Second viewing, this time in a packed arthouse theater full of cheering Lynch heads and first time college students from Chapman University. Like Blue Velvet, it's hard to truly appreciate some of the comedic aspects through Lynch's treatment unless you can safely laugh alongside a crowd. I'm happy to report that so much more is made clear on a rewatch, but still much remains baffling, and I've accepted the fact that virtually no one understands at all what is actually going on despite the countless theories—though I'm pretty sure Adam is just an analogue for Lynch's career. Maybe on a 17th watch I'll get another clue.
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Blue Velvet 1986
Third viewing. The greatest danger for an artist is total freedom, and for director David Lynch, his auteur status is a result of his pure creative vision, whose mind and ideas are completely exposed in his work. Blue Velvet is extravagant and horrifying. It's philosophical and mythical. Such a comedic masterpiece too. Bravo, Hopper.
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Street Trash 2024
With too many low budget pitfalls to keep track of, and a shoehorned apocalyptic defeatist doomscrolling storyline, I see a remake of a cult classic to be lack luster in substance compared to the original. Regardless, Street Trash can be just as crude and inventive in its use of the repetitive special effects, often failing to explore the various stages of the 'melt-genre' aspect through technical and creative aspects. The script also utilizes one of the most interesting fourth-wall breaks I've seen in a while.
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Street Trash 1987
Street Trash is a raunchy, gross, thrilling, and an all around acidic puke-stain of a film, but endlessly entertaining nonetheless, and is among the cult classics of the 80s that provides a window into a Regan era of social stratification, mental illness, and army veteran neglect in American culture. I could chat for days about the underlying themes and broad commentary sprinkled in, but the general consensus of a subgenre melt-flick like this is to highlight its outrageous quality and gratuitous use of special effects. Would watch again in a theater experience.
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Nosferatu 2024
I was very much aware of the psychosexual mantra during my initial viewing, but a rewatch helped me realize that nearly every line of dialogue from Ellen Hutter is a sidewinded innuendo that reveals her nympho desires toward every man she meets. There's a lot more complexity to her character of course, and by the end she embraces an impeccably heroic sacrifice, but damn. Eggers' script writing is next level. Takes a lot more than I realized from The Exorcist and Batman Returns too. How did I miss that?
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The Fall Guy 2024
Ah yes, another casual movie-going experience with director David Leitch where one must bite the bullet with insufferable quirky dialogue and spoon-fed exposition, scene after scene after scene, with no short supply of dumb action bleached with absurd antics that are pretty thin, redundant, and one-note. Like his predecessor Bullet Train, it's the tonally daft and utterly incompetent discrepancy of the action and humor that ends up ruining the experience. Leitch is the type of filmmaker who realizes in the…
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