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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
All right, here's one:
"David Lynch is completely overrated."
Blue Velvet is Lynch's attempt at placating the cautious filmgoer while retaining some surrealistic ablation. It fails miserably at both. Also has some titties, but none memorable enough to care about. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me simply didn't make sense, at least as a standalone film. Plenty of boobs to be had, but the reasons for seeing them are lost on me. Dune and Lost Highway just sucked. There's really no excuse for either of those films to have existed in the first place.
I've never seen Inland Empire, and I don't plan on it. This guy's one overrated dud for me.
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Lynch is certainly a darling of the critics which has become tiresome over the years but then he makes films like Elephant Man and Straight Story which are fantastic films in their own right and you would never guess that Lynch directed them if you don't have any background on them.
He IS overrated I agree but I would still rather have him making movies than not.
Dune should always be excused if you read up on the studio interference and the complexity of the novel ( many books should never be made into films) and Lost Highway is an admirable failure.
Blue Velvet however is one of the most subversive American films I have ever seen. I am not a huge fan of the film but I massively appreciate the juxtaposition he creates in the movie without telegraphing it.
A director that can give us something as emotionally charged as The Elephant Man ( this was only his his second feature film) whilst still staving off the dreaded sentimental ending that the producers of the film wanted deserves big bonus points for me.