David Lynch & I Hate Cell Phone Movies
There's a chocolate-consuming philosophy that was introduced by the people at the Reese's Headquarters: There is no wrong way to eat a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. The same cannot be said for viewing movies.
In the last few years it has become fashionable to treat movies as candy bars as they're being made smaller and smaller, and chopped into bite-size formats. I have acquaintances in the industry who talk about the importance of serving the consumer and providing them with new ways to consume entertainment with their busy schedules.
Frack that.
I don't like watching a movie on my computer. I hate to see a feature film serialized into 8-minute segments (with no real rhyme or reason for chapter breaks). I despise the idea of watching anything on my i-Pod. No filmmaker wants their work to be seen on a cell phone. Hell, even the guy who made Dollman Vs. Demonic Toys expected it would be viewed on a TV screen.
No one cares what I think. But thankfully David Lynch is getting some attention with this video that debunks the iPhone as a cinematic experience.
I'd bet that Lynch has never even tried to watch a movie on an iPhone. Neither have I mind you, but I'm not giving interviews claiming that you haven't actually seen the movie if you do it. If we were talking to David Lean, that'd be one thing, but we're talking to a guy whose last movie, Inland Empire, was shot on miniDV. I'm not going to do all the math regarding resolution and letterboxing and what have you, but it seems to me that you're not losing that much resolution watching it on the phone.
And I don't know how you're watching movies on your computer, but I've never seen them broken up into eight minute segments. Even if that was the case, have you "not seen a movie" when you watch it on network tv with commercial breaks?
This is ludditism, pure and simple.