I like "Wild at Heart" the best, I think, but that may be because of nostalgia.
Twin Peaks is hands down my favorite Lynchian thing. I haven't watched Blue Velvet in a long time, but in high school/college, I watched it enough to keep me for a looong time. It was pretty much de rigeur stoner party watching.
Beverly, we have streaming Netflix on the Wii and on the laptop. LOVE. If D. is watching something on TV, I can watch what I want to watch (if it's something I don't particularly care about) on the laptop upstairs.
Just reading an online plot description of Toy Story 3 made me tear up. To the point where I go all flaily hands weepy whenever the trailer comes on.
That said, our afternoon will also be including Monsters, Inc. We were at the beach for 4 hours this morning, so I think we've all earned a movie break.
I came at The Straight Story not for the Lynch but for the Farnsworth. I had such a decades-long crush on that man.
Me too! I've loved him since Mom took me to see The Grey Fox when I was 13. I didn't even realize tSS was Lynch. So yeah, way more watchable than Blue Velvet.
I don't get Pixar. I mean, the premises ALWAYS make me tear up. And sometimes the movies do too (I can't watch the start of Finding Nemo, and Up was just manipulative), but there's usually so much that's exciting and real and fun that their movies can't be classified as tragedies.
Except when you read the synopsis.
The most surreal moment in the Straight Story is the opening credits: Walt Disney presents...A David Lynch Film. Castle logo and everything.
If I watch UP again I'll be fast forwarding through the opening montage. It makes me weep!
My Type-A husband was a complete "I don't watch TV, it's beneath me" most of our married life, and he was only interested in movies with Willis, Eastwood, Ford, or Tommy Lee Jones in the cast or "blows shit up" in the blurb.
There's something very beautiful and hilarious in that.
My favorite David Lynch movie is probably the one that's now by Alan Smithee. In my defense, it's more the events of seeing the movie than the movie itself.
(Ah, Dune.)
Just reading an online plot description of Toy Story 3 made me tear up. To the point where I go all flaily hands weepy whenever the trailer comes on.
This movie is going to wreck me, isn't it? I am going to have to take Clovis with me and a lot of tissues.
Has anyone else seen Christopher Nolan's first movie,
Following
? It's pretty good, if you're into non-linear neo-noir.
