and playing with taboo in movies... I just saw the film called Pathology - worst movie ever.
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 28 September 2008 06:06 (fifteen years ago) link
so didn't suck ass. it was good but boring.
but Juno (the most obnoxious film ever made in the history of the world) and Little Miss Sunshine were good or great because you felt swell about them coming out of a theater. and any sort of analysis outside of straight emotional impressions isn't really important. does your left brain function when you watch a film? i mean, not saying Lynch is some CEREBRAL SHIT, but come on man. there's certainly more there than the irritating twee horseshit that you mentioned.
i'm kinda drunk too, but i'm not getting anything other than "I LIKED IT AND THEREFORE IT IS GOOD". not much fun for discussion.
― circa1916, Sunday, 28 September 2008 06:38 (fifteen years ago) link
for me, cerebral shit has to be more intelligent than what Lynch is getting into.I do enjoy delving into intelligent soulful shit or great art and emotional concepts, but, give me John Waters - Polyester, or Clockwork Orange, or Suspiria over a movie where the whole premise is basically an abduction of a guy into a weird artsy world... some scenes might of had great cinematography but I see great cinematography + better plot in other movies. I like lots of movies that make me think more than Blue Velvet. I wish I could thing of a great thought provoking movie now or a movie that is all around good and has an unique weird art style.. but I'm grasping at straws for names at the moment. How about City of God or Life Aquatic or A Boy and his Dog or The Warriors or The Seven Samurai or A Few Dollars More
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that there can be intellectualism in cinematography or art direction even if the film isn't particularly thought provoking - Lynch fans should agree with me on this point.
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:21 (fifteen years ago) link
whatever im friends with David Lynch on FACEBOOK captainlorax
― an abduction of a guy into a weird artsy world... (wilter), Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:25 (fifteen years ago) link
lorax, did you just srsly throw down the gauntlet of "Life Aquatic vs. Lynch, which is smarter?"
― SHOT INTO A FAN LIKE A CHRIS ROCK ROBOT (John Justen), Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:28 (fifteen years ago) link
which art direction + plot is better: blue velvet vs. life aquatic. that's what I was mentioning those movies for.
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey Lorax Fistful of Dollars pwnes A Few Dollars More
― an abduction of a guy into a weird artsy world... (wilter), Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:31 (fifteen years ago) link
see the problem here is that too many people skip the step in the iconoclast flowchart where it says "is it possible that i am confusing 'having different and interesting worldview' with 'being mildly retarded' Y/N?"
― SHOT INTO A FAN LIKE A CHRIS ROCK ROBOT (John Justen), Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:36 (fifteen years ago) link
the way lynch crafts the people, their emotional responses, underlying feelings & motivations can be very intellectual, or rather - not used in the vast majority of movies... thats where I see him as an intellectual. that and the art direction, style and cinematography can be intellectual. The plot of Blue Velvet didn't intrigue me.
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I wish I could remember the great "artsy" movie I saw this past year.
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:39 (fifteen years ago) link
help me list some good films where the left brain is obviously stimulated
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:41 (fifteen years ago) link
New Topic: help me list some good films where the left brain is obviously stimulated
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Using intellectualism in conjunction with any Lynch movie makes absolutely no sense at all whatsoever.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 28 September 2008 08:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never seen Twin Peaks, but will do soon.
However I saw Blue Velvet about 2 weeks ago on TV and thought it was one of the best films I'd ever seen. Some of the inexplicable bits are incredible, they let you think and try and decide what they mean yourself. I like the level of ambiguity there. Also it's really enthralling in and of itself, like the final scene with Julee Cruise playing as the bug is crushed by the bird. It takes guts to do things that don't make clear and absolute sense.
― Local Garda, Sunday, 28 September 2008 11:13 (fifteen years ago) link
CLASSIC
Even after the second season when they find the killer and Lynch isn't directing anymore and you know it will never be as good as it once was, you still CANNOT STOP WATCHING. Love the show. Except I wanna kick Billy Zane in the nards.
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/76/picture1sy2.png
― caek, Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
― caek, Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ this is like my favourite moment in television
James Marshall is truly one of the world's worst. He and Eric Da Re and all the other crappy actors make the show more lolably soap operatic though, which is obviously classic.
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
caek otm, that scene never fails to make me tear up a little
― Brosef Stalin (latebloomer), Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
FYI, folx:
Full Series Streaming on CBS Site
Now you can go about squandering your work day.
― smash your phonograph in half, Sunday, 28 September 2008 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
YES, thank you caek!
It's weird that you dig John Waters stuff, ACO, and Suspiria, CaptainLorax, but not Blue Velvet. I mean, these aren't terribly dissimilar.
Also, I don't mean to imply that Lynch is an intellectual filmmaker AT ALL. The guy himself openly talks about his process as being nearly wholly intuitive.
― circa1916, Sunday, 28 September 2008 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
intuitions, complex emotions, can be intellectual... art can be challenging.
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 28 September 2008 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i35.tinypic.com/2h7eyic.gif
― 'Breaker' Moran (wilter), Sunday, 28 September 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:29 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
so can opinions
― Brosef Stalin (latebloomer), Sunday, 28 September 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
That scene freaked me the fuck out the first time i saw that movie. Almost as much as the weird face at the end of Inland Empire.
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 29 September 2008 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
whats the point, he just has a normal movie with eerie settings and throws in something surprising
― CaptainLorax, Monday, 29 September 2008 02:54 (fifteen years ago) link
wheres the meat?
Dude has the uncanny ability to transform Norman Rockwell-worthy mundane Americana into something genuinely unsettling. That takes a special kind of talent. I am a horror buff, and I find certain Lynch scenes far more spooky than even the scariest of "scary movies." If nothing else, you've got to give the man his due for his expertise in dread and tension.
― Pillbox, Monday, 29 September 2008 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean: Robert Blake cell-phone scene in Lost Highway. wtf
― Pillbox, Monday, 29 September 2008 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Norman Rockwell-worthy mundane Americana - no one believes in thatit's already unsettling you can look out the window
― CaptainLorax, Monday, 29 September 2008 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not talking about actual reality. I'm talking about Garrison Keillor/Leave it to Beaver-type shit.
― Pillbox, Monday, 29 September 2008 03:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Since this is a TP thread, I'll use this as an example: In a certain pivotal episode in Season 2, there is a scene with the Palmers discussing Maddy's move home to Montana as Leland plays "What a Wonderful World" on the phonograph. There is nothing outwardly sinister about the scene at all, but the elements are combined in such a way as to leave you feeling totally uncomfortable.
― Pillbox, Monday, 29 September 2008 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I fell totally uncomfortable watching bad movies too.
― CaptainLorax, Monday, 29 September 2008 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
That is because you are a structuralist. Post-structuralists have a lot more fun watching "bad" movies. lol
― Pillbox, Monday, 29 September 2008 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Maddy's move home to Montana as Leland plays "What a Wonderful World" on the phonograph. There is nothing outwardly sinister about the scene at all, but the elements are combined in such a way as to leave you feeling totally uncomfortable.
Even better is that later in that episode, when Leland murders her, the needle is stuck in the runoff groove of this same record.
― smash your phonograph in half, Monday, 29 September 2008 12:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I would also like to submit that the murder of Maddie is one of the scariest sequences ever to be shown on network TV.
― smash your phonograph in half, Monday, 29 September 2008 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG also, interview with actor who plays BOB (starts about 1:50). Still fucking creepy, even when behaving normally:
― smash your phonograph in half, Monday, 29 September 2008 12:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Awesome. Sigh.
here is is
― smash your phonograph in half, Monday, 29 September 2008 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG Leland murders her?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
― tpp, Monday, 29 September 2008 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link
j/k
YES
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 29 September 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
yo the special feature doc on the twin peaks movie dvd is really funny. Whoever edited it made most of the actors who took part in it look like huge idiots
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 29 September 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Hawk: Some of my best friends are white people.
― ian, Monday, 29 September 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 29 September 2008 10:15 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkI got around to watching Inland Empire and that face is pretty fukking nasty
― wilter, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://api.ning.com/files/-jTS6W3nJqm58uuppaYSG0nyNTVVOTjcc1HUbl4TWuI_/InlandEmpireScream2.jpg
― wilter, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
yeeeeeeeeah I should not have clicked on that.
― Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:54 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest
I can't think of a single David Lynch movie that would qualify as a normal movie, even if you would go in an remove the obvious 'weird' parts. The dialogue alone throughout his movies is enough to make them a surreal experience.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah - Lynch's sense of pacing is nothing like a "normal" movie
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link