Is it possible to give a film seven stars on here? Because it should be.

Fuck off, "Magnolia", this is my favorite movie now. Why? Because David Lynch. Because Richard Farnsworth. Because Angelo Badalamenti. Because Harry Dean Stanton. Because Sissy Spacek. Because dat soundtrack. Because dat emotion. Because dat "that's family" speech. Because dat fucking ending, holy shit.

Dat.

THIS is how to make a movie, people. It's slow-moving but not boring. It's intensely emotional without being sappy or sentimental. It's well-directed, well-edited, and brilliantly acted. Richard Farnsworth deserves an enchanted longsword for the performance he gives here. My god. His face is like some sort of ever-changing, capricious elven forest. His face is like a "Magic: The Gathering" card.…

In a time of great stress for me (exams etc.) I was in desperate need for something to calm me down and contemplate things in blissful quietness. David Lynch's The Straight Story thus couldn't have come at a better time and it feels wonderful letting the master of surrealism tug at my heart strings with this simple but honest story of an old man going on a trip to see his ill-struck brother. Seeing the names Disney and David Lynch in collaboration seems so very very wrong until you actually see the movie and subsequently wish it would happen more often. It shows that the man is not just talented in his own field and actually has a range he…

It is sometimes easy to forget what a versatile director Lynch really is as he lately only deals in vagueness and weirdness. The Straight Story is a gentle reminder of what Lynch is also capable of. Delving into a character and placing him into the real world through us, his viewers.

The title is far from a clever play on words but its ambiguity serves the film really well as this really is a simple story told in the straightest way imaginable by a director who can find the realness in a performance and a character, be they big or small. Just look at the faces of the people our hero encounters, they are real people, heck, look at our…

Movie #4 in my David Lynch project

David Lynch is often put into a box, categorized as a surrealist filmmaker who is fascinated by sex and violence, as well as the seedy underbelly of American culture. However the Straight Story proves otherwise - Lynch is in fact a very versatile, talented auteur.

One could say that The Straight Story is the antithesis of the stereotypical Lynch movie. There is no sex, no violence, no mystery. Instead of fast cars racing past the yellow dotted lines of the highway, we get a slow tractor creeping along the road. Yet the Straight Story is one of the most humanistic movies in Lynch's filmography. When all of his tropes are shed, Lynch proves…

Ah, so this is what it looks like when David Lynch calms his crazy ass down...

Yep, that's right, this is actually a straight-forward film told by none other than David Lynch. No midgets. No dream like sequences. No trippy WTF moments. Just a straight-forward tale and coming from Lynch, it actually really works. Lynch still daps some small subtle touches that makes this feel somewhat like a Lynch film in terms of "odd" characters, the way the dialogue flows, and even the way he directs. Other than that, this is an honest film with a heart that Lynch does a great job executing. A lot of that has to do with the performances, especially in Richard Farnsworth who delivers…

One of the best movies of 1999 and it’s directed by none other than David Lynch of all people. Had I not known better and someone told me it was Lynch after the viewing I’d call them a liar. While the gimmick of a man riding cross country on his lawn mower was the initial attraction, the deeper inner working of an old timer are far more interesting and insightful. The wise anecdotes, the painful past and the hopeful future are captured so vividly by the late great Richard Farnsworth that it’s hard not to go back and watch the whole movie all over again straight away. Perhaps it is fate that this was Farnsworth’s farewell film and it feels…

Time can't bring mastermind like Lynch down. This was my third Lynch film and first of all I have to say it was the weakest I've seen but still it was great. Now I'm gonna tell couple of reasons why it was great and why it what took stars.

David Lynch is amazing storyteller and his style is something unique. "Straight Story" is a film about old man who goes to see his old brother when brother has a heart attack. He can't drive, he is too blind for that so he decides to go there with his lawn mower. So it's a wonderful road story.

Cinematography took totally my attention and I liked the way Lynch used camera on…