Wild At Heart's pretty clunky though.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah Alex the hotel thing is bad - Crispin Glover's in one segment. Never understood Gifford's appeal.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Mulholland Drive will win, but it's not his best. For me, it's between INLAND EMPIRE and Blue Velvet.
― Tape Store, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't get the Inland Empire love at all.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah its technically impossible for it to be better than mulholland dr
― jhøshea, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
mulholland drive blue velvet eraserhead inland empire elephant man wild at heart tp:fwwm straight story lost highway dune
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
yah
― jhøshea, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Mulholland Drive, followed by Blue Velvet
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt #2, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, I settled on that finally, too
― kenan, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
mullholland dr is an insanely overrated movie.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 20 August 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
impossibe
― jhøshea, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
a thread about lynch would be disappointing without totally different and in fact opposite opinions
― kenan, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
If MD is overrated, life is overrated.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I expect someone to defend the touching humanity in Wild at Heart.
(xpost)
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.
― Tape Store, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
well that one guys head does go flying off xp
― jhøshea, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
fascinating stories that never drag
uh
― jhøshea, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― sexyDancer, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― marmotwolof, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
fascinating is a bit wrong, yes. but definitely interesting
― Tape Store, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Corrected: that all work together badly to entertain bore the pants off you for over three hours what seems like eternity
― Alex in SF, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 20 August 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
everyone, these are the top four:
mulholland drive blue velvet eraserhead inland empire
arrange 2-4 as you please
― jhøshea, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
trying to imagine a parody of lynch that still didn't feel like lynch is a brain-twisting exercise
― kenan, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
otm, he does it on purpose
― sexyDancer, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tape Store, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^Yes, I realize that I just lost what little credibility that I had.
― Tape Store, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"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!
― Alex in SF, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jhøshea, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I voted for MD.
― Jordan, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― ☪, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
you cant really fuck with the rebekah del rio - llorando scene
― chaki, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
actually I think Wild At Heart is probably the worst
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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
While we're on this particular trivia trip, James Burrows directed all 194 episodes of Will and Grace. No, I don't know why.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 August 2017 02:35 (six years ago) link
The coffee commercials are in the TP Blu-ray set, fyi.
spark plug poster shows 15 then 3
cooper's room is 315
season 3 episode 15 tonight
just sayin
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 20 August 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
Twin Peaks: The Return (even if the last 4 episodes are Dr Jacoby / Amp spray painting his shovel I’m comfortable with this ranking)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 17 August 2017 14:39 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 August 2017 14:51 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
doesn't matter what happens now, it's already won
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 August 2017 14:52 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is it too late to walk this back or
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 September 2017 07:04 (six years ago) link
mulholland drive is the best
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 4 September 2017 07:21 (six years ago) link
the finale made me so frustrated. who cant relate the family home that becomes a part of nightmares/dreams. Lynch perplexes me cuz I don't always enioy what he does
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 4 September 2017 07:25 (six years ago) link
Please keep all specifics to the spoiler threads...Haven't even started yet!
― clemenza, Monday, 4 September 2017 12:55 (six years ago) link
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, September 4, 2017 12:04 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if anything the last two episodes convinced me that you and karl were right
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 4 September 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
^seriously!
― sciatica, Monday, 4 September 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
It's time:
It's the inevitable and long-awaited DAVID LYNCH POLL REDUX (this time including Twin Peakses, et al)
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Monday, 4 September 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
― 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
;)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 4 September 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
The Return hands down
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 4 September 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
sorry clemenza, that was posted in the wrong thread
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 4 September 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
No problem--looked away immediately, so I didn't process anything. (Facebook's been a bigger problem, but so far I've dodged everything.)
― clemenza, Monday, 4 September 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 4 September 2017 23:44 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
having slept on it, i'm definitely coming around again.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 September 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
The span of scenes from the Cowboy to Club Silencio is pure gold, one classic sequence after another.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
crispin glover tho
― Ross, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
mulhollad drive #1, inland empire close second here
Yeah very true about the aesthetics! Lana Del Rey must’ve watched it 100 times.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 23:58 (five years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Thursday, 29 April 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
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.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 29 April 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
(ah yeah, per the soundtrack clue, it is)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 29 April 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link