Anyone getting this?  Haven't heard anyone mention it on here yet.  I probably will because I don't have a lot of Lynch's non-TP stuff, but I could see how most Lynch fans would already have most of this stuff and only the hardcore ones would get it.  Who is getting it and what are your thoughts on this set?

From Dugpa.com

Writer, director and artist David Lynch has personally selected these works, including many pieces new to DVD, and a “mystery disc” of content taken from Lynch’s own personal archives and available only in this box set.

BOX SET INCLUDES:

ERASERHEAD – REMASTERED VERSION

ERASERHEAD SOUND TRACK

THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH

THE ELEPHANT MAN

THE ELEPHANT MAN EXTRAS – DVD DEBUT

WILD AT HEART

INDUSTRIAL SYMPHONY No. 1 – DVD DEBUT

BLUE VELVET – NEW LYNCH APPROVED 5.1 SOUND MIX

DUMBLAND

MYSTERY DISC – DVD DEBUT

BOOKLET – FEATURING RARE LYNCH IMAGERY

Running Time +/- 720 minutes
DVD: 5/9
9 DVDs + 1 CD
PKG: Deluxe Box Set Packaging
UPC: 858334001398
Street Date: November 18th, 2008
SRP: $179.95

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

i got to admit that for the first time i don't know if i'll buy it.

i bought eraserhead twice before

i bought the elephant man twice before

BV - 3 times before

WAH - 3 times before

i have the shorts and dumblands on DVD.

so to get all this again and pay this much money on Industrial symphony and the mystery dvd?

i don't know.

Nah. Seems like a total gimmick. Don't really want to fund peace palaces anymore. What will the Mystery Disc be...Lynch doing weather? Ohh how fun, it's a short film of Lynch making a shelf! Wow, a short film with extreme close ups of an asian woman, who is speaking in english but subtitled nonetheless. ooh shes talking cryptically, it must be Lynch! I'm becoming more and more cyncial as the days go on...Maybe the disc will have an interview with Lynch in which he doesnt mention diving within?

Or maybe i'll be proven wrong...the disc will contain FWWM Deleted Scenes, every single piece of unrealsed TP music...but for over 100 quid!!! For films most fans already own!! Arghh 

Wow, I'm sensing lots of aggression towards Lynch nowadays.

Is this the result of INLAND EMPIRE (and lots of TM/spiritual mumbo-jumbo)? I hated IE but only because I expect so much from DL. I'm not about to turn against him.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

I don't have half of those films - because they are my least favourite ones. The mystery disc will be home filmed crud.

What about the video of BV? Is it the remastered SE version? Or is it the tat I shelled out £15 for a couple of years back?

Well, academic as I don't have any money and not likely to have.

Aggression toward Lynch does seem to be getting awfully trendy these days.  There are those of us, however, who have been irritated with the man for years.  I remember starting to lose my aesthetic boner for him around the time that his website launched (or was supposed to... the first time), which happened to coincide with the infamous Cooter Blurring incident and others.  No one of the things that happened were any great deal on their own, but the sum total of the parts amounts to the craft and majesty of The Art of Being a Tool.

While getting to see/own Industrial Symphony does, in theory, appeal to me, I am similarly uninterested in funding "Peace Palaces" or any of the myriad other funds Lynch's latest "creative" efforts have worked to bolster at the expense of his artistic integrity and his relationship with his fan base.

Jordan .

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Yeah, what is the deal with the "Lime Green" set.?

And what is the Cooter Blurring incident?

 When Mulholland Drive was released on DVD DL blurred Laura Elena Haring's nude scene at her request. She was worried screen captures would end up on the internet.

 Thanks, Gio. I guess that suggests it will be the remastered video also.

I feel sour about the whole boxset antics because we fans are being exploited. There is never any guarantee that this set will be the ULTIMATE one. Even when an artist dies there are always lost items or demos that surface and incorporated. I can't see this as being the ultimate set because it less than half his output. However, won't rights issues scupper the chance of a Complete Lynch?

I was the mug who bought TP dvds separately and didn't get the Gold Set on principle. Of course if at the time the dvds were initially released we had known the Gold Set was already being planned we would all have waited. What was it between S2 and Gold Set? 1 year? 2 years? Less? These things take time to prepare and clear. Those cynical crooks bled us just enough to keep us alive. The Gold Set was already being prepared when they released S2.

I got scalped once and I don't have no more scalp left, Mr Lynch.

Does anyone on here actually believe the Mystery Disc will contain worthwhile stuff or just DL.com rejects and Lynch buliding a coffee table munching on quinoa?

Are the Dumbland or Dynamic 1-Best of DL.com DVD's any good? 

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Yes, exactly.  It affected the opposite reaction it was intended to while introducing a clunky, artificial element to an otherwise thoughtfully composed shot.  The frame composition (i.e., including her hip area at all) seems to speak against the "gentlemanly" quality of the move.  And he could have, for example, raised the darkness of the shot to obscure the amount of detail it revealed, but he doesnt seem to have wanted to sacrifice the boob resolution!  Gentlemanly?  Not his principle concern there, I would say!

But again... this wasnt really that big of a deal, it just showed him as being a bit lazy with the editing and was one thing among many that soured his favor for a lot of viewers. 

I'm just amazed DL failed to smuggle a topless woman (or women) into The Straight Story. It's been a staple of his films since Blue Velvet. As much as I love INLAND EMPIRE (and I really do love it) the "pretty titties" scene makes me feel feel uneasy. It's so pointless, I can't help picturing DL leering at his starlets, telling them to "Make love to the camera pussycat".

I predict his next "woman in trouble" will be a busty vixen in the manner of Russ Meyer who alternates between solving a "mystery" and competing on the topless table-tennis circuit.

And getting back to the matter at hand, if David Lynch had decided to call this Lime Green affair the Menstrual Red Set I'm sure people around him would have swooned with delight and declared it "genius". If anybody pointed an accusing finger he'd just say the unified field told him to do it. On the subject of which, I've been reflecting on this box set business and I can't help feeling the unified field wants me to have Industrial Symphony No. 1 and the Fire Walk With Me deleted scenes on DVD sans box set. I didn't have to dive very deep to catch that particular fish, admittedly, but it's a thick beauty nonetheless. The unified field also said that on reflection it prefers The Cash Cow Box to The Lime Green Set.