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In Reply to: Dune posted by Bulkington on April 22, 2004 at 13:56:50:
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.
Follow Ups:
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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