What Did Jack Do? (David Lynch)

[Stay Puft]

WHAT DID JACK DO?
Dir. David Lynch



Now streaming on Netflix.

IMDb page

[Grouchy]

I laughed consistently at the absurdity of this, but I'm aware that had it been signed by another director, I would probably have turned it off.

[Stay Puft]

Yeah, I wasn't really taken by this. It's amusing, but far too cursory to be memorable. I didn't even remember Jack breaking out into song until people were turning it into a meme the next day.

[Henry Gale]

Nah, this is good. It got me in too unique a headspace and made me laugh way too hard to say I wasn't moved by it.

It feels slight and sloppy but also feels just as easily like something someone will suddenly post a wild decoded reading of it that makes us all need to re-watch it with a new lens. Like, "Actually, the dialogue feels awkward and disjointed because it is in fact meant to be heard in backwards order! And that somehow reveals it's actually Lynch's character who murdered the chicken!"

Anyway, fun experiment (that Cartier somehow funded??), nothing more or less. Never going to put out any energy of discouragement of Lynch making whatever he feels like. It can't all be Part 8 of the new Twin Peaks.

[Dukefrukem]

What the fuck was this?

[Yxklyx]

I will always remember this one.