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In Reply to: Worst misstep by a favourite director? posted by djprobed on April 22, 2004 at 13:40:59:
Rick Wakeman!For a second (because I was scanning, not reading) I thought you were saying that in Britain Altered States the film was released under the title A British Picture, which was a head-scratcher.
I have to admit that Russell's a taste I haven't acquired.
Anyway, DUNE.
Follow Ups:
There was a *lot* more footage shot than what eventually ended up in the final cut which, although it is certainly flawed, is at least Lynch's own compromise. As many of you know, when it was re-relased in a longer cut with an animated prologue tacked on, Mr. Lynch took his name off it (director credit went to Alan Smithee).I agree that the special effects have not worn especially well, but they're not terrible, either. It would be great to have a Director's Cut DVD of this, in all its 4-hour (or was it 6-hour?) glory. I suspect that would go a long way towards alleviating the original cut's two main annoyances: all that voice-over, and the extreme telescoping of events in the last 30 minutes.
Much as I am aware of its shortcomings, I still like the movie. How can you resist Sian Phillips? :)
djprobed
Er...I like Dune. Kinda.I consider it an honorable failure. A) It wasn't *all* Lynch's fault, Dino's intervention certainly didn't help the film...and B) There's a lot of interesting, imaginative stuff in Dune, wot an imagination our David has, eh?
The Toto soundtrack...now THERE'S a misstep. Horrible.
Dune was technically impossible to pull off at the time anyway, so an interesting failure was all right by me, even a wrongheaded interesting failure. I enjoy watching it once a year.
I'm surprised no one said Firewalk With Me.
In my opinion, that honor would go to the Palm D'Or-winning Wild At Heart , at least the version that screened in the USA. Apparently, other countries got the real movie.It's easy to make a case for both Dune and Fire Walk with Me . As for the former, I prefer it to Frank Herbert's pompous novel that's way more shallow than it wants to be. At least Lynch was able to distill all the silliness into some wonderful imagery, even if it's not one of his better movies overall.
Back to the topic, Lynch hasn't really misstepped that badly with any of his movies. There are much better examples out there.
"The Straight Story", his finest IMHO. Lynch and Disney, talk about
strange bedfellows. On the DVD, Lynch, idiosyncratic as ever, has forbidden chapter stops.
Others have fallen much farther.Besides, I'd rather watch an ambitious, interesting failure than a poppular mediocrity any day.
I haven't seen any but the US version of Wild At Heart, but it's not my favorite Lynch.
However...for Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive alone I could forgive him nearly anything.
Japanese laser disc runs 124 minutes; Tarantino might well have cribbed the Elvis theme that runs through this film for his True Romance
Wild at Heart has more humor pace and pulse than either Dune or Firewalk IMO
And a great supporting cast
Grins
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