Man, I’ve waited years for that film.
I contributed to the kickstarter back in 2012 and I was almost beginning to think the film would never get finished.
However, on the subject of people who consider Lynch pretentious.
I just don’t get it.
I’ve know people who’ll call the ending of The Shining brilliant, but who freaks out when someone does the same kind of thing, only for most of the movie (which is more-or-less what Lynch does).
Also, why is Dali a genius, but Lynch isn’t simply because he applies the same logic to a movie narrative?
I mean I completely agree that his films are the very definition of “niche”, but something not being made for everyone doesn’t automatically make it bad.
I think it’s pretty immature and ignorant to assume that just because something doesn’t work for you specifically that then it must by default be “bad”.
And also, I think it’s funny how people think Lynch’s ROTJ would have been weird. Do people honestly think Lucas would have allowed him to make a surreal SW movie? Lynch has after all directed pretty straight forward movies, including the sci-fi film Dune, which really is quite a normal sci-fi movie, considering the source material.