State of Epicicity
Roadie
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Man, I had not heard of that. I'm just shaking my head. Why is it that every thing a celebrity does in their personal lives has to become a reality tv show or a documentary?
To me he always just comes off as a guy who explores things his own way without reference to how it may be received. The problem is, to me, he's a modern artist in the sense that he thinks of he does anything at all he has no problem calling it art. The rub to me is that I genuinely love many of his films for their otherworldly intensity, but it's always a mixed bag. I think he's had some great, and a ton of terrible, acting that he's directed, which makes me think the good acting was luck, not his skill as a director. I think so much about him is bullshit, but I love many of his films, because, when he happens to direct actors who aren't terrible, the strangeness creates its own cinematic language that is, to me, heightened and unique and at times even sublime.
To me he has done really well in creating dreamlike and nightmare like states of mind in cinema, more effectively than most. Last night we watched the Joaquin Phoenix film I Was Never Really Here, in which the director was 100% going for a dreamlike state for the whole thing, but combining it with a combination of Bergman and Tarkovsky, both of whom are generally very very quiet and subtle. Lynch on the other hand, can be jarring and loud and shocking and bombastic in his dream and nightmare states on the screen, to a much different effect. I like dreamlike language in film overall.
To me he always just comes off as a guy who explores things his own way without reference to how it may be received. The problem is, to me, he's a modern artist in the sense that he thinks of he does anything at all he has no problem calling it art. The rub to me is that I genuinely love many of his films for their otherworldly intensity, but it's always a mixed bag. I think he's had some great, and a ton of terrible, acting that he's directed, which makes me think the good acting was luck, not his skill as a director. I think so much about him is bullshit, but I love many of his films, because, when he happens to direct actors who aren't terrible, the strangeness creates its own cinematic language that is, to me, heightened and unique and at times even sublime.
To me he has done really well in creating dreamlike and nightmare like states of mind in cinema, more effectively than most. Last night we watched the Joaquin Phoenix film I Was Never Really Here, in which the director was 100% going for a dreamlike state for the whole thing, but combining it with a combination of Bergman and Tarkovsky, both of whom are generally very very quiet and subtle. Lynch on the other hand, can be jarring and loud and shocking and bombastic in his dream and nightmare states on the screen, to a much different effect. I like dreamlike language in film overall.
Once women started liking QR, I was done! Yeah, I was young and dumb then vs old and dumb now. But if I could've become the AI in RFO, I would've been pushing those buttons to bring death upon the whole lot of 'em. 
