10 replies on “But “Blue Velvet” is worse.”

  1. Whenever “Straight Story” was just telling the story, I liked it. But every time his Lynchian influence took over, it sucked. Having thought about it for a month or since I saw it, I’m disappointed. I could see a good movie lying just under the surface, but it was buried in Lynch.

  2. I loved Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Straight Story. Hated Wild at Heart and the second Half of Lost Highway. Eraserhead and The Elephant Man are eternal masterpieces, that really isn’t debateable.

  3. “I do not even think it is a very good film. There is something repulsive and manipulative about it, and even the best scenes have the flavor of a kid in the school yard, trying to show you pictures you don’t feel like looking at.” – Roger Ebert

  4. Ebert was right about Wild at Heart–an incredibly sophmoric avant garde. More dilletante than avant in its brutishness. He was also right to backtrack on Lynch’s entire project when he saw “Mulholland Drive” . . .

    David Lynch has been working toward “Mulholland Drive” all of his career, and now that he’s arrived there I forgive him “Wild at Heart” and even “Lost Highway.” At last his experiment doesn’t shatter the test tubes. The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a Hollywood film noir, and the less sense it makes, the more we can’t stop watching it. — Ebert

  5. > It can’t be long until James posts to tell me how stupid that I am, Lynchian that he is

    right you are. i’ll admit, though, that “Wild at Heart” is crap. i think his career is half-amazing, half-crap.

    my breakdown goes something like this:

    CRAP-

    Dune
    Wild at Heart
    Mulholland Drive

    AMAZING-

    Eraserhead
    Elephant Man
    Blue Velvet
    Twin Peaks (TV Show + Movie)
    Lost Highway

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