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

What a fucking BRO
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mulholland dr. is the best film of the last 25 years.

I said decade, but i'll join you on the the quarter century action.

it's not better than eraserhead

tho

hence the 25 year cutoff

(adaptation is good, face/off is fun, it does get pretty thin after that)

face/off's atrocious.

Angelo Badalamenti spitting espresso into a linen napkin is pretty pointless.

I found that pleasing.

i saw face/off alone and somewhere strange, like den haag -- that may be why i enjoyed it at all

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)

Broken Arrow? aw hell yeahs

i have fonder memories of all these than i do of mulholland, where all i remember is my butt bein numb

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.

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)

How cuet was MacLachlan in BV tho??!

and the crazy head blowing off scene.

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.

Very cute, especially his jaw.

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I didn't see Adaptation up there, but yeah that's good too.

I saw Some Like It Hot for the first time last night, and Tony Curtis posing as the millionaire oil baron reminded me of Kyle McLachlan a little.

I didn't see Adaptation up there, but yeah that's good too.

-- Alex in SF

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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.

and lifted from kurosawa.

I hated Adaptation and Bringing Out The Dead (both of which I saw because I - rather foolishly, it turned out - hoped a decent director would give Cage something interesting to do). Snake Eyes I've only seen the tail end of.

And these are the vaguely defensible ones with name directors! Where's the love for Leaving Las Vegas (worst abuse of Sting in a sdtk EVAR)or The Weatherman or 8MM? I am SURE there are ILXers here somewhere that love Con Air... maybe this is a different thread altogether...

maaaaaybe

i would watch Con Air, The Rock and Kiss of Death anytime.

You need to post to the Billy Wilder thread, jaymc.

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What? I liked it. Made me laugh.

i can't wait till he starts getting senile but continues to make films until he's 99

the first 45 minutes of Lost Highway are the greatest movie david lynch ever made. sadly, it's followed by about 2 hours of the worst movie david lynch ever made.

ie gets my vote because, even though it does repeat some of md's themes, it's the one lynch movie that i feel is truly his vision, fully realized.

also, i like it best.

Lost Highway - way underrated, wish it would come out on DVD

Out in R2, 2-disc set. I have it, it's great. Get one of those cheap Philips players you can rig for region free play, totally worth it.

yr all jerks! (well, some of ya, anyhow). Wild at Heart is great and I think has stood up really well over time. All things considered, I think it's a pretty daring film, and one which encapsulates so much of what I think is great about Lynch. Plus it was Nicolas Cage's best other than Adaptation. (But, ha, yeah, Shakey, I saw Leaving Los Vegas when it came out, and the Sting songs were sooooo ridiculously loud on the soundtrack as well as just being awful and awfully placed within the film).

I also don't understand the hate for TP:FWWM. I think it's pretty amazing.

Count me in among the "Mulholland Drive is overrated" camp...although I haven't seen it in a couple of years and should likely re-visit it.

Call me crazy, but I'm voting for Wild at Heart.

Is there no love for The Straight Story? Or The Elephant Man? David Lynch tearjerkers are better than anyone else's tearjerkers, and I'm including Autumn In New York when I say that.

Looking at that list above I never realised quite how much shite Nicolas Cage has been in. Is there anyone to top him? The sheer, unrelenting quantity is amazing. Someone should do a worst Cage film poll (not me tho).

I really dislike "Lost Highway."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4eQ6ZsGbmY

The first 45 minutes of Lost Highway are the greatest movie david lynch ever made. sadly, it's followed by about 2 hours of the worst movie david lynch ever made.

I agree with this.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Just watched Eraserhead again this afternoon -- it's just as good as I remember it, but doesn't vault past later films. My vote's going to Blue Velvet.

It's all about Eraserhead for me.

I really had a bad reaction to Mulholland Dr when I saw it. Sitting in an a college auditorium with a bunch of folks doing the whole "I love it cuz I have no idea what's going on" thing even though I could tell pretty easily Lynch had tacked on a Wizard Of Oz "and you were there and you were there and you were there and you were there and you were there" ending to the show pilot without removing the subplots that would have nothing to with Naomi Watts' dream logic. Having seen Wild At Heart and a few other things since, I'm actually really psyched to see Inland Empire. Knowing he's just going hardcore indulgence means I won't sweat hype or middlebrow acclaim.

So you don't like Mulholland Drive because other (silly) people liked it because they thought it was a meaningless freak out?

I really dislike "Lost Highway."

I don't know how I feel about it. For a long time I was feeling Ebert on the point that it shows "contempt for the audience," which it kinda does. It sets up a fascinating mystery, then abandons it in the weirdest way possible, then never comes back to it, and in fact meanders for the rest of the movie. He's obviously fucking with us. But... is that part of the appeal?

So you don't like Mulholland Drive because other (silly) people liked it because they thought it was a meaningless freak out?

I didn't like it because of the lame structure I described (uncut TV pilot with extended "it was all a dream" cop-out capper thrown on out of financial necessity), but thanks to the environment I caught it in I was more irritated than I might have been otherwise.

The take on Mulholland Drive's appeal I most respected was my middle-aged pal Greg who said "I like movies where you find a murdered body...and it's you."

And there was some good titty, too.

da croup OTM - about the structure, anyway. Love Mulholland Drive, don't mind the tacked-on ending, but I am bothered by some of the hanging threads - obvious remnants of the the film's origins in a failed TV show pilot. I accept the incoherence, 'cuz the digressions are all compelling, but they result in a rather shapeless, aimless film. The director character is given too much screen time, the cowboy and his otherwordly mob bosses too little, the renagade cop and the diner dreamer are just non-sequiturs.

I like the film 'cuz the core story works beautifully, and I respect the fact that Lynch made a satisfying film out of his wrecked TV show, but it does give plenty of ammo to folks who accuse him of random weirdness for its own sake.

I think "Elephant Man" - it's corny as hell but it makes me cry

I like the end, it reminds me of Herzog

the real answer is probably blue velvet, but i'm going to vote for mulholland drive because i like it more and have seen blue velvet too many times.

FWWM is not the worst, I think it's better than wild at heart and dune, and maybe lost highway.

Moodles - I dunno where you are, but Lost Highway is definitely on DVD in the US, I netflixed it.