Movies watched recently:

[milly balgeary]

lost highway is great. i like robert blake, in that. but my favorite lynch film is dune. you know dune. i think he disinherited it, and its attributed to alan smithee.

but the baron harkonnen is my favorite. and that film actually is GENIUS.

[Chet]

The little guy in Lost Highway, with the white face and big black eyes, going all "HEY. REMEMBER ME?" is like the single most frightening thing I have ever seen in any movie ever.

[old kentucky shark]

I know David Lynch movies are supposed to be frightening on a deeper level, like based on what they mean or represent or something

but still, the shit that really gets me is just the shallow stuff. Twin Peaks, Bob looking at the mom from the bedroom, the memory of that as she's running down the stairs in slow motion. Just that shit with, like, the face in the mirror not being yours. Cheap stuff.

Or like in Mulholland Drive, the thing that still gets me is the thing behind the restaurant. How it just sort of slides out and then slides back. Or you know?

[Maaik]

Oh thank GOD.  Lost Highway is a really unpleasant subject with my friends (I'm just about the only Lynch fan out of everyone I hang out with).

I haven't seen LH in years, mostly cos apparently it's not available on DVD (the fuck's up with that, by the way?) and in high school, it was one of my favorites.  I also really liked Eraserhead, and even managed to watch it the whole way through a couple times.

But yeah, I really liked the idea of a total indentity collapse/reconstruction in the face of catastrophe.  Robert Blake's character was so genuinely creepy and that scene where he gets Bill Pullman to call himself at home is one of my favorite scenes ever.

I haven't devoted a lot of time to his middle period--Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet.  I've watched the first season of Twin Peaks (how can I get the rest of the episodes?) and Fire Walk With Me.  I remember having a discussion with my only other friend who likes Lynch about how the hullabaloo around American Beauty was kinda weird, since that movie was covering the same ground that Lynch had been tilling almost two decades before.

[Andrew_TSKS]

lost highway is great. i like robert blake, in that. but my favorite lynch film is dune. you know dune. i think he disinherited it, and its attributed to alan smithee.

from alan smithee's imdb bio page:

"most recently, he was named director of the TV movie The Birds II: Land's End (1994) and took credit for an expanded TV version of Dune (1984), which was organized under protest from its original director, David Lynch."

so... sorta, but not really. the original version is still credited to lynch.


oh, and hey, also on that subject:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/board/nest/17249137

[milly balgeary]

i watched the 4 hour version in the theatre, though. there were 2 choices. either the abbreviated version or the 4 hour version. i was just a kid. and i remember. don't make me subdue you with snotty hankies.

[FreddyKnuckles]

my roommate owns Dune on tape.  fuk dvd's!  analog all the way!! OWPGJ

[milly balgeary]

my roommate owns Dune on tape.  fuk dvd's!  analog all the way!! OWPGJ

ain't that the fucking truth. analog women too. no more digital clones.

[old kentucky shark]

I know David Lynch movies are supposed to be frightening on a deeper level, like based on what they mean or represent or something

but still, the shit that really gets me is just the shallow stuff. Twin Peaks, Bob looking at the mom from the bedroom, the memory of that as she's running down the stairs in slow motion. Just that shit with, like, the face in the mirror not being yours. Cheap stuff.

Or like in Mulholland Drive, the thing that still gets me is the thing behind the restaurant. How it just sort of slides out and then slides back. Or you know?

Continuing: like, Eraserhead did nothing for me, disturbing-wise. I enjoyed it as a surreal little thing, sure, but, like, surreal in just a harmlessly bizarre and almost funny way.

But that image of Bob peeking out still sends shivers down my spine, and also watching the show at an early/impressionable age contributed to my often debilitating fear of mirrors which I've upheld to this very day

=(

I need to see Lost Highway. and Blue Velvet.

[milly balgeary]

ooh. i have covered myself in vaseline and toy firetrucks. i am pregnant though i am a man. i will now unlock my cryptic story involving in some unsubtle way kyle m who went on to star in sex and the city. i hope i don't bear the devil's child. oooh. tears split my face. in the tears are my grandparents. ooh, i am now elijah wood. no, i am sam. i am writing a shitty book called there and back again. fuck.

that's all lynch does. blah. DUNE though. DUNE!

[milly balgeary]

oooh, i will make movies about butter and vaseilne and conspiracies. my name is david lynch. oooh. nicholas cage come here. come cross the abyss.

DUNE though? c'mon!!

[milly balgeary]

ooh, my name is david lynch. i'm .. okay, i'll stop.
oooh.. look at me! i am bill pullman plying my modern john zorn jazz. ooooh.
is that a videotape.. well. I BETTER play it. oh no, now i better become someone else..

[Maaik]

You oughta have a job writing the blurbs on the backs of movies and books.  Or voice over for trailers.

"In a world... where David Lynch can just do whatever the hell he wants to... Oooh, look at me, I'm the new David Lynch movie!  Durp de durf de shlobbidy shloo..."

[Andrew_TSKS]

milly, you've made me about explode with held-in laughter (because if i laugh loud my roommate will get all butthurt and come yell something snarky at me) for a second time tonight! stop it dude, i'm gonna get in trouble!

[boganlux]

The best ever television series is Fawlty Towers.

[FreddyKnuckles]

The best ever television series is Veronica Mars.

really?  I didn't take you for that type of show.

[boganlux]

The best ever television series is Veronica Mars.

really?  I didn't take you for that type of show.

I don't know what that even is, so I don't get it.

[FreddyKnuckles]

good

[dieblucasdie]

1)  Tonight is the second-to-last Veronica Mars episode in which we find out who raped her, and the anticipation is consuming my every waking thought.

2)  Dune! is awesome in a freshman-year-of-high-school-scifi way.  The sleeper must awaken!  Arrakis, desert planet!  The spice must flow!

[FreddyKnuckles]

you just like Dune cause of that awesome game we rented for genesis like 6 times.
remember?  we'd always steal the manuals?

I think when mom moved out I threw all of the stuff in that cardboard box away, and I'm pretty sure the manual for Dune was in there.

[dieblucasdie]

Word.  That game was one of the very first real-time strategy games.  That's not the only reason, though.  Come on, Freddy, do you know a bigger (non-Trekkie) sci-fi geek than me?

[FreddyKnuckles]

well, I don't know about non-trekkie, but zilch owns and has read every star wars book.  (not just the movie books.  he has hundreds of those things).

but like star trek, star wars is more main stream sci fi geek, but zilch is a pretty bad sci fi geek.

[Ah_Pook]

i rented The Singing Detective today. its going to be something else altogether, i believe.

[Radiation Cow]

I'm the only person to like the Ring 2.
Worship me.  

[justinh]

new stuff for this week:

DiG!
wickerman