I will be interested to see how you feel about Lynch. I don't get the love. I could use another cinephile on my side.
Well to be fair you've got pretty much the ultimate cinephile on your side in Mark. Other than a couple of his films I'm pretty sure you could say that he is certainly not an admirer of Mr. Lynch.
Although you will probably hate most of his films, what 6 do you have available?
Oh I see! You don't think I'm intelligent enough to 'get' your precious Lynch? You pretentious art house snobs are all the same!!!
Between DVDs I've picked up and a couple I've taped off TV I've got
Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Straight Story and
Mulholland Drive.
Oh and I watched about half of Twin Peak's first season a long while back but then I got distracted or something and left it for a while. When I tried to pick it back up I just couldn't get back into it. So will need to go from the start again someday.
Which ones have you seen?
I didn't care for
Taxi Driver (gasp, shock, horror!
), or
Gangs of New York and am not entirely sure how I feel about
Bringing Out the Dead, but I really enjoyed
Goodfellas, Casino, The Aviator, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street and, my favorite,
The Departed.
I've seen 4 of Marty's films, including what are perhaps his 3 most celebrated. Like you I also didn't really like
Taxi Driver (I feel we should be whispering about this so we don't whip up an angry Movie Forums mob that will drive us off the board!). It's not that I thought it was a bad film or anything but just found it so bleak and grim that there's no way I could say I liked it. And I'm also not a great fan of Robert de Niro. Similar story for
Raging Bull which I found a real slog to get through.
Goodfellas I struggled a bit with, largely as I have no interest in films about gangsters. I may lose my man card for it but it's just not something that appeals to me at all. That said I did actually enjoy it more than I expected. And lastly there was
Gangs of New York. Again it's a gangster flick of a sorts which is a mark against it, but I also just didn't think that one was all that good.
In addition to trying out more of his films I do plan on revisiting
Taxi Driver and
Goodfellas. It was a few years ago now that I watched both and would like to think that I've grown at least a little bit as a movie watcher in that time. Perhaps I'll be able to recognise and appreciate the technical qualities of the film to a degree that it overcomes my general problems with their natures. Oh and I have now actually seen 4 new Scorsese films over the last few days.