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Post by mccloud on Apr 2, 2008 7:45:48 GMT -5
I liked Mulholland Dr and Blue Velvet, but Lost Highway is my favorite, but you didn't offer it as an option.
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Post by siamesesin on Apr 2, 2008 9:16:14 GMT -5
Ditto. I've seen the physics of the coffee table death in result, so I always liked Lost Highway best. And the soundtrack.
Blue Velvet, Dune, and Elephant Man are also flicks I like.
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 2, 2008 9:44:18 GMT -5
you might not like a lynch film so much, but you can usually bet the soundtrack will kick ass. i still listen to my twin peaks soundtrack...i love julee cruise and angelo badalamenti. they work perfectly for lynch's dreamy-horror scenes. i also have the lost highway soundtrack, and that's pretty cool as well.
the wild at heart soundtrack - i adore that excerpt of im abendrot...and it has great music from koko taylor, and badalamenti's dark spanish symphony is just incredible.
and chuck - i knew some guys who had a framed picture of laura palmer on top of their television - the one you always saw at the end of the show when the credits ran? and this was back when you couldn't just download the pic from a computer or copy one on a scanner. it was a scratchy looking black and white picture, but they were very proud of it.
and i think my all time favorite line from wild at heart has to be near the end when nicolas cage's sailor realizes he has been slowly surrounded by a gang. when he takes his time lighting a cigarette and says, "what do you fag***s want?" it just kills me.
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Post by Frameous on Apr 2, 2008 11:00:15 GMT -5
My favorite thing about Wild at Heart has to be, hands down, Bobby Peru. He is such a horrific creation, and his death is laugh out loud hilarious. He also has a great line about his 'one eyed jack goin peeping at the seafood store'. I don't really find myself watching the whole movie over and over like others, but I always like to catch the last 30 minuets anytime it is on TV.
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Post by alansmithee on Apr 2, 2008 11:07:42 GMT -5
I forgot Lost Highway, oops.
I love that one too. I actually saw it for the first time only last week when it came out on DVD (finally). It definately surprised me. I was more quiet than Lynch's usual work. The mirror in the dark hallway scenes were especially creepy.
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 2, 2008 11:11:55 GMT -5
so, frameous, you like the deep sound comin' down from bobby peru?
i tell you was was difficult - watching willem dafoe play that horrific bobby peru after watching him play jesus in the last temptation of christ.
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Post by stevehadcrackers on Apr 10, 2008 12:44:52 GMT -5
Blue Velvet all the way; it's one of my all-time favorite films. It was this movie that inspired my girl crush on Isabella Rossellini.
I also adore Twin Peaks, but I agree with Chuck, Fire Walk With Me was an abomination. But the show Twin Peaks... it just doesn't get any better than that. And I have a girl crush on Sherilyn Fenn. You gotta love Audrey.
I'm a big fan of Lynch's work overall; Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, and Wild At Heart are all excellent. But Blue Velvet is the ultimate. In my opinion, it is a nearly perfect movie-- and that is so hard to come by in modern films.
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 16, 2008 20:49:11 GMT -5
i never even bothered watching fire walk with me. i also had the girl crush on fenn. i think everyone had the hots for audrey.
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Post by Jack Burton on Apr 17, 2008 20:33:09 GMT -5
This is slightly off topic, but has anyone seen Jiminy Glick in Lalawood? In the film, Martin Short plays his alter ego celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick who goes to the Toronto Film Festival where David Lynch (played by Short in make-up) gets him involved in a very Lynchian type murder mystery.
Short does a KILLER Lynch and some of the nods to Lynch's work(especially Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive) are well done. The film is pretty freakin' funny too.
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Post by mrmeadows on Dec 30, 2009 18:46:09 GMT -5
This is a toughie. I'll have to be obvious and pick Blue Velvet, because it really is a great film. I'm also a big fan of Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire, and Wild at Heart. Heck, I even liked Fire Walk With Me (although I've never seen one episode of the TV series!) I think Dune was the only movie of his that I didn't really like at all.
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Post by Continuing Legend on Dec 30, 2009 18:50:00 GMT -5
Didn't vote, because I admittedly haven't seen any of these besides Mullholland Dr. GodDAMN, that Winkie's diner scene scares the bejesus out of me. I rented this movie because someone told me there were hot lesbians! I didn't ask to be terrified, dammit!  I know, I know, it's David Lynch, I should expect random weirdness... On an unrelated note, I share a birthday with Lynch. Not the same year, obviously. |
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Post by eimag on Feb 22, 2010 3:14:58 GMT -5
Aw, no love for the Straight Story?
Best road trip movie i've ever seen, and one whose ending actually is a great pay off to the rest of the film. The look on his brother's face when he sees the tractor just perfectly ends their 20 years of bickering. The townspeople are lovingly and endearingly weird as only Lynch can do, but proves he doesn't need swearing or self-consciously odd imagery to make his imprint known.
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Post by PimPamPet on Feb 22, 2010 18:58:15 GMT -5
Oh yes, Straight Story. It's one of Lynch's more accessible movies, but I love it anyway.
My favorite David Lynch movie (I really like all of them) would be Eraserhead. It's dark and depressing, but something about it makes me keep coming back to it. I still don't fully get what it's about, though. :-)
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Post by cinestertheater on Mar 19, 2010 6:23:49 GMT -5
Gotta go with Mulholland Dr. here. Eraserhead may have more visuals that have stuck with me but nothing beats Mulholland in terms of pure psychological damage.
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Post by stevehadcrackers on Mar 19, 2010 13:42:28 GMT -5
I originally read the thread title as "Best David Lynch Failures" and thought aww, poor Dune. Also I love how Dune is still the only one with no votes.
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