Let's make it clear right away: this is not a bad movie.
It's just that it's a little too mechanical, a little too chatgptesque in its dialogue-famous song-dialogue formula, all almost too perfectly timed by the production delegate who I imagine as the voice saying to Lynch, in that viral video, that that given scene is “going on too long”.
Here it seems, at times, that there was a figure responsible for measuring the duration of the dialogues and saying…