The downside of an artist attracting a crowd is that he is tempted to start playing to it, and pretty soon his Unique Creative Vision gets broadened and coarsened and cheapened, and Lynch starts looking like John Waters -- or making John Waters look like R.W. Fassbinder. Forward movement is impeded by unrhythmical cross-cutting and flashbacks, and such a high incidence of oddness and perversion as to turn it all as common and dull as dirt.

Weird-fest

A film tottaly special to me. One of my favorites!

I really feel that Lynch could have made this film better simply by casting it better. Nicholas cage, for example, isn't a very good actor, and Laura Dern is as always very irritating. Also, Cage's accent shits me to tears. My favourite thing about this movie was the ambiguous setting in terms of time, with the mix of 50s music and 80s metal. Other than that, a fairly average film from Lynch

Twin Peaks meets Elvis Presley (talking about his extremely funny feel-good movies)

Possibly Lynch's most underrated film. Very strange, very funny, generally frightening and extremely well made. I'm always impressed with how Lynch uses film as a medium, utilizing its full potential while so many others don't. The music, the acting, sets, etc. is so married to the story that you really gain an appreciation of Lynch's use of film. This is also my favorite Willem Dafoe performance, he was so great.

A road movie through Lynch's world of grotesques. Some truly unforgettable scenes - Crispin Glover's and Willem Dafoe's cameos in particular.

So many of the moments in this movie are amazing that I more than forgive its occasionally lapses into mediocrity.

Stylish, sensation, beautiful . . . but just a little too self-aware, a little too camp.

One of the more watchable films with great performances but definitely weird Lunchian elements.

eh... lynch films usually just barely work, this one doesn't. at its heart it's a generic road movie that has been outdone numerous times, and its surface quirkiness seems tacked on. the Wizard of Oz stuff, the Elvis stuff, none of it really adds to the story, it was just lynch trying to drown a bland cut of meat in seasoning and hoping our palates wouldn't notice

This movie didn't click with me the way most of Lynch's other movies have. It almost seemed too random, if that's possible with a Lynch movie (similar to the way I feel about Inland Empire). I did enjoy the odd assortment of characters, especially Willem Dafoe in one of the creepiest performances I've ever seen. But the movie was so all over the place that I just couldn't grasp onto it and really love it.

Opera music, heavy-metal, leather jackets, OTT violence, gratuitous sex, Jack Nance, Fellini-esque chubby nakedness, The Wizard of Oz, true love. Fuck, this film is awesome!

Lots of great production values. Plenty of superb acting (Dafoe and Cage in particular). Strange yet highly entertaining and rewarding film. My favorite from Lynch. Its nearly as good as a snake skin jacket.

#90s(l)#, liked, rewatch(2) }*{ #90s(e)#, story, dir Lynch

"Hotter than Georgia asphalt" David Lynch makes some fine films. This might be the best. Fairly uncomfortable, which seems to be an attractant for me, and with several of my favorite actors. What's not to love?

(2nd viewing) One of, if not Lynch's most entertaining and might I add, undemanding films. A reckless, at times surreal ride of violence, sex and contiguous malevolent forces, adamant to disrupt one of the most romantic tales ever recorded on film. Love me some 90's Nicolas Cage. "Treat me like a fooooooooooool, treat me mean and cruuuuuuel, but looooove me".

Essentially Blue Velvet 2.0, with the nastiness on the surface instead of being undercurrents (Dern's "this world is wild at heart" is basically this film's "it's a strange world, isn't it?"). Nowhere near as good and often very formless, but it has its moments - Dafoe, mainly.