I'd heard about this movie being great and weird.
"Weird" yes. "Great" not so much.
WTF was going on? I understand WHAT is going on, but no motives or explanations. People acting crazy just for the hell of it. Even the "sane" ones.
Can I just forget I saw this and get my 2 hrs back?
No one ever gets time back. Ever. Time works forwards, not backwards.
By the way...the ' can i get my time back' cliche regarding movies is really, really, really old and rather pathetic.
You didn't like the movie. We get it. Thats your opinion.
But you are not being witty in any way whatsoever with this sort of comment...unless you still think its the 90s or something when people may have found such things...mildly amusing...for about 3 seconds.
It got you to look at my post, didn't it? You say nothing about the movie, though. Does it get tiring policing the internet?
I'm expressing my opinion on a movie, without, unlike you, being rude or putting down someone I know nothing about. Which I guess is one of the wonders of the internet: impunity/courage behind anonymity.
Enjoy and take care.
I couldn't have said it better!
shareIt's not a Marvel movie, that's for sure!
shareI'm not much of a fan of superhero movies either.
shareWith Blue Velvet it is purely a matter of taste. Lynch created a world that is riddled with corruption and depicted it not purely as a dip in filth, but as a mad caper. I love it because the basic mystery from the beginning is in the hands of a fresh-faced youth who reminds me of the old Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew stories... But it all goes terribly wrong. Like I said--a matter of taste. Some people love David Lynch unconditionally and I've followed him since Eraserhead. I started to fall away a bit with Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, but even there I will go back to watch them again, figuring that I may like them more with a re-watch.
shareWell, MD is my favorite film of all time. Perhaps in time it will grow on you. But Blue Velvet is my second favorite Lynch film. So I'm with you there.
shareIE is my favorite film.
Please Also check out this link which contains a message that I tried posting back to you again but couldn't after the OP got deleted:
https://moviechat.org/tt0166924/Mulholland-Dr/60a88ad4b926ff2f5c08f016/Reply-back-to-Seperatrix-from-the-now-DELETED-message-which-wont-let-me-reply-back-to-you-anymore
Also sent you a PM as well.
You both might find this message and the other one posted down below it that leads up to it interesting:
https://moviechat.org/tt0166924/Mulholland-Dr/60a88ad4b926ff2f5c08f016/Reply-back-to-Seperatrix-from-the-now-DELETED-message-which-wont-let-me-reply-back-to-you-anymore
Since the town in "BLUE VELVET" is called "LUMBERTON," doesn't that seem to have more of a connection to "TWIN PEAKS than to MD" (which takes place in LA where one doesn't find that much LUMBER or wooded areas)???
And yes both MD and IE also seem to be about how the HOLLY"WOOD" INDUSTRY (which also lacks having WOODED AREAS) "can destroy lives."
And "ERASERHEAD" was also about how FACTORY LIFE can "DESTROY LIVES."
And doesn't the production "process" of the HOLLYWOOD FACTORY also seem to TURN people into PRODUCTS (like PENCILS) or into a type of an "ERASERHEAD" type of a Being???
And isn't that also what CARRIE FISHER seems to suggest in "POSTCARDS from the EDGE," where she also exposed what working in HOLLYWOOD can do to you???
"Since the town in "BLUE VELVET" is called "LUMBERTON," doesn't that seem to have more of a connection to "TWIN PEAKS than to MD" (which takes place in LA where one doesn't find that much LUMBER or wooded areas)???"
This is indeed true and your point is duly noted. I do recall that MD was originally supposed to be a TV series where Audrey (from TP obviously) goes to Hollywood. So if things had gone that way perhaps the connection between TP's and MD would have been more apparent. Though I'm of the mind that most of Lynch's films exist in the same universe.
Your observations on Hollywood and how Lynch portrays the dream machine are spot on. I mostly see that as an amalgam of all of his films. But most notably in MD.
So perhaps Audrey would have been like LAURA PALMER going to HOLLYWOOD (if she had lived)???
And then after MD comes IE --
where we explore the life of a SEASONED MIDDLE AGED ACTRESS --
(SANDY from BV) --
who is trying to revive her FILM CAREER and make a COME BACK --
by making a FILM where the STORY is CURSED --
and what happens to the CHARACTERS in the CURSED "AXXON N STORY" also keeps finding it's way OUT of the STORY and into the lives of the ACTORS who portray the CURSED ROLES --
(which also includes the RABBITS who represent the ORIGINAL GYPSY FOLK TALE VERSION of the story/ the GERMAN FILM version of the story/ and the AMERICAN FILM VERSION of the story).
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And now we've also got TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN???
So HOW does that fit in with the rest of what's going on???
That story ends with the "RESURRECTION of LAURA" (who's called CARRIE), who lives in another town in ODESSA where she works in a DINER called JUDY's.
Then JEFFREY from BV also takes her to TWIN PEAKS where she lets out a SCREAM and the story ENDS (without giving us any explanation about what's going on).
And IE also ENDS with SANDY from BV blowing KISSES back to RITA/CAMILLA from MD (even though they've also never met each other before in IE).
I get that.
I don't normally watch a movie just because it's directed by this guy or that guy. All I ever heard about it must have been from fans. I was disappointed. Like the original post said, I understood what was happening just not why.
I also watched the original Twin Peaks. Again, too weird for me.
LOL
I don't think it's weird enough actually, Though I didn't find it that great I think it's closer to great than it is to the kind of weird I expect from Lynch
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