I don't see how people can hate Eraserhead so much, it's like everyone wants the exact meaning of the movie handed to them in the form of a simple explanation, they don't want to just think about it.
For me, a straightforward and simple explanation would completely ruin the film. Though the baby would kinda make up for it.
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;16993369]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.[/QUOTE]
Yeah he is awesome. The acting is supposed to be sort of corny, she's living out a fantasy of being this awesome Hollywood superstar.
The scene where she is rehearsing with the old man for the movie is one of the finest pieces of cinema ever. It's unsettling, incredibly well acted and very tense
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h28Kbdfmvbk[/media]
Shits on america's PS9 advert from that time.
So much so that they made the advert for the PS3 fucked up.
(While we brits got some shitty 'This is living' thing)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmMwKBMse_w[/media]
Not a mention of [I]The Alphabet[/I] to be found! Well, here you go.
Also, Eraserhead [I]freaks me out.[/I] It's like one really long nightmare.
Didn't know where else to post this...
I have found a strange similarity between INLAND EMPIRE and the song Heartattack and Vine, by Tom Waits.
Now, Heartattack and Vine is obviously a play on words, meaning Hollywood and Vine. Tom Waits went to H...ollywood and found it a pretty scary place, just like Lynch does. Waits states:
"Waits: I was in a bar one night on Hollywood Boulevard near Vine Street, and this lady came in with a dead animal over her arm, looking like she'd obviously been sleeping outdoors. She walked up to the bartender and said, "I'm gonna have a heart attack," and he says, "Yeah, right, you can have it outside." I thought that was pretty chilly. So I re-named Hollywood Blvd. "heartattack."
That's pretty weird. Sleeping rough just like the characters who talk to Dern as she lies on the sidewalk. A dead animal over her arm? Sounds a bit like the log lady from Twin Peaks...
There are more striking resemblances between the lyrics and the film. "You'll never recognise yourself on Heartattack and Vine." Perfect! Nikki Grace/Susan Blue doesn't have a clue who she is, she keeps seeing herself on the othe...r side of the boulevard.
"You'll probably see someone you know on Hearttack and Vine." same applies!
"See that little Jersey girl in the see-through top
With the peddle pushers sucking on a soda pop
Well I bet she's still a virgin but it's only twenty-five 'til nine
You can see a million of 'em on heartattack and vine" this sounds like the hookers we keep seeing.
"Better off in Iowa against your scrambled eggs
Than crawling down Cahuenga on a broken pair of legs" - Nikki Grace is crawling up the boulevard as if she didn't have legs, and Susan Blue has a midwestern accent, perhaps from Iowa?
"Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk" This sort of reminds me of The Phantom/Piotrek, a sort of split, corrupted perspective on dualism.
Also, the song sounds like something that could be... used in a Lynch flick. Very slow blues, in the vein of blue Velvet or Mulholland Drive.
Let me know what you think!
[QUOTE=admiral_Cola;16962535]Not as bad as what Frank Herbert's son did to the series.[/QUOTE]
True.
I watch Eraserhead the other day.
I think I have cancer now.
[QUOTE=DocStalenin;17004362]I watch Eraserhead the other day.
I think I have cancer now.[/QUOTE]
It has that affect on people.
it's the best movie ever, it speaks to me on a level so high and abstact i can't even put it into words.
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The scene where she is rehearsing with the old man for the movie is one of the finest pieces of cinema ever. It's unsettling, incredibly well acted and very tense[/QUOTE]
i love it. when they are introduced to each other it's like he's a perverted old man-cougar taking advantage of her. but he's an actor through and though, she figures it out right when they rehearse and plays along so well she ends up leading it. it really pushes the firsthalf/dream-hollywood, secondhalf/real-hollywood idea for me.
David Lynch literally rules
watched INLAND EMPIRE again last night. I used to hate it, couldn't sit through it but now I think it's a favourite. It's 3 hours long and most people hate that but it really wouldn't work if it was any shorter. I also drank 5 cans of lager before watching it and seemed to notice more than usual.
[QUOTE=ItchyBarracuda;16775790]Lost Highway and Muholland Drive are classics.
Peter Berg is busy remaking Dune, and hopefully won't fuck it up like Lynch did. Lynch's "Dune" was an abomination to what the books originally intended. Dune was brilliant, his film was not[/QUOTE]
Didn't Dune contain some of the first forms of CGI? Hilarious effects anyway :P
Yeah the efffects are pretty bad. Glowing eyes, wtf?
I thought you meant George Lynch.
[img]http://lynchmob.hp.infoseek.co.jp/George%20Lynch.jpg[/img]
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