david lynch movies

Blue Velvet - my no. 1 overall film. awesome lines galore and has the badded bad character of all time: dennis hopper as frank booth.

Wild at Heart - cage and dern are hot as sin. best line by dern, "oooh, sailor. you 've got me hotter than georgia asphalt." best character is wilem dafoe's bobby peru. best scene is when peru gets dern all hot and bothered rubing her crotch, then backs off and laughs at her.

Lost Highway - creepy, creepy scene where the couple is watching a videotape left on their doorstep of someone filming walking through their house and into their bedroom while they are asleep. and the white-faced guy that bill pullman runs into at the party who says that he's at his house right now and has him call his home and talk to him.

Fire walk with me - went beyond the abc censors and took twin peaks to the level it was intended. lynh pushed the envelope with the series, but the movie explores the REAL underbelly of the great northwest -- past the douglas firs and cherry pies.

Eraser Head - hell of a first movie.

Elephant Man - "i'm not an animal. i'm a human being!"

Dune - do not adjust your sets. it's meant to be that dark and hard to understand. a difficult interpretation of the dune book series. not overly lunchian, except for the colors and sounds. still, many scenes stay with you.

 

hmm.
lynch is one of my favorite directors. i think though a flaw with lynch is that he can make a great scene, one that you will remember forever, but unless he has some creative boundaries to stay within, he gets off track quickly and starts doing weird for weird sake. twin peaks is the best thing he has ever done in my opinion, simply because he did have a threshold that he could not cross, in this case, a television series. that same restraint wasn't there for fire walk with me, and it showed. the characterizations in the series were the strength of the show...leo for instance is a frightening, wife-beating, drug-dealing villianous sleaze. but by the end of the series, leo is a sympathetic character, a vunerable shell of the menacing force he was. while the scale was certainly different for fire walk with me, there was no proportianate evolvement of characters, they were all static and more or less charicatures.
mulholland drive actually started out as a pilot for another tv series, but from what i've read, lynch's reputation killed any interest in producing it for tv, and it eventually resurfaced as a stand-alone movie. i was disappointed with it. it seemed very much to me to be a recycling of lynchian values that we've all witnessed already as lynch fans. the blue box for all intents and purposes was the black lodge from twin peaks, a parrallel universe inhabited by all the chaotic forces that are struggling to get out and wreak hedonistic havoc in the ordered world, which is in turn what sailor and lula long to run away too, but once there wish they could only go back home in wild at heart, and again it's the world that jeffrey discovers when he finds the severed ear and the diametrically opposed characters of frank booth and dorothy vallens, one gloriously steeped in a chaotic exisitence, the other seeking a way out of the whirlwind of weirdness in blue velvet.
btw...i don't even consider dune to be a lynch movie. he did petition to have his name removed from the credits and replaced with alan smithee.

 

while it may seem to be weird for weird's sake, i think that it's much closer to life than anything holywood turns out.

things just happen in life, for no apparent reason. lynch sometimes puts those moments/characters into his movies and folks struggle to find the meaning in it. everythign doesn't have to have meaning. i enjoy the intensity of the scenes -- and the humor (dark as it is).

nothing can beat blue velvet for me, but i can always find somethign about a lynch movie that i like. i'd rather be left with memorabile scenes, lines and characters than an overall story wiht a happy ending.

 

>>Wild at Heart - cage and dern are hot as sin. best line by dern, "oooh, sailor. you 've got me hotter than georgia asphalt." best character is wilem dafoe's bobby peru. best scene is when peru gets dern all hot and bothered rubing her crotch, then backs off and laughs at her. <<


oh yeah. remember this one. now that you mentioned it. laura dern definitely something else here! oy!

 

heh. sure...sure...sure. first, i think as far as the humor goes, it's pretty basic. twin peaks was his funniest, with characters like deputy andy, lucy, the log lady, director gordon(played by lynch), leo-in-a-coma, transvestite fbi agents...etc...
funniest movie...wild at heart. specifically, lula's flashback story of cousin dell and his obssessions with aliens, sandwiches and coackroaches in his underwear.

weird for weird sake. i think what i mean by this is exactly what you said here. everything doesn't have to have a meaning. but i do think that often this hurts his movie, making it appear muddled, confusing, inaccessible and contradictory. perhaps this is his attempt to futher allegorize human life, but then again, if everything doesn't have to have meaning, then doesn't that make it weird for weird sake? why is it included then? this is the flaw with his movies. i don't think he even knows what, if any, meaning some of his characters and scenes have, but goes with what he likes and enjoys having the viewer attach their own meanings to those weird parts.

 

absolutely.

lynch isn't for everyone, but i dig him.

 

Lost Highway is a seriously fucked up movie.

 

Anyone else see The Straight Story?
I thought that was a pretty cool film.