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Poll Question: What Do You Think Is David’s Best Work?
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This is my 2nd favorite director. Mr Wacko himself. What an oddball! I go with Blue Velvet.
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I've never heard of these movies....
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Dune!!
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lynch is one of the best directors all time... ivé saw elephant man, blue velvet, lost highway, and my favourite is mulholand drive...

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Funny. A lot of people think Dune is his worst. But that's mostly poeople who have read the books. Including me. But I didn't think it was that bad. Fire Walk With Me I think is his worst. Of course I loved the TV show.

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One of my favorite directors! To be honest I liked his work the most in Twin Peaks (TV-Show) but Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet etc. are all very good films.
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Definitely my fave director hard to choose between Blue Velvet..Mullholland Drive and Eraserhead..my vote goes to latter because of the way he persued it, how he achieved the dismal life through black and white excellent one of his materpieces and i really love his work
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I saw Eraserhead in '76 at a midnight showing when it first came out and didn't know what the hell to make of it. I was stoned out of my mind at the time. It took about 2 more viewings to get into it. I hadn't seen it in about 20 years now. It's HIGH time I got the DVD.
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1) Mulholland Drive

2) Blue Velvet

3) Lost Highway

4) Eraserhead

I think The Straight Story is very moving, but its difficult to judge it against his other movies, as it would be like comparing apples with turnips..
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He's probably my favourite American director, at least from the ones that still direct.

1. Mulholland Drive (maybe even the best film from last 5 years)

2. Eraserhead

3. Blue Velvet

I didn't count Twin Peaks because it's a TV series. The first season particularly was phenomenal. Unfortunately, the series went a little downhill after the 1st season and I believe this was mostly because Lynch had to go direct Wild at Heart during the 2nd season. He wasn't really committed to Twin Peaks after the 1st season.

Fire Walk With Me is bashed for no good reason. It's very good.
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BTW, there's a great book "Lynch on Lynch" if you are interested in this great director. He is interviewed about all his movies. This book helps you to understand his movies and also opens a complitely new aspect on them.
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Originally posted by geezer geezer wrote:

BTW, there's a great book "Lynch on Lynch" if you are interested in
this great director. He is interviewed about all his movies. This book
helps you to understand his movies and also opens a complitely new
aspect on them.


Interesting. I should check that out. David usually doesn't reveal his own interpetations of his films. Hence why he doesn't do audio commentaries on DVDs.

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Lost Highway. The only film I am aware of with a free jazz piece in it.
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Thought I'd bring this poll back to the forefront. Still Blue Velvet for me.
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I like alot of Lynch's movie so I can't really choose one, depends what mood I'm in.

If I did it would be from Eraserhead (like dropping acid), Elephant Man (touching true story), Blue Velvet (Frank is the best Psycho ever), Wild at Heart (fun road movie with a twist), Twin Peaks (the dancing backwards midget(little person in PC speak)), Lost Highway(crazy like free jazz and I think I've work this one out) and Mullholland Drive (dancing (little person 2) and lezbo action) plus I'm still trying work the second half of this movie out.
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Originally posted by marktheshark marktheshark wrote:

This is my 2nd favorite director. Mr Wacko himself. What an oddball! I go with Blue Velvet.

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Neither "Twin Peaks" I've seen - someone told me I lost nothing

I vote for "Dune" although I like "The Elephant Man" too much!
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Originally posted by Atkingani Atkingani wrote:

Neither "Twin Peaks" I've seen - someone told me I lost nothing


I vote for "Dune" although I like "The Elephant Man" too much!


No, I wouldn't say you've lost nothing by not seeing Twin Peaks. As TV shows go, that show was nothing short of brilliant. Granted, it sort of flew off the handle in the later episodes mainly because Lynch was not involved with it as much. But it was the most original and innovative show to come around in years. Just dripping with atmosphere and style.

I got the Hong Kong import of the pilot episode on DVD and the box set of the rest of the first season episodes on disc as well. Everytime I let someone who hadn't seen it borrow those, they come back absolutely hooked! Never fails!
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