Harvester on 8/12/2009 at 23:16
Watch Mulholland Drive first. If you choose the young Kyle MacLachlan over Naomi Watts masturbating on a couch, there's something wrong with you. :p
Edit: though I've not actually seen Blue Velvet, so I don't know if that movie also has some juicy bits.
Aerothorn on 8/12/2009 at 23:17
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In all seriousness, I've been avoiding Mulholland Drive a bit because my dad (who tends to share about 80% of my film taste) really didn't like it. I wouldn't be surprised it it falls into the 20%, though.
Thirith on 8/12/2009 at 23:24
My problem with Mulholland Drive was that when I first watched it, the film disturbed the hell out of me; the second time I watched it, though, I 'solved the puzzle', so to speak (i.e. I arrived at an interpretation that made sense of everything, at least for me), and the film lost most of its disturbing effect on me. Lynch's other films tend to have a more inscrutable quality for me.
demagogue on 9/12/2009 at 01:16
Lynch always seems to get this crowd going...
There's nothing wrong with watching Blue Velvet first. I really liked it. It's one of his more "straight" movies, but the attention to atmosphere and his weird sense of humor are still there.
Yeah, Mulholland Dr. does have an interpretation that puts it together almost a little too well. I chalk it up to the fact it was designed to be a series like Twin Peaks, and it may have rocked to see its madness given time to blossom slowly and properly over a season or two. But then we wouldn't have gotten Naomi Watts masturbating on a couch or grrlsex, would we have? So you see, the universe still looks after us after all.
You need to watch it because it's an important movie, though, I mean just on cultural-literacy grounds alone.
Scots Taffer on 9/12/2009 at 01:19
Plus where else are you going to see an eldery couple shrunk to an inch high coming out of a brown paper bag in another highly regarded movie?
steo on 9/12/2009 at 02:18
I would certainly rate Mulholland Drive over Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Lost Highway. Though perhaps Lost Highway was slightly more discernible than Mulholland Drive. The Twin Peaks series still wins out over David Lynch's works for me, since it manages to maintain at least some illusion of a grounding in reality, while still being positively weird and bizarre. I couldn't help but find it somewhat hard to maintain a suspension of disbelief during most of Lynch's films, due to what I saw at the time as gratuitous weirdness.
Thirith on 9/12/2009 at 07:43
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Plus where else are you going to see an eldery couple shrunk to an inch high coming out of a brown paper bag in another highly regarded movie?
Wasn't there a Steven Spielberg movie? Or perhaps Robert Zemeckis? :joke:
I have to say,
The Straight Story is still one of my favourite Lynch films. Obviously it lacks the heavy-duty weirdness and it has one or two somewhat mawkish scenes, but it's beautifully made and acted, has a wonderful Angelo Badalamenti score and a warmth that few (if any) Lynch films have, while maintaining his love for visual and aural texture.
TBE on 9/12/2009 at 08:35
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168629/) Dancer in the Dark (2000) WTF? I can't believe no one mentioned this great film. :nono: I realize it was a Lars Von Trier movie, but still, it turned out good.
I'll have to second Napoleon Dynamite. Classic! :thumb:
Also No Country For Old Men was great too.
Serendipity with Cusak and Beckinsale was awesome for a chick flick.
Plus, she's really hot in this movie. :)Can't really think of any other movie right now that made it to my list.
Aerothorn on 9/12/2009 at 11:05
Was there a "best movies of the '90s" topic back in '99/2000?
SubJeff on 9/12/2009 at 11:47
Quote Posted by steo
Though perhaps Lost Highway was slightly more discernible than Mulholland Drive.
What do you mean by this?
MD is one of my favs too. Should have put it on my list. But Lost Highway is more... relaxing. And it's less commercial. MD has alot of obvious clues and tells all over the place that I haven't seen in other Lynch stuff; its like he's (almost) trying to make this film watchable for a non-Lynch-fan audience. I've yet to watch Twin Peaks though (criminal I know).
