
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
i keep waiting for large marge or some other pee-wee character to show up
The first half hour is fun but rather pointless cept for Keefer blinking blankly at the waitress ("You wanna hear the specials? We have none"). And Bowie in a Magnum P.I. shirt.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
i rented this when i was like thirteen and it really freaked me out
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
My first Lynch movie -- I was eighteen. Lots of scenes in this movie are at that level.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nme.com/photos/50-best-film-soundtracks-ever/207108/1/47
― Sugar-coated Satan Sandwich (Dan Peterson), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
Yes. Love the scene in that barn-club with the drugged-out neo-rockabilly band playing like Dwight Yoakam produced by Brian Eno.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
Uh, that NME link didn't go where I wanted it to.
1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
― Sugar-coated Satan Sandwich (Dan Peterson), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
okay well this got unnerving real quick didn't it
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
jess I love how you just sat down and let the thing unfurl so quickly
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
haha well i saw it was all on youtube so i said why noy. then about 40 mins in i noticed ot was missing part 12 of 13 so i gotta wait for netflix to send it to me.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
where did you stop
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
special agent gene krupa was jawing with harry dean, so i assume i haven't even gotten to the goods yet
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
Wait till Special Agent Chick Corea transforms into a blue rose.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
("You wanna hear the specials? We have none")
"Those drugs are LEGAL." Love the waitress.
The sound design is also astonishing in FWWM.
― third-generation stripper (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
Alfred OTM about the Mulholland Dr comparison. In a lot of ways I think FWWM is a truer predecessor to that movie (& most def Inland Empire) than Lost Highway
― shastakrautpasta (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
LH is a monstrosity. I've tried to like it. Everything about the movie is wrong: the casting, pace, ideas. Well, the soundtrack is okay, but it's the first time he yielded to contemporary trends.
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
Full disclosure: I've yet to see Lost Highway. I know it had the body-switching thing that MD used to great effect, though, and for that reason, critics tend to paint a straight line between the two.
― shastakrautpasta (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
lh is pretty damn bad.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
there's something bullying about it (and wild at heart) that makes me understand (almost) why people find him grotesque
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
guess he thought that, well, hey, Dean Stockwell was funny-frightening in makeup -- let me repeat the joke with Robert Blake, for whose work he probably paid $56.
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
pullman's saxophone o-face is almost enough to make me have some affection for it
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
wild at heart is the only one i dislike but i really dislike. srsly spent the whole movie wishing everyone would quit yelling.
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
i feel the same way re wild at heart, it's awful.
Lost Highway is obviously not perfect but it has some (thrillingly) terrifying scenes - robert blake asking pullman to call him is unfuckwithable and the gory flashbacks to arquette's death are genuinely shocking.
― jed_, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
this movie is fucking awesome. it's probably the weirdest feature he made between eraserhead and inland empire.
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
wild at heart is pretty hard to take, i agree.
the only thing that bugs me about wild at heart is the seemingly interminable sex scenes btwn cage, dern. i think the rest is pretty great
i probably could do with trying lost highway again. thumbs up for the scenes jed mentioned, even if some of the rest of it is meh or doesn't quite work or a bit of a mess
― dell (del), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
kind of agree with this tbh. it has moments and I think the underlying idea is a good one that finds more fully realized expression elsewhere in his ouevre. but yeah, Pullman, ugh. the Pryor sequence is sad and borderline offensive. most of the movie spends it's time running place.
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
I was gonna say exploitative (specifically re: Pryor) but yeah this
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
feel like this alone justifies Wild at Heart's existence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEz-cwJxtu8
also Dafoe accidentally blowing his head off with a shotgun O_o.
FWWM is pretty disappointing imo.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
i like lost highway, the phone scene is really cool, i became obsessed with it. just that it existed.
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
i loved lost highway when it came out because i was 19 and it was the first lynch i actually got to see in the theater and "share" with my nerdy film school friends in discussions and whatnot. but seeing it again a few years later, after mulholland drive, just nah.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
I'm gone, James. Like a turkey in the corn.
― notes on camping (Pillbox), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
I have still never seen this but it is showing in 35mm next month here:
http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/Twin-Peaks.aspx
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
it's not that good
― “How you like that, Mr. Hitler!” (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
Well worth watching though.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
it's awesome, go see it.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
kinda funny that two of the biggest Cannes disasters ever (FWWM and Brown Bunny) are in my top 10 all-time.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
Fact: the first Lynch film I saw.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
my favorite film by david lynch
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
totally worth seeing
― Moodles, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
I saw it for the first time in the mid-90s and loved it. I'd have probably said it was my second or third favourite Lynch film, at least until Inland Empire came out.
Saw it again last year and it didn't strike me as anything like as impressive. The start and end are great but long swathes of it drag terribly. 100% worth watching, though.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
A lot of terrible ideas in the movie, and in places no ideas at all.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
lol that is a great description of it.
there are definitely things in it I like a lot.
― “How you like that, Mr. Hitler!” (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
Leland telling Laura to wash her hands before coming to the dinner table, for example
― “How you like that, Mr. Hitler!” (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
The dance at the club reminds me of every drunken standing around I've ever done in my life.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
Also: Sheryl Lee gives one of the great unsung performances of the decade (Greil Marcus also a fan).
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link