Am I the only one who laughed at this?

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I have friends who thought this was a cool movie. I have other friends who thought this was hilariously bad. Then there's me; the movie made me cringe and occasionally wish I were sleeping instead.

I laughed my arse off so hard during SO many points but its so GOOD. I mean, its funny, because the people who came up with the book and the movie were brilliant but they just didn't have the means to do so... but they did a damn good job for their budget and their time. This movie blew my mind because it was everything I've been dreaming up for the last year or so. I feel like the main problem was the inability to translate from text to cinematic experience... I mean, I don't know of anyone that could fully pull this off - maybe if Lynch put his heart and soul into he could come up with something great, but i don't know if it can ever fully touch what the movie was really getting at. Just amazing...

The film was of it's time. Blair Brown put me in mind of Jennifer Jason Leigh. What I couldn't understand was, if they were experimenting with the Mexican mushroom sample and Jessup was hallucinating on it, at what point does the hallucination become a physical transformation. Why weren't the tribal members who introduced him to the sample in some form of physical tranformation? I think what happened here was the script had to be "transformed" from it's original theme to that of one that would sell. They turned an intellectual question about the reality of hallucinations and altered states and made it into a monster/horror movie, like a Jekyl and Hyde story.

That's the POINT of the doctor responding that way...
Because normally a doctor wouldn't say something like that.
Making it clear to you that SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG.

DUH.

As far as the rest of the dialogue...
Are you ignoring the fact that all the characters are not only intense theorists and experimentalists but also ones willing to work with uncharted hallucinogens, etc...????????????????
Of course these people are going to go off on ranting tangents constantly.
It's the kind of people they are.
They are certainly not your average persons...they are INTENSELY PASSIONATE about what they are doing and I'm sure there are 1 million thoughts shooting through their brains at all times throughout this film.

Ken Russell is obviously not a dumb person.
I think it's pretty obvious this is what he was going for and that's why.

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Lol. Run on sentences are WRITTEN!

The difference between a run on sentence and two sentences can be the use of a period instead of a comma. You are telling us they are speaking with commas instead of periods???

I haven't laughed so hard since I was a little girl.

The doctor you mention was looking at the physical structure. He saw it wasn't human. He wasn't using a metaphor, he was suggesting that "The guy's a *beep* gorilla".

Anyhow, doctors are people too. I have three in my family (four if you count multiple medical qualifications that justify the title Dr.), and they can be surprised or outraged and swear too.

Becoming a doctor doesn't require a lobotomy and castration, no matter what your guidance counsellor told you.

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