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It's ok if a bit student film-ish. I much prefer Mullholland Drive though. I guess, like Dill above, I was completley devestated by MD and it's characters. I didn't really give stuff about Eraserhead dude and found it to be rather dull. I wouldn't say it was crap though, just not that interesting to me personally.

What others above have said directly relates to a problem I have when some people talk about the films of Tarkovsky (particularly French critics). Like Tarkovsky said (approximately) "people are always looking for deep symbolism in my work but if it's raining in my film it simply means its raining".

i saw it for the first time last year...great film...the doc on making it is a good watch too...

blue velvet is mostly crap but it has good parts to it...if only a couple...

boilermaker wrote:I was completley devestated by MD and it's characters. I didn't really give stuff about Eraserhead dude and found it to be rather dull.

There are some Lynch movies, like Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, that I like, that I can watch almost any time and enjoy on what I guess you'd call a formal (?) level. Scene after scene goes by and they please my eyeballs and excite certain sections of my sensibilities but I never find myself drawn into any emotional connection. Elephant Man has a few scenes that tug at the heartstrings but in such a conventional way that it doesn't really count. Even as you're experiencing it you know it's as profound as Deuce Bigelow Male Gigolo.
So when I settled in to watch Mulholland Drive I had already trained myself in how to get the most out of a Lynch movie. I was not prepared at all for what happened. As the last half hour unrolled I was gripped by it emotionally and even physically, plastered across the couch going " . . . oh . . . noooo . . . "
It's been four or five years and I don't remember it as well as I should, but these effects were the result of typical storytelling devices, weren't they? Something that could have easily turned out lame? A situation Lynch is obviously not afraid of confronting. Has anyone seen Dune? Or the movie with N. Cage? I forget the title, and it wasn't as bad as Dune, because few things are, but I thought it was pretty fucking bad as well.

Try and see this on the big screen if you ever get the chance.