I'd love to watch his video on my iPhone, just for the irony, but as some of you may have heard, iPhone no likey flash. :-(
No big loss, though, if his previous works are anything to go by, it'd be just a speech by a midget being spoken backwards in between mouthfulls of creamed corn.

Pompadour alert!

Well, he can relax... I have no intention of watching any of his films on any medium, let alone a phone...

He's a - DOUCHEBAG.

He wanted to say billion but said trillion. What a douche.

@slingblade:

FAIL. David will ALWAYS be cooler than you, your friends and family. Why? Because you never wrote/directed Twin Peaks.

He's right by the way. Watching a movie on a 3-inch screen or whatever is nothing compared to watching it in the theatre ... hell, even on a 19" standard def TV.

his day has past. he is a technology dinosaur. he probably doesn't like cell phones either. or microwaves.

David Lynch has never been stuck for half an hour in a tunnel after being crammed into a Q train at rush hour. When I'm stuck in situations like that, there's nothing like TV-on-DVD on an iPod.

@Bobby T.: Have you ever seen a David Lynch film? I mean there's no Frodo or rings or anything but you might still be able to wildly grasp at a few concepts.

even if I do have to agree with him I have to point out that the only thing I was cheated out of by "Inland Empire" was $12 and three hours of my life

Damn that guy is fucking creepy. Twin Peaks gave me nightmares for days.

@dead_red_eyes:
In case you weren't notified, its no longer cool to say "FAIL". Actually, come to think of it, it never was cool. That being said, you may want to go ahead and look for another repetitious word to use.

@OMG!!! Ponies!!!: Exactly. You can't compare watching a movie on a portable device, because you aren't going to be watching a TV while on the subway, bus, etc.

I probably wouldn't want to watch an action movie on an iphone, but video podcasts and TV shows like The Office are just fine.

I haven't seen him talk in a long while...wow, he's going to be fun once senility fully kicks in!

@deepdish: Yes, he's such a technology dinosaur that he shot his last film on digital. Not film.

I mean, what the hell? Doesn't he know we're all using mega-hyper-HD-3d-vision now?

HAHAh, does he really think that if given a choice between watching a movie in the theater vs on a phone, people would really choose the phone?

Most people don't watch movies on their phones out of preference, but of lack of a better choice.

Like someone up there said, he's probably never been stuck somewhere, bored out of his mind...

I watched pretty much every episode of the Soprano's on my Treo 650 while doing cardio at the gym. Watching TV shows and movies on a little screen while doing something besides being a couch potato helped me lose 80lbs. To me when I upgraded to a Touch was actually like upgrading from SD to HD.

I don't have a problem watching video on portables. The iPhone and iPod Touch have great screens (aside from the shimmering blacks problem).

@deepdish: Actually he is one of the biggest digital media fans out there, going on and on about how digital makes so much more possible than film ever did.

That said, I always assumed the iPhone was more for killing a few hours watching movies you'd already seen, while on the plane or whatever. I'm pretty sure Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle doesn't lose anything when you watch it on the iPhone.

He is right. The only way to experience a movie is by paying nine bucks for a ticket, six bucks on popcorn, four bucks on a Coke, and listen to a fourteen-year-old talk on their cell phone for half the damn thing. That right there is an experience.

If I think I experienced something, then I experienced it. After all, reality is only what you perceive it to be, right? He is just some nay saying cockbite that thinks he is better than you.

Oh yea, forgot to mention the twenty minutes of commercials before the movie as well. Cockbite

And I hate people who hate people who watch movies on the iPhone

I didn't know he was also an actor.

btw, he never said iPhone...

That made me laugh so damn hard. David is a genius. I don't like watching a movie on my iPhone or in a movie theater full of rude people and/or bad sound system. Home theaters rule.

@Playstation: It must be because you only love people watching movies on their PlayStation Portables right Mr. PLAYSTATION.

My iPhone, with my Shure E500 canalphones, has WAY better picture and sound then most stereo SD TVs out there. And that's what most people have still... a CRT with stereo speakers. No HD, no 5.1.

And, Mr. Lynch, perhaps if you cannot convey the intended emotions with the resolution of the iPhone screen, I suggest that it is YOU who are the "f*cking" failure.

i hate people who eat ice cream while driving. ice cream is meant for park benches or beaches, not cars you sons of bastages!!!

Awwwwwww. Is the widdle technology community unhappies because an artist called their widdle phones wetarded?

Well too bad! Truth hurts. The man is an artist who makes movies, devotes himself to his craft, the craft of immersing YOU in a whole artistic experience.

Having to know that the thing he loves can be seen in such a cheap, silly way must be horrifying for him. It's like showing Rodin your sticky dashboard versions of his sculptures. Or reading the spark notes version of Hamlet. Just knowing that the spark notes version of Hamlet exists makes me angry. It's ridiculous. Why should Lynch think any differently.

"If I think I experienced something, then I experienced it". This is ludicrous. Just because you think you've experienced Hamlet from the spark notes doesn't make it true. It in fact makes it the most debased artistic lie, because not only are you NOT getting any real truth from it, but you're actually lying to yourself.

Now, as for watching crap on your phone, I think Lynch probably wouldn't care. I think he'd be perfectly happy if you watched 9 seasons of Chobits on your telephone. That's not his art.

@slingblade: You read my mind like a book. :)

I hate people that direct Mullholland Drive, but you don't see me saying 'fuck'.

I totally agree with Lynch. And the abysmal sales of UMD movies bears that out. When I saw the PSP come out, and one of the features touted was the ability to watch movies, I laughed.

1) To enjoy a 2 hour movie, you can't be interrupted every 3 minutes. Imagine trying to enjoy STAR WARS, if you had to leave the theatre for a second or two, 20 times during the movie.

2) When you have a tiny screen you need to watch it close up, and put on some ear buds. Watching a movie with one eye on your friends in the half-pipe, listening to their boombox in the background is pointless. It's like being in a theatre with some idiots in front of you jabbering away the entire time.

3) Watching movies on a tiny screen is a "ME ONLY" experience. Two people can't share it, and movies are only half as enjoyable if you are watching it alone.

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So in order to enjoy the iphone or Ipod for watching a movie:

You need 2 hours where you have NOTHING ELSE TO DO, where you are going to PUT ON HEAD PHONES, and NOT have ANY FRIENDS to TALK to... AND not be at somebody's apt or house (where there are DVD players, TV, PS2, PS3 etc.)

When does that situation come up for an adult? I guess if you're a friendless, homeless person, who hangs out at places that lack TV sets.

I can't think of a single time in the past 30 years, where I've had 2 hours to kill, where I could afford to put on headphones & shut out the world, where I didn't have access to a TV, friends to talk to, or laptop with a screen 5x the size of the Iphone or PSP. Bus? Plane? Laptop.

@drewheyman: I only eat ice cream while driving when I'm busy texting people and/or thoroughly intoxicated. Did I mention that I'm blind?

Since I first heard of the "David Lynch Foundation For Consciousness-Based Education and Peace" [www.davidlynchfoundation.org], I'm rather sceptical when it comes to David Lynch.

Holy crap. Their fuckin' movies. Sure, movies are better in a theater, but get a fuckin' grip.

Um, most people watch a move FIRST on their TVs or in a theater first, then rip it to their phone. Get over it.

BTW, I loved Twin Peaks, k bye.

*yawn*

You people crack me up. Doesn't anyone else here think that clip is hilarious? I actually watched it on my iPhone, btw.

In fact, that was the best iPhone commercial evarrrr..

Blistering commentary.

Now, let's find & replace "telephone" with:
• television
• dvd player
• laptop computer
• budget movie theater
• drive-in theater
• Geordi goggles

I still don't get the story of Lost Highway

I will choose to watch movies in whatever way I please thankyouverymuch.

Welcome to 2007 old fogey.

There are so many rich douche bags here who do not have to get stuck in the subway/bus STANDING UP for two hours every day.

Open your freaking minds you spoiled turds, cars are not so cheap in the other parts of the world.

@defn: "Open your freaking minds you spoiled turds, cars are not so cheap in the other parts of the world."

Good point...

Thanks for standing up for all the IPHONE OWNERS who live in poverty, in third world countries, can't afford cars, and must endure 2 hour bus rides to their jobs at the textile factory.

How does he feel about watching movies on a Nano?

@dcartist: The failure of UMD movies is in no way an indicator of a lack of demand for viewing video on the go. That was just Sony's incompetence.

I think you can enjoy movies on your iPhone or iPod Touch. I watched "Planet Terror" on my Touch and after about 10 minutes I was engrossed enough, and the resolution was sharp enough, and the iPod was close enough, that it didn't matter what the actual physical size was. But it depends on the film, and one's intentions for watching the film(s).

Maybe I want to review a film I've already seen before, or analyze the story or dialogue. I have several old films on my Touch, from the 30's and 40's, that I'm studying for a screenwriting class.

It's ironic that Mr. Lynch is (or seems to be) so vehement in his disdain for this medium, after running films on his website and shooting a lot of "Inland Empire" in rather low-res video. But I do see his point, although it does require a sacrifice by many to turn their backs on instant-gratification technology.

I'd also like to go back to a simpler time, when films projected large in a grand auditorium were the norm. But I think the genie is out of the bottle. Could this be the start of an anti-small medium movement? Then I suggest we get rid of our televisions, flat-screen displays and use our computers for reading and writing text only. That would be an interesting aesthetic.

hey guys,
do you know any website that we could download and watch movies?
ow well, aside from the crappy
youtube thing.

I remember watching "Mulholland Drive" on DVD a year after I saw it in the theater: If you tried to fast forward or skip chapters it would dump you all the way to the beginning. At first I thought I clicked the wrong thing, but it did it every time. I was pretty convinced it was David Lynch's way of saying, "No, you're going to watch it as I intended."

Oh yeah Mr. Lynch, well try making a call on a film projector! Yeah, just try that. If you think you 'experienced' the call on film projector, you're just Fucking wrong!

Someone's jealous they couldn't afford an iPhone.

Lynch is right. That's not the way he would like his movies screened. The experience is absolutely not the same. Now do most people give a fuck. Nope. Should Lynch care? Sure. Do people have to care? No. Are most comments on Gizmodo lame? Yes. Are the editors of Gizmodo lame? Yes.

It's not like people are using their iPods as the sole source of their video-watching entertainment. The only time I would use my iPod to watch a movie is when portability is an issue... like at the airport, doctors office or a hotel room.