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Summary: Wild At Heart
Review: My all-time favorite movie. It's got everything; sex, violence, great plot, surrealistic horror, engaging characters...
Hands down best road movie, with an amazing soundtrack that can stand on its own.
A rare gem & Lynch's best.
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Summary: Superb!
Review: This is by far the finest and funniest movie ever made. Well, that I've ever seen. Oh wow. My friend stole this VHS from her job when it first came out on video. I stole it from her and I watch it so much I NEED it to come out on DVD or I'll be buying a few copies on VHS each year. The dialogue in this film is amazing. Lula's mom you want to kill, Bobby Peru will give you nightmares, and Sailor and Lula... wow. Dern has some of the best lines ever written, and she delivers them without flaw. And Crispin Glover... "I'm making my lunch!!!" The best.
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Summary: david lynch's best!
Review: I think this is my favorite David Lynch film. It has so many talented actors who all do excellant. Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern are on the run from Diane Ladd (Dern's very overprotective mother)who have sent hitmen after them. Along the way they run into and meet many different characters on thier road fo love. My favorite part of the film was when Laura Dern finally told her mother off at the end. "To stay away from them or she would rip her arms out by the root!" if you want to see one of lynch's film see this one first!
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Summary: Lynch's Best ... period
Review: I've seen David's films ... This is the finest of them all. Straight Story, Elephant Man, Blue Velvet are all wonderful in there own way but this one stands alone at the pinnacle. Some won't get it or like it ... this isn't standard Hollywood fare and some parts aren't pretty but what a wild dreamlike ride. Crispen Glover's small part is over the top and Dafoe's character will haunt you. Films this imaginitive are very rare ... especially today...
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Summary: Lions and tigers and bears - oh my!
Review: David Lynch gives us another eccentric, lurid melodrama with his typical visual flair and harsh wit. A young couple - Lulu Fortune and ex-con Sailor Ripley - hit the road in an effort to escape Lulu's ferociously protective mother. Only mom hires a hitman to track down the couple and get rid of Sailor. Eventually the couple come to a halt in a dead Texas town where evil characters conspire against them. The film has the David Lynch trademark style: brutal and perverted characters, sex and sexuality, and there are wonderfully off-kilter visuals that make you feel like you're in a dream (or nightmare). Not for every taste, but compelling nonetheless. This film earned Diane Ladd, who plays Lula's mother a best supporting actress Academy award nomination and also won top prize at the Cannes film festival.
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Summary: Rejoice!
Review: For all of you who've been checking back manically to see when this infernal damn movie is being released, fear not, the answer to your emotional wrangling is at hand!! Copies of the film will be released to Amazon.co.uk on the 12th of May (next month!! You may already pre-order!!). There has been no mention of the special features (most probably typically Lynch-scant) however, I have heard via the grape vine that the print has been re-mastered and the soundtrack enhanced to 5.1. The U.K. version is region 2, so region-free players ahoy!
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Summary: PLIZ
Review: I am here to add my nam to the ever growing petition against SF (studio foolishness). Please, this is my favourite film. Please-DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Almost as underrated as Lost Highway
Review: There are two kinds of people in this world: those who love David Lynch's films, and those who hate them. Throughout just about all of Lynch's films, there has been a dreamlike feel to them that makes his films darkly hypnotic, and Wild at Heart is no exception. Nicolas Cage and a post Blue Velvet Laura Dern play Sailor and Lula; two star crossed lovers on the run from some dangerous whackos hired by Lula's mother (Diane Ladd) to rub out Sailor. Along the way they come across an even more dangerous whacko named Bobby Peru (played to absolute perfection by Willem Dafoe, seeing him in this role makes it hard to believe that this guy played Jesus Christ), and in between we are given a near sensory overload of explicit sex scenes between Cage and Dern to go with some horrifying violence. The dreamlike quality of the film makes Wild at Heart watchable, but as with just about all of Lynch's other films, this is not for all tastes. Cage seems to be having a lot of fun in his role and the chemistry between him and Dern is more than believeable, while Dafoe chews up all the screentime he can, and the rest of the cast (most of which are Lynch film regulars) include Harry Dean Stanton, Crispin Glover, Isabella Rossellini, Sheryl Lee, and Jack Nance. All in all, while I don't find this as great as Blue Velvet or Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart is still a great film, but as I said before, it is not for all tastes.
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Summary: A Lynch Masterpiece
Review: The casting is superb. Cage and Dern are perfectly cast. Defoe should have gotten an oscar for his acting. This movie is truly wild at heart and wierd on top! The main charactors (Sailor and Peanut (Cage and Dern)) love each other and just want the world around them to be nice and OK. But this is not the world they find themselves in. They try to find their way in a dark, hard,and twisted world. Because of their youth, hope, and love, they keep picking them selves up and going on, despite their increased emersion into an evil and insane world. This is one of my all-time-favorits. I can not wait to see this out on DVD.
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Summary: WHAT? 1990 Cannes Festival Best Film... not on DVD?
Review: I really can't believe this. This is the uncontestable proof that in America, the so-called 'professionals' of cinema don't really know very much about what good cinema means. Of course the movie was a public failure when it was released in theaters in the early 90s, but this movie won the best Prize in Cannes International Film Festival in 1990 and this should be enough for a DVD release... it's now over ten years old and there's still nothing coming. This is very surprising when you know that Lynch's last movies, "The Straight Story" and "Mulholland Drive", soon exist in this format...Of course the story is not very original: a couple of lovers unceasingly pursuited by a bunch of hired, trained, crazy killers. Even if here, the tone and way of storytelling are totally different; we're in a David Lynch movie, filled with bizarre, sordid characters, swimming in a very special, chilling atmosphere, and the soundtrack is everything but heavy and unsurprising. Of course the whole contains a lot of sex and violence, and many uncomfortable scenes, especially the one showing Bobby Peru (great Willem Dafoe) psychologically raping Lula. Of course, there is a happy ending: Sailor is leaving Lula and their son but the Good Witch (played by Sheryl Lee) appears in front of him and advises him to not stay away from love and to return to her, what Sailor does. This happy ending was not in Barry Gifford's novel, finishing with Sailor walking away from Lula. Story told several times before, romance, sex, violence, added happy ending... these are the criterions for an average Hollywood feature film, and "Wild at Heart" contains those criterions, even if the treatment is, of course, different. So what's the reason of so much hate? This is 'the' question. Is this movie 'too much'? Does it go too far? I don't think so.
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