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David Lynch has died
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#132Mulholland Drive is one of my all-time favorites. A genius director!
My favorite is Lost Highway. And here's what I think it is "about": unbearable remorse.
Lynch's ability to make the most unnerving scenes I've ever seen was incredible. And he ostensibly wasn't even making horror movies. Something about this scene (and so many others): triggers something deep in my soul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZowK0NAvig
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The first season is a masterpiece. Second season goes off the rails and loses direction fairly early on
Last few episodes are great again, and then we got Fire Walk With Me which is awesome. Also check out the feature-length The Missing Pieces composed of scenes cut from Fire Walk , if you haven't. Frankly I find even the "bad" stretch of S2 better than more than half of allegedly-good TV, anyway.
I agree, although on rewatches I have fast-forwarded through a lot of the James scenes in S2.
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HN guidelines prefer the original source when possible, so you did the right thing IMHO.
Apparently not! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729717 Funny :)
Oh damn haha, a good example I suppose that "guidelines" aren't meant to be hard rules :-)
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I have never seen a single one of his movies but I love watching interviews with him, he had an amazing presence and so much energy.
Start with "Eraserhead" and then go from there. Surreal is the word I associate with his movies and tv show (Twin Peaks) and I absolutely love watching such movies!
> Surreal is the word I associate with his movies and tv show
And his style of surrealism has been so influential that it has its own term: Lynchian!
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#136Terribly sad. His movies were a significant discovery for me and are now forever in my heart.
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#137How 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
We discovered a cut that was about three hours that people who hadn’t read the book seemed to understand. Had a different intro and flowed better. I’ve seen three versions of this movie. The theatrical and the longest one both sucked for anyone not a Herbert fan. I thought the longest was the director’s cut but he never did one. Perhaps it was the TV movie cut. But I don’t know what the “good” one was called.
This page on IMDB has all the "legitimate" versions I'm aware of, but I'm sure there are unauthorized cuts out there:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/alternateversions/
A non-theatrical "director's cut" is a Mandela Effect moment for me. I don't know what I watched. It wasn't the TV version, because that was the first version I watched. I can only guess that it was a common mistake to call some version "the director's cut" among viewers (or maybe just my friends) in the past.
The list I've linked to certainly wasn't illuminating for me, but maybe it will be for you.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Start with "Eraserhead" and then go from there. Surreal is the word I associate with his movies and tv show (Twin Peaks) and I absolutely love watching such movies!
Dune or Twin Peaks are probably going to be more accessible than anything else. For Eraserhead, I understand the metaphor of how parenting can be larger-than-life and terrifying and I see how Eraserhead was trying to embody that but I very much didn't appreciate the highly pessimistic ending. It's an early movie that would have benefited immensely from an alternate ending on its DVD.
The beauty of Lynch films is that everyone can interpret it in their own way!
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#139I'm surprised, sad. Maybe the last of the big directors, certainly my favorite. Here's Lynch making quinoa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-ewdJYJc&ab_channel=scayn...
Ha ha, first time I’ve seen another reference to this! Back in the day, I got such a kick out of his description that I began imitating it myself, calling it my “David Lynch Special” dish.
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Last few episodes are great again, and then we got Fire Walk With Me which is awesome. Also check out the feature-length The Missing Pieces composed of scenes cut from Fire Walk , if you haven't. Frankly I find even the "bad" stretch of S2 better than more than half of allegedly-good TV, anyway.
I agree, although on rewatches I have fast-forwarded through a lot of the James scenes in S2.
James-hate is common even among the more devoted fans of the show, I think.
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/why-we-hate-james-hurl...
I think about the "Watching Twin Peaks" comic around 2/3 down that page pretty much every time he's on screen. "Ugh yes please go," indeed.
Oddly, I liked him in The Return.