Posted: 1/9/2011 9:32:50 AM EDT
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Back in the early to mid 80s, when I was in my early 20s, I was a student at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. There was an "artsy" theater downtown called the Kentucky Theater. The kind of college town theater that showed Fellini film festivals, Bogart film festivals, Rocky Horror Picture Show every Saturday night at midnight, etc. Tickets were $1.50 and there was a bar right next door that made killer Long Island Iced Teas for $2. So, a good place to get wasted and go watch a weird/funky movie on the cheap.
I saw Eraserhead for the first time at that theater and walked out half-way through. It struck me as complete and utter shit, and I was more than a little disturbed by the "baby". Fast forward to this weekend, and "Eraserhead" pops up as a suggestion on my NetFlix account. I figure what the hell. After the wife and son were asleep, I poured a big Spanish brandy and watched it. I actually liked it. What the fuck is wrong with me? |
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I rented it after seeing the poster in a Rush video. Too wierd for me back then. It maybe tame by today's standards. http://fusionanomaly.net/rushlimelightvideoeraserhead.jpg "Tame" is not a word I would use to describe it. I'm a fairly jaded old fart, but this movie defines "WTF" as far as I'm concerned. |
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Love this song. It's almost as bizarre as the movie itself. Good song! |
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That's not creepy at all.... oh who the hell am I kidding, that "baby" still gives me the heebee jeebees. |
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I rented it after seeing the poster in a Rush video. Too wierd for me back then. It maybe tame by today's standards. http://fusionanomaly.net/rushlimelightvideoeraserhead.jpg "Tame" is not a word I would use to describe it. I'm a fairly jaded old fart, but this movie defines "WTF" as far as I'm concerned. I may have to watch it again. I just need to get up my nerve. That could take a while. 
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Saw it during the mid 80's. Walked out less than 1/2 way through.
Went back to try again. This time somewhat intoxicated. Made it more than 1/2 way through. Finally, went back and sat through the whole thing with some friends. Totally F'd up movie! Took a solid week to get that background noise out of my head. What about the girl stomping on the slimy sperm things? Now that's some messed up shit right there. By the way, last year my girlfriend gave me a copy of the movie. [:// |
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It's worth watching at least once, just so you know. It's one of those classic films that kinda cannot be easily described....
The ending kinda sucked tho, IMO. Rather disconnected from everything else. I would have been disappointed if I'd have paid to see it.
Wild at Heart (1990) was pretty good. And David Lynch might make interesting movies, but he comes off as a pretentious twat. I have read about three different interviews with him over the years and he refuses to get into any detail of the "why's" of his movies, he generates into the oh-so-sensitive artist who cannot bear to explain anything. His more lucid efforts are due to the producers and writers above him, not so much his directing talent. ~ |
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Quoted: It's boring as hell. I saw it approx 6 months ago. I agree it is boring. It is one thing if a movie is weird, like "Harold & Maude". But that was all that Eraserhead was trying to accomplish. I kept waiting for some meaning to bleed through. A bizarre scene once in awhile is great. But you keep getting deluged with the bizarre in every scene, you become numb to it. Massive weirdness doesn't make a bad movie into art.  |
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I'm a huge David Lynch fan. Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are all classics. If you're looking for a linear narrative structure you'll be disappointed in his films. Blue Velvet is one of my all-time favorite movies. I don't think Dennis Hopper was really "acting" in that flick. |
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Saw it during the mid 80's. Walked out less than 1/2 way through. Went back to try again. This time somewhat intoxicated. Made it more than 1/2 way through. Finally, went back and sat through the whole thing with some friends. Totally F'd up movie! Took a solid week to get that background noise out of my head. What about the girl stomping on the slimy sperm things? Now that's some messed up shit right there. By the way, last year my girlfriend gave me a copy of the movie. [:// The "slimy sperm things" were umbilical cords. Lynch got into a medical waste facility and got some of his "special effects" items from there. I read something about a nosebleed scene too-Lynch didn't think Hollywood blood was realistic enough so he mixed up his own concoction, managing to give the actor sever chemical burns to the lining of his nose. I don't remember the scene beng in the movie. |
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It's boring as hell. I saw it approx 6 months ago. I agree it is boring. It is one thing if a movie is weird, like "Harold & Maude". But that was all that Eraserhead was trying to accomplish. I kept waiting for some meaning to bleed through. A bizarre scene once in awhile is great. But you keep getting deluged with the bizarre in every scene, you become numb to it. Massive weirdness doesn't make a bad movie into art.
Shittest money I ever saw 
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I liked it overall.
The biggest thing I get from the movie is how amazingly well Lynch captured the uneasy feeling of nightmares. The kind where everything is "wrong" but nothing directly scary happens. How everything is warped and does not make sense, but still has an edge of the familiar to it which just makes everything seem that much worse. I remember renting it as a teenager and watching it with my best friend. He was getting just plain angry at the movie and got up and shut off the VCR when we got to the girl in the radiator doing her dance routine with the falling umbilical cord creatures. So I said fine, let's watch the other movie we got, which was "Naked Lunch". :lol: |
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I liked it overall. The biggest thing I get from the movie is how amazingly well Lynch captured the uneasy feeling of nightmares. The kind where everything is "wrong" but nothing directly scary happens. How everything is warped and does not make sense, but still has an edge of the familiar to it which just makes everything seem that much worse. I remember renting it as a teenager and watching it with my best friend. He was getting just plain angry at the movie and got up and shut off the VCR when we got to the girl in the radiator doing her dance routine with the falling umbilical cord creatures. So I said fine, let's watch the other movie we got, which was "Naked Lunch". :lol: So... what was your friend's reaction to "Naked Lunch"? Did he get an urge to get a job as an exterminator? |