A volcano erupts. There are four directors. Three will die. You can only choose to save one.
Who do you choose? I'm voting PTA.
Quentin Tarantino
Christopher Nolan
Paul Thomas Anderson
David Fincher
I'd run off, find David Lynch, and throw him in to form a lava plug and save everybody else.
shareThat's cold, man. What did Lynch do to you?
share1. Wasted 3 hours of my life watching his stinkbomb "Dune".
2. Wasted 30 hours of my life watching "Twin Peaks", waiting for a payoff that never came.
3. Wasted 1 hour of my life watching the first half of "Mulholland Dr." before I finally got smart and decided that I would not waste one more second of my life watching his pulled-out-of-his-ass crap.
You owe me 34 hours, Mr. Lynch. I don't know how you propose to compensate me, but I'm listening.
Allow me to defend him.
1. He's not happy with Dune himself. The producers butchered the movie.
2. Are you including the latest season that came out recently?
3. I think Mulholland Dr. is a pretty awesome movie.
2. No. Fool me twice, you know.
3. It's been several years since I tried to watch it, but it was when the guy (Robert Forster?) came out of the diner and saw the "boogeyman" in the parking lot that I thought, "OK, no more of this. This could have been a perfectly good thriller without made-up crap like this".
There's no doubt in my mind that Lynch laughs all the way to the bank while we talk about what his latest work "means". He probably says to himself, "Suckers! It doesn't mean a goddamn thing! It means my mortgage is paid off!"
To be fair, I looked at the list of his works on imdb. I had no idea he directed "The Elephant Man". Even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then. I can only conclude Anthony Hopkins had the gravitas to make it clear that he wouldn't brook any bullshit.
shareAt least you saved 2 hours by staying away from Lost Highway, his worst movie.
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