I thought Elephant Man was one of the most touching movies I've ever seen. And The Straight Story was quirky, but in a midwestern, down home kind of way. I also liked it a lot. I'm not familiar with Lynch's other works and am not drawn to explore.
Speaking as a former movie reviewer for the Fairfield Weekly Reader ha ha, I think a lot of movie critics get jaded by watching so many movies. Maybe their neural pathways get overloaded so that only the most startling and hyper images even make a dent on their awareness. BTW, Bhairitu, I used vata pitta kapha to critique movies! After I stopped, people came up to me and told me they missed my ayurvedic reviews (-: It's not about what grabs our attention. It's about what we choose to focus our attention on. I admit I get a little thrill, as a previous high school English teacher, when I end a sentence with a preposition. And then I remember Churchill's great quote about this rule: Madam, this is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put. ________________________________ From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 2:35 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch Is Back --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > he became a "legend" because a lot of people like sick twisted stuff I disagree. David Lynch became famous because of film critics who believe that if they can't understand a movie, it's actually good. This has been a problem with the film industry since the beginning of movies, and contributed to the fleeting fame of people like Jean Luc Godard (who was always merely flashy, never brilliant). Some people actually like David Lynch, and even I will admit that he did a pretty good job with the real, four- hour version of "Dune" and with "The Straight Story." But IMO (and according to someone I used to know who was his personal secretary) he's LAZY, and tends to fall back on being flashy and weird rather than being actually creative, because he knows that among a certain contingent of critics, that'll get him good reviews. It's the same phenomenon in my opinion as those who fall for flash (or occult "pushing it out") and think it's charisma. Lacking discrimination, they just glom onto whatever flashes them out and grabs their attention, and then *retroactively* try to make up "reasons" why it grabbed their attention. The reasons are never real; they're excuses for having no discrimination. As for why Nabby likes him, I thought MJ (or Sal, whoever said it) got it right. If there were a person on the street selling little dolls made out of dogshit and someone told Nabby that the person was a TMer, he'd call them an "artist." :-)
