Wednesday, May 9, 2007
The Mission over Eraserhead
If you ask me--and by inviting me into this tournament you did--David Lynch's films are overated. I really liked Twin Peaks, but I think that's because he had to confine some of his just plain craziness for t.v. Yeah, sure it had a lot of weird shit in it, but it more or less added up in the end. I also liked Mulholland Drive and think it would have been even better if they had let him finish it as a t.v. series (of course, he would have had to cut the hot lesbian scenes then). So what I'm saying is that left to his own devices, he is far too self-indulgent. Whereas The Mission is a great film. It has one of my favorite scores, it has Robert DeNiro (when he was still good) literally (no wait metaphorically) carrying his sins through a freakin jungle. And it shows Christianity at its best and at its worst. Not bad.
Dog Day Afternoon over The Graduate
I've never seen Dog Day Afternoon, and I do like The Graduate. But something just tells me that Pachino robbing a bank is going to be 10 times cooler than the tired old boy-meets-girl, boy-sleeps-with-girl's-mom, boy-loses-girl, boy-breaks-up girls-wedding, boy-and-girl-sit-uncomfortably-waitng-for-uncertain-future-in-ambigous-ending-moment movie.
Getting to pick The Royal Tennenbaums almost makes up for Magnolia getting cut so soon.
Here are just a few reasons why I love this movie.
1. The whole opening with Hey Jude playing, specifically when Richie lets Mordecai go and the music swells up.
2. Margot getting off the bus while Nico is playing. Gets me everytime.
3. Richie losing the tennis match and just carelessly throwing his racket for his last attempt, then just sitting down and taking off his shoes.
4. The totally awesome sets and the use of color throughout the entire movie.
5. Pagoda doing a hand-stand for no reason.
6. The paintings in Eli Cash's apartment.
7. In Margot's play when the zebra takes a bow with the hunter who (I'm guessing) just shot it. And then Royal says when asked what he thought, "What characters? There's a bunch of little kids dressed up in animal costumes."
8. Richie's tent.
9. The weird people hanging out in the background of the shots of Ethel's suitors (have you ever watched that closely?)
10. When Royal takes the kids to the dogfight. And then says to Chas something like, "don't worry that's not his blood."
11. Wildcat. Wildcat.
12. The gameboard closet.
13. The moment when everyone finds out Royal's been faking cancer and he says to Richie, "but I''m gonna live!"
14. When Chas asks Richie if his suicide note was "dark".
15. All the great camera work, like the continous shot near the end that moves around the fire truck.
16. When Dudley puts the puzzle together completley wrong and Raleigh ST. Clair just smiles and says, "Fascinating. Just fascinating."
17. "Oh, that's right. We got another body buried here."
18. "That's the last time you put a knife in me! Y'hear me?"
19. "I've always been considered an asshole for about as long as I can remember. That's just my style. But I'd really feel blue if I didn't think you were going to forgive me."
"I don't think you're an asshole, Royal. I just think you're kind of a son of a bitch."
"Well, I really appreciate that."
20. The fact that as soon as Royal finds a heart, he has a heart-attack.
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i just saw "inland empire". you want to see david lynch's self-indulgent side for almost 3 hours, go see this movie. if you want to spend that time not growing permanent sores on your ass, go do anything else.
i'm still a fan, but he sure makes it hard for his fans to enjoy his movies.
i'm still a fan, but he sure makes it hard for his fans to enjoy his movies.
My mistake on #7. It's not a hunter who just shot the zebra. It's a bear. Which makes it even funnier.
Damn, this movie is awesome.
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Damn, this movie is awesome.
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