Okay, so basically it turned out that we all liked and enjoyed David Lynch's new work INLAND EMPIRE pretty much. Generally speaking, I'm with you guys.

But there must be also someone who found things at certain points in the movie that didn't quite work for them! So, what was it? Speak your thoughts freely.

This space is now open for bashing at little (or not so little, if that's what you think) imperfections we found in this infernal labyrinth that IE is.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

I liked that one actually.

One thing I didn't quite like was the final shot of Laura Dern when she gets sort of enlightened. As a matter of fact, it's not that I didn't like it... but it was awfully shot in my opinion.

There is something else, but right now it doesn't come to mind.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

 You know,it's funny because in some ways I agree with your sentiment: Lynch movies are more about the overall mood and the emotions you take away from the movie etc. That's the line David usually espouses, BUT - I also think that he makes movies that DEMAND interpretation - he always imbues his stories with mysteries - and mysteries are there to be solved. If all he wanted to do was convey emotion, he could don it without all the mysteriousness - like, for example, Wong Kar-Wai does in his movies. I think DL puts the mysteriousness in because he wants to provoke people into discussion and debate.

My main complaint about IE?

It's too short. 

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

He wants us to become more clever in order to join him in his Peace gardens projects and meditate with him - ahahahah !

Being serious now: I actually found that there was something of his obsession with war, violence, stupidness and pollution problems, so transcendental meditation as a solution for these issues in IE. I kind of found it in the dialogues about people inhaling factory smokes and the little girl seeing the end of the world. Very vague, though. Well, I suppose he tried to give a political nuance to those bits of the movie. That's quite a change!

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

Bobi 1 Kenobi

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 You are absolutely right mentioning this.Anyway I think its a very psycological work and a try to express "woman in trouble"world.All these outdoor problems like pollution,violence etc create even more everyday stress in everybody,sometimes not directly but finally a person who is in his own"trouble"which has nothing in common with pollution and wars in other countries is also affected by these "global problems"and it somehow makes her suffer more...what i mean is that from my point of view this dialogue is not just Davids obsession with this topic but a try to show that when a person has deep problems these "extra problems"are important too.It was just a thought which came on my mind while watching the movie...

aa.... ee....yyy... it was supposed to be a joke...

... when I said there was no single scene which I liked! Well, sure there was no scene I can honestly say that I liked because of course I have not seen a single shot of this film :-)

I hoped such a radical statement (that not even one scene...) will make it clear that I'm not quite serious. I'm not too fond of Mulholland Drive but I'd be very far from saying there was no scene which I liked, actually there were many (I think I like Mulholland much more than you do, Booth, only so it happens that it's around the bottom of my list of Lynch films).

So, cheer up, Smokey! ;-)

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I think you're gonna like IE, BOb1.

It is very different from Mulholland Dr. 

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

accidentlal double post 

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

You like Mulholland Drive better...because its a better movie than IE.

I used my Jedi powers there.

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

Weakened your ability to use the Force has. In error you are ;-)

Anyway, I hope so.

Bobi 1 Kenobi

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Saw it last Saturday and I loved every single shot of the movie. I think this is Lynch's best.

The only thing I didn't like abut it was that song, "Polish Poem", played near the end. It sounds like a Lord of the Rings-Enya thing.

Hmm, I am in no way "anti" here but isn't it too fast to say whether it is his best?

Anyway for me it would be too fast. Impressions are very fresh, the adrenaline level might not yet have fallen down... I think to truly be able to say such a thing one must give it some time, "digest it" properly... OR watch it a couple of times, perhaps?

Being a Starwars fan, I remember that from the very first time I had an intuition that Revenge of the Sith might become my most favourite of all parts but I didn't dare say it until I watched it for the third time...

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There won't be a theatrical release in my state, which makes me feel like I've been dared to not give it a chance.

IE had better be pretty damned good for my having to wait this long and not even have a proper cinema experience for my first viewing.

I'm bitter, bitter, bitter about it (and disappointed by the bulk of DL.com)

Plus, I got a bad review of the film from a close, authoritative source.

It's possible that I will no longer be as devout a Lynch fan if IE fails me :(