 |
|
|
|
| MatchFlick Member Reviews |
4 reviews / review this flick
|
|
Blue Velvet (1986)
From Amazon:
David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism, and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into...
|
|
One has to watch a David Lynch movie just to say you have seen one. This was actually nominated for an Academy Award and won many others, so it is probably as good as any to see. I tried Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, but couldn't get more than a couple of scenes before I gave up. I was able to hang in there for...
(complete Blue Velvet review by B Movie Ben)
Blue Velvet Movie Review by Jarrod  (9/5/2007) |
 |
|
|
'Blue Velvet' is undoubtedly David Lynch's most surreal and nightmarish movie, and arguably his most famous, strange and beautiful, expertly showing the seedy underbelly of pristine suburbia, and ensnaring one young man in a web of seduction and depravity. That young man is Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), returning...
(complete Blue Velvet review by Jarrod)
| Blue Velvet Movie Review by AJ (8/11/2006) |
 |
|
What. A. Trip. David Lynch slams you into a surrealist roller coaster car, straps you in as tight as he can, and sends you flying off at high-speed into the dark, corrupt, and wildly absurd depths of smalltown American society. After it's all over, you're confused, disoriented, and more than a bit curious as to exactly...
(complete Blue Velvet review by AJ)
If you enjoy amazingly unpredictable suspense movies and captivating performances into the psychology of the sociopathic mind, then you will likely find high entertainment value in Blue Velvet (1986). On the other hand, if your idea of criminal drama is The Andy Griffith Show, you may want to avoid watching this one.
This...
(complete Blue Velvet review by David Hurlbert)
|
|
|
