Universally agreed terrible film(s)

[Leo]

it was a long time ago, think we focused on the good aspects -- which were decent -- and avoided talking about the ending.

funny, I just did a google search and it got a few good reviews in the evening standard and a few indie publications, so maybe he doesn't feel so bad about it. had one negative review in time out that must have stung, though.

 

[IdleRich]

Inland Empire has a dream scene. Lynch is singing over L Dern being spoken to by a myriad of shifting female faces, “sooo straaaaange” with guitar chord reverb. It’s the worst clip in his entire print archive. She looks aghast as crap shadows wave about across her face. The film has one of his best too, the bbq scene, soundtrack has the music accompanying it too. Unintentional ketaminephonia

I remember watching the extras on the DVD of Inland Empire and there was something about the props guy going "oh no he needs a monkey and loads of Czech prostitutes by thos evening" and Dern saying all proud or even smug "yeah you're on a Lynch film now" and though I really like his films I found that hateful and clichéd, it seemed as though she was saying "Dave has weird stuff like monkeys on his films and I know cos I'm in lots of them and I understand - even though we all know it's just nonsense with no meaning really - because I'm an actor and an artist but you don't cos you're just a little man who gets stuff for us"

 

[maxi]

It was just loads of biased explanations of why I think TM is an idiot... but how did you know I started writing it?

You must've posted it I guess? I was reading it but then I refreshed for some reason and it was gone

 

[craner]

I just got back from seeing dario argento's 'deep red' in the cinema. looked amazing. there was a scene with an ultra closeup on beads of sweat on someones face and it looked so clear and crisp, can't imagine it looking any better and that was 45 years ago. Or maybe it's a 4k remaster or something I don't really understand how it works tbh

Argento paid a lot of attention to heightening the visual dimensions of film, and it's a general feature of Italian filmmaking of the period. See also the masterpieces of Vittorio Storaro: The Fifth Cord, The Conformist, Apocalypse Now, One From the Heart...

 

[IdleRich]

My favourite DVD extras thing was Dead Babies, you know the lame novella by Martin Amis? Well there is an equally lame film. Anyway in the interviews that came with it, every single actor says something like "Yeah, it is shocking and it is gonna offend people, but sometimes art is shocking and I stand by this, however much criticism it gets for being so extreme - even if it gets banned or the censor cuts it to ribbons - whoever it upsets, and for those who can't take it and who feel that it's too much, well, I feel sorry for them".
It amused me greatly watching that in the knowledge that the film had come out several years before and barely anyone had noticed. And of those who had, not a single one had been at all shocked or offended and certainly noone had considered complaining or trying to ban it.

 

[IdleRich]

You must've posted it I guess? I was reading it but then I refreshed for some reason and it was gone

Trust me you didn't miss anything.

 

[woops]

there's a film of London Fields as well which I'd like to see having read the book at an impressionable age but it was so bad it never got released or made availabel to view anywhere.

 

[IdleRich]

there's a film of London Fields as well which I'd like to see having read the book at an impressionable age but it was so bad it never got released or made availabel to view anywhere.

Didn't Amber Heard sue the director or something too? Id the book good though?l it's not really is it.

 

[woops]

given how much i likes it age 16 and how embarrassing i find him now i think seeing the unwatchable adaptation would be quite appropriate, hammer the nails in the coffin

 

[maxi]

even though we all know it's just nonsense with no meaning really

I saw an interview with Lynch by a young photography student and she was saying something like 'yeah I'm really inspired by you because you showed that you can just follow your feelings and instincts about what you like and what looks good and you don't have to know what it means' and he suddenly stopped her and said 'no! you definitely have to know what it means."

which I thought was interesting. I think he could talk for days about his films but religiously sticks to the idea of not spoiling the mystery. I vaguely remember hearing him saying elsewhere that he trusts his intuition when making stuff but has to figure out what it means to himself later in order to be satisfied with it

 

[IdleRich]

Did Martin Amis ever do anything good? How did he become the most famous literary figure in England when I was growing up? Oh yeah...

 

[craner]

I saw an interview with Lynch by a young photography student and she was saying something like 'yeah I'm really inspired by you because you showed that you can just follow your feelings and instincts about what you like and what looks good and you don't have to know what it means' and he suddenly stopped her and said 'no! you definitely have to know what it means."

which I thought was interesting. I think he could talk for days about his films but religiously sticks to the idea of not spoiling the mystery. I vaguely remember hearing him saying elsewhere that he trusts his intuition when making stuff but has to figure out what it means to himself later in order to be satisfied with it

Of course he stopped her, he realised she was calling him out as a charlatan and a fraud.

 

[maxi]

I thought someone might say that haha. I don't reckon so

 

[maxi]

I mean some things like Lost Highway are pretty straightforward anyway really. I liked hearing that apparently many victims of incest wrote to him in the 90s to say how moved they were by fire walk with me, and that it captured their experience far better than any straight realism could. They got it but meanwhile it was his most hated and bewildering film to most of the critics and public

 

[luka]

Of course he stopped her, he realised she was calling him out as a charlatan and a fraud.


This is really weird but the station I'm listening to on GTA just made an incest joke then used the words charlatanism and fraud. What are the chances?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Of course he stopped her, he realised she was calling him out as a charlatan and a fraud.


This is really weird but the station I'm listening to on GTA just made an incest joke then used the words charlatanism and fraud. What are the chances?

Incest joke obvs a reference to Leland and Laura Palmer...

 

[william_kent]

That's one particular thing I've always wondered about and without becoming a film actor I will never know... basically do people know how good or bad the film they are making is? Can they feel it?

Kyle MacLachlan apparently didn't know he was in one of the "worst" movies of all-time until he had his "first screening":

MacLachlan told GQ he agreed to star in the erotic drama because he wanted to work with Verhoeven and he thought the movie would be “hard-hitting” and get people to not just see him as a clean cut nice guy on the big screen.

“[When I had] my first screening, I watched this movie and I’m like, ‘Oh my god this is awful,'” MacLachlan remembered. “You have this hope like you watched the first scene and you’re like that’s not so good but it’s gotta get better, and I watch this and was like, ‘Hmm not getting any better.’ I watched the whole thing and I didn’t know what to say about the movie. I don’t think I can talk about this movie, and so I didn’t do any press which didn’t make me any friends in the publicity department, but at the time it was too difficult.”

 

[luka]

still cant beleive that nutty 'synchronicity' from last night. was it david lynch mocking oliver craner on the astral internet?

 

[woops]

last night i was thinking about "luke" and then i realised i was holding a "mug" do you agree that this chance event speaks to a wider cosmic truth y/n

 

[luka]

no, thats not a very good one. my one was my television repeating back to me the conversation i had just read on dissensus incorporating quotes from two different posters. that's highly unusual and implies witchcraft of some order