Blue Velvet (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Blue Velvet (Special Edition)
Movie Review: DARK...DARK....DARK...
Summary: 5 Stars
After watching Mulholland Drive and reading the screenplay for Lost Highway, I was hooked on David Lynch. So why not watch his "masterpiece", this "classic"? I decided that I just had to pick it up and well..it was dark. That word perfectly describes the movie. First of all, most of the movie takes place in the dark and what you see on screen is shocking and hard to stomach. I have to aggree with what Siskel said in his review back in 1986..saying that this did to him what Psycho much earlier had done to him. And I aggree. It's like the newer version of Psycho. And well, it succeeds wonderfully.
For 1986, this movie shocked me as it had some very questionable and disturbing content. For 1986 on a 6 million dollar budget, this movie is nothing short of outstanding, And still today, 20 yrs later, it is extremely watchable and really creepy. It sent chills down my spine and the ear part made me gag.
David Lynch's movie is a masterpiece.
Jeffrey is a college student living in a small town with a small life. His father is in the hospital, he lives with his two aunts and so his life isn't too exciting. That's until he finds an ear in a field. This leads to his investigation with his friend, turning girlfriend, Sandy. It all centers around a mysterious lady named Dorothy, living all alone in her apartement. Jeffrey decides to sneak in and he finds DARK THINGS. Frank (Dennis Hopper) is a very bad man. A man who is somehow posessing Dorothy and having her do stuff for him. Weird stuff. He breathes air through a mask and it is that that makes the movie. This mask is chilling and so bizarre. It makes his character. Frank is one of the creepiest characters in cinema history. His line
"Mommy!" and "Don't you fu****' look at me!" are genious.
David Lynch has created one of the most memorable vilains I have ever seen..if not the most memorable.
The movie keeps on going at this dark pace and mysterious and shocking events occur. Some scenes will makes your jaw drop for sure!
Dennis Hopper gives a bewildering performance. Best Supporting Actor!! He gives one of the best performances for a vilain of all time! Not since Gary Oldman in the professional have I been so impressed. But here I am a lot more impressed.
The conclusion is well thought out. In conclusion, David Lynch's movie is mesmerizing, absolutely brilliant. It is as good as Mulholland Drive if not better. It's very hard to watch but is such an interesting study of good and evil and human actions and emotions. It is a critical study that is summed up in this line: "it's a strange world." As well as gross and sick may I add! Great job mr. Lynch, this is the modern Psycho and may even be better than Psycho. It's only Psycho's score that puts it on top!
Movie Review: An Absolute Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
I would love to delve into David Lynch's mind for a few days, weeks or months. He is amazing. Blue Velvet raises all sorts of questions; from the rape scene (which could be seen as either very disturbing or absolutely hilarious) to Kyle McLachlan struggling with the idea of hitting a woman (who appear to enjoy it).
Overall, very erotic and entertaining.
Movie Review: Disturbing meditation on Dark Americana
Summary: 5 Stars
As a longtime fan of Lynch's work (notably Twin Peaks), I can easily say this is not only my favorite, but probably Lynch's best and most important. It is an American classic not in the usual sense of the word. It takes the cliched stereotypical setting of small town America and does what other similar films have repeatedly failed to do: iluminate the darkness there that lies within not behind those town's drawn curtains, but also within all of us, our motives laid bare.
This is a dark, upsetting, graphic and disturbing film. The plot is deceptively, simple however. Amidst patrotic images of waving firemen and cheery local lumberjacks, as well as colorful hardware store employees, college student Jeffrey Beaumont returns from college to his hometown of Lumberton, North Carolina (which is every bit as weird in real life as it is portrayed on film, haha, I grew up not too far away) when his father falls ill of stroke. There he discovers a severed human ear in a vacant lot, and with the help of lovely Laura Dern (in an amusingly fifties-type style of dress), tracks that ear to the gloomy Lincoln Street apartment of soul singer Dorothy Vallens. Vallens is being repeatedly sexually abused by her husband and young child's ransomer, Frank Booth, a nitrus oxide addict with a penchant for sudden and unpredictable violence.
I won't explain the plot further beyond this point, instead I'll leave the films various subplots and subtexts for your approval. The performances themselves in this film are what make the movie. I do not agree with the other reviewer referring to Kyle Maclachlan as wooden. I find him to be a fine actor, perfectly suited to the naive Jeffrey Beaumont, whose innocence in shattered within the frame of this fine film. Laura Dern is pleasantly supportive as Jeffrey's love interest. But it is Rosselinni and Hopper who shine here. The former gives a perfect portrait of how deeply the effects of repeated sexual violence have affected her mental state. Hopper is in his finest, most troubling performance here, truly made for the role of frightening criminal Frank Booth, a nightmare creature made more horrifying by the fact that there are surely numerous men and women out there just like him. Also notable, Dean Stockwell plays a fine supportive role here as the lounge-crooning Ben, friend of our movie's villain.
The sex is not graphic in this film; however the violence towards the end of the movie is both realistic and unsettling. I can deal with much film gore but there is something about the last 20 minutes or so of this film that haunts me morally. Perhaps Lynch's surreal directing made it all the more disorienting. In any event, this is a fine film, very important to the history of modern American cinema, and deserving of Oscars it never won. :( Five stars all the way, highly recommended. You won't be disappointed. But remember, there's a little Frank Booth in all of us.
Movie Review: See that clock on the wall? In five minutes you are not going to believe what I just told you.
Summary: 5 Stars
In the early moments of "Blue Velvet" we see idealized small town images - blooming red roses and immaculate white picket fences - accompanied by the sounds of the gentle Bobby Vinton pop tune that gives the film its title. If you sense something unsettling about this perfection, that's only appropriate. "Blue Velvet" is a David Lynch film, you see, and it won't be long at all before a clean-cut college student comes across a rotting ear in an open field.
Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) is the boy who finds the ear, and Sandy Williams (Laura Dern) is the blonde policeman's daughter who assists Jeffrey when he decides to investigate the truth about his disturbing discovery. Sandy and Jeffrey link the ear to night club singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and later, a deranged man named Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper).
"I don't know if you're a detective or a pervert," Sandy tells Jeffrey when he decides to sneak into Dorothy's apartment. As Jeffrey becomes sexually entangled with Dorothy, we can only cast similar doubt.
It's true that "Blue Velvet"'s dark mysteries have the power to repulse. Voyeurism, rape, torture, and murder are all key to the plot. Yet the film is also spellbinding in its beauty. Vibrant colors and ominous shadows offer gorgeous contrast - call it Technicolor noir - and the film is rife with unforgettable imagery. Moments big and small, from MacLachlan playing with a child's birthday hat to Dean Stockwell's show-stopping lip-synch of Roy Orbison's "In Dreams", are as haunting as anything you will see at the movies anywhere.
The acting is top-notch. MacLachlan is just right as the lost innocent Jeffrey, and Hopper shreds the screen as his depraved counterpoint Frank. Rossellini's performance as Dorothy is devastating and extremely courageous: this is her defining moment as an actress.
"Blue Velvet" is perhaps the quintesstential David Lynch film. His strange humor and painterly gift for creating stunning images are prominently on display, and the film illustrates Lynch's contradictory impulses toward unbridled nastiness and aw-shucks sweetness like no other has. After all these years, "Blue Velvet" is still a shocker, and deciding how one feels about it is still a challenge. It is a film to be considered and then reconsidered, visited and revisited, the kind of film that will never fade away. For serious cinephiles, then, "Blue Velvet" is a film to be cherished.
Movie Review: something wrong in the 'burbs
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie sets off in a "mayberry- esque" town, nice holesome town, kid walkin around finds a human ear then go to investigate to get into furthur trouble. He meets a lunge singer who "belongs" to dennis hopper and that where the sex and violence and violent sex comes into play.
Another great dennis hopper movie, the only david lynic i like, unlike anything else, greatly reccommend this movie if you like violence, criminal ravishment. Great addition to your violence , sexual violence underground collection. Other recommedations,: bad lutenant- harvey keitel,