Apols in advance if this has been covered before or just plain boring

Thought it would be interesting to see how we all rate DL's output, to see if there is a consensus or disagreement.

My top ten:

1 = TP/TP:FWWM

1 = Blue Velvet ( I can never decide as I love them both so much!)

3 = Eraserhead

4 = Lost Highway

5 = Wild At Heart

6 = Industrial Symphony / Floating into the Night

7 = The Elephant Man

8 = Mulholland Drive

9 = Images (book)

10 = Jennifer Lynch ......Only kiddding, taking Lynch's output way to literally  Real answer = The Grandmother.

This list is only a rule of thumb, I changed my mind many times just doing this list, and tomorrow it would different again!

Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole -- DL

1) Mulholland Dr.
2) Blue Velvet
3) The Straight Story
4) Lost Highway
5) Eraserhead
6) Twin Peaks (TV series)
7) The Elephant Man
8) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
9) The Short Films of David Lynch
10) Wild at Heart

Boxing Helena and FWWM are my two favorite movies of all time.  I love them both equally. That being said,

1. FWWM

2. TP

3. Lost Highway

4. Mulholland Drive

5. Blue Velvet

6. Wild at Heart

7. Eraserhead

8. Rabbits (and the experiements on DL.com)

9. Images (especially the Fish and Chicken kits.  His paintings remind me of his song lyrics.)

10. Lynch on Lynch 

I would never sacrifice the movies I didn't mention from my collection.  I'm not without my criticisms, but I appreciate his contribution on the whole to the art world and think all of it is noteworthy.

1.   Mulholland Drive

2.   Lost Highway

3.   The Straight Story

4.   Twin Peaks(serie)

5.   Blue Velvet

6.   Eraserhead

7.   Twin Peaks: FWWM

8.   The Elephant Man

9.   Wild At Heart

10.  Rabbits

Since I am on my first cup of coffee and still waking up with Miles playing smoothly in the background, I will indulge you.

1. Blue Velvet (saw it late in my high school career and it changed the way I looked at film. Short version of story).

2. Mulholland Drive

3. Twin Peaks: The series

4. The Elephant Man

5. Fire Walk With Me

6. Lost Highway

7. Wild at Heart

8. Eraserhead 

9. The Straight Story

10. Industrial Symphony No. 1

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

CCC:

Quote by crabalocker:

Apols in advance if this has been covered before or just plain boring

Don't push your luck, buddy!

I'm not getting something here, did I make some TPG forum faux pas?

smokedchezpig, can we have the long story?

Really suprised some of you guys like Boxing Helena so much. I adored the Secret Diary of LP and was uber-excited about Boxing Helena when it came out, but was really disappointed with it, liked the idea and some really memorable scenes but as a whole it just left me cold. However, can't wait for Surveillance.

Right, I get it...I was not referencing those posts, I'm new tho the board and was not sure if this thread had been done to death allready, so I was putting a disclaimer on just in case.

peace to ya'all

1. eraserhead

2. fire walk with me (i guess the series count for this one too?)

3. lost highway

4. mulholland dr.

5. the grandmother

6. blue velvet

7.  wild at heart

8. the alphabet

9. elephant man

10. rabbits 

Here's mine:

1. ERASERHEAD
2. MULHOLLAND DRIVE
3. BLUE VELVET
4. THE STRAIGHT STORY
5. ELEPHANT MAN
6. HOTEL ROOM
7. WILD AT HEART
8. LOST HIGHWAY
9. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
10. DUNE

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

It's not an exact science, but my overall top ten is something like this:

 1. Mulholland Drive

2. Fire Walk With Me

3. Twin Peaks (Series)

4. Eraserhead

5. Lost Highway

6. Blue Velvet

7. Hotel Room

8. The Elephant Man

9. Lumiere

10. Wild At Heart

Mind you, I reckon Inland Empire could be up there when it's finished.

1. Mulholland Drive

2. Twin Peaks

3. Fire Walk With Me 

4. Blue Velvet

5. Eraserhead

6. The Elephant Man

7. The Straight Story

8. The Short Films of David Lynch

9. Lost Highway

10. Wild At Heart 

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Twin Peaks
3. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
   
4. Wild At Heart
5. Dune
6. Blue Velvet
7. Lost Highway
8. Straight Story
9. Eraserhead
10. Elephant Man

1. Mulholland Drive

2. TP: Fire Walk With Me

3. Lost Highway

4. TP Series

5. Eraserhead

6. Blue Velvet

7. The Elephant Man

8. Wild at Heart

9. The Straight Story

10. Short Films as a whole

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-Noah- 

I have collated the charts posted above and have come up with a TPG top ten for Lynch. This is not super accurate (no spreadsheets involved) but it is pretty close.

1 = Mullholland Drive

2 = Lost highway

3 = Twin Peaks

4 = Blue Velvet

5 = Fire Walk With Me

6 = Eraserhead

7 = Wild At Heart

8 = The Straight Story

9 = The Elephant Man

10 = The Short Films 

Mullholland Drive was the clear winner.

LH, TP, BV, FWWM and Eraserhead were bunched quite closely, all scoring highly. 

Then there was a big drop off to WAH, The S Story and The Ele Man with all 3 being close.

Finally another big drop to The Short Films and other projects that missed out on the top ten.

Phew, that turned out to be a bit trickier than I thought it was going to be!

1. Twin Peaks

2.TP: Fire, walk with me

3. Mulholland Drive

4. The Elephant Man

5. Eraserhead

6. Wild at Heart

7. Lost Highway

8. Rabbits

9. Industrial Symphony No. 1

10. The Straight Story

A few things I noticed:

- most people completely ignored Dune. it may well be Lynch's worst film but we're writing here about Rabbits, ndustrial Symphonies and Grandmas... and even Boxing Helena... why forget Dune???

- surprisingly many people ignore Straight Story, too, now that's too much for me

- I share crabalocker's disappointment with Boxing Helena. While I wholly appreciate the Secret Diary, and also quite appreciate Sherylin Fenn :-)) .. unfortunately I found Boxing Helena rather average; not bad but nothing special (nice to see it did please someone, though... 12rainbow :-))

- as far as I can remember that was also the final result of the old set of "Survival" threads. Those two remained to the end of the game and FWWM was considered "most loved", while Blue Velvet - "most perfect".

- a few people voted very high for Mulholland but low for Lost Highway. curious. I always thought these two films were very much alike. Even more curious because on my list there is also a lot of space between them... Look:

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and the Lynch-directed episodes of the series
2. Blue Velvet
3. Lost Highway
4. ... a gap, those three outstand
5. Elephant Man
6. Eraserhead
7. Wild at Heart
8. Straight Story
9. Mulholland Drive
10.Dune

Please count in my votes, too, so that Mulholland can drop a few points ;-)

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B. Beware
O. Of
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And this would be mine :

1.  Twin Peaks.
2.  Fire Walk With Me.
3.  The Elephantman.
4.  The Straight Story.
5.  Mulholland Drive.
6.  Industrial Symphony.
7.  Wild At Heart.
8.  Pretty As A Picture (well...will make this one count :) ).
9.  Blue Velvet.
10. Lost Highway.

I think it is difficult enough to put DL's films in order, so it becomes absolutely impossible to arrange different art forms on one list. I did manage to put Twin Peaks in, otherwise this is just my list of the films "in order".

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Lost Highway
3. Twin Peaks
4. Blue Velvet
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
6. Wild at Heart
7. Straight Story
8. Eraserhead
9. Elephant Man
10. Dune

1.  Twin Peaks

2.  Fire Walk With Me

3.  Blue Velvet

4.  Mulholland Drive

(dropoff)

5.  Wild At Heart

6.  Lost Highway

7.  The Straight Story

(dropoff)

8.  Eraserhead

9.  Industrial Symphony No. 1

10.INLAND EMPIRE

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

01. Mulholland Drive
02. Twin Peaks / Fire Walk with Me
03. Blue Velvet
04. Lost Highway
05. The Elephant Man
06. The Straight Story

07. Wild at Heart
08. Dune
09. Inland Empire

Elephant Man is underrated. The last three on my list I absolutely loathe. Definitely among the worst film experiences of my life.

1 Twin Peaks

2 FWWM

3 Mulholland Drive

4 Blue Velvet

5 Eraserhead

6 Wild at Heart

7 Lost Highway

8 The Elephant Man

9 Industrial Symphony

10 Dune

1.  Twin Peaks

2.  Fire Walk With Me

(big drop)

3.  Lost Highway

4.  Mulholland Drive

5.  Straight Story

6.  Industrial Symphony #1

7.  Blue Velvet

8.  Eraserhead

9.  Elephant Man

10.  INLAND EMPIRE