Blue Velvet (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Blue Velvet (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Mysteries
Summary: 5 Stars
Blue Velvet is a masterpiece of modern cinema and neo-noir. It is veiled in mysteries that I still have not cracked after 8+ viewings. It is simply one of my favorite films.
Blue Velvet is a particularly well acted film, especially for an early David Lynch film (no offence David). Dennis Hopper is incredible. His role as Frank Booth has been ranked as one of the best villains in cinema history. Isabella Rossellini also did a miraculous job as Dorothy Vallens. Her portrayal, which even Roger Ebert found impressive, is sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes heartwarming, which is quite an amazing thing to accomplish in her first film role ever.
While Blue Velvet is one of David Lynch's more "conventional" films, it still holds that mysterious aspect that David is so great at creating. It contains little details that allow you to discover more with each viewing (SPOILERS*** such as: when Jeffery finds the ear in the beginning of the film, the camera zooms into the ear canal. In the final scenes of the films, after Frank's dead and all is well, the camera zooms out of Jeffery's ear canal. Wow.)
Blue Velvet is also loaded with clever symbolism and imagery that keeps you astounded every time you see it. The blue lighting, the picket fence and flowers, the well-dressed man disguise, the kink in the hoes during Jeffery's father's stroke are all examples of the amazing imagery found in Blue Velvet.
This DVD version of Blue Velvet does a fine job with the transfer, nothing that shouldn't be there. The DVD itself is not loaded with features, but I particularly found the missing scene montage a great addition. These scenes are still missing to this day and somehow they managed to find still frames from some of these scenes. There is also an easter egg hidden in the DVD, but t is pretty pointless.
Overall, this is a great film and a good DVD. If you are looking to replace a VHS copy, go for it because this is worth it. If you have never seen it, do so as soon as possible. You should not be disappointed.
Movie Review: The Last Tango in Small Town America.
Summary: 5 Stars
Blue Velvet always makes me wonder: what if Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris were set in Small Town America instead. Before making his disturbing 1986 masterpiece, David Lynch had already established himself as a director with Eraserhead (1977) and The Elephant Man (1980). Although Blue Velvet is perhaps Lynch's most mainstream film, it also hints at the darker, more surreal Lynch Universe. Set in the small town of Lumberton, North Carolina, the film tells the story of a college student, Jeffrey Beamount (Kyle MacLachlan), who finds a severed human ear in a grassy field in his neighbourhood. He decides to investigate the mystery with his sweet-as-pie girlfriend, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), the daughter of the town sheriff. Their investigation leads them into the darker underworld of small-town America, populated by sociopathic perverts like Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), nightclub singers (with a fetish for sexual bondage) like Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini), and characterized by drug addiction, violence, sexual slavery, voyeurism, and raw emotional energy. Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks) brings his trademark musical brilliance to the highly-recommended cult classic.
For those interested in Lynch trivia: Lynch's inspiration for the film came from an image of a severed, human ear lying in a field, Bobby Vinton's song "Blue Velvet," and a childhood memory of a naked woman walking down a neighborhood street at night. Lynch initially chose Val Kilmer for the role of Jeffrey Beaumont. Kilmer turned down the role because he thought the film was "pornography." Lynch initially wanted Molly Ringwald to play Sandy Williams. Lynch's original cut of Blue Velvet had a four-hour running time.
G. Merritt
Movie Review: A Lynch masterpiece - 4 1/2 stars
Summary: 5 Stars
Being a fan of David Lynch films, I guess you'd think i'm a bit crazy to have left this particuler film to last, but yes I did leave it to last and I most definately am crazy because this film is definately all that it is cracked up to be. If any film was to prove David Lynch can accually direct a straight forward film, this is it.
Blue Velvet is a visual masterpiece, David adds that little bit of craziness to an otherwise straight forward story and gives it that much more meaning. Through sybolisation and character emotions the film sends a message that all good things have an underbelly, a dark side etc. Every good man will be put forth to deal with someone evil.
For myself, I found the film very confronting and through two hours of mystery, violence and emotional practise I found myself connecting to the story. At large the film is a wake up call to just how bad some things in life really are, you're just not looking hard enough.
I mark Blue Velvet as one of the truly original films of our time. It has everything any film could possibly want to offer, action, suspence, horror, mystery and romance and in the end will leave you with a very warm fealing. It is a film that needs to be watched. Enjoy!
Movie Review: Lynch's masterpiece, all other opinions and perspectives are void
Summary: 5 Stars
It's odd how I got around to David Lynch. I'd just started hanging out with the guy who is now my best friend and he borrowed me a VHS (remember them things?) copy of Wild at Heart. Well, the head bashing was nice, but I couldn't make it through more than 30 minutes. After that it kind of faded, I didn't even know the director at the time.
Fast forward to the release of Mulholland Dr. My interest peaks, and is more than saturated with an overabundance of intense metaphorical symbols and brilliant casting. So, I rent Blue Velvet and, my god, I got what I got from M.D. times 100.
Blue Velvet is, more or less, like watching a nightmare, like if Bunuel had raped Hitchcock after he had raped Herzog, or something along those lines.
This is what a gripping movie should be; intelligent, well written, and when it's over you think to yourself, "wait, it's over already, DAMNIT, GIMME MORE!" (apparently it was originally around 4 hours long, but all the missing stuff has long since disappeared.)
The story is simple, and noirish, in the fact that it's a simple young man entering a world he had no clue existed, being shoved into the absurd, vile and deranged world of one particular fellow by the name of Frank, and his victims.
After my initial viewing of Blue Velvet I went for more Lynch; I was not disappointed in anything I saw, save for, haha, Wild at Heart which, to this day, I've not been able to get all the way through. I can't help it, I hate Cage, I hate Elvis and I hate the Wizard of Oz. I haven't seen Dune, and don't think I ever will...
I've seen Blue Velvet, i think, 4 times now, and I plan to view it many more times in the future.
and an additional note, Brad Dourif has THE coolest laugh ever.
Movie Review: The Great Ape Escape
Summary: 5 Stars
Going into it, the less hype you hear, good or bad, the better. You hear all these things about "it" and when you actually watch "it" for the first time, all that profound analysis or whatever the kids are calling it nowadays can be not unlike a rowdy theater, full of a motely crew of chattering chatter boxes, all making their own shadow puppets on the screen and all in the discomfort of you're already crowded head device mark 12. This means this, that means that, this is wrong, thats right, Colonel Muster with the candle stick... aye yai yai, calgon take me away. Thankfully I saw this movie before I heard to much about it, or even Lynch himself for that matter (whom many seem to see as some kind of fly by night charlatan for some utterly creepy reason, I figure it's sexual jealousy). All I had was five bucks in my pocket, a blockbuster card, brutal loneliness and a heart full of napalm. It was all like some bizzare friend I'd been waiting for without even knowing I was waiting, that was equally adept at making me laugh as making me cry, and in that, I am truly in debt to it in some zany, cooky kind of way. I can say without risk of hyperbole it was one of the most satisfying and powerful cinematic experiences I've had since I was a child (these results are not typical, no refunds.) It seems unfair that the only thing I can give back for that experience is mere praise (we'll try to work on that.)
If you have yet to watch it, stop reading all the reviews right now and see it for yourself. You may love it, you may hate it, you may have cheap sex with it and not call it the next day, but it's a swell enough movie to where those are largely the only choices you'll have, he said somewhat cautiously. True, there have been some wonderful and thought provoking things said about this film, in it's praise and in it's opposite, but they're not worth you're dime till you've seen it for you're self and have drawn you're own conclusions, and maybe not even then. For me, the film largely stops when the credits run, and I don't need anybody telling me why I should like it or despise it, for I have seen the mountian, and it is good.
Many intellectual types (possibly qualified as hard nosed intellectual elitists, who, like red necks, despise what they can't understand.) can't stand Lynch because they have a hard time making heads or tails of his work, but oh, if only they would sit back and allow themselves to feel the film, instead of trying to figure it out as if it is was as simple as some mathematical problem. They listen but they do not hear, eat but do not taste, shift but do no shimmy, etc. etc., blah, blah, blah. I don't care if it's all a gimmick or a bowl of broccoli, it's worth something to me.
In summary, I liked it very much, I'm glad it was made instead of not, and if you're cool, you'll like it too.
Viva La Blue Velvet and all it's mutant children.