Top 10 Reasons Why David Lynch Sucks.

[flashNsmash]

david lynch never drew a damn dime

 

[Ranzou**]

Isnt he the guy who put that freaky guy behind the diner?

........

Fuck that guy

 

[MusterX]

Lynch can def. get too weird for me sometimes (Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive ending, Inland Empire), but i mostly love his work.

Wild at Heart is crazy and just the right Film for Nic Cage & Willem Dafoe.
Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet is one of the most menacing performances ever on Film.

I'd rank em

Blue Velvet
Lost Highway
The Straight Story
Elephant Man
Wild at Heart
TP. Fire Walk with me

Mulholland Drive
Dune
Inland Empire
Eraserhead

Mulholland Drive is his masterwork, its Lynch at his peak. The movie requires more than one viewing but it is absolutely phenomenal, it's his Magnum Opus. There is a tremendous amount of subtle detail in the film like when we first see the hitman he has one brown eye and one blue eye, but when Diane hires him to kill Rita, he only has 2 blue eyes.

Diane has blue eyes and Rita has brown eyes. When Diane loses it and hires the hitman, this is the symbolic moment when Rita ceases to exist, leaving only Diane.

Mulholland drive is delicate, and complex, and the acting turned in by especially Naomi Watts is grade A. Laura Harring was stunning as Rita/Camilla.

 

[MusterX]

If your looking for modern Lynch(mixed in with some Kubrick) like cinema I would suggest Yorgos Lanthimos with films like Dogtooth, The Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer

I love the toaster scene in The Lobster, and that ambiguous ending of the film makes for good discussion.

 

[HHJ]

I loved Eraserhead. Lost highway was a mess,but most of it enjoyable enough.

 

[HereticBD]

Have only seen Dune of his movies. Loved the book. Hated the movie.

Obviously my only impression of him is not a good one.

David Lynch doesn't even like it.

 

[HereticBD]

He's a mixed bag, with annoying fans and detractors alike.

 

[CerebralKnievel]

Again the video itself is obviously poking fun at less educated criticism of Lynch which makes it quite amusing the OP seemed to think it was serious.



If your looking for modern Lynch(mixed in with some Kubrick) like cinema I would suggest Yorgos Lanthimos with films like Dogtooth, The Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer

You should check out Beyond the Black Rainbow. Had some scenes and a general tone which reminded me of Lynch, but more reined in. Sort of a displaced section of a larger narrative.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Mulholland Drive is his masterwork, its Lynch at his peak. The movie requires more than one viewing but it is absolutely phenomenal, it's his Magnum Opus. There is a tremendous amount of subtle detail in the film like when we first see the hitman he has one brown eye and one blue eye, but when Diane hires him to kill Rita, he only has 2 blue eyes.

Diane has blue eyes and Rita has brown eyes. When Diane loses it and hires the hitman, this is the symbolic moment when Rita ceases to exist, leaving only Diane.

Mulholland drive is delicate, and complex, and the acting turned in by especially Naomi Watts is grade A. Laura Harring was stunning as Rita/Camilla.

I do tend to think though that people perhaps focus too much on the idea of Lynch as a puzzle to be unlocked via multiple viewings and analysis. I mean you have the central premise of Mullholland and Lost Highway of characters fantasizing to avoid guilt to pickup on but a lot of the appeal of Lynch is I think that of tone.

The idea of "weirdness for its own sake" gets mentioned a lot in criticism of Lynch but very often such elements tend to be more about creating a certain mood rather than automatically being some careful narrative puzzle.

Honestly I tend to think that's where a lot of the dislike of Lynch comes from, people thinking their being talked down to by the director when in reality this isn't happening, the intension is exactly to confuse and unsettle because that's what the story being told needs.

 

[mime]

Wild at heart has one of the best openings ever

Those lesbian scenes in Mulholland drive were some of the hottest non pron scenes ever

That's all I know

 

[Danespina]

Anyone in Toronto. The TIFF Theatre is showing most of Lynch's films.

Mulholland Drive was something else. Blue Velvet tomorrow.

 

[machidafan99]

He sucks at writing cohesive endings. He can come up with a dream skit but it is better when he's working with someone else's completed story.

Also, as I've gotten older quirky characters with a speech impediment or an amputee or a midget are not enough. I need substance.

He's fantastic with sound and very good with visuals though.

He can't meditate or chain smoke his way to a good ending, you have to facking write one.

 

[I Fusion I]

Not a huge fan of Lynch, but I did enjoy some of his stuff, but some of his stuff is terrible.

 

[eddymotto]

I re-read the Dune series recently and then re-watched the movie.

I find the movie terrible but at least it is terrible in some interesting ways. some of his visuals definitely influenced how I "see" the book in my mind.

I have high hopes for the 2021 Dune movie. Denis Villenueve makes beautiful movies (ok - Enemy makes you think that Toronto is 100% brutalist architecture but the rest look great).