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| A man's got to know his limitations  |
He was writer and director of some good movies and shows. Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks were some of my favorites. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm00..._0_q_David%2520Lynch "But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock "If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it." Clarence Worley | ||
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| I swear I had something for this |
I don't think Dennis Hopper was any better than in this movie. RIP. | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
One of my favorite film makers, just an amazing body of work. My favorite is Eraserhead, and I agree with Stanley Kubrick who thought it was a beautiful film. My son bought me the Criterion BluRay of the movie for my birthday last year and we watched it together, he is now a Lynch addict. And of course I loved the TV show Twin Peaks, amazing he got it made for network TV. He was certainly an original, one-of-a-kind director. Rest in Peace.  "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Dude made some weird stuff. Maybe I am not "sophisticated" enough to appreciate him. The Elephant Man was the first one I ever saw of his, and I went on to watch others. All odd, to me anyway. I'd like to watch Eraserhead; haven't seen that one. | |||
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Uhhhh, if I may suggest a skip on that one.  If you thought the other ones were odd … well, this one will just make you wonder if humanity even deserves its place in the universe. lol | |||
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Noted. Whew; dodged a bullet there. Thanks. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Yeah, but if Kubrick thought it was genius . . . Don't sell yourself short. Lynch was certainly one of a kind. He seemed to have a viewport into a universe that wasn't our universe, but wasn't totally unlike our universe. I loved most of what he made. I am sorry he is gone. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| W07VH5 |
You can read this synopsis from imdb https://m.imdb.com/title/tt007...lotsummary/#synopsis  | |||
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The Eraserhead still is worthy of Robert Frank or Diane Arbus. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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The Joy Maker |
David Lynch didn't make movies or TV shows, he made dreams. Put yourself in that mindset and a lot of his stuff makes sense, sorta. I for one am pretty bummed out. 
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IMO, Lynch's most accessible films are: The Straight Story (1999) The Elephant Man (1980) And even though he disavowed it, Dune (1984). Dune is more enjoyable if instead of seeking a faithful book adaptation, think of it as a pulpy comic book style adaptation similar to Flash Gordon (1980). | |||
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The studio heads dicked with Dune. What made it to the theater was not what Lynch wanted for the Final Cut at all. Even then, I own it, still love the film and like it even better then Denis’s version. RIP. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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I was a big fan of Twin Peaks, that led me to watch others. I especially like Wild at Heart, the original Mullholland Drive and Blue Velvet. _  _______________________________"Nature scares me" a quote by my friend Bob after a rough day at sea. | |||
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Indeed. By comparison, Eraserhead makes Blue Velvet seem like a Hallmark romance film. | |||
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