Blue Velvet
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Movie Reviews of Blue Velvet
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.
Movie Review: David Lynch and his way with images.
Summary: 4 Stars
Blue Velvet is a film that takes you in a lot of different directions. It's a mystery, a love story, a thriller, a sexual intrigue piece, but, above all, it's David Lynch.
David Lynch has always had a way with infusing unsettling images and intriguing storytelling (Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me, Wild At Heart), but this may just take the cake.
Even with this, the film feels incomplete. As if DAvid Lynch wanted to make a three hour film delving into every facet of these individuals'd lives but settled on shorting it to comfort the audience. With the number of themes/storylines being touched this definitely should have been a tad bit longer. But it's still a masterful and downright enjoyable film. David Lynch has a way with images.
There's only a few updates to this disc. There's a featurette or two, and deleted scene stills, among very few others.
In the end, you mostly love or hate David Lynch, but you still can enjoy his contrbutions to the film industry.
Highly recommended.
Movie Review: A sleeper among the macabre!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is Dennis Hopper's top film. He ACTED better in "Easy Rider," but here he had the premiere role.
It's all about a creep who is sexually out on the fringe. He whacks scissors, sucks oxygen and calls for his mommy while he gets his jollys. Now I know that doesn't sound like all that great of a movie, but it is.
It's a fascinating psychological study -- very creepy!
Movie Review: Baby wants Blue Velvet!
Summary: 5 Stars
The candy colored clown they call the sandman... This movie is a bit of a classic and a lot of people have already talked a lot about it. I think it has some great characters. Frank the villain is pretty original and totally out of his mind. It has the typical Lynch message that underneath it all man is evil and there's tons of horrible things going on. The film is pretty intense most of the way through, after you've watched it once though, it loses a lot of its power. Still a pretty shocking and original movie.Movie Review: Blue Velvet
Summary: 5 Stars
This hallucinogenic mystery-thriller from cult director Lynch explores the twisted underside of small-town American life, fusing noirish elements of mood and atmosphere with a classic Hitchcockian whodunit. Lynch's imprint is everywhere, including MacLachlan's deliberately trancelike acting, Rossellini's melodramatic distress, and Hopper's over-the-top turn as the angry, liquid-ether-huffing sadist who has a strange and violently sexual hold on Dorothy. Even the music--the Bobby Vinton song and Angelo Badalamenti's eerie score--completes the director's disquieting effect. Filmed in gorgeous Technicolor, "Blue Velvet" is a lurid parable about innocence and evil film that mystery/noir fans will find irresistible. (Also check out Dean Stockwell's sublime, campy turn as one of Frank's odd-ball colleagues!)