Do you like any movies by David Lynch?

[Kyriakos]

I have seen only a few of them. Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Lost Highway, Mullholland drive, and a few weeks ago i watched Inland Empire. (i also saw most of the Twin Peaks series, but not all of the second season).

Hm, i can't say i like the movies much, although i do like some ideas in them. Inland Empire is my favorite of the films of his i saw. I particularly like the collapse in focal points, and the sense that the story is largely a delusion of the protagonist.

Elephant Man was his least characteristic film, in my view. It did have a number of very strong moments, but it is just not his usual material.


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[warpus]

Firewalk with me was amazing and Dune was good. Mulholland drive was just him trying too hard to be weird.

I also liked Blue Velvet.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Iirc the only part of Mulholland drive i liked was the abandoned apartment. Which in the end appears to

Spoiler :

have been the apartment the protagonist was in all along, until she shot herself due to the failure to become a star.

I am of mixed views about Lynch. Some interesting ideas, along with some very good cinematography, but (in my view) they exist in a pool of poorly presented and impossibly fragmented plot-lines. I have to suppose he does have a set idea of how they make sense, but he never presents that to the degree which would allow one to be of the view the movie had an actual definition for what the premise had been.

I can't say i like most of his symbols either. Moreover his motifs are very persistent (abused women, formerly trying to be stars, violence against women, entirely destroyed lives).

 

[luiz]

Of the list I only watched Mulholland Drive and thought it horrible. Not really curious about the rest of his work after that.

 

[Kyriakos]

I think that Lost Highway is the more easy to be interested in (although i haven't watched Blue Velvet). LH has some very strong moments, although again the plot breaks to pieces.

 

[Tahuti]

Surprised what everyone thinks of Mulholland Drive. I thought it was his best movie! Overall, I like his oeuvre very much, though I still haven't gotten into Inland Empire. MD aside, Lost Highway and Blue Velvet are several of my other favorites by Lynch.

I do notice that of Lynch' 'noncharacteristic works', The Elephant Man and The Straight Story do have some stark characteristics in common with each other. Eraserhead somewhat foreshadows all the movies he would make.

 

[Crezth]

it's not a movie but Twin Peaks is pretty good

 

[BvBPL]

I love his movies.

 

[warpus]

it's not a movie but Twin Peaks is pretty good

Twin Peaks: Firewalk with me - different from the series but worth checking out.

 

[Dralix]

I didn't enjoy Fire Walk With Me near as much as the TV series.

 

[BvBPL]

Fire Walk with Me was a let down after the series.

 

[Winner]

Seen a few, Mullholland Drive was pretty good. Years back, I remember wasting a whole lesson of maths with our high school teacher trying to figure out how that film worked chronologically. We found some solution including wormholes and parallel universes, IIRC.

 

[Camikaze]

Mulholland Drive was truly horrendous. Incomprehensibility doesn't make something enjoyable or meaningful. It almost annoys me that some people like it simply because it can't really be understood.

I thought Dune was pretty decent.

 

[Kyriakos]

In my view (and i have read others claim the same in regards to MD), it was highly likely (judging from the ending bits of the movie) that nothing before that happened that way (or at all), but was the dream of the female lead, who was in that strange, locked, supposedly abandoned apartment the whole time (where she wakes up in the end anyway).

I think he presented this a lot better in Inland Empire (not a dream there, but maybe similar), and MD was not a good film in my view. But he often has crude images/symbols all-around (at least in my personal impression)..

 

[NovaKart]

I've seen Eraserhead and Blue Velvet. Eraserhead is probably the strangest most nonsensical movie I've ever seen. Blue velvet was disturbing and I don't remember much more about it. I do remember it kind of looking like a 50s movie even though it was filmed in the 80s and it reminded me of how Eraserhead looked like a 30s movie but was filmed in the 70s.

 

[Kyriakos]

The "baby" from Eraserhead is likely his most famous image still

 

[NovaKart]

It was a cow fetus I think.

 

[Kyriakos]

Yes, and it even looked partly cooked. Thanks for that

 

[sophie]

Yes, I love his films very much. Visually they are brilliant.

 

[Tahuti]

Mulholland Drive was truly horrendous. Incomprehensibility doesn't make something enjoyable or meaningful. It almost annoys me that some people like it simply because it can't really be understood.

In my view (and i have read others claim the same in regards to MD), it was highly likely (judging from the ending bits of the movie) that nothing before that happened that way (or at all), but was the dream of the female lead, who was in that strange, locked, supposedly abandoned apartment the whole time (where she wakes up in the end anyway).

I actually found MD one of his most straightforward films (discounting the Elephant Man, Dune and The Straight Story). Eraserhead and Inland Empire would be his least clear films, the latter being my least favorite Lynch film as well. Though I notice it strongly differs among people. Plenty of people found Lost Highway to be his most clear movie (of his characteristic movies that is), while I found it pretty vague. Overall liked that movie though.