David Lynch hates movies on the fucking iPhone.

David Lynch, the great American director of such films as Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Dune, the Elephant Man and Eraserhead tells you his candid opinion of watching movies on a small screen like the iPhone.
RedSkysays...

Do you have to buy movies for your iPhone specifically or are you legally permitted to rip them from DVDs and such? Anyway reminds me of how they tried to do this with the PSP and failed miserably.

arnorsays...

@RedSky - I believe the movies you purchase on iTunes can be watched both on your Mac/PC, tv, iPod and iPhone; no need for separate versions.

You are legally allowed to play your DVD movies on your iPhone - it's the ripping part that's illegal, as you almost certainly have to circumvent some sort of copy protection to do so; and that's illegal.

Irishmansays...

Agreeance with Lynch.

AND mobile phones with cameras and video capability have COMPLETELY FUCKING RUINED live music concerts as idiotic moronic fucking slug people stand there with their phones up in the air so that they can satisfy their ego to their friends instead of actually experiencing what is happening right in front of them.

Peroxidesays...

The man directed 'Mulholland Drive,' That makes me want to watch all movies on the iphone, for craps sake, that movie was retarded, like that urinal in the Louvre, on display.

nibiyabisays...

Eh, sorry, but he's got a point. You can't be drawn into a movie if you're watching it on a portable device. You need a nice, comfortable seat in a dark or dim room with no sounds but that of the movie. Maybe the iPhone could do it then, certainly not as well as a home theater would, but I think he is referring to the fact that the vast majority of movies watched on iPhones are in loud, crowded environments. I would never watch anything but a non-serious movie on an iPhone, and it couldn't be the first time at that.

dystopianfuturetodaysays...

Peroxide,

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Spoiler Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first half of MD is a dream, the second half is reality, or at least the subjective reality of Naomi Watt's character. Give the movie a second watch with that in mind and you just might enjoy it.

I can also give a pretty good interpretation of the impenetrable 'Lost Highway'. If enough people request it, I'll rewatch it and blog it on a sift post.

PS: I have no fucking clue how to interpret INLAND EMPIRE. It has shape, form and logical emotional arcs, but I don't think there is a clear-cut plot to unravel. It's just abstract. For the record, I like IE quite a bit.

sortedsays...

I love seeing him expressing himself, he's correct of course, IMHO. Please enjoy your own opinions, if you disagree with him, come back in five years and read your posts again. Funny what a few times around the sun can do to your subjective perception of what is and what was.

CrushBugsays...

"Dear Dumb Person, I'm sorry that you've apparently had both your sense of humor and sense of irony surgically removed. Hopefully they will grow back."

"Hey Crushbug. Try watching 'Elephant Man' on your phone. Hopefully not while driving. Although maybe these young'uns on their ADD drugs can pull it off. Enjoy!"

Sorry that the two of you misunderstood my flippant and sarcastic response. =P I don't have an iPhone and I agree with Lynch; I just always find it funny when someone out there starts trying to tell people how they should or should not do something.

I only know one person that watches movies on her iPod, and its for a very specific reason, after transferring it from DVD. Of course she has seen the movie in both the theatre and on her TV. Since its most likely a tertiary viewing of the movie, why would anyone really care.

Please let's not turn this into the YouTube comments section

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