Wild at Heart (1990)

Awesome Movie

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

If you know anything about the works of David Lynch you know that it's different often dark and it challenges the mind as the world is never what it seems to be. With this 1990 work "Wild at Heart" it shows just how dark and different life can be for some like it's a twist and parody a dark like "Wizard of Oz" journey like film!This film is very violent and erotic with intimate and wild raw sex scenes as it's a ride thru darkness and uncertainty. The story has Lula(Laura Dern) who loves and only wants to be with her ex-con boyfriend Sailor(Nick Cage) no matter how many times danger and death tries to get them. So both hit the road to find happiness only they find a wicked and cruel underworld awaits them on their road of journey.This film proves life is no fairy tale as it's a dark and wild wicked madness journey for many this movie is also supported well by Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, Isabella Rossellini and many others overall it's a pretty good cult classic film to watch.

Typical David Lynch (translate: fantastic visuals, crazy characters and scenes and great music). Yet unlike many of his other movies, this one is easy to follow and not quite as surreal. Cage and Dern are marvelous, but the best performance comes from Willem Dafoe as Bobby Peru. One of the best road movies (and probably the craziest). 9 stars out of 10.In case you're interested in more underrated masterpieces, here's some of my favorites:imdb.com/list/ls070242495

David Lynch, that master of the bizarre, strikes again with "Wild at Heart". What I interpreted from it is that, no matter how weird a person is, s/he isn't as weird as the society that we inhabit. After all, Sailor is seen as the "wrong" kind of person for Lula, but the people hired by Marietta are also some real oddballs. Indeed, Sailor may have killed someone, but Marietta turns out to be the only truly creepy character: not only does she want to control Lula's life, but the way that she covers her entire face in lipstick is outright scary. And Bobby? Now that man's enough to make your skin crawl!If you want to take a more cynical approach to this, you could say that Lynch gave it the ending that audiences want as opposed to a more shocking one. But in reality, after what the movie says about our society, don't the protagonists deserve each other's love? Whether challenging the notion of an idealistic small town, or focusing on some sick people in the generally unseen parts of the US, this is not a movie that you're likely to forget soon. Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern put on what were probably the best performances of their careers, with fine support from Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton (RIP), Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Isabella Rossellini and Sherilyn Fenn.Not the best movie ever made, but one that all cinephiles should watch at least once.

Yawn.I had such high expectations for this movie since it's a Lynch and the premise sounds seriously bad ass. But it just isn't. 80% of this movie is just stupid dialogue (from a car), unnecessary sex scenes and Nicholas Cage being an awful actor. I was seriously looking forward to Bobby Peru and even he was a let down.As the title suggests, I did stop watching this movie prematurely. There was about 30 minutes left which came as a major surprise to me since there had been little to no build up at all and the movie was about to end.Creepy characters speaking nonsense (seriously, what the hell are the Cajuns even talking about?) does not make for a compelling movie. A swing and a miss from Lynch.