I'm sure this has happened to you...

[cheebacheeba]

Another, in which I was told for some reason I wasn't watching it right is Lynches Lost Highway. I've even been told to re-watch it because my understanding will be different this time around...yknow what? it's a movie...I pay for entertainment, not work.

[Doc Faustus]

Lost Highway is shallow and sloppy. Like all Lynch post Twin Peaks. It has a cool vibe and a sort of interesting message about the nature of identity, but it's weak in so many ways. The characterization for example is lame and not cool lame or postmodern lame, just friggin' lame for the most part and there's about half an hour of sheer unwatchable crap. As much as I like early Lynch, I think it would be utter torture to be subjected to the deleted scenes from a post 1993 Lynch movie.

[fiend_skull]

Originally Posted by Straker

I can't even acknowledge that I haven't read the comic without getting reminded that its a graphic novel, not a comic...

They do know it started as a comic, right? It had 12 issues, it didn't start as one giant "Graphic novel". A lot of people who have recently gotten into them don't seem to know that.

[roshiq]

Originally Posted by fiend_skull

Either way, my question is, ever hated (or loved) a movie and a bunch of people started insulting you for it or thought you were just uncultured?

Luckily that kind of thing never happened with me actually. But yes, there are some films that I didn't get at all like Donnie Darko, Holy Mountain, Lost Highway and Inland Empire.:o

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

AND I'm not a fan of Giallo cinema. I've tried to reach out to people here to tell me why they like it (sparking unnecessary hatred from BUB THAT DICK), and ultimately I just don't get the appeal. I didn't really like Suspira OR Tenebre. I couldn't get through Don't Torture a Duckling. I thought House by the Cemetery was awful. And I REALLY didn't care for the updated Cemetery Man. It's all like Hitchcock with flashy colors and lots of NOISE. Not my bag.

That's really sad to hear from you:(

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by cheebacheeba

Another, in which I was told for some reason I wasn't watching it right is Lynches Lost Highway. I've even been told to re-watch it because my understanding will be different this time around...yknow what? it's a movie...I pay for entertainment, not work.

I found Lost Highway abysmal.

Originally Posted by roshiq

That's really sad to hear from you:(

Awwww - Now you're just going to make me feel bad and uncultured. :rolleyes::(

[Doc Faustus]

Originally Posted by roshiq

Luckily that kind of thing never happened with me actually. But yes, there are some films that I didn't get at all like Donnie Darko, Holy Mountain, Lost Highway and Inland Empire.:o
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Donnie Darko, Lost Highway and Inland Empire are fake and obtuse for the sake of being obtuse. But, Holy Mountain isn't as confusing as it looks if you go with it and don't let it intimidate you.

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by Doc Faustus

Donnie Darko, Lost Highway and Inland Empire are fake and obtuse for the sake of being obtuse. But, Holy Mountain isn't as confusing as it looks if you go with it and don't let it intimidate you.

I liked Donnie Darko. :o

I see its flaws, though, and I don't think that it's necessarily successful with its faux philosphy; I think that it could and wish that it had pushed the envelop a bit more.

[Bastet]

Originally Posted by Doc Faustus

I hate Mulholland Drive. It's simplistic, self-indulgent and overly transparent. Gee, David Lynch, I thought Hollywood was awesome for everybody. Wow. You showed them. Also, Naomi Watts is like a starved, autistic Nicole Kidman. Hate her. I was told I didn't get Mulholland Drive. That's funny, because I get Eraserhead, I get the Holy Mountain, I get Naked Lunch (the book), I get MPD Psycho, I get James Joyce's Ulysses. I guess David Lynch is smarter and more experimental than JAMES FUCKING JOYCE. Also, I hate Stanley Kubrick. I think his movies are oppressive, tyrannical, selfish and disrespectful to source material. I also think some of them are quite dull. I get a lot of shit for that. Then I ask if they've read the books and almost invariably, they have not. I too am not crazy about Don't Look Now. I find it icy and slow.

Someone else who didn't like don't Look Now. I thought this film was so overrated. It seemed to take itself far too seriously and seemed to be trying to say something that just didn't work. Yes I get the 'Red' sumbology, but thought the story was dissjointed. (Gasps, expecting to be shot down in flames!).
And with regards to Kubrick-hurray for someone else who realises he deviates from or changes the source material to his own ends. AClockwork Orange was a morality tale of growing up and becoming a respectable member of society. By completely omitting the last chapter of the book, Kubrick removes the moral and ultimately the reason for it being written in the first place. But I do like The Shining-Sorry:o

[Roderick Usher]

Nope, never
:D

[massacre man]

I've been called a hipster for hating Avatar... I assume that's bad, but I don't know what a hipster actually is.