Wild At Heart isn't the worst by virtue of the soundtrack and the crazy head blowing off scene.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Edward III, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Edward III, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
and the crazy head blowing off scene.
I don't even remember this scene!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Edward III, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
tm OTM re: car crash scene
― Tape Store, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Mulholland Drive is the best movie of this decade you guys.
― W4LTER, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Edward III, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
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, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
now I'm thinking I need to rewatch these 3:
Wild at Heart (1990) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) Lost Highway (1997)
― Edward III, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh was that the one after URBAN HARVEST?
x-post
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
no thanks, ts. that sounds like an offer from a serial killer.
xpost
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."
― Edward III, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Nic Cage is like the Rod Stewart of American film actors - a great, promising start followed by the most horrifying "sellout" bullshit ever
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
"take a bite of peach"
― Alex in SF, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Tape Store, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 08:23 (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
:D
― W4LTER, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
this applies to Nick Cage too
I voted for Blue Velvet because it is the closest he's come to a flawless movie. Many of the others are great, but have rather glaring flaws. The Straight Story is the only one that I don't enjoy, but it is probably better than I would give it credit for.
My list (Does not reflect actual quality of the films): Blue Velvet Lost Highway - way underrated, wish it would come out on DVD Wild At Heart Dune - I love this movie despite some really misguided choices, I wish he'd do another Sci Fi film TP: FWWM Mulholland Drive INLAND EMPIRE - just got the DVD today! Eraserhead The Elephant Man
― Moodles, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
!!You crazy! Everything after Red Rock West is nigh unwatchable!
Bangkok Dangerous Next Ghost Rider The Wicker Man World Trade Center The Ant Bully The Weather Man Lord of War National Treasure Matchstick Men Adaptation Sonny Windtalkers Captain Corelli's Mandolin The Family Man Gone in Sixty Seconds Bringing Out the Dead 8MM Snake Eyes City of Angels Face/Off Con Air The Rock Leaving Las Vegas Kiss of Death Trapped in Paradise It Could Happen to You Guarding Tess Amos & Andrew Deadfall Honeymoon in Vegas
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i like face/off kinda
(more than mulholland dr. or lost highway that's for sure) (i watched mulholland w.dr vick and we snoozed non-stop)
― mark s, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
eraserhead is still lynch's best easy -- tho i didn't see inland yet
― mark s, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Alia-Alicia_Witt.jpg/250px-Alia-Alicia_Witt.jpg "for he IS the kwisatz haderach"
― mark s, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Although there is much I enjoy in it, I agree that Mulholland Drive is overrated.
The thing about MD that grates on me is that Lynch insisted on leaving in all these plot strands that were meant to be developed in the TV series and then very obviously tried to tie it all together in a fairly hackneyed manner.
He should have chopped a lot of this stuff and focused on the main plot. He could have even dropped most of the Justin Therroux plot, and it probably wouldn't have been missed.
― Moodles, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Bringing Out the Dead is good.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 20 August 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
And Snake Eyes has a great start (and terrible end.)
― Alex in SF, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
And Lord of War could have been great only it wasn't.
THat's the best I can do.
What a fucking BRO http://www.nndb.com/people/720/000024648/david-lynch.jpg http://www.humanities.uci.edu/fvc/f05pics/f05_davidlynch.jpg
― W4LTER, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
mulholland dr. is the best film of the last 25 years.
― t0dd swiss, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I said decade, but i'll join you on the the quarter century action.
― W4LTER, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
it's not better than eraserhead
― mark s, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
tho
― mark s, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
hence the 25 year cutoff
― Edward III, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
(adaptation is good, face/off is fun, it does get pretty thin after that)
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
face/off's atrocious.
― W4LTER, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Angelo Badalamenti spitting espresso into a linen napkin is pretty pointless.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I found that pleasing.
― W4LTER, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw face/off alone and somewhere strange, like den haag -- that may be why i enjoyed it at all
― mark s, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Face/Off was where I got off the John Woo wagon (no wait actually I got off when he hired Travolta for that silly stolen nuke movie)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Broken Arrow? aw hell yeahs
― W4LTER, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i have fonder memories of all these than i do of mulholland, where all i remember is my butt bein numb
― mark s, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I voted for Dune as it's the one I return to most often. Wild at Heart was the one I liked most at the time of release although I haven't seen it in ages. The rest of them seem willfully and arbitrarily difficult - which is fun, but not as meaningful for me.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
There's actually still a few from Lynch I haven't seen.
INLAND EMPIRE Mulholland Drive Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Eraserhead The Straight Story Blue Velvet -- if people on this thread have been overwhelmingly anti-IE and anti-FWWM, allow me to slag on this one for a few minutes (before coming to my senses and realizing that if this is his worst, that's not too bad at all)
― Eric H., Monday, 20 August 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
How cuet was MacLachlan in BV tho??!
― W4LTER, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
there's also the hand blowing off scene, with the punchline of the dog running out the back with the hand in its mouth. Sick sick sick.
― kenan, Monday, 20 August 2007 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link