What!?!? aka Missing Exposition — Page 2

^Which movie is that? I'll be sure to put it at the end of my Lynch-films-to-see list.

Mulholland Drive.  It's the only Lynch movie I've seen.

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Wait, was Naked Lunch a Lynch movie?  I only made it halfway through that one.

You can only turn this into a Lynch hate thread if you are prepared for me to derail it at every turn (which is an irony as that would be a derailment anyway).

Lynch doesn't need exposition as his films aren't usually linear stories (Elephant Man and The Straight Story are pretty linear mind but they are just two films in a long career and prove he could do it more often if he really wanted to).

On the whole he makes what can only be described as cinematic experiences where if there is a story at all it's just there as a wall space to hang mood conveying sequences on, even Dune (which in any other director's portfolio would be an attempt to hit the big time) is defiantly unconventional (much to the irritation of fans of the books).

If that's not your thing just don't watch his films.

Complaining about the lack of exposition in your average Lynch film is like complaining about the lack of fish in your average cup of coffee.

Naked Lunch was a Chronenberg picture (not sure if there is a book about Lynch called Naked Lynch but there should be).

I'm sorry, but I just can't help myself.

Lynch doesn't include chapter stops on his DVDs because he believes they need to be viewed in one continuous sitting.  Apparently he's never tried to watch one of his own films while one of his kids was crying.

Bite me, David Lynch.

TV's Frink said:

Bite me, David Lynch.

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Bingowings said:

On the whole he makes what can only be described as cinematic experiences where if there is a story at all it's just there as a wall space to hang mood conveying sequences on, even Dune (which in any other director's portfolio would be an attempt to hit the big time) is defiantly unconventional (much to the irritation of fans of the books).

In the movie The Doors, the indian chief leaves Jim's body when he became too "out of touch".

WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? He was weird and out of touch since the first scene!

I like Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks (the series, not so much the movie).  And, to a certain extent, Dune.

That's about the extent of the David Lynch I've enjoyed.  All the rest is pretty much pretentious garbage.

To be fair to Boost it would be better to stick to debating Lynch films here in terms of the 'need for exposition', which as I have previously posted, eight times out of ten isn't needed in a Lynch movie.

If you really want a general 'Lynch mob' thread I'm all for it and currently in a soft metal backed training sequence waiting to defend his honour.

Derailment should be a punishment for 'naughty' OPs not a general practice even in the Off Topic Zone.  

I draw your attention to the 'should' in the quoted text.

A little derailment now and again a mammoth thread which has been largely abandoned by the OP can do it the world of good but it has become the norm here when it was for a time an activity reserved normally for threads that started out as a bit of a joke or where the OP had gone bonkers.

^Exposition.

captainsolo said:

Just remembered one of my favorites: In Superman II when Zod and Co. are terrorizing Metropolis, Superman finally shows up to do battle. But he had just stripped himself of his powers in a way that was supposedly irreversible! Nothing is explained as to how they magically came back.

He aksed his dad, and his dad helped him (some green crystal from the first movie appeared).
Next :D

Oh.

It was implied in the Lester version (without the face to face).

He calls to his father.

The crystal glows.

Later in the film we discover the ray chamber's effects can be reversed, projected outside and the chamber can also act as a shield.

No exposition is necessary just patience.

That was clearly some sort of Kryptonian nanosheath that he peeled off his shield, not the shield itself.

If you watch the films over and over and over again through a magnifying glass with the telly upside down this is blatantly obvious. 

Tell those lurkers to lurk the lurker thread, pick a name from the lurker list, and stop lurking!

You know who did exposition great? "Star Wars."

The opening crawl is short, gives exactly what's needed just to explain the first scene.

Imperial politics? Three sentences.

Ancient Jedi knights? Maybe 90 seconds of talking combined.

Elaborate backstory between Vader/Obi? Three lines of dialogue.

That pretty much covers all the exposition in that movie.

I read somewhere that people describe "Star Wars" as fast paced, when really it's a somewhat slow paced adventure, largely due to the bare minimum of exposition used.

Wow, you really hate stuff,lol.