Celebritysphere - United States RIP David Lynch

Rip my nigga lynch. A real g

He practiced transcendental meditation to shed "the rubber clown suit of negativity":

R.I.P.
I remember watching Twin Peaks and Dune.

Powerlevelling: Never really liked David Lynch's movies, never saw what the big deal is. I just thought his movies were creepy (not in an interesting, leaning-over-to-have-a-closer-look kind of way, just in an uncomfortable way), badly made and unnecessarily hard to get into for how pedestrian they actually were. Inland Empire? Badly made and impossible to watch, it's just an extremely convoluted movie about an actress losing her mind and ending in the streets. Blue Velvet? The only thing anyone remembers about that movie is that it has a scene where a woman rapes a man for a change, which was only put in there for the shock value, not as a genuine commentary on women abusing men because she scene was so absurd and unrealistic. Mullholland Drive? Lynch letting the world know he has a girl-on-girl fetish, the rest of it is yet another actress losing her mind and ending up destitute. Wild at Heart? I literally can't even remember what that was about, that's how little impression it left on me. Dune? Cheap, crammed, just a crap book adaptation that has been surpassed and forgotten by Villeneuve's Dune. The only Lynch movie I kept for my collection was A Straight Story because it was cute in a way I never expected Lynch to be. I would watch these movies because I felt like I had to as a Marilyn Manson fan, but I was always like: "Is this the best American experimental cinema has to offer? THIS is what people are getting so excited about? The characters are stupid, the situations they are in are stupid, the advancement of the plot is stupid. It's all so stupid."

I had both Inland Empire and Blue Velvet on DVD once, but as soon as I watched them I got rid of both because I knew I'd never watch them again.

When I first saw the rape scene in Blue Velvet, my response was not: "OMG, a man is getting raped by a woman! How horritic! I've never seen a man get raped by a woman in a film before! My eyes, my eyes, HORRIBLE!", my initial response was rather: "WTF is this even? Huh? A man is getting raped by a woman? What is this scene?". It was incredulity rather than anger or horror. It just didn't look like something that could really happen IRL. When you're showing the audience a man being raped, and their main reaction is: "Naw, WTF, you're kidding me... literally this scene?!", I feel like you've basically completely failed as a filmmaker. Unless your intent was to merely shock the audience by showing them something they didn't expect to see, which I am guessing was the intent here. The (gay) prison rape scene in American History X was way more convincing than the hetero one in Blue Velvet. You actually feel sorry for Edward Norton as the Natsee getting raped by other inmates in prison. Or that prison rape scene at the beginning of Shot Caller, with that young black guy who is raped by other black prisoners. You feel sorry for him, even though he's a prisoner and even though he's not the main character. In contrast, I was too shocked with disbelief to feel anything towards Kyle MacLachlan getting raped by Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet. This is why Shot Caller is a better movie than Blue Velvet and IDGAF what the film nerds on Letterboxd have to say about that.

I saw eraserhead when I was 12 and can say it had a profound effect on my worldview and aesthetic sense.

If you are into Lynch, and want to watch a couple of films that influenced him. And ignore Gays, they are too autistic and retarded to understand any film beyond Ernest Goes To School. Really, they like Norton getting bummed, because they are a fag.

He will be missed. Blue Velvet is still one of my favorite movies.