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i understand what he's saying but i still pretty much survived 9th and 10th grade watching shaun of the dead, a scanner darkly, south park and bevis and butthead on my ipod

I enjoyed Dune and The Elephant Man

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wh_mc8hRE[/media] "Bullshit. Total, fucking, bullshit." Hehe He actually seems like a pretty cool guy.

Apparently no one knows how David Lynch managed to articulate the reptilian baby in Eraserhead except himself and a few others. Most of the people working on it weren't allowed to see it while they set it up. Creepy. That damned reptile baby is so disturbingly well-animated.

he really likes fucking with his audience lol

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;16843121]Apparently no one knows how David Lynch managed to articulate the reptilian baby in Eraserhead except himself and a few others. Most of the people working on it weren't allowed to see it while they set it up. Creepy. That damned reptile baby is so disturbingly well-animated.[/QUOTE] Most believe it is an embalmed calf fetus. But no one really knows.

[QUOTE=Publius;16846381]Most believe it is an embalmed calf fetus. But no one really knows.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure that's what it was, but I wanna know how they made it move so fucking realistically. It's disturbing.

that was realistic movement to you? it seemed so unnatural to me, pretty good for a puppet but still.

[QUOTE=Drasnus;16778787][URL=http://img23.imageshack.us/i/lynch.png/][IMG]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/601/lynch.png[/IMG][/URL][/QUOTE] Java The Hitler ?!

I just saw Blue Velvet. Take away the happy ending and you've got something similar to a nightmare I'd might have.

[QUOTE=GarrysDad;16852403]Java The Hitler ?![/QUOTE] Do you even know what Hitler looked like?

[QUOTE=pie_is_good;16956637]I just saw Blue Velvet. Take away the happy ending and you've got something similar to a nightmare I'd might have.[/QUOTE] His films are often called nightmares. Watch Inland Empire. That is a true nightmare. People change identities, time rearranges itself, places transform into others, it's insane. Scariest movie I ever saw

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;16777279]He should not have and no it is not.[/QUOTE] I kind of liked the movie. I bought the book yesterday and I'm going to read it to see what he had to do.

[QUOTE=3v3ryb0dy;16959697]I kind of liked the movie. I bought the book yesterday and I'm going to read it to see what he had to do.[/QUOTE] Exactly; he had a mammoth task ahead of him and got severely depressed throughout the making of it. At least it taught him that epic sci-fi wasn't for him, and for that reason, it's an important film.

[QUOTE=3v3ryb0dy;16959697]I kind of liked the movie. I bought the book yesterday and I'm going to read it to see what he had to do.[/QUOTE] Oh god you're reading the book after the movie That's horrible for any book-movie pair but with Dune it's downright sacrilege.

Only movie I've ever seen by him was Eraserhead. It didn't so much scare me as it confused me beyond belief. There seems to be no rational reasoning/explanation for 90% of the shit that happens. I've heard people say the idea is to get your own interpretation out of it, which I fucking hate. It bugs me to no end not knowing the director's meaning behind a movie.

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;16960246]Oh god you're reading the book after the movie That's horrible for any book-movie pair but with Dune it's downright sacrilege.[/QUOTE] Not as bad as what Frank Herbert's son did to the series.

[QUOTE=Wangman;16962343]Only movie I've ever seen by him was Eraserhead. It didn't so much scare me as it confused me beyond belief. There seems to be no rational reasoning/explanation for 90% of the shit that happens. I've heard people say the idea is to get your own interpretation out of it, which I fucking hate. It bugs me to no end not knowing the director's meaning behind a movie.[/QUOTE] You'll get used to it. If a movie stays in your head for days, it has done its job.

I just saw The Elephant Man. Very good. Tried to watch Inland Empire, can't quite get in the right mood for it. The cinematography and the whole digital thing really annoyed my eyes.

[QUOTE=Drasnus;16966265]I just saw The Elephant Man. Very good. Tried to watch Inland Empire, can't quite get in the right mood for it. The cinematography and the whole digital thing really annoyed my eyes.[/QUOTE] Yeah, the DV quality is kinda rough, especially when viewed on an HD TV set. It's a great, great movie but it is a difficult viewing. What did you think of Elephant Man?

[QUOTE=Publius;16966318]Yeah, the DV quality is kinda rough, especially when viewed on an HD TV set. It's a great, great movie but it is a difficult viewing. What did you think of Elephant Man?[/QUOTE] Very touching, great direction, beautiful to look at and had great acting. Hurt's makeup was also amazingly done, proof that CGI is often unnecessary.

It is very moving, I cry like a baby every time I see it just because I know what's coming. Did you know Lynch made Inland Empire purely because he liked the word 'Inland' and the word 'Empire'? He made the movie up as he went along, and for the result, it's fucking incredible. I have an interpretation of it but I need to watch it again to fill in the blanks. Finding the time to watch a 3 hour movie is tough :\

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddp012WOO7A[/media] David Lynch helps solve peoples problems.

I watched a university speech that he did on Transcendental Meditation. It did influence my decision to learn more about meditation, but that made me realize that Lynch is a little crazy and/or a douchebag. Transcendental Meditation is almost identical to meditation techniques that have been around forever.. but it's more of an organization.. a cultish organization, probably comparable to Scientology but not as bad. Lynch is trying to convince college kids to fork over $2500 for Transcendental Meditation lessons, and he has some grand plan to get 8000 people together to meditate and thus create world peace (yeah, I don't know how that works either). I learned to meditate for free, on the internet. I've lost some faith in the guy. More info on the TM cult - [url]http://www.suggestibility.org/[/url]

[QUOTE=Drasnus;16775782]I love Eraserhead.[/QUOTE] If you even consider that a moderately well directed film, which it is not considering the fact that it's not much of a film at all...

[QUOTE=Loompa Lord;16972808]If you even consider that a moderately well directed film, which it is not considering the fact that it's not much of a film at all...[/QUOTE] Go on? What do you find wrong with it?

He probably 'didn't get it'. Look, if the words 'metaphysical' 'rich symbolism' 'allegorical' 'arthouse' and 'surreal' turn you off you shouldn't even bother watching Eraserhead. I think most people who go to Eraserhead after hearing of its cult status are expecting some sort of conventional horror film in the vein of [i]Phantasm[/i] or [i]Night of the Living Dead[/i]. It's a lot more than that.

Agreed, it's suffocating like a nightmare.

i never got this nightmare feeling you guys keep saying about david lynch movies. ingland empire felt like a fucking college film. i mean it was alright but the shitty scares really turned me off. lol for the first 45 minutes of the movie i had it going at a little more than half speed by accident and it fit so well i didn't notice it for that period of time, although it seemed like the main character was shitfaced off nitrous and heroin in those scenes. i'm never creeped out by this shit, it's just really interesting to watch. lost highway is fucking awesome because it uses rammstein so well, besides the great nudity and the um... story. it's badass when rammstein kicks off just as that mob dude gets smacked in the face with a .45. even though it's all in his mind and he's really on death row or something.

i don't know what it is about mulholland drive but i can feel chemistry between the characters, even though the acting seems a bit corny it's so real at the same time... i love david lynch, i really mean it when i say it. naomi watts is hot, she's like a combination of a few superfine bitches i know.