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Re: David Lynch has died

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Post by jajko »

andrewstuart wrote: post #40
angry_moose wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still reserving judgement. In a vacuum I don't love the changes he made to Part 2 but I can also see how they will make it flow much better into Part 3 than Dune > Dune Messiah ever did (that always felt disjointed to me); as well as make that story more compelling.

I wish just for once these directors had simply made the movie of the book and damn the consequences of what Hollywood thinks audiences want. The movies that directors such as Peter Jackson make are brilliantly done - if only the story wasn't hacked. And that's not even addressing the worst of the travesties such as Radagast the Brown being covered in bird shit and the dwarves in The Hobbit being a bunch of circus cl…

Its often not directors defining pacing and length of the result, but producer/studio. A lot of bitter conflicts came up from this.

Re: David Lynch has died

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Post by briteside »

antognini wrote: post #26

During the pandemic David Lynch released a daily weather video in which he reported what the weather was at his home in Los Angeles. First video was May 11, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krIj6eLF4mU Last video was December 16, 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21GFyOO8Ug He also released a daily video in which he drew a bingo number. I can't really imagine any other major director doing something like th…

Actually he started this back in 2005

Re: David Lynch has died

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Post by spokaneplumb »

kikokikokiko wrote: post #74
canucker2016 wrote: post #6

Eraserhead - my mind is still trying to make sense of it

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It's OK to just not care for things. Sometimes those things will be good. It's still OK to not care for them.

It's also OK to like bad things. I like lots of bad things.

Re: David Lynch has died

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Post by non-nil »

corysama wrote: post #62
diggan wrote: post #19

Sad to hear. Personally I think I've only seen Mulholland Drive before, but long time ago. I enjoy surreal movies in general, so kind of weird I haven't seen more of Lynch's work. What personal favorites do other HNers have, of what he'd done?

I love Lost Highway . But, you have to watch the whole thing confused. Then have someone explain what's happening in the last scene. Then watch the whole thing again amazed. Also, the soundtrack was one of the first produced by Trent Reznor --long before he made a hobby of collecting Oscars. And, I grew up watching Lynch's Dune over and over until it made sense :P

The soundtrack to Lost Highway is one of my top albums, all categories. Equally as fascinating, weird, violent and beautiful as the film itself. The tracks are masterfully sequenced, often blend into each other and form a complete work in itself.

It has long been my testbed for gapless playback on various hardware and software, often to my disappointment. (I'm not sure the experience is even available on streaming platforms, where things are normally playlists of disparate blobs of data, where perhaps "this track is not available in your region".)

Re: David Lynch has died

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Post by wbl »

andrewstuart wrote: post #40
angry_moose wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still reserving judgement. In a vacuum I don't love the changes he made to Part 2 but I can also see how they will make it flow much better into Part 3 than Dune > Dune Messiah ever did (that always felt disjointed to me); as well as make that story more compelling.

I wish just for once these directors had simply made the movie of the book and damn the consequences of what Hollywood thinks audiences want. The movies that directors such as Peter Jackson make are brilliantly done - if only the story wasn't hacked. And that's not even addressing the worst of the travesties such as Radagast the Brown being covered in bird shit and the dwarves in The Hobbit being a bunch of circus cl…

What works in books often doesn't work on screen and vice versa. They are different media.

Re: David Lynch has died

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Post by doom2 »

dfxm12 wrote: post #46

He saved a lot of great dialog for himself: "I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die". RIP.

That this was specifically about telling transphobes to knock it off feels very relevant in the current moment.

Re: David Lynch has died

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Post by tanseydavid »

antognini wrote: post #28
jonhohle wrote: post #16

During Covid I started watching his daily weather update, even though I didn’t live in LA. Virtually every day was the same. Very clear. Very still. I’m not sure if anyone could ever “get” one of his movies completely beyond the experience and the narrative. He always left so much unsaid and open to interpretation, just like life. They are movies designed to make the viewer feel a certain way, rather than literally w…

It took me a little while to be convinced that he was actually reporting the weather as it was like at his home rather than saying the same thing every day. But, no, he was really reporting the weather and the weather is really just always like that in LA.

"Los Angeles, every day, hot and sunny, today, hot and sunny, tomorrow, hot and, for the rest of the… hot and sunny, every single day, hot and sunny. And they love it. 'Isn’t great, every day, hot and sunny?' What are you, a @$%^& lizard?"

- Bill Hicks

Re: David Lynch has died

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Post by tannhaeuser »

heresie-dabord wrote: post #61
tannhaeuser wrote: post #17

How sad. Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive (the IMO under-appreciated pilot), and yes his Dune even though he didn't like it are some of my favourite movies of all time. RIP

Blue Velvet and Elephant Man . Discover them or help someone else discover them.

Of course I know them (actually watched Elephant Man as a kid on the big screen!). Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive just sting harder as unspeakable reflection on who we pretend to be to ourselves vs how we might look in the eyes of a cruel society IMO if my interpretation isn't totally nuts. I think I'm going to watch MD right now in memoriam!
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