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"Eraserhead....."

First of all WTF?

I saw bits of this film when I was young on a late night showing on Channel 4 and back then I thought it was pretty funking weird. I've read good reviews though and I decided to sit down and watch the whole thing through yesterday to see if it was really as bad as I once thought.

I was right it was the biggest load of rubbish I have ever had the misfortune to watch, it makes no sense, there's no storyline it's just one big pile of crap. Usually I let crap films go and just forget about them but I just couldn't with this one. I couldn't help noticing the glowing reviews it has on the front cover of the video.

According to the Daily Telegraph it's a masterpiece, I mean HELLO was I watching a different film it was the biggest pile of pretentious nonsense i've ever seen. It seems to me that the critics saw that it was a David Lynch film so they gave it glowing reports without even watching it.

It made no sense, a man has his head chopped off for no particular reason then a boy picks it up and takes it off to a factory to make Pencils out of it I mean WTF is that about.

Anyway i'd love to hear from a Lynch fan who would defend this film, cause I really can't think how on earth anyone could attempt to come up with something in its defence, it was load of nonsense. Even if there where hidden meanings to the imagery it was still a load of rubbish, if this film is an exampler of what is goin on in Lynch's head then I really am I worried for him. If I hadn't borrowed the film off a friend I would have happily walked out side and smashed the video on a rock it annoyed me that much. Damn film critics are so anal, masterpiece phft i've seen porno's with better storylines.

Well he must have been, cos he was dead one day and alive the next. That either makes him a miricle or someone who applied Fitz' make a quick buck scheme.

Fitz' scheme is located near the middle of this forum. I will put a quick reply in it to boost it to the top of the page.

Indeed they are. Abuse was hurled at me for making her cry. All I said was that Jesus was a schitzo!

(How wrong does that look? That can't be spelt right! :-D)

Vottanator wrote:
It offended someone I told it to and she
> started to cry. :-D


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Ha ha, religious girls are SO funny!

(in terms of how obsessed they are and how easily offended they get)

Robocop's name is Murphy!

Jesus is THE Jesus!

I resty my casey.

I have a great theory about Jesus but it would probably offend a few religious people on here. It offended someone I told it to and she started to cry. :-D

Vottanator wrote:
> ALTHOUGH! Jesus is a cooler name than Robocop.

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Robocop owns Jesus (no offence Ant)

The next Fincher wrote:
One day you, like me, may look back at
> Eraserhead and think of it as a goos film.


And maybe, just maybe, you might even see it as a good film. :-D

But I don't think he should necessarily steer clear of ALL Lynch films. Dune isn't that strange and it's quite good. The Straight Story, although the main plot sees an old man travelling to see his brother on a lawnmower, isn't too wierd either and I didn't think that was too bad at all. It was a U! David Lynch directing a U!! :-D

AND I STILL HAVE TO FIND MY WILD AT HEART VIDEO!! I NEED TO SEE THAT DAMN FILM BUT I CAN'T FIND MY VIDEO!

Still got Lost Highway to watch as well. Good ol' Balthazaar.

Tiltawirl,

You need to understand that Lynch is a very unique director. He has all the talents and iconography of an art house director, but he has made it into mainstream Hollywood.

Eraserhead is the first Lycnch film i saw. Now, just to clear the air i am not a Lych fan. Just because i am not a fan of his work it does not mean that i have to hate it.

Eraserhead is a horror film. Lynch, like the Coen brothers, has taken a genre and bent it to his will, hence giving his own atmosphere and feel to a well established and stereotyped genre.

When i first saw Eraserhead i, like you, hated every minute of it. The reason for this is because i didn't (and still don't) understand it. This led me to feel hatred towards the film.

If you didn't like Eraserhead then that is up to you, just steer clear of any Lynch films in the future. Just stick with films and genres that you know and enjoy, then when you feel you are ready try and move onto new types of films. One day you, like me, may look back at Eraserhead and think of it as a goos film.

You do have a point there.

ALTHOUGH! Jesus is a cooler name than Robocop.

I think it would have turned out far better if Jesus was called Robocop: Son of God and Robocop was called Jesus: Giant Robotic Police Man. :-D

That's why Jesus sucked and Robocop ruled :-D

Yeah but Jesus was supposed to forgive bad people, not blow them away with a giant machine pistol! :-D