: I can't believe David Lynch is dead! What a tragedy, there will never be anyone else like him, Hollywood just can't make movies like that anymore!
: One illustrious part of the history of cinema is gone. May the best new surrealist directors in the world carry his torch, such as Bi Gan [everyone who enjoys David Lynch and is on this website, PLEASE watch Long Day's Journey into Night].
I mean I like his stuff and totally recognize that he was a huge influence on film making but mans was 82 or something and he probably died comfortably a millionaire surrounded by loved ones so its not like a huge tragedy. Also he would probably find jokes like this very funny as he was kind of a lynchpin of dark comedy (pun obviously intended)
Oh no I thought it was hilarious (hence the lmao) I was just kinda expanding on the bit. I am in fact very sad about his passing but you're totally right. He's a nut and I just read something where he was interviewed and was asked why he was referring to Angelo Badalamenti in present tense (dude passed away) and Lynch was like "eh we just lose our physical form we don't die, disappearing forever is stupid everything is fine". So yeah he's probably having a good laugh at us dorks rn
They still hit hard? Just because some guy on reddit writes 1200 words on why he thinks Agent Cooper is dead the whole time like it's his first time having a thought about a film doesn't detract from the work.
True, but back when you had a vcr and could maybe not see the move more than once and didn't have as much exposure to content the dreamlike vibes had more fertile soil I think. We are the same people as the audience was you know?
My favorite thing about lynch was from an interview I heard him give. He was telling a story and went off on a tangent about how smoothly his friend drove the car that he was a passenger in. Like, you couldn't feel any of the turns.
He was far more active before the 2000s, so it's easy to not be aware. Twin Peaks was also a flash in the pan when it aired; the series lasted two seasons - and that's his most famous output. At work yesterday when the news broke, pretty much everyone over 40 collectively said, fuck that sucks.
Kinda feel like the Twin Peaks/Lynch fandom was much more prominent in the "old internet" (pre like 2010 or so). There's just something about the cult following of the show and its "puzzle box" nature of it that really flourished back then, but nowadays where everything is controlled by algorithms any sort of fanbase just segmentizes themselves into their own little place on the net so you can't just stumble upon these things anymore. When I first got onto the internet, it was like it was guaranteed it would lead me to watch stuff like Twin Peaks or Evangelion. You kinda couldn't get around these things. Back then the internet wasn't just "everyone is on here" but if you were on it you kinda were a nerd to begin with. I know quite a lot of people who are big lynch fans and they are all under thirty, but much younger than that and you probably won't get as many.
I feel like there's something to young people's minds and lives nowadays that stops them from enjoying and seeking out the things that came before them (I mean I do kinda get it, the world we've left them certainly ain't great, but there's no doubt in my mind that there are things in the past that are more than worthwhile to engage with).
Mulholland drive made me so mad cuz i knew there was a secret to it but couldn't figure it out until someone told me and I'll never forgive myself for not getting it.
Since it bested me it is in my top 10 films to recommend people watch
I block most of the top accounts at Bluesky so I don't know what the top posts were but in my feeds there was an insane explosion of David Lynch posts. For that account I don't follow anybody - I grab raw feeds off the site.
I couldn't mute a lot posts because they were like this...