Okay, I think your confusion might lie in words like "unabashedly" and "enjoys." Many horror fans are ambivalent about their favourite horror films. It's kind of the point. It's a genre that intentionally scares, sickens, disturbs, repulses, and, uh, horrifies us. Pretty much the opposite of "enjoyable." The best and…

Which brings us full circle. I still can't shake that scene with the Giant in the theatre. Stunning.

Yes, some excellent comparisons there. And speaking of light and dark, the movie opens and closes with those gorgeous starfields, which are literally light and dark on the grandest scale.

Yes, exactly. So many people took that quote at face value! Yet when has Lynch been that schmaltzy? I mean schmaltzy on its own. The quote takes on so many more dimensions when you factor in some of those aspects I raised in my last comment.

It's classic Lynch. Almost nothing is as it seems in that movie. Alvin is a kindly old man who made some mistakes in his life and is trying to rectify them, yes? That part is true. Up to a point. But more essentially, Alvin did some terrible things. The plot hints that his grandson died due to Alvin's alcohol-related…

Wild at Heart never seems to get any love, and yet I enjoyed that one and it rewards a re-viewing or two.

I love how most reviewers and viewers at the time insisted The Straight Story was so unLynchian, and yet it was deeply Lynchian. The more you dug beneath its golden-green John-Deere-colour-scheme Iowan landscapes, the dirtier and more terrifying that movie got. I think the main problem is that most reviewers thought…

Again, I don't think we're supposed to love to hate him. I think we're supposed to just hate him. Yeah, he's a piece of shit. But his particular form of nihilism is one of the forces behind all three seasons. The essential quote is: "The problem is not that there is evil in the world, but that there is good. Because…

No worries. :)

Yeah, this is a guy who created Bobby Peru, after all. Goes without saying, of course, that he doesn't necessarily approve of those characters.

"Squeeze his hand off."

Close: "Squeeze his hand off!" The only reason I correct you isn't to be a smartass, but because the actual quote is funnier, given it's how a child might say it.

Don't know Olympia, but Bellingham is a complex mix. It's a college town, yes, but it's also a town half facing the border and the constant influx of Canadians. And it's oceanside, a bay town. And on I-5. It's actually an interesting place.

Yeah. He's the villain. You're supposed to hate him.

The two characters with the most extreme arcs were Nikki and Gloria, who embodied two ways to be women in the world. Neither set out to be what they became, either a vengeance seeker or a bloodhound on the trail of righteousness. They both began as true to themselves but not necessarily true to the world. I loved and…

I think Emmit and Ennis are just close enough (at least more so than Emmit and Dennis) to "convince" the permanently confused Maurice that they were the right person when he looked for a Stussy in the phonebook.

I thought it was funny *and* everything Avocados & Screenplays notes. Both can be true.

The great apes are, but not the lesser apes.

Asking fiction to always conform to reality is a recipe for not enjoying fiction, is my main point. I disagree with your assertion that no part of a Lynch setting typically involves realism. In fact, it's the juxtaposition of the ordinary, the "normal," alongside the nightmarishly surreal that gives his films their…

Agreed. But I don't think a comic book adaptation about a zombie apocalypse is selling realism, either!