True story: I saw this in college with a few friends. We'd been drinking malt liquor, smoking marijuana, and munching on something that may or may not have been shrooms. After the movie, we were surprised to learn we'd all fallen asleep during the movie and had had this vivid dream . . . and then we started comparing notes and learned we'd all had the SAME dream. Eventually we figured out that it hadn't been a dream. We got back to my best friend's co-op and his roommate said, "So, what'd you think? You dig Eddy?" He'd named the Eraserhead baby "Eddy."
I was one of those disaffected teens renting this movie, and I DID love Harry Dean Stanton. This movie introduced me to him. It's still one of my favorite movies. Ebert was dead-on here. Siskel utterly clueless. PS-- John Wayne was a fag!
This is not a popcorn movie. This is not for the average or mundane movie goer. This is surrealist art and very complicated. His greatest masterpiece is Mulholland Drive,
I like the creepy industrial feel and the sounds of machinery ,trains and such, but David Lynch needs to explain some stuff which he refuses to do.Like why is there plants in piles of dirt on the night stand that isn't in a pot?Why does the lady in the radiator have giant cheeks?I like arty films,but I like a coherent story.Lynch is great at setting a mood but some one needs to help him with the script.
LOL Buy These two old fogeys didn't get how teenagers did it at all. You don't rent the movie ever time you want to see it! Your friend brings over his VCR, you watch it ONE time while taping it, then watch your copy every day after school until you can still quote every line backward and forward 40 years later.
The first act was great, and then it meanders randomly until the credits roll. Nearly all the good parts and quotes people talk about are contained within the opening thirty minutes.
My dad and I must have watched this movie 20 times on the VHS together. I could quote almost every line in this movie and do so in every day situations. I miss my dad. Love you!
