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Sapphirus

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RIP David Lynch
« on: 16 January 2025, 14:18:59 »
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #1 on: 16 January 2025, 17:04:22 »
RIP
are we sure this isn't a crazy twist of his?
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #2 on: 16 January 2025, 23:35:45 »
Quote from: DOC_Agren on 16 January 2025, 17:04:22
RIP
are we sure this isn't a crazy twist of his?

Unfortunately, I think this is a Straight Story.

A true American original.  May he be in his Dream Place, whatever that looks like for him.

cheers,

Gabe
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Quote from: Arkansas Warrior on 12 April 2016, 09:36:32
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #3 on: 17 January 2025, 09:24:47 »
Is there anyone here who actually likes his version of _Dune_?

Cheers,

Gabe
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Quote from: Arkansas Warrior on 12 April 2016, 09:36:32
So, now I'm imagining people boxing up Overlords for loading as cargo.  "Nope, totally not a DropShip.  Everyone knows you can't fit a DropShip in a WarShip!  It's...a ten thousand ton box of marshmallows!  Yeah.  For the Heavy Guards big annual smores party."
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #4 on: 17 January 2025, 14:41:23 »
It had its charms... just because it wasn't as good as Villeneuve's doesn't make it bad, per se...
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #5 on: 17 January 2025, 15:27:18 »
Quote from: Daryk on 17 January 2025, 14:41:23
It had its charms... just because it wasn't as good as Villeneuve's doesn't make it bad, per se...

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/david-lynch-proud-projects-except-152839716.html

Even he considers it his worst film, but not quite for the reasons one would think.

cheers,

Gabe
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Quote from: Arkansas Warrior on 12 April 2016, 09:36:32
So, now I'm imagining people boxing up Overlords for loading as cargo.  "Nope, totally not a DropShip.  Everyone knows you can't fit a DropShip in a WarShip!  It's...a ten thousand ton box of marshmallows!  Yeah.  For the Heavy Guards big annual smores party."
--Arkansas Warrior, on the possibility of carrying Dropships as cargo in Warship cargo bays.

TERRAN SUPREMACY DEFENSE FORCE.  For when you want to send the SLDF, but couldn't afford the whole kit and kaboodle.

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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #6 on: 17 January 2025, 15:41:29 »
He was obviously not on the list of people who liked it, but the fact that it has "cult" status means there are plenty that do.
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ANS Kamas P81

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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #7 on: 17 January 2025, 16:13:01 »
Outside of the "suddenly it rains" ending, I rather liked Lynch's Dune myself.
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #8 on: 17 January 2025, 17:21:55 »
I'm an 80s Dune tragic, and proud of it!

Visually, it's superb in its own way. The 1930s Imperial uniforms, the Harkonnen castle with dead cows on the wall and vacuuming dwarves, and Di Laurentis spray-painting some of the sand dunes to get them the right shade of orange ... and let's not forget the casting - Stewart's Hallek, the massive eyebrows of Thufir Hawat, and Richard Jordan's Duncan Idaho, which knocks wassisname Aquaman's leaden performance into the shade. We'll give Sting a pass on his cardboard portrayal of Feyd, if only for the flying underpants (trivai: they directly inspired the Flying L for Leviathans, and I'm kinda sad that got purged along with me).

Symphonically, the Toto soundtrack is also magnificent, and musical! Hooks such as 'The Floating Fat Man', and 'Robot Fight', and Brian Eno's soaring 'Prophecy Theme' knock the Zimmermatic soundtrack out. It complements the new film very well, but if you try listening to it by itself, it's totally forgettable.

Storywise it's a complete hash, agreed - 'weirding modules' indeed! But there's so much to love in that film, I forgive it its fatal flaws.

And at the end of the day, isn't that very David Lynch?
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #9 on: 17 January 2025, 17:37:30 »
Don't forget Max von Sydow as the emperor! :)
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #10 on: 17 January 2025, 18:33:40 »
I'm afraid Max's performance as another Emperor kinda overrides his jaunt here ...

Mind you, that triggers a "what might have been": David Lynch's "Tiger, Tiger" ...
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #11 on: 17 January 2025, 18:55:07 »
For Max, sure... but I think he was a key part of the movie's charm... ;)
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #12 on: 18 January 2025, 00:24:35 »
Quote from: gyedid on 17 January 2025, 09:24:47
Is there anyone here who actually likes his version of _Dune_?

Cheers,

Gabe
Ive always thought David Lynch was an overrated director, and his Dune adaptation is just OK. The production values of its time were good, though the liberties taken weren't totally canon breaking, and casting on the whole was very good (except for Paul Atreides), but I felt the story was too compressed in one movie.
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #13 on: 18 January 2025, 10:27:51 »
I love the first half of Lynch's Dune. It has such an uncanny visual style that the other adaptations don't live up to. Things go off the rails in the second half.

I watched Mulholland Drive for the first time last night, breaking my "no more movies about the movie business" rule. It's really good... I think... (what just happened?)
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Re: RIP David Lynch
« Reply #14 on: 18 January 2025, 15:27:43 »
Quote from: Agathos on 18 January 2025, 10:27:51
I love the first half of Lynch's Dune. It has such an uncanny visual style that the other adaptations don't live up to. Things go off the rails in the second half.

Very fair comment. Except I think the visual style holds up in the second half, it's just the storyline is munged so badly at that point.
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