But I liked Fire Walk With Me, so there's that.

Heh, me too (and Lost Highway and Mullholland Drive - pretty much all Lynch). It must have been quite a shock for people who were fans of the show but had never seen a real David Lynch movie. Not only are they not getting any resolution to the series, they are gotting a lot of really, seriously weird/disturbing stuff instead.

Lost Highway was....awesomer, somehow. I think Mulholland Drive may ultimately hold together better, but I didn't leave the theatre quite as high on Lynchy goodness.

Jessica speaks for me here.

I think Lynch remains the only filmmaker I consider substantial where I've seen all of their movies in the theater (the Coen brothers just lost that distinction with LADYKILLERS, which I still haven't seen), and the only one I saw out of its original release was ERASERHEAD (though I DID see it at midnight and well before DUNE was out).

Can't place the tag, bunk. I suck this morning. Queen of the Dunkers, c'est moi. But you didn't come here to hunt, did you?

I think Mulholland Drive may ultimately hold together better, but I didn't leave the theatre quite as high on Lynchy goodness.

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. Mulholland Drive comes dangerously close to making sense, and that's really not what I want from Lynch.

I'm completely owned by three guys named Dave right now

"You're my wife now, Dave!"

...Sorry.

I saw Fire Walk With Me with my friend Cheryl in college. The theater was all decked out with a black & white floor and red curtains, which really set us up to be creeped out. And then on the way home we made a wrong turn and came to an intersection next to campus that I'd never noticed before, where the crosstreets were Laura and Cooper. At which point Cheryl and I looked at each other and were like "I think we should go somewhere very public now, and talk about things that are very silly and fun for a while, until the effect of that movie has worn off."

Can't place the tag, bunk.

Patsy Parisi, upon leaving the Seattle's Best Coffee without protection money.

I loved Fire Walk With Me, and I saw it before I ever actually saw any of the series.

Lynch Scorecord:

Love Eraserhead
Respect Elephant Man But Don't Love it
Really Like Dune Despite It's Obvious Problems
Love Blue Velvet
Love Twin Peaks
Love Fire Walk With Me
Like A Lot of Wild At Heart
Didn't See Straight Story
Hate Lost Highway
Love Mulholland Drive

Oh yeah...now you say that, Corwood. Not my brightest day I ever had, today's not. It's okay, Strega. Say that with a bunch of Buffistas, I so had that coming. But the big shows on HBO right now are run by three guys named David. Chase(The Sopranos) Milch(Deadwood, for which Robin and Corwood both get a free turn on Swearingen's craps table, cause toasters don't exist there) and last but not least, Simon, my literary husband and Wire exec. prod. AKA to me as the Daves, in sentences such as "Big Love" is okay and well-acted, but not as good as what the Daves could do."

Lynch Scorecord:

Man, that's EXACTLY what I would have down, with the exception of Big Honkin' Love for The Straight Story.

The Straight Story broke my heart...so lovely. Related tangent: I saw Sissy Spacek singing backup for her daughter Schuyler Fisk the other night. They opened for Colin Hay. Pretty, pretty voices.

I saw MI:III tonight, which was loads of JJAbramsy fun. References to previous works (which may include current-season Lost/Alias spoilers) include:

*Opening with the hero tied to a chair being threatened by the bad guy, and then flashing back about 48 hours
*bombs in heads!
*Keri Russell, who almost gets to play Sydney Bristow
*failed CPR followed by desperate chest-pounding, which (surprise!) works
*Greg Grunberg in a cameo
*Geeky nervous tech guy who can be convinced to play along with off-the-books plan because hero is just that trustworthy
*hero betrayed by actually-evil boss at sooper-seekrit government agency
*missions all focused on an object whose mystery is exceeded only by its silly code namepower...and which ultimately fails to matter at all, since it's mostly about saving loved ones via jumps off of tall buildings

I thought it was a blast. The plot doesn't make a ton of sense, but that doesn't matter because it moves very fast, and is just FUN. Philip Seymour Hoffman is awesome, just deliciously evil.