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Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Elephant Man and Straight Story are all classics in their own ways, Blue Velvet is close, Inland Empire is his best imo. The only movies of his I can't stand are Dune and Wild At Heart

Album Rating: 4.5

didn't really like inland at all tbh

Album Rating: 4.0

Lynch is only interested in 'human stuff', to the extent he tries to break into the subconscious inner psyche's of his characters :/



Everything is in service to that, all the symbology, dream visions and what have you



It's disturbing how you can not follow one of his films logically but still instinctively know what it's about (the primary emotion) whether that's unrequited love, guilt, jealousy, etc.

Album Rating: 4.0

lmao I knew that would stir up some shit oh well



Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are just pure wank, nothing of substance at all just a series of interesting images with no meaning



I tried watching Inland Empire once and I gave up after the first ten minutes were low-quality footage of people in bunny suits (for real?) but I guess I'll finish it one day



Eraserhead is definitely a classic and I quite like parts of Lost Highway, namely the bits with the creepy ass pale dude

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"Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are just pure wank, nothing of substance at all just a series of interesting images with no meaning"



OH BOY



Everything else you said I can get behind tbh

Album Rating: 4.0

'Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are just pure wank, nothing of substance at all just a series of interesting images with no meaning'



Oh Row...



Get woke



For Mulholland you probably need to understand when she is in her 'dreamland' and when she's in reality - just because Lynch didn't put a creepy dwarf and chequered floor in the background doesn't mean he isn't doing similar things



Lynch could have called the film 'Hollywood Nightmare' and shot the dream (nightmare) stuff through a different filter but he just put some cues in there instead (people saying 'wake up', etc). I love Lynch because he's the opposite of the modern directors like Nolan who explain EVERYTHING

Album Rating: 4.0

no I understand the film perfectly I just think it's wank anyway, because it is. nice assumption that I only care about the more overt surreal images cos I'm dumb or whatever tho



by the same token, just because Twin Peaks manages some humour and actual expressed emotion instead of symbolism and airy meaningless bullshit doesn't make it lesser. in fact I think the main difference is that in Twin Peaks Frost gives us characters actually worth following and enjoyable to watch, whereas I couldn't give a stuff about any character in any of his other stuff, and so all the other shit doesn't land for me

Album Rating: 4.0

Jesus, masturbating and crying over the fact you had someone you wanted to love you murdered isn't emotional enough? Get out of town lol

Album Rating: 4.0

Well you could just say you don't enjoy the style rather than labelling it 'meaningless wank' as quite obviously it has 'meaning'

Album Rating: 4.0

Anyway, you like Eraserhead so all is good in the world

Album Rating: 4.0

"masturbating and crying over the fact you had someone you wanted to love you murdered"



I prefer my emotional a little more subtle than that in films tbh, also I think you're confusing emotion for humanity in my original post. I'm not saying I need Lynch's films to be full-blown string soundtracked tearjerkers, I'm saying I need them to have watchable, likable characters which they almost exclusively do not. on the other hand even it's more, uh, shite moments Twin Peaks at least had characters I wanted to follow

Album Rating: 4.5

Twin peaks is a damn fine cup of coffee

Album Rating: 4.0

Well they do deal in extreme emotions so a bit like saying 'I wish Jaws centred on a smaller breed of shark' - it's on the poster, it's Lynch, you pays your money, you're bemoaning what the film is about in the first place (the guilt and despair of a murderer, similar to Lost Highway...and Twin Peaks in a way)



I guess the character isn't particularly likeable in Mulholland (she's an untrustworthy narrator for half of it of course, so you aren't even watching 'real' people including herself) but I dunno, you do at least understand her and most people have experienced unrequited love, intense jealousy, feelings of failure and all that so...meh, it's a classic in a lot of people's eyes, you have to respect that.



The way the man renders dreams is uncanny, no one close to him.

Album Rating: 4.0

I never payed money to see any of his films so I'm in the clear, baby!

Album Rating: 4.0

you invested your thyme

do i tell doofus to shut up and make it a running gag

OR NOT

i guess not, bullying is bad

oh what a coincidence, 3 contributing reviewers in a row

Album Rating: 4.0

running emphasis on 'gag'

who do you think is going to be the next person to join our cool contrib team