INLAND EMPIRE (2006) [DAVID LYNCH]

[agentknight]

There is no doubt in my mind that this will be the greatest film ever. It was recently shown at the Venice festival and was revealed to be a 3 hour perplexing, lynchian DV epic. New York Times described it as 'fitfully brilliant.' I cannot tell you how much I am anticipating this. So close, yet so far away...

[criterionmaster]

I am dying to see what he can do. I am going into the film completely blind.

[criterionmaster]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hFEDYmMcM

[Clark Nova]

oh my.

I have no idea what the fuck i just watched.

But i can say it's the strangest mindfuck i've seen...and it's only a trailer.

and it's piqued my interest.

[agentknight]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I CAN'T WAIT!

[criterionmaster]

I actually hope Lynch is just toying with us, because if he isn't then the film doesn't look too good to me, I mean it looks interesting, but pretentious. Close zoom-ins, bad accents, shaky blurry camera, etc. I know these things are taken out of context, and the trailer does get me interested more, but I hope that it is just fucking with us because it's a teaser and all. Bunny suits!?

[Clark Nova]

yeah, exactly. I had enough man-sized bunnies after that god-forsaken Donnie Darko.

[agentknight]

Sorry guys, but the rabbits are in the film.

[ie]

Too bad they probably won't be cannibal rabbits, because then you'd have an awesome movie right there.

[blackmoses]

This film looks great! Can't wait!

[captainofbeef]

Lynch has gone downhill, I fear that this will be awful. I will see it anyway though.

[agentknight]

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif Lynch has gone downhill. His first two films are his two worst.

[PTAhole]

Eraserhead?!!! That may be his best film!

[agentknight]

more like his second worst

[Clark Nova]

not gonna lie, not at all a fan of eraserhead. I mean, i understand and appreciate the symbolism about one's fear of parenthood and all, but by god, using cow fetus babies, a lady with chipmunk cheeks, and little twitching chickens to get that point across just ain't my thing.

[criterionmaster]

I want to see Eraserhead but it doesn't sound like my cup 'o tea. Lynch is hit-or-miss for me; his approach is a turn off a lot of times.

[The Anti-Snob]

Well, good news for you, Dan. You broke down and saw the trailer, but you can still go into it blind!

-Dan

[rashhunt]

Lynch doesn't make bad films and this one is no exception - I'll leave the reviews to others but this little 'mindfuck' borrows its symbolism as a kind of follow up to Mulholland Drive, going further into the ontology of film vs the performer of film theme.

My order still goes: 1. Mulholland Drive
2. Blue Velvet
3. Elephant Man
4. Eraserhead
5. Dun dun dun, Inland Empire!

[Nomansvally]

A very good Italian trailer of this film:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzSSG8X9e0

Go, go, go watch it in cinema! Man, the music by Badalamenti is so great!

[The Pseudo Cathartic]

I cannot wait for this one. That trailer is giving me heart palpitations!

[criterionmaster]

Source: Hollywood Saloon

The specs, cover art, and release date for Lynch's latest are now available:

www.rykodistribution.com/artist_title.php?artist_id=10825&media_id=20361

[eatawiiner]

Nice. I got to see this on the big screen and was fucking amazed! Laura Dern is one crazy nappy headed ho. Everyone get this pleases.

[criterionmaster]

That must be the first region one Lynch movie that has a two-disc set.. I never thought he would do enough features for a two-disc. I will rent it, although I actually don't think it looks good, I am probably one of the FEW.

[criterionmaster]

The DVD will include:

90 minutes of Deleted Scenes.
Includes the short film "Ballerina".
Lynch 2 (behind the scenes of INLAND EMPIRE with David Lynch).
Talks with David Lynch and Laura Dern.
More Things That Happened (Additional Character Experiences).
Theatrical Trailers (3).
Stills Gallery (73 Photos).
David Lynch cooks Quinoa.

who is going to buy this?

[captainofbeef]

^I don't even know if I will rent it. I am not a fan of Lynch's oddest films...

[Clark Nova]

ok, my spoilerific ramblings:

police386 said:

Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)



Emotionless and depressed bunnies, cheapskate Harry Dean Stanton, Polish thugs saying cryptic things in between beatings of their women, the most unnecessary cameo in the history of cinema by William H. Macy, screwdrivers in the abdomen and ketchup all over a wifebeater as the latest fashion statements, Laura Dern
a) and her Merry Band of Hos
b) puking blood
c) playing redneck housewife
d) making scary faces for the camera
e) regailing her sadomasochistic exploits to either a psychiatrist, a bum, a mobster, or all of the above,

hot, drugged out chicks admiring each other's tits before lipsynching The Locomotion, some homeless asian chick rambling about torn vaginas and pet monkeys, Mrs. Palmer ruining the image of Eastern European immigrants, and Jeremy Irons.

am I making sense yet? No? Because David Lynch sure as hell wasn't. Supposedly he just shot random shit as it came to his head, and boy does it show. Where the hell is the perfect combination of randomness and coherency, the perfect contrast between real life and the subconscious that made Mulholland Dr. as masterful as it was? It's like he just up and decided to abandon any sense of the real and just delve straight into the human psyche and dreams and nightmares, and for three fucking hours at that. It's as if the word subtelty has completely left this man's vocabulary. It's that subtelty and the ability to restrain that urge to overdo it with the signature Lynchian style that made Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Dr. so damn compelling, because it was still steeped in the real, and therefore we could identify, at least to an extent, with the people, their situations, and even their psyches, because all the oddities and randomness was kept at bay and used where it was needed. But I'm beginning to think that those works are anomalies at this point, and that Lynch's real M.O. is overly-stylized, incomprehensible, and laughably "artsy" and over-directed crud like Eraserhead, Lost Highway, and now Inland Empire. Kudos to Laura Dern, at least, for showing off her acting range in multiple roles (at least I think it was multiple roles, but with material like this, who the fuck knows...). and all i could think of was how this would make a GREAT mst3k episode, and how it was like a Lynchian episode of Robot Chicken or a Don Hertzfeldt cartoon.

4.5/10

[criterionmaster]

i don't think it takes talent to shoot random shit. which is one reason why i am not looking forward to this very much. i agree with beed, not a hug fan of lynch, especially when i hear it is just a bunch of random stuff.

you mention it being a good mst3k episode canidate , clark nova, does that mean it is so-bad-it's-good or something?

[Clark Nova]

criterionmaster said:

i don't think it takes talent to shoot random shit. which is one reason why i am not looking forward to this very much. i agree with beed, not a hug fan of lynch, especially when i hear it is just a bunch of random stuff.

you mention it being a good mst3k episode canidate , clark nova, does that mean it is so-bad-it's-good or something?

i think i meant so-random-it's-rife-for-sarcastic-comments.

[criterionmaster]

police386 said:

criterionmaster said:

i don't think it takes talent to shoot random shit. which is one reason why i am not looking forward to this very much. i agree with beed, not a hug fan of lynch, especially when i hear it is just a bunch of random stuff.

you mention it being a good mst3k episode canidate , clark nova, does that mean it is so-bad-it's-good or something?

i think i meant so-random-it's-rife-for-sarcastic-comments.

oh, haha, i see. it would be funny if they had done eraserhead on there.

[jelizarose]

it turned out to not be that great.