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David Lynch Drops The F-Bomb On The iPhone
Submitted by Edward Kirk on January 5, 2008 - 6:03pm.
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This one has been making the rounds on Youtube. In case you haven't seen it, it's a clip from a special edition of Inland Empire in which movie maker David Lynch shares his true feelings about watching movies on the iPhone small screens.
Needless to say, he's highly opinionated. Quite frankly, I have to agree, although perhaps not with the same vigor as him. Nothing quite compares with seeing a movie on the big screen. Still, if you've got the right set-up (say, in a dark place with a nice set of headphones or the like) then it can be pretty close. What do you think? Comment with your thoughts.
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He Is Dead Wrong
Its simple, instead of having a large screen 100 feet away you can have a
big HD screen a 10 feet awat or a Laptop screen 3 feet away. They all take the same amount of viewing space in your eyesight.
Similarly, you can have the iPhone screen 1/2 feet away, and given enough screen resolution, still see the same detail.
The Only real difference from movie theather to iPhone is the sound. However if you get a top class active cancelation earbuds, even that can e emulated.
The last issue, revolves around lightning as mentioned in the previous post, but hey, even movie theathers cannot project films outdoors, during the day.
Yep.
But, he's right. Go experience films in a proper theatre devoid of interruptions and on the big screen. (Note that home cinema is close but still not the same).
That said, convenience would say that catching a simple film/tv show/cartoon on your phone may be a good distraction while on public transport.
Some times watching...
hah
well said!
Watching movies on the go.
Are you nuts?
What you see is not necessarily what you get
Eraserhead
As a filmmaker, I would like everyone to not eat meat for 3 days prior to watching my work, as well as abstaining from watching anyone elses work and masturbating. It would be best if you could keep yourself in a sensory deprivation chamber for at least the previous 24 hours and then, sit down and transcendentally meditate on my work for at least the following two days, with as little exposure to bright light or heat as possible.
People are going to watch on what they want to watch. Not everyone will hear your music or your movies in exactly the way that you want them to, but hey, not everyone wants to watch your work at all.
God, if there was one thing I could take back it would be watching that fucking Eraserhead.
it is like compare jetplace with cars for speed.
with iPhone, you can watch movies wherever you want, on buses, trainers, airplanes where normally people can not experience. maybe david has his own private jet which has a big movie screen.
i often watch movies when im taking a dump. maybe David has huge bathroom with a big screen
As it is, he can get rammed.
As it is, he can get rammed.
i certainly understand the connection between your opening statement and your closing: you're rude, and you blame others for your own bad choices. if i was like you, you know what i'd tell you to do to yourself... but i'm not, so i won't.
it is like compare jetplace with cars for speed.
with iPhone, you can watch movies wherever you want, on buses, trainers, airplanes where normally people can not experience. maybe david has his own private jet which has a big movie screen.
i often watch movies when im taking a dump. maybe David has huge bathroom with a big screen
Just for the sake of stirring things up, how's this for an analogy: Most of us understand marriage to be the formal union, often before god as well as state, between a heterosexual man and woman; furthermore, it is presumed to be the foundation of family, a socially necessary precursor to offspring. Thus, in many profound ways Gay Marriage is not the same. I am not opposed to gays, nor their right to a formal civil union; however, it is wrong to call it marriage. Those of us who are married, who have created through be-ing together, will never accept that gay marriage is the same.
so: you can watch movies all sorts of ways, taking advantage of (or being taken advantage of by) myriad technologies and circumstances. those of us who love movies, who love and appreciate the entire moviegoing experience - like David Lynch, like Martin Scorsese, like myself, like most of the people i know and work with in the film industry, and many of our friends and acquaintances - we agree with david's comments.
As an aside - there are many movies that are not worth the time and expense of the full moviegoing experience. I make choices all the time about which films i'll invest the time & money in seeing au cinema, which i'll watch on the home theatre, which i'll watch on my computer and which i'll just skip. and there is some value in being able to pause and/or rewind and review in slo-mo or frame by frame; however, like the bonus features and added scenes, these are separate from the pure moviegoing experience in which the audience commits to paying full attention to the film as the filmmaker(s) intend it to be seen. it's not necessarily or always for everyone, and that's okay; but don't disdain the purist for making the distinction - that's ignorance.