Film director David Lynch dies at 78, family says
The Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker is also famous for the surrealist cult classic, Mulholland Drive.
Personally I liked the 1984 Dune. Would watch all 4 hours if it was released.
Peak 80s movie moment: Listening to the weird wacky otherly world soundtrack, when all of a sudden ripping guitar solo. https://youtu.be/jzj6b2YV2aA
Lmao someone put it on the 2024 Dune https://youtu.be/NaaJRGYSyGo
Toto and Eno!
My first encounter with Dune was staying up all night to record it off Sci-Fi on VHS. I was just a naive teenager, I didn't know what I was in for. By the time Feyd Rautha showed up I was so tired and confused...
It took many years before I read the books but I'm glad I did, and I'm glad we'll actually get to see Paul's story wrapped up for once.
By the time Feyd Rautha showed up I was so tired and confused...
Jockstrapped and half naked Sting would make anyone ahem confused.
The Sci-fi channel made a Dune miniseries, and then a Dune Messiah + Children of Dune series. They're really good versions of the story. Better than Villeneuve's in my opinion. It doesn't look nearly as good, obviously, but it's well done. Go into it expecting more of a screen play though, not a blockbuster movie. I highly recommend it.
Edit: I thought I should add, the first series is called "Frank Herbert's Dune".
It's not terrible, but some of the changes were so strange... Using their voices and those weird phaser looking things to attack? "My name is a killing word"? The fuck was that shit?
Love the visual effects of the personal shields though lol
I can't remember the moment and I have to be quiet and can't find my headphones, so I'm going to assume the music is from Wyld Stallyns
The Dune soundtrack was done by the soft rock band Toto, which was something incomprehensibly weird to me at the time, but makes some sense when you realize that one of the band's members was the son of composer John Williams. It's actually good, standard orchestral music with the exception of the guitar power chord moment you linked to, which actually made me laugh out loud when I saw/heard it in the theater for the first time. Personally, I would have preferred this as the soundtrack; it was created by the band Jade Warrior as an attempt to get the gig for Lynch's movie.
The only part of the movie which made me laugh harder than the guitar was Sting's appearance. Just wildly out of place in a movie that was at least a visual masterpiece. And you can't go wrong with Joergen Prochnow.
I think it is ironic that most of Villeneuve's Dune Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer has a ton of heavily processed electric guitar.
There will never be another like him again
A true blow for film fans. Lynch was a visionary that really didn't compromise. Pushed the medium forward. A true artist. People often complain about his approach to storytelling in films but after seeing one of his films they are rarely forgotten or thought of as "just another movie".
I want to cry. He is one of my biggest inspirations, I followed so many things he did. Even the every day weather communications he did relentlessly so years. He is a true creative, his primary artistic activity was painting, not cinematic. We lost one of the latest true art figures. Since art is dead, this is too sad for me. He was truly original almost to perfection, and a genius. A lovely personality.
I'm on the verge of tears myself. And I never feel that way about celebs. David Lynch was incredible and I'm going to miss him.
damn.
just this past year i watched eraserhead so i could watch elephant man so i could watch twin peaks so i could watch twin peaks fire walk with me so i could watch twin peaks the return. and now he's dead.
damn.
guess i gotta watch blue velvet so i can watch mulholland drive.
guess i gotta watch blue velvet so i can watch mulholland drive.
So you can watch Inland Empire.
You can watch Lost Highway whenever you want to see Bill Pullman play sax and enter the void. Also there is a little obscure thing called Showgirls redux - someone reedited the whole Showgirls movie to soundracks from Lynch's movies, it is incredible: https://vimeo.com/499554519?share=copy
Edit: added the link
THIS FUCKING SUCKS
I knew it was imminent, but damn it hit me hard today
he didnt wanna set too many foots into 2025 either
Time to watch Dune.
Need Patrick Stewart and that battle pug to cheer us up.
Here is a good mix by Nicholas Jaar that kicks off with a familiar tune. Last I listened was when Angelo died.
I had the same idea and already have it playing. That opening with Angelo talking about their process is just beautiful.
David Lynch was incredible. Truly a creative genius. Seemed like a decent human being too, from what I can tell.
I'll be pouring out some damn fine and hot coffee in his honor.
That's a shame. I'm a huge fan of his stuff. Especially twin peaks. World lost a weird one here.
My favorite director. RIP Mr.Lynch.