It's the inevitable and long-awaited DAVID LYNCH POLL

inland empire
eraserhead
elephant man
mulholland drive
straight story
lost highway
dune
blue velvet
wild at heart

Haven't seen Fire Walk With Me. Need to rewatch Dune, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet (hated that one but everyone seems to love it). I can live without seeing Wild At Heart again really.

Mulholland Drive, followed by Blue Velvet

yeah, I settled on that finally, too

mullholland dr is an insanely overrated movie.

impossibe

a thread about lynch would be disappointing without totally different and in fact opposite opinions

If MD is overrated, life is overrated.

I expect someone to defend the touching humanity in Wild at Heart.

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Mulholland Dr. = one dream, a somewhat entertaining middle section, an ok atmosphere, a few GREAT scenes
Inland Empire = like four different worlds, all somehow intertwined (God knows how), that all work together to entertain you for over three hours...brilliant atmosphere, cool music scenes, fascinating stories that never drag, you can love it without understanding it...it's like Mulholland Dr. x 25.

well that one guys head does go flying off xp

fascinating stories that never drag

uh

Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
INLAND EMPIRE
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Eraserhead
Wild at Heart
Dune
Lost Highway
The Straight Story
The Elephant Man

(but it's all real close) The essence of Twin Peaks is #1, though.

Jeez, I'm waiting on my IE DVD from amazon so I feel like I shouldn't vote until I've seen it, but this closes in 3 days, so...Blue Velvet.

Mulholland Dr. I still would have liked to see as a series - if that was just the pilot with some added stuff, wow.

fascinating is a bit wrong, yes. but definitely interesting

Corrected: that all work together badly to entertain bore the pants off you for over three hours what seems like eternity

mullholland dr is a perfectly good movie. it's just that claiming it's lynch's best work is completely bonkers insane in my opinion. tape store otm re: a few GREAT scenes, but quite frankly a significant portion of that movie feels like someone making a parody of lynch.

everyone, these are the top four:

mulholland drive
blue velvet
eraserhead
inland empire

arrange 2-4 as you please

trying to imagine a parody of lynch that still didn't feel like lynch is a brain-twisting exercise

otm, he does it on purpose

Mulholland Dr. is wayyyyy more boring than Inland Empire. After you watch it once or twice and figure out that it's a dream, do you really ever want to watch it again? I mean, apart from the tryout scene/"Llorando" clip(/lesbian make out sessions???), it's not THAT great/entertaining. I liked it quite a bit, i'm just turned off by the idea of it being considered Lynch's best work.

^^^Yes, I realize that I just lost what little credibility that I had.

I could watch the "real" last third of MD forever. Naomi Watts being rejected by girlfriend and Hollywood, condescended to at Hollywood parties by ghoulish Ann Murray eating walnuts, drinking bad coffee and masturbating in her apartment -- very painful.

"After you watch it once or twice and figure out that it's a dream, do you really ever want to watch it again?"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

mulholland drive has all the best lynchian symbolic, thematic etc potency while actually being cohesive (it doesnt seem like hes just being willfully strange) and one of the great performances ever from naomi watts.

There's duff stray bits that seem like stuff from the TV pilot (the conversation in the Denny's; Robert Forster), but, still, a remarkable salvage job.

I voted for MD.

Twin Peaks
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead
Dune
RABBITS
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
The Straight Story
The Elephant Man
Mulholland Drive

Lost Highway

Inland Empire (mostly for the inclusion of RABBITS)
Wild at Heart

TP:FWWM is easily the worst though, right?

no!

you cant really fuck with the rebekah del rio - llorando scene

actually I think Wild At Heart is probably the worst

"There's duff stray bits that seem like stuff from the TV pilot (the conversation in the Denny's; Robert Forster), but, still, a remarkable salvage job."

Agreed. This is why it's not #2 on my list.

Wild At Heart isn't the worst by virtue of the soundtrack and the crazy head blowing off scene.

But yeah it's pretty bad.

Eraserhead (1977)
Mulholland Drive (2001) / INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
Blue Velvet (1986)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Lost Highway (1997)
Dune (1984)

haven't quite worked out where I stand with inland empire. need to see it a few more times. eraserhead doesn't make sense anywhere else so it burbles to the top. blue velvet has some special significance for me, that *so* wrecked my head in '86.

it's great that lynch is currently in a second golden age.

I loved wild at heart when it came out, saw it 3-4 times. it was such a daffy, off-the-wall cinema experience. it hasn't aged well, though.

and the crazy head blowing off scene.

I don't even remember this scene!

i'd defend wild at heart as maybe "least appreciated" (although there are several candidates for that). for me it's the dividing line between his great movies and his varying-degrees-of-not-great movies (with wild at heart just on the side of "great"). i think it's kind of his airplane! -- a zillion jokes (not all of them "jokes", of course), with enough things that work to make up for all the ones that don't. lots of great scenes. the car crash in the desert with sherilynn fenn picking at her brain iis easily in my POX david lynch scenes.

the conversation in the Denny's

this is one of my favorite bits in md! it captures a humdrum-but-surreal dream-feel so well, maybe better than anything else in the film (other bits seem more stylized). it is sorta tv-piloty in relation to the whole, but the sequence is flawless execution. and it wakes up the dozers.

tm OTM re: car crash scene

Mulholland Drive is the best movie of this decade you guys.

lotsa memorable sequences in wild at heart - strobe light / thrash metal dancing, koko taylor, fetid new orleans, fenn's car crash, the weird motel scene with john doe, jack nance, et al. the glue holding everything together is pretty weak, though. and by glue I guess I mean nicolas cage.

a certain sequence in the film was a lot more mysterious before "wicked game" got played to death, too.

Hey Naomi Watts fans, I dare you to check out CHILDREN OF THE CORN PT. IV: THE GATHERING. I have a VHS tape in my basement.

now I'm thinking I need to rewatch these 3:

Wild at Heart (1990)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Lost Highway (1997)

ooh was that the one after URBAN HARVEST?

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no thanks, ts. that sounds like an offer from a serial killer.

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I wonder if wild at heart would've aged better if lynch had reeled in cage and dafoe a bit. he should've hung a sign on the camera that said, "do not chew the scenery. you are not dennis hopper."

i like cage's goofier moments. the dancing, his ridiculous "taste the peach" anecdote (eat the peach? whatever it is), his little spiel at the end to the guys who have just kicked the crap out of him.

Nic Cage is like the Rod Stewart of American film actors - a great, promising start followed by the most horrifying "sellout" bullshit ever

"take a bite of peach"

that's the one.

also, source material for the shot of diane ladd with her face covered in red lipstick? when i saw black moon a few months ago i noticed a similar scene there, and that seems like the kind of movie lynch would have loved, but i don't know if they were both referencing something else?

Hey Naomi Watts fans, I dare you to check out CHILDREN OF THE CORN PT. IV: THE GATHERING. I have a VHS tape in my basement.

-- Tape Store, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 08:23 (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

:D

Nic Cage is like the Rod Stewart of American film actors - a great, promising start followed by the most horrifying "sellout" bullshit ever

Not sure that scans, Shakey, since not only was Rod BORN to sell out, but he made lots of great moments after his purported classic years.

^seriously!

It's time:

It's the inevitable and long-awaited DAVID LYNCH POLL REDUX (this time including Twin Peakses, et al)

is it too late to walk this back or

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, September 4, 2017 3:04 AM (nine hours ago)

lol

after 9 hours of puzzle solving do you want to walk that back or

;)

The Return hands down

sorry clemenza, that was posted in the wrong thread

No problem--looked away immediately, so I didn't process anything. (Facebook's been a bigger problem, but so far I've dodged everything.)

if anything the last two episodes convinced me that you and karl were right

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 4 September 2017 23:44 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

having slept on it, i'm definitely coming around again.

So how comes everyone is down on Wild At Heart these days? It must be partly because some of what he made after is *so* good/much better and so many films have ripped WAH off that it no longer feels as fresh? Cause boy.. people sure did love it at the time.

The trailer is great too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCQwumNQL9E

I think I said this in another thread, but Wild At Heart definitely went from being overrated to underrated. It's a good, but flawed film, not unlike most of Lynch's films.

Reading back my earlier posts ITT, I can say that my love of Mullholland Drive has grown a lot over the years. I've really been obsessing over this film a lot lately.

The span of scenes from the Cowboy to Club Silencio is pure gold, one classic sequence after another.

I agree with Moodles, I know like 5 people whose favorite movie is Wild at Heart. And every Lynch fan I know adores it. Its aesthetics are very in tune with the culture rn.

crispin glover tho

mulhollad drive #1, inland empire close second here

Yeah very true about the aesthetics! Lana Del Rey must’ve watched it 100 times.

Yeah the way they have a very balanced power dynamic in their relationship + their own integrity + while still being sexy af and not giving a fuck what other people think + fucking constantly + being extremely cool + still embracing fantasy. Also the way the movie just glows, it’s so saturated a warm and overwhelming.

Anyone see the new Criterion docu about Blue Velvet? It's called Blue Velvet Revisited and it's amazing. Fabulous soundtrack too by 'Cult With No Name'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWkb3gATtqw

If that’s the one by the German student who attended the set and shot silent 8mm, it’s not new or by Criterion - was released 4-5 years ago, played festivals and Ltd engagements. I saw it as a one-night double feature with a print of Blue Velvet, which was great.

(ah yeah, per the soundtrack clue, it is)