Celebrity Death: David Lynch (78)
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Ianturnedbull
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The Marquis
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If you enjoyed Fire Walk With Me, and like Inland Empire and Lost Highway, you’re the type of person who will enjoy The Return. It’s the greatest season of television of all time in my opinion. Won’t be touched.
montreal
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i have heard some good things on it, so I may get around to it soon then later.
Chili
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So unique, such a maverick so far removed from the herd. I wasn't a fan of all his movies (though I don't think that the US has produced a better movie this century than Mulholland Drive), but I loved the sense of expectation and the possibility of surprise that I had sitting in a dark theatre waiting for a Lynch film to start. While he contributed greatly to modern noir, he literally became his own genre.
Hierso
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The world has lost a perfect slice of americana, and i'm not even american.
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Still thinking about Lynch. Honestly I'm always kinda thinking about him. Yesterday, today and surely tomorrow. Said this before around these parts but he was someone I had to grow into. Both The Elephant Man and Dune made an impression on me at a young age. Two of the less-Lynch movies in his filmography in a comparative sense though they're both still very him because everything he did was him. But by college I was really bumping up against his stuff and I distinctly remember being at a party where someone I knew as raving about Lost Highway and it all sounded like such bullshit to me. I rolled my eyes. Just the absolute epitome of pretentious film boy blather. (And me here oblivious to the pot-kettle-blackness of the situation).
It wasn't him. It was me. (And, honestly, the guy I knew).
Even Mulholland Drive was a slow process for me. I liked it initially but perhaps not as much as many (much more now). It reopened that door for me, at least a crack. But it was making my way around to Twin Peaks that finally did it. It was such a silly little thing that unlocked him for me, but it was this: He's funny. I was only seeing the darkness (and there is plenty of that) but I always missed the light. Finally seeing the balance and that humanity that always existed was my key that sent me back journeying through his work which I've now revisited multiple times, growing in stature each time. I even came around on Lost Highway. Though I must confess I still struggle with Eraserhead.
He was a serious man who never seemed to take himself too seriously. Witness pretty much every acting performance he ever gave, each a folksy masterpiece in and of itself.
As has been pointed out here already, though you may not necessarily think of him as a noir filmmaker he absolutely is. That skeleton (and the lightness/darkness inherent in such stories) is the bones of so many of his films. Another aspect of which I was slow on the uptake.
And no one short of Bunuel has ever conceived and shot dreams and nightmares as well as Lynch did. Everyone else is a pale imitation.
It wasn't him. It was me. (And, honestly, the guy I knew).
Even Mulholland Drive was a slow process for me. I liked it initially but perhaps not as much as many (much more now). It reopened that door for me, at least a crack. But it was making my way around to Twin Peaks that finally did it. It was such a silly little thing that unlocked him for me, but it was this: He's funny. I was only seeing the darkness (and there is plenty of that) but I always missed the light. Finally seeing the balance and that humanity that always existed was my key that sent me back journeying through his work which I've now revisited multiple times, growing in stature each time. I even came around on Lost Highway. Though I must confess I still struggle with Eraserhead.
He was a serious man who never seemed to take himself too seriously. Witness pretty much every acting performance he ever gave, each a folksy masterpiece in and of itself.
As has been pointed out here already, though you may not necessarily think of him as a noir filmmaker he absolutely is. That skeleton (and the lightness/darkness inherent in such stories) is the bones of so many of his films. Another aspect of which I was slow on the uptake.
And no one short of Bunuel has ever conceived and shot dreams and nightmares as well as Lynch did. Everyone else is a pale imitation.
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There was something so quintessentially midwestern about The Straight Story. It went beyond setting, to capturing an ethos, a drive. Loved that film. Made me think a lot of my grandfather.
RIP David.
REALTALK81
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Loss of a true legend. Blue Velvet, Eraserhead were just a few of his absolute gems. He left his fingerprints on every film he touched. Making sure the audience knew it was a Lynch film
admiralcadillac
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The return has some of the greatest film moments I’ve seen. It is not going to ruin Lynch, but it does desiccate the original story, and reinvents it. It’s disturbing and beautiful.
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DaaaaB's
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I find it quite bizarre that you love Twin Peaks to the point of rewatching it every year but you refuse to watch the most recent season despite many fans considering it the best of the three seasons. I've also never understood why people think a bad sequel lessens the original.
The Marquis
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There are definitely Twin Peaks fans who hate The Return. It's the fans who also disliked the film and who enjoyed the soap opera aspects of the original run more than the more traditionally "Lynchian" aspects. It makes all the sense in the world why those people would hate it. Everybody else tends to love The Return.
montreal
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I was a huge fan of the Original Battlestar Galactica, when the Sci-Fi channel announced it was rebooting it I refused to watch it for years because I thought it would suck and they made some changes to the characters. I was wrong as the show ended up being much better then I thought it would be. Oh well.
I highly doubt Return is better then what I consider the greatest show ever made but one day I'll see for myself.
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