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Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

Old 04-02-21, 05:09 AM
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Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?




Lynch's best or Cronenberg's best?
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

Mulholland Drive is better imo
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

Mulholland Drive
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

I prefer Videodrome more.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

I prefer Videodrome. Religious cults using media for mind control is still relevant today.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

Mulholland Drive for me.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

I'd rather watch Videodrome again.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

It’s been years since I’ve seen Videodrome and I don’t remember a lot. Mulholland Dr. is a masterpiece so it wins by default.

I also typically enjoy Lynch’s movies more than Cronenberg’s in general anyway.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

I love both, but I’ll have to go with Mulholland Drive. What David Lynch did with the 90 minute pilot and turned it into a 147 minute masterpiece is genius. He took an initial episode of a TV mystery and changed it via editing and additional footage into this story about a tale of how Hollywood uses women and how it created a love triangle that leads to jealousy and ultimately murder.

As good as the movie is, watching the pilot makes you appreciate it even more. Too bad it couldn't be included as an extra on the Criterion Blu-Ray.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

I don't like Videodrome and, as a non-David Lynch enthusiast, I haven't yet seen Mulholland Drive.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

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Lynch's best or Cronenberg's best?
Videodrome is Cronenberg's best film?
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

^ What should be considered Cronenberg’s best then? The Dead Zone or The Fly? I smell new poll coming up.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

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^ What should be considered Cronenberg’s best then? The Dead Zone or The Fly? I smell new poll coming up.
https://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk...ronenberg.html
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

For me Cronenberg’s top 5 are

Crash
Dead Ringers
Videodrome
The Fly
The Brood
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

I'd put The Fly as his #1.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

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I prefer Videodrome. Religious cults using media for mind control is still relevant today.



But yeah Videodrome all the way.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

Two classics of their respective genres, which are genres entirely of themselves. I love both of them to death. But Mulholland Dr. is one of my top 10 movies of all time, so it gets the nod.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

I'd easily say Videodrome is Cronenberg's best, but it's not like by a landslide.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

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I'd easily say Videodrome is Cronenberg's best, but it's not like by a landslide.
My instinct is to go with Cronenberg’s signature kooky movies as his best (The Fly, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, etc.) but I despite wanting to pick one of his creepy features, I always end up back with A History of Violence as his best.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ
My instinct is to go with Cronenberg’s signature kooky movies as his best (The Fly, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, etc.) but I despite wanting to pick one of his creepy features, I always end up back with A History of Violence as his best.
A History of Violence is my favorite film directed by Cronenberg, but Videodrome is probably the best "Cronenberg movie".

But to answer the thread's question: I prefer Mulholland Dr.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ
My instinct is to go with Cronenberg’s signature kooky movies as his best (The Fly, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, etc.) but I despite wanting to pick one of his creepy features, I always end up back with A History of Violence as his best.
For me it's easily The Brood, the closest he has come to making a scary movie. In general, I don't like over-intellectualizing in the horror genre. Most of Cronenberg's oeuvre leaves me cold. I can theoretically appreciate what he's trying to do, but his fetishistic "body horror" disquisitions don't appeal to my sensibilities. I can't relate to them. Dead Ringers is exquisitely directed and acted, but just not very involving. That's one I'd like to watch again, though. I haven't seen it in decades.
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Re: Better Film: Mulholland Drive or Videodrome?

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Dead Ringers is exquisitely directed and acted, but just not very involving. That's one I'd like to watch again, though. I haven't seen it in decades.
I haven't seen it in decades either but I didn't like it, back then, although the acting and directing were weill done. Everytime someone praises the movie, I think about giving it another shot. Sometimes being older helps. I didn't like Blade Runner or Get Shorty when I watched them as a teenager.
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I haven't seen it in decades either but I didn't like it, back then, although the acting and directing were weill done. Everytime someone praises the movie, I think about giving it another shot. Sometimes being older helps. I didn't like Blade Runner or Get Shorty when I watched them as a teenager.
Infrequently, out of curiosity, I'll rewatch a film I haven't seen in many years, but oddly enough, my opinion almost always remains as it was then.

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