Lynch is not a movie maker... and I am not critize him, A movie doesn't matther how complicated it is or how artistic... it has to make sense. I was dissapointed when Lynch said how he did this "movie" he just filmed several random and weird scenes with no conection whatsoever betwen each other.... But don't take me wrong, I think Lynch is a true artist, but NOT a movie maker.
I have just gotten around to viewing Inland Empire. As s a Lynch fan, I do not think this was his best Picasso. Lynch's artistic rendering lacked contrast. This movie starts dark, and goes hopelessly darker. The use of digital cams, and lighting issues flustered me. It is is a myriad of senseless ideas strown together. However,the acting was superb. If you want to spend time wollering in Lynch's nightmares, help yourself. All I have to do is fall asleep. 4 me, Moholland Dr. is his best effort.
gets better each time, which is good because like myself i think it would take anyone at least 2 viewings to get a grasp of what is going on.
anyone interested in lynch's twisted-horror style like some of the scenes in this should check out his short films but particularly The Alphabet which is the most terrifying 4 minutes ive seen period.
The first time I saw this movie it scared the shit out of me, and I never scared by a movie! After giving it a second run it quickly became my favorite movie of all time! Once you get sense of everything that's going on you realize what a masterpiece this really is; the way it's made transcends all of film making. Inland Empire and Eraserhead are, in my opinion, the two greatest films ever made. David Lynch's approach to cinema is second to none! Heh, and I even love his music! BLUEBOB! XD
People say they don't understand this film. Well, it was written without a script, so it isn't surprising that it's a muddled mess. But if it affected you viscerally, you understand more than you think.
The great thing about Lynch's films is that they don't need to be analysised - simply feel them, experience them, let them take you wherever they take you.
Has anyone else noticed that David Lynch seems to have gone to a more happier and lighter place since Inland Empire. It's almost like this movie was a grand exorcism of all the darkest reaches that he could find within the nightmares he has always seen into. And that at the bottom of that abyss he's found the void where it's only himself looking back upward at him - this would seem like the kind of moment where a person trades off the dark for the light.
Unless you're David Lynch's psychotherapist I would say you have no idea what you're talking about. Lynch has stated many times that one doesn't have to suffer in order to create art that depicts it. And since he's been doing TM for decades, he claims he hasn't been suffering.
@DSelwyn21 So you're saying I have no idea what I'm talking about? To condescend and contradict me into denying the existence of my own idea or it's presence in my mind is almost an attack on my freedom to think and sense things within my own consciousness. The energy of your reply seems counterintuitive to the nature of TM and feels like it comes from a place that actually uses conflict, difference, and point of attack to deflate my consciousness to serve your own.
Yeah, you got it. I was basically disagreeing with your previous post. Yes indeed. I was attacking your freedom to think and sense things within your own consciousness. Not only that, I was really trying to deflate your consciousness in order to inflate my own. So from now on you must get my permission in order to think. Is that okay with you ??
i don't see much of a story here, and i don't think it's worthwhile to go searching for meaning in a 3 and a half hour movie when i don't even have any idea whether or not the outcome will be rewarding or disappointing. however, i did not need to really think to respond to the film with an emotional intensity unmatched by few others i've seen. and i am impressed that lynch was able to leave such an impression on me (even if i haven't the slightest clue how to articulate how he moved me).
I read somewhere that Mr. Lynch chose the title of the film after Laura Dern told him that her husband was from the Inland Empire, which is a large metropolitan area in southern California consisting of three counties. Apparently, Lynch liked the sound of the words "inland" and "empire" together and it was then that he named his film. Can anyone validate this? I'm wondering because I happen to live in the Inland Empire.
I saw it in the cinemas and it looked gorgeous. People underestimate digital. You don't need a huge camera like the Genesis or the Red to shoot something good.
I recently used a PD170 for a 48 hour film project movie (which ended up sucking nuts). It can look alright on the big screen, but its hard to make it look amazing. It won't necessarily look horrible (good lighting can help with upscaling), but there are limitations with SD. However, it can all be helped (and goes to show the importance of) lighting, composition, good use of the settings, etc. The PD150/170 are beasts in low light, especially if you use manual settings well.
It is so lush, with more of a focus on visuals than plot which can be resolved in a linear fashion. The musical score lends an insane amount of gravity. The scene where Laura Dern says "who are these people" when the circus folk come for hot dawgs is absolutely bitchen'. Right up there with Twin Peaks and Lost Highway IMO.
Everyone to their own taste said the old lady as she kissed the cow, but cluck Dennis Hopper. This movie is Lynch's magnum opus. Think 3 hours of the black lodge from Twin Peaks. One long, vivid peyote trip of a conundrum within a conundrum.
This goes for basicly ALL David Lynch movies, and not only for the almighty Inland Empire; don't constantly be looking for clues, don't get frustrated if you can't solve the 'mystery', just enjoy the movie and it's pictures, let your emotions and senses do the thinking. Art doesn't necesseraly have to make sense.
I agree completely. But the thing is, I found a lot of Inland Empire to be kinda boring. The movie could've been about twenty minutes shorter without the long, drawn-out scenes of Laura Dern walking down hallways.
People have an urge to try and make sense out of everything,but I love to escape into the surreal and irrational,it`s just as real and important and for me more interesting than logic and sense.Long live lynch and his haunting and mysterious films.
Does this baby have a plot? Or is it just a lot of weird crud comin' at ya? See, I hated BLUE VELVET, which had a plot, thereby proving that plots in themselves don't make good movies, but the absence of one guarantees a bad film.
A plot can also be theme based, or most important, emotion or feeling based, it doesn't just have to be narrative or story based. The absence of what I think you perceive as a 'plot' does not guarantee a bad film, in fact I believe it is 'plot' which limits the artistic potential of film.
Your comment is very intriguing. Can you give me some examples of films with plots that are "theme-based" rather than story based? It seems to me that RAGING BULL might be a film along these lines.
Well for theme-based an obvious example would be pretty much all the works of Godard. An example of films which follow a narrative of feeling would be the works of Andrei Tarkovsky (e.g Mirror) or even some of Shinya Tsukamoto's work (e.g. Tetsuo: The Iron Man), and Masaki Kobayashi (e.g. Kwaidan), not to mention Lynch of course. The experience of these films lie within feelings (except Godard of course).
Very interesting. Something to think about. I'm familar with Godard and Tarkovsky, not with the other names you mention. I might very well suggest that there's a great deal of feeling in Godard's films, that they're emotional experiences based upon ideas, including ideas of plot. WEEKEND, for example, has a conventional plot (husband and wife are going to murder her father for an inheritance) and much of the tension in the movie comes from our witnessing of the plot's breakdown.
Yeah you are right, they were broad statements for the sake of making a point. All I meant was that theme is central to Godard's films, and the plots (if you can call them plots) are structured (or destroyed) in order to try and portray those themes. But back to the point! Really I was just trying to convince you to watch Inland Empire... I think it is - if any film is - a masterpiece (although that much over used term has sadly lost a lot of it's impact now).
ethansface, I'll give it a try, then get back to you. Though I must tell you that I intensely disliked ELEPHANT MAN, and hated BLUE VELVET, both of which I saw when they came out. But Lynch seems to have gone off the deep end since then, and maybe there's something of value in this film, something I couldn't predict. Can't tell without seeing it, of course. I myself am a bigtime Bergman fan, PERSONA being my favorite movie. Thank you for your thoughtful recommendation!
I want to see this movie, but i think i red that you can not explain it logically, for example lost highway and mdrive had normal plot, but you should watch films few times to understand it, but Inland Empire has just video and sound fragments, is it true- is this film explainable.
God!!! Im a HUGE David Lynch fan!!! i love everything about his films, amazing, just amazing, and i saw this film last night, and didn't really understand it, but it was great!! im gunna watch it again now!
to me it's totally fascinating what he captures on film,and the sounds,every aspect,he's very precise,,and also not calculating or doing things to effect,he always will tell you-it's the story-you may not fully comprehend the story and more than you understand your own minute to minute existence.
His work is authentic-you could easily see someone,styling themselves after lynch,and of course-you can see all kinds of things within his pictures,that connect,or could be described as influence..
Okay some of you may know the paranormal thing about orbs. Well in Inland Empire there is actually one scene were one appears in front of Laura Dern and Justin Theroux. I'll try to find out what time it's at.
valery said once that if a work of art is really art that means it cannot be translated nor completely interpreted or it wouldnt be worth the while to make the art in the first place youd be far more accurate with just saying with mere words what you were trying to express... lynch makes art in that sense. he accomplishes what he wants to provoke exactly into the viewer. outsanding this fella
Quickly, Loserido! Tell us what passion is and is not, what art is and is not, what (dare I..) life is and is not. Do you not see the anguish you cause by withholding your insights? Quickly! Your adoring fans
In a month my feelings have kind of cooled of, but I guess I can say that David Lynch spends most of his time performing mental masturbation on the screen with good effects and that's fine and all, but it gets annoying when it sells so well to people who consider it to be so much more, which I really don't find it to be.
lynch relies too much on atmosphere & plays too much with images.either philosophers or his fans will rave at his work..too treaky.i know an underground film student who usually makes these kind of experiments,he made a video essay & screened it at his college with the tag:"lynch's unreleased 05' reel".went completely mad reproducing faithfully lynchs style,several lynch fans disscused the shit out of the clip & afterwards they freaked when the guy told them the truth.the guy owned lynch fans
i havent seen the movie and i`m sure not going to...maybe i just don`t get it...but what`s so cool and interesting about this type of movie??? what if i took a camera and just shoot whatever i see, put some creepy music as a soundtrack and do stupid things..and maybe i`d win an oscar..come oooon!maybe there is a subliminal message or whatever but who has time to figure it out..i hate absurd and abstract things
INLAND EMPIRE is the culmination of a lifetime of work by the master David Lynch and it shows. Most recycled garbage coming out of Hollywood these days cannot even come close to this production. It holds your attention while plugging right into the unconscious mind - Indeed, what a mind trip that is...Thanks David!!!
Yup,I guess Lynch reached his peak with Lost Highway. The fact is that the message of duality was already conveyed in that movie, and if he is to repeat the formula, it's just because he is unsure about it.
But i'm not just talking about the psychological aspect of the movie, the plot (or lack of), the uninspired dialogues and tiresome situations abound in this pathetic film which is an infuriating catastrophe at best.
this sucks, i saw the same "i don't know who i am anymore but at times i don't know that i don't know who i am anymore" thing in lost highway.
go ahead...but i bet none of the people that put a thubs down on this comment heard about "the hour of the wolf" which is basically the same kind of "trippy" movie only infinitely better.
So much recommends this film, the least being a discernible "plot," whatever that means. The movie-within-a-movie theme is intriguing, particularly as the script takes over the actors' lives. Unabashedly, I love everything Lynch does. I can find "plot" anywhere--and do, too, too frequently. I'll take Lynch's roaring soundtracks and stunning imagery everytime. "Strange what Lynch does."
That was the weirdest fucking movie i have ever seen in my life also, and i didn't have a fucking clue as to what was going on! In my opinion, this is a terrible film.
there is some vivid and even alien imagery in this movie, but it is essentially three hours of nothing. Unless you have some acid, there is no reason to watch this.
This movie was really fucked up, even more so than Mulholland. My first reaction after watching it was that it was kind of pointless, but then I had nightmares about it for like a week. I couldn't get the imagery out of my mind.
I liked Mulholland DR. and Lost Highway alot. But this movie just didn't click. I was kinda disappointed. It wasn't bad either but just didn't match my expectations at all.
i think anything that lynch makes people call great without questioning it. if anybody else made this movie no one would care. IMO his time has passed, Blue Velvet and Mullholand Dr. were great films but he cant cut it anymore like he used too. It may be art but to hold it up as somthing it isnt is just silly.
ya i seen this film and it made no sense to me either tryied to watch it again but still dont know maybe lynch is overrated if he cant get his point across,
255685 - hope this isn't going to end up as pretentious babble-speak but here's my sense of the film - it's centered on the nature of what it is to be an actor - losing oneself in the 'fantasy' of playing a role, and the conflict that arises when reality and fantasy blur. hollywood is a wasteland of broken relationships and i think lynch is exploring the nature of this.
Yeah. If you see a few of his films like Lost Highway, Mull. Dr. and EMPIRE, there isn't the average plot at least not in the conventional sense. He hits more on the existential human condition of despair and it's almost seeming history of neverendingness. Or something like that. At least EMPIRE has a nice positive ending of sorts.
this movie is sick!, i didn't understand a thing of it even though i enjoyed it very much... Its a great piece of art, Lynch has done it again: created a clever masterpiece....
This movie is so confusing.There isn any single plot in it.There are a bunch of hookers,som rabbit people in a living room...I can understand whats it about
"Take what you want out of this statement but "Inland Empire" is about as idiotic as the entire human race".
The comment above is the sort of response you'd expect from your average 14-year-old Youtube viewer commenting on a complex David Lynch movie like this one. If it's not The Simpsons or Spiderman etc then its labelled as 'idiotic'.
Note also how 'krazy-grr' fails to realise that he too is a 'part of the human race' ..although you'd be forgiven for doubting it too.
I am a fan of many Lynch movies. The 1st time I saw Mullholland drive I was clueless. It took 3 viewings for me to finally snap my finger and understand at least a big chunk of what is supposed to be going on. But I have to say, Lynch lost me on this one. 3 hours of absolutely nothing happening, shot on shakey hand held digital cameras, no plot, no nothing. Just people sitting around in rooms, standing on snowy street corners, and ends with some japanese girl talking about rectal tissue damage.
Lynch is one of the few who knows the real difference between true "art" and mere "entertainment"... an entertainer cares very deeply about their audience's approval - the artist can't, and shouldn't care lest it effect their work.
Mr. David Lynch, what you've just made here is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever seen. At no point in your asinine, incoherent film were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone who has viewed this film is now dumber for having seen it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
i agree with you on that. i thought the start of the film was fantastic but i found the rest boring. it felt cheap. no way near as good as mulholland drive, blue velvet, the elephant man and even twin peaks- which in my opinion is one of the greates sitcomes ever made. an egg cup has a better narrative than inland empire.
I don't think Lynch gets better or worse. I love Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, Dune is decent and I think Twin Peaks was cool. But Lynch lost me on this one. Most of his films have some discernable meaning to them. Like the 1st time I saw Mulholland Drive I knew it was a mystery and it would make sense eventually the more I watched it. But this one, pfff, 3 hours of nothing. This movie is " Nothing ".
whoever thinks lynch got worse or better at any point they are wrong. All of his stuff is good. It never really changed. Lost highway was probably his worst movie but it is still amazing.
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This movie is so lame, and I am a Lynch fan, the story isn't coherent , and the acting is so bad ( notice when laura dern aint screaming her lungs out, she's just looking really vacuous) and that bunny rabbit thing.. what a rip off of Johny Darko !!!! I refunded my dvd and got a Cronenberg movie instead.
I loved Inland empire. You say hes repetitive, be he only gets better. This movie, more than any other, seems closest to the image in David lynch's mind. I do wish he would divert to something completely revolutionary, and I know hes capable of it.
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i don't know about the rest of you but i am getting tired of the same old.. mind trip... fantasy.. blah blah... is this one of those half real , half fantasy.. freudian wish-fulfillment ....?
Lynch is repetitive. He should do something new and original. Enough with the Beginner's level Freudian psychology...
yea go ahead, give the negative ratings to my comment.. you pretentious morons: "ooo, you didn't understand, Lynch meant...blah blah"
I liked Mulholland Drive, but havent seen Inland Empire yet. Still, I think Lynch has gotten better over time.
Personally, I never really understood the critical attraction to Blue Velvet---okay, so it's the dark-side of small town America. Big deal, that's just about what every Southern Gothic writer has dealt with. Flannery O'Connor, Faulkner, etc.
Mulholland Drive at least tackles the subject of Hollywood and film genres and does it in a style unique to Lynch.
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bass109 11 months ago
stil trying to deside if this is the worse movie i ve ever seen or the best movie ive ever seen...
MrIOANNIS51 1 year ago
I don't think I've ever been more creeped out by a movie. It's terrifying
ultrablue123 1 year ago
WTF with the rabbit scene !!! :o
MrIOANNIS51 1 year ago
Lynch is not a movie maker... and I am not critize him, A movie doesn't matther how complicated it is or how artistic... it has to make sense. I was dissapointed when Lynch said how he did this "movie" he just filmed several random and weird scenes with no conection whatsoever betwen each other.... But don't take me wrong, I think Lynch is a true artist, but NOT a movie maker.
ReijiNakashi 1 year ago
This is way harder to understand than "Mulholland Drive" and Twin "Peaks", besides the movie being long, its enoyable.
Hint: Justin Theroux(Devon/Billy), Laura Harring(in the end, some random character) and Naomi Watts(credited part) participated in this movie
Reboothis 1 year ago
I have just gotten around to viewing Inland Empire. As s a Lynch fan, I do not think this was his best Picasso. Lynch's artistic rendering lacked contrast. This movie starts dark, and goes hopelessly darker. The use of digital cams, and lighting issues flustered me. It is is a myriad of senseless ideas strown together. However,the acting was superb. If you want to spend time wollering in Lynch's nightmares, help yourself. All I have to do is fall asleep. 4 me, Moholland Dr. is his best effort.
chest002 1 year ago
most incredible film ive ever seen.
gets better each time, which is good because like myself i think it would take anyone at least 2 viewings to get a grasp of what is going on.
anyone interested in lynch's twisted-horror style like some of the scenes in this should check out his short films but particularly The Alphabet which is the most terrifying 4 minutes ive seen period.
MrMerlin87 1 year ago
Really dislike the DV look.
aquadias 1 year ago
anyone have good movies i should watch that are weird and cool doesnt have to be just david lynch films cuz ive seen almost all of them
JesusLoveMonster 1 year ago
The first time I saw this movie it scared the shit out of me, and I never scared by a movie! After giving it a second run it quickly became my favorite movie of all time! Once you get sense of everything that's going on you realize what a masterpiece this really is; the way it's made transcends all of film making. Inland Empire and Eraserhead are, in my opinion, the two greatest films ever made. David Lynch's approach to cinema is second to none! Heh, and I even love his music! BLUEBOB! XD
S0unDOfCha0S 1 year ago 4
Eraserhead and Inland Empire are the only 2 movies that have terrified me to this day. And i can't figure out why
KoRnFlakes1408 1 year ago 4
David Lynch is boss.
agwoodliffe 1 year ago
People say they don't understand this film. Well, it was written without a script, so it isn't surprising that it's a muddled mess. But if it affected you viscerally, you understand more than you think.
KrakkaJax 1 year ago
who sings the song?
thecoolcarrie 1 year ago
@thecoolcarrie lynch
mario4prez 1 year ago
@thecoolcarrie David Lynch sings this song. The audio is slowed down a bit and distorted.
Xephon212 1 year ago
The great thing about Lynch's films is that they don't need to be analysised - simply feel them, experience them, let them take you wherever they take you.
HungerCultFilms 1 year ago
david lynch!!
moitaparaty 1 year ago
heiwer mag mit mir zu chatn oder camn sagt einfach bescheid ja ^^
MrAnkeAnkita 1 year ago
This is the best movie I´ve ever seen... My favourite!!!! Thank you David for such a perfect movie ;)
julina447 1 year ago
David should go back to using film. Digital video has a certain grubbiness to it.
TheNEWfilmfanatic99 1 year ago
I watched this movie and I was like what the fuck is going on.
MountAnalogue 1 year ago 2
Has anyone else noticed that David Lynch seems to have gone to a more happier and lighter place since Inland Empire. It's almost like this movie was a grand exorcism of all the darkest reaches that he could find within the nightmares he has always seen into. And that at the bottom of that abyss he's found the void where it's only himself looking back upward at him - this would seem like the kind of moment where a person trades off the dark for the light.
DAVIDVINCENTDURING 2 years ago
Unless you're David Lynch's psychotherapist I would say you have no idea what you're talking about. Lynch has stated many times that one doesn't have to suffer in order to create art that depicts it. And since he's been doing TM for decades, he claims he hasn't been suffering.
DSelwyn21 1 year ago
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DAVIDVINCENTDURING 1 year ago
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@DSelwyn21 So you're saying I have no idea what I'm talking about? To condescend and contradict me into denying the existence of my own idea or it's presence in my mind is almost an attack on my freedom to think and sense things within my own consciousness. The energy of your reply seems counterintuitive to the nature of TM and feels like it comes from a place that actually uses conflict, difference, and point of attack to deflate my consciousness to serve your own.
DSelwyn21 1 year ago
Yeah, you got it. I was basically disagreeing with your previous post. Yes indeed. I was attacking your freedom to think and sense things within your own consciousness. Not only that, I was really trying to deflate your consciousness in order to inflate my own. So from now on you must get my permission in order to think. Is that okay with you ??
DSelwyn21 1 year ago
i don't see much of a story here, and i don't think it's worthwhile to go searching for meaning in a 3 and a half hour movie when i don't even have any idea whether or not the outcome will be rewarding or disappointing. however, i did not need to really think to respond to the film with an emotional intensity unmatched by few others i've seen. and i am impressed that lynch was able to leave such an impression on me (even if i haven't the slightest clue how to articulate how he moved me).
bcpsleeperkid4 2 years ago
@bcpsleeperkid4 i dont see why someone gave you a thumbs down. thats some good feedback.
PistolGripPump12ga 1 year ago
I saw this movie yesterday. I can't say I know anything about the film except that Laura Dern's character gets FUCKED OVER by gypsies.
Yeah. A very unfortunate life to have to live, I'd say.
eski514 2 years ago
This flick was shot with the same camera i got at home, the SONY PD150/170.
keijimuto 2 years ago
does thismovie even have anything to do with the I.E.?
insanejae 2 years ago
Why did they bother making a trailor for this, it probably only aired in like 10 "whole in the wall" cinemas lol.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the movie.
The only trailor I saw for it on TV was on the IFC on the day it went to dvd lol.
docileprimate 2 years ago 2
I read somewhere that Mr. Lynch chose the title of the film after Laura Dern told him that her husband was from the Inland Empire, which is a large metropolitan area in southern California consisting of three counties. Apparently, Lynch liked the sound of the words "inland" and "empire" together and it was then that he named his film. Can anyone validate this? I'm wondering because I happen to live in the Inland Empire.
BringingTheLULZ 2 years ago
Yeah, that's what I heard too. (I live in the IE too).
enzobot24 2 years ago
I just watched this film and found it FUCKING SCARY at some parts.
shortinos 2 years ago 9
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what a shitty movie
SilverSpawn2 2 years ago
why?
M33GR0V 2 years ago
I swear, 0:39 to 0:45 is just disturbing.
OXMMadman 2 years ago
Does anyone know the name of the song that was playing during the trailer?
SuzyandtheZodiac 2 years ago
Ghost of Love by David Lynch himself.
JakeSpringhorn 2 years ago
Big mind-fuck or BIGGEST mind-fuck?
Manits1515 2 years ago 5
apparently this film was shot on a Sony PD 150. My school has the same camera and i plan to use in my no-budget production.
I almost cannot believe that this was shot on that camera
quicklyintothevoid 2 years ago 5
I saw it in the cinemas and it looked gorgeous. People underestimate digital. You don't need a huge camera like the Genesis or the Red to shoot something good.
sestsa 2 years ago
I recently used a PD170 for a 48 hour film project movie (which ended up sucking nuts). It can look alright on the big screen, but its hard to make it look amazing. It won't necessarily look horrible (good lighting can help with upscaling), but there are limitations with SD. However, it can all be helped (and goes to show the importance of) lighting, composition, good use of the settings, etc. The PD150/170 are beasts in low light, especially if you use manual settings well.
grenaderock 2 years ago
It is so lush, with more of a focus on visuals than plot which can be resolved in a linear fashion. The musical score lends an insane amount of gravity. The scene where Laura Dern says "who are these people" when the circus folk come for hot dawgs is absolutely bitchen'. Right up there with Twin Peaks and Lost Highway IMO.
muttonbuster 2 years ago 2
Everyone to their own taste said the old lady as she kissed the cow, but cluck Dennis Hopper. This movie is Lynch's magnum opus. Think 3 hours of the black lodge from Twin Peaks. One long, vivid peyote trip of a conundrum within a conundrum.
muttonbuster 2 years ago
I was terrified when I watched this movie o.O
Damone80 2 years ago 8
me too.
azaelchazii 2 years ago
This goes for basicly ALL David Lynch movies, and not only for the almighty Inland Empire; don't constantly be looking for clues, don't get frustrated if you can't solve the 'mystery', just enjoy the movie and it's pictures, let your emotions and senses do the thinking. Art doesn't necesseraly have to make sense.
blestemp 2 years ago 49
@blestemp
I agree completely. But the thing is, I found a lot of Inland Empire to be kinda boring. The movie could've been about twenty minutes shorter without the long, drawn-out scenes of Laura Dern walking down hallways.
ThatHauntFreak2 5 months ago
@blestemp trying to figure it out has always been half the fun for me, because I know whatever I come up with, I'm fucking wrong.
OneRadRudeboy 4 months ago
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Why does this look like it was shot on a digital camera?
devianbomb 2 years ago
Because it was.
turtlesbonanza 2 years ago 18
this is a cool trailer
grenaderock 2 years ago 2
What love does.
yardbird9 2 years ago
People have an urge to try and make sense out of everything,but I love to escape into the surreal and irrational,it`s just as real and important and for me more interesting than logic and sense.Long live lynch and his haunting and mysterious films.
7lartceps 2 years ago 4
Does this baby have a plot? Or is it just a lot of weird crud comin' at ya? See, I hated BLUE VELVET, which had a plot, thereby proving that plots in themselves don't make good movies, but the absence of one guarantees a bad film.
goback3spaces 2 years ago
A plot can also be theme based, or most important, emotion or feeling based, it doesn't just have to be narrative or story based. The absence of what I think you perceive as a 'plot' does not guarantee a bad film, in fact I believe it is 'plot' which limits the artistic potential of film.
ethansface 2 years ago 2
Your comment is very intriguing. Can you give me some examples of films with plots that are "theme-based" rather than story based? It seems to me that RAGING BULL might be a film along these lines.
goback3spaces 2 years ago
Well for theme-based an obvious example would be pretty much all the works of Godard. An example of films which follow a narrative of feeling would be the works of Andrei Tarkovsky (e.g Mirror) or even some of Shinya Tsukamoto's work (e.g. Tetsuo: The Iron Man), and Masaki Kobayashi (e.g. Kwaidan), not to mention Lynch of course. The experience of these films lie within feelings (except Godard of course).
ethansface 2 years ago
Very interesting. Something to think about. I'm familar with Godard and Tarkovsky, not with the other names you mention. I might very well suggest that there's a great deal of feeling in Godard's films, that they're emotional experiences based upon ideas, including ideas of plot. WEEKEND, for example, has a conventional plot (husband and wife are going to murder her father for an inheritance) and much of the tension in the movie comes from our witnessing of the plot's breakdown.
goback3spaces 2 years ago
Yeah you are right, they were broad statements for the sake of making a point. All I meant was that theme is central to Godard's films, and the plots (if you can call them plots) are structured (or destroyed) in order to try and portray those themes. But back to the point! Really I was just trying to convince you to watch Inland Empire... I think it is - if any film is - a masterpiece (although that much over used term has sadly lost a lot of it's impact now).
ethansface 2 years ago
ethansface, I'll give it a try, then get back to you. Though I must tell you that I intensely disliked ELEPHANT MAN, and hated BLUE VELVET, both of which I saw when they came out. But Lynch seems to have gone off the deep end since then, and maybe there's something of value in this film, something I couldn't predict. Can't tell without seeing it, of course. I myself am a bigtime Bergman fan, PERSONA being my favorite movie. Thank you for your thoughtful recommendation!
goback3spaces 2 years ago
I keep pulling this out of my David Lynch Collection to watch it I love it I love Mulholland Dr. too but I like Inland Empire more
donneric 2 years ago 3
I want to see this movie, but i think i red that you can not explain it logically, for example lost highway and mdrive had normal plot, but you should watch films few times to understand it, but Inland Empire has just video and sound fragments, is it true- is this film explainable.
Sorry for my english.
jur4ik269 2 years ago 2
God!!! Im a HUGE David Lynch fan!!! i love everything about his films, amazing, just amazing, and i saw this film last night, and didn't really understand it, but it was great!! im gunna watch it again now!
Star28Gentian 2 years ago
to me it's totally fascinating what he captures on film,and the sounds,every aspect,he's very precise,,and also not calculating or doing things to effect,he always will tell you-it's the story-you may not fully comprehend the story and more than you understand your own minute to minute existence.
His work is authentic-you could easily see someone,styling themselves after lynch,and of course-you can see all kinds of things within his pictures,that connect,or could be described as influence..
crypttonite 2 years ago 2
i saw this movie last night fucking creepy man
bigfreshdawg 2 years ago 6
i got crash on Muholland Drive.....and now i really want to see David lynch 's other film!!
i know INLAND EMPIRE is the second film most ppl watched....
how about The Straight Story?
simmytam 2 years ago
The Straight Story is really well made, but not really in "Lynchian" style.
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HardCityEnt 3 years ago
Okay some of you may know the paranormal thing about orbs. Well in Inland Empire there is actually one scene were one appears in front of Laura Dern and Justin Theroux. I'll try to find out what time it's at.
bennykanny 3 years ago
that face is so scary
GLYPHKING 3 years ago
valery said once that if a work of art is really art that means it cannot be translated nor completely interpreted or it wouldnt be worth the while to make the art in the first place youd be far more accurate with just saying with mere words what you were trying to express... lynch makes art in that sense. he accomplishes what he wants to provoke exactly into the viewer. outsanding this fella
watashiwanachodes 3 years ago
Quickly, Loserido! Tell us what passion is and is not, what art is and is not, what (dare I..) life is and is not. Do you not see the anguish you cause by withholding your insights? Quickly! Your adoring fans
borrochito 3 years ago
Well that's up one self to decide, but I don't find the answer to any of them to be INLAND EMPIRE.
Loserido 3 years ago
i dont get it. what do you hate so much about david lynch and inland empire?
antipizza07 3 years ago
In a month my feelings have kind of cooled of, but I guess I can say that David Lynch spends most of his time performing mental masturbation on the screen with good effects and that's fine and all, but it gets annoying when it sells so well to people who consider it to be so much more, which I really don't find it to be.
Loserido 3 years ago
His movies have their own kind of atmosphere. I guess you just either get it or you don't.
antipizza07 3 years ago
I guess...
Loserido 3 years ago
lynch relies too much on atmosphere & plays too much with images.either philosophers or his fans will rave at his work..too treaky.i know an underground film student who usually makes these kind of experiments,he made a video essay & screened it at his college with the tag:"lynch's unreleased 05' reel".went completely mad reproducing faithfully lynchs style,several lynch fans disscused the shit out of the clip & afterwards they freaked when the guy told them the truth.the guy owned lynch fans
godardtruffaut 2 years ago
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Motion Picture is a very elaborate form of storytelling, using camera work, music, acting and many other factors to fulfill the experience.
What those factors are NOT (and here's where Lynch falls short) is an EXCUSE for telling a story.
A bunch of pseudophilosphical specualtive nonsens cut together in a nice maner does not, and never will, make a film.
I fucking despise David Lynch and I hope he burns in hell.
Loserido 3 years ago
Wrote a big reply. Deleted it. Not bothered even arguing.
MafiaVirusAlias 3 years ago
Okay.
Loserido 3 years ago
this movie is amazing
350125GO 3 years ago
i havent seen the movie and i`m sure not going to...maybe i just don`t get it...but what`s so cool and interesting about this type of movie??? what if i took a camera and just shoot whatever i see, put some creepy music as a soundtrack and do stupid things..and maybe i`d win an oscar..come oooon!maybe there is a subliminal message or whatever but who has time to figure it out..i hate absurd and abstract things
ingrisalix 3 years ago
ingrisalix youre closed minded, you see things like a horse, too bad
SanitariumNative 3 years ago
honestly this pushes movie narratives forward by at least 50 years.
edmame 3 years ago 5
INLAND EMPIRE is the culmination of a lifetime of work by the master David Lynch and it shows. Most recycled garbage coming out of Hollywood these days cannot even come close to this production. It holds your attention while plugging right into the unconscious mind - Indeed, what a mind trip that is...Thanks David!!!
Arjuna1111 3 years ago 4
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The song is horrible
gingert9 3 years ago
Thanks for quoting me, anvilnose.
Yup,I guess Lynch reached his peak with Lost Highway. The fact is that the message of duality was already conveyed in that movie, and if he is to repeat the formula, it's just because he is unsure about it.
But i'm not just talking about the psychological aspect of the movie, the plot (or lack of), the uninspired dialogues and tiresome situations abound in this pathetic film which is an infuriating catastrophe at best.
soyyoeh 3 years ago
this sucks, i saw the same "i don't know who i am anymore but at times i don't know that i don't know who i am anymore" thing in lost highway.
go ahead...but i bet none of the people that put a thubs down on this comment heard about "the hour of the wolf" which is basically the same kind of "trippy" movie only infinitely better.
anvilnose 3 years ago
Watching any Lynch movie is a plunge into the abstract and the mysterious. Most crowd-pleasing Hollywood movies look hollow by comparison.
TinfishUK 3 years ago 3
Couldn't agree more Tinfish UK, but then again, bust people don't "want to see..." Cheers.
Arjuna1111 3 years ago
i hv just found out the hidden Eng subtitle in the special edition dvd......and i am going to get a precise look abt IE....
there are really so many ideas u can explore, just like a flash pt which inpsires ppl alot
23891050 3 years ago
where do you find hidden English subbies in the special edition?
chrissphinx 3 years ago
In many softwares like WinDVD, choose options subpanel and activate (CC 1).
diegojavs 3 years ago
I like his films, their weird, ever since twin peaks the tv show, im gonna watch dis just because everyones saying this films completely mental.
aabbs7 3 years ago
i've never seen this movie, but this trailer captures what its like in the inland empire-- well, except for the british accents.
bornslippyboy 3 years ago
So much recommends this film, the least being a discernible "plot," whatever that means. The movie-within-a-movie theme is intriguing, particularly as the script takes over the actors' lives. Unabashedly, I love everything Lynch does. I can find "plot" anywhere--and do, too, too frequently. I'll take Lynch's roaring soundtracks and stunning imagery everytime. "Strange what Lynch does."
odovicor 3 years ago
Dune was close, but no cigar. Definately not horrible.
BabyWetsAllNight 3 years ago
david lynch is singing in the background ( seriusly)
cronology 3 years ago 2
that was the weirdest fucking movie i've ever seen in my life
but i loved it
sandabs 3 years ago 2
That was the weirdest fucking movie i have ever seen in my life also, and i didn't have a fucking clue as to what was going on! In my opinion, this is a terrible film.
ASqUEe183722 3 years ago
this movie works in the same way as mulholland dr. if you watch at least 3 times you understand a good chunk of it
juniorgod321 3 years ago
there is some vivid and even alien imagery in this movie, but it is essentially three hours of nothing. Unless you have some acid, there is no reason to watch this.
addersdream 3 years ago
Or an attention span not typical to the average American
conchettas 3 years ago 3
This movie was really fucked up, even more so than Mulholland. My first reaction after watching it was that it was kind of pointless, but then I had nightmares about it for like a week. I couldn't get the imagery out of my mind.
themasterbakerrr 3 years ago
I liked Mulholland DR. and Lost Highway alot. But this movie just didn't click. I was kinda disappointed. It wasn't bad either but just didn't match my expectations at all.
makelelemakelele 3 years ago
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Lost Highways was his worst film.
ConiferTreez 3 years ago
Highway*
ConiferTreez 3 years ago
I love Lost Highway
The interpretation is just more difficult than on his other films
keman25 3 years ago
this movie is amazingly beautiful.
haven't enjoyed such a marvellous brainfuck for a long time
SoRazzamatazz 3 years ago
Possibly the best Lynch movie ever. It was sad, scary, intense, weird and beautiful.
cshaw419 3 years ago
i think anything that lynch makes people call great without questioning it. if anybody else made this movie no one would care. IMO his time has passed, Blue Velvet and Mullholand Dr. were great films but he cant cut it anymore like he used too. It may be art but to hold it up as somthing it isnt is just silly.
adobe4578 3 years ago
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
thomanarchos 3 years ago
you're a fucking idiot, his best films were 'Dune' & 'Wild At Heart'.
ConiferTreez 3 years ago
Dune was HORRIBLE.
mssto 3 years ago
actually i think blue velevet was his best, frank is scariest character ever.
anvilnose 3 years ago
i agree Blue Velvet is his best in my opinion, but that does not stop the fact of this film being his most Extrordinary
acandycolorednick 3 years ago
YEAH.
cunt3496 3 years ago
ya i seen this film and it made no sense to me either tryied to watch it again but still dont know maybe lynch is overrated if he cant get his point across,
unless confussion is what he intended.
255685 3 years ago
255685 - hope this isn't going to end up as pretentious babble-speak but here's my sense of the film - it's centered on the nature of what it is to be an actor - losing oneself in the 'fantasy' of playing a role, and the conflict that arises when reality and fantasy blur. hollywood is a wasteland of broken relationships and i think lynch is exploring the nature of this.
spectravision 3 years ago 2
sounds like you might be onto something
255685 3 years ago
Yeah. If you see a few of his films like Lost Highway, Mull. Dr. and EMPIRE, there isn't the average plot at least not in the conventional sense. He hits more on the existential human condition of despair and it's almost seeming history of neverendingness. Or something like that. At least EMPIRE has a nice positive ending of sorts.
jjpme92un 3 years ago
difficult film, not one of my favourite DL films, but still quite enjoyable.
bigyellowlegoman 3 years ago
this movie is sick!, i didn't understand a thing of it even though i enjoyed it very much... Its a great piece of art, Lynch has done it again: created a clever masterpiece....
KMileSupernova 3 years ago
This movie is so confusing.There isn any single plot in it.There are a bunch of hookers,som rabbit people in a living room...I can understand whats it about
aleksandar93 3 years ago
im doing this in film studies and i just dont get it lol :(
abccharliez 3 years ago 3
This film isn't even understood by David Lynch himself
aleksandar93 3 years ago 2
Interesting that it's out on DVD yet, noone carries it either to buy or rent.
stockhausen 3 years ago
Why would anyone buy a DVD that is cursed by a Polish vier sieben?
Kaamosteoria 3 years ago
Check out the Rolling Stone review on this movie. Go to google and type in "lynch inland empire rolling stone review"
TinfishUK 3 years ago
krazygrr wrote.....
"Take what you want out of this statement but "Inland Empire" is about as idiotic as the entire human race".
The comment above is the sort of response you'd expect from your average 14-year-old Youtube viewer commenting on a complex David Lynch movie like this one. If it's not The Simpsons or Spiderman etc then its labelled as 'idiotic'.
Note also how 'krazy-grr' fails to realise that he too is a 'part of the human race' ..although you'd be forgiven for doubting it too.
TinfishUK 3 years ago 4
This... looks like a wonderful piece. This is my kind of movie... I can't wait till I get my hands on a sample!!!
JizGoaol 3 years ago
Take what you want out of this statement but "Inland Empire" is about as idiotic as the entire human race.
krazygrrl1989 3 years ago
I am a fan of many Lynch movies. The 1st time I saw Mullholland drive I was clueless. It took 3 viewings for me to finally snap my finger and understand at least a big chunk of what is supposed to be going on. But I have to say, Lynch lost me on this one. 3 hours of absolutely nothing happening, shot on shakey hand held digital cameras, no plot, no nothing. Just people sitting around in rooms, standing on snowy street corners, and ends with some japanese girl talking about rectal tissue damage.
BabyWetsAllNight 3 years ago
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this movie looks like shit
foottothenuts 3 years ago
Lynch is one of the few who knows the real difference between true "art" and mere "entertainment"... an entertainer cares very deeply about their audience's approval - the artist can't, and shouldn't care lest it effect their work.
JoeyDaytona 3 years ago
Mr. David Lynch, what you've just made here is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever seen. At no point in your asinine, incoherent film were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone who has viewed this film is now dumber for having seen it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
joerogerthat 3 years ago
What you say about Pomona?
diegojavs 3 years ago
i look so good, i'm my blonde star wig.
whatever this movie is great.
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b2367 3 years ago
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Genius?
reusing footage of rabbits ? putting a monkey to clap it's hands?
and...WTF? girls coming out of nowhere dancing Do The Locomotion?
It's a plotless trainwreck. I bet Lynch is laughingh his ass off while others admire "the emperor's new clothes"
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diegojavs 3 years ago
"It's a plotless trainwreck. I bet Lynch is laughingh his ass off while others admire "the emperor's new clothes""
you may be right.
anvilnose 3 years ago 3
This isn't a movie...it's art! David Lynch is a genius...get used to it!
jollywigs 3 years ago
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A piece of crap. WORST MOVIE EVER
soyyoeh 3 years ago
smoke a joint!
georgia12e 3 years ago
Can't get no bus to Pomona.
diegojavs 3 years ago
Oh Baby...:-)
b2367 3 years ago
I'm addicted to David Lynch. Ever since I saw Eraserhead I've been hooked to his work. His visuals are amazing.
PsycheofAphrodite 3 years ago
gah, why are so many vids audio out of sync
Chubachus 3 years ago
I'm quite disappointed that Lynch has decided to switch to digital, but what are you gonna do
troyehenry1 3 years ago
i agree with you on that. i thought the start of the film was fantastic but i found the rest boring. it felt cheap. no way near as good as mulholland drive, blue velvet, the elephant man and even twin peaks- which in my opinion is one of the greates sitcomes ever made. an egg cup has a better narrative than inland empire.
danielupham 3 years ago
I don't think Lynch gets better or worse. I love Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, Dune is decent and I think Twin Peaks was cool. But Lynch lost me on this one. Most of his films have some discernable meaning to them. Like the 1st time I saw Mulholland Drive I knew it was a mystery and it would make sense eventually the more I watched it. But this one, pfff, 3 hours of nothing. This movie is " Nothing ".
BabyWetsAllNight 3 years ago 2
i love david lynch. his films are bloody amazing. his films make Donnie Darko look like The magic roundabout.
danielupham 3 years ago 2
whoever thinks lynch got worse or better at any point they are wrong. All of his stuff is good. It never really changed. Lost highway was probably his worst movie but it is still amazing.
thepennymachine 4 years ago
This is like the strange, mutated baby of David Lynch and Damon Packard.
vonnegutkidd2 4 years ago
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This movie is so lame, and I am a Lynch fan, the story isn't coherent , and the acting is so bad ( notice when laura dern aint screaming her lungs out, she's just looking really vacuous) and that bunny rabbit thing.. what a rip off of Johny Darko !!!! I refunded my dvd and got a Cronenberg movie instead.
rb1779 4 years ago
*facepalm*
and btw, it's Donnie Darko, not Johny :s
theholyorange 4 years ago
You ever wonder WHY the story isn't coherent????
BritFilmLover3 4 years ago
can anyone tell me who sings the gorgeous song from the end of the movie...??
elenush07 4 years ago
It's House of the Rising Sun sung by Nina Simone. A brilliant song for a brilliant movie!
alfonsobonso 4 years ago
thanks
elenush07 4 years ago
It's nina simone but the song is sinnerman
prcagna 4 years ago
This movie feels like walking alone through a city after a night in the bar. Very dreamlike.
fiveMIRrOrs 4 years ago 3
I loved Inland empire. You say hes repetitive, be he only gets better. This movie, more than any other, seems closest to the image in David lynch's mind. I do wish he would divert to something completely revolutionary, and I know hes capable of it.
PutinWurst 4 years ago 4
David Lynch it's really fucked up mind director....
followclow 4 years ago 2
I personally think he is still one of the best directors around today.
Storylines aside, the tension and imagery of his work is what i love. Guy could direct even the most simplistic story and make it worth watching.
Camsam84 4 years ago 3
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i don't know about the rest of you but i am getting tired of the same old.. mind trip... fantasy.. blah blah... is this one of those half real , half fantasy.. freudian wish-fulfillment ....?
Lynch is repetitive. He should do something new and original. Enough with the Beginner's level Freudian psychology...
yea go ahead, give the negative ratings to my comment.. you pretentious morons: "ooo, you didn't understand, Lynch meant...blah blah"
please.
rodeo179 4 years ago
i agree with rodeo179's comments to the letter..
after wild at heart i reckon everything he put out sucked..
eraserhead was the best, blue velvet second best..
that rabbit nonsense was fucking attrocious..
slight tangent, but another movie that sucked is donnie darko..
collapsed under the weight of it's own pretentiousness about 30mins in..
utter shit..
iggyyggi 4 years ago
I liked Mulholland Drive, but havent seen Inland Empire yet. Still, I think Lynch has gotten better over time.
Personally, I never really understood the critical attraction to Blue Velvet---okay, so it's the dark-side of small town America. Big deal, that's just about what every Southern Gothic writer has dealt with. Flannery O'Connor, Faulkner, etc.
Mulholland Drive at least tackles the subject of Hollywood and film genres and does it in a style unique to Lynch.