alluring crap
I saw this at the Film Forum in 1986. As the years passed, I thought it was pretty shoddily done, but with its charm and remarkable in its prediction of Madonna and that ilk. The Professionals' song "The Professionals" that was used in it was great and Fee Waybill from The Tubes was totally excellent as…

quite nice
I thought it was a likable and pretty good film, but the guys were obviously not trained journalists in any way, so they often seemed stuck for good questions and follow-up and I found myself wanting to know more than they were exploring. I mean, they had Earl Butz in the room and while I don't expect them…

If it makes you feel any better, they were in two different sentences. Seriously, look back at it. It'll all be okay.

I confess that I've never felt like devoting the time to Inland Empire . . . I have a full enough life that I would actually have to schedule it in and it's never seemed worth it to me. Neither was Pirates of the Caribbean 3.

I'm a fairly calm guy . . .

Bryan - I understand what you are saying about the soap opera thing and the beauty thing, I guess it's just something that doesn't wok for me in context of Lynch. On the other hand, I did like the Twin Peaks movie and Mulholland Drive, even as I noted my usual issues with Lynch's post BV work. I don't think either…

I wouldn't describe Dern or Maclachlan as attractive people in the normal sense, especially in context of Blue Velvet. She had all the unpleasant contorting facial expressions, and he's very pasty-faced and stiff. Not unattractive, certainly, but not standard.

lynch's unintentional self parody
I never did like this film largely because it seemed to me that Lynch had sunk into pastiche mode, as if he was slapping together ideas and imagery from previous films. It was as if someone else was trying to make a David Lynch film and failing miserably.