Blue Velvet (1986)
Set in a small American town, Blue Velvet is a dark, sensuous mystery involving the intertwining lives of four very different individuals. The film's painful realism reminds us that we are not immune to the disturbing events which transpire in Blue Velvet's sleepy community. There is a darker side of life waiting for us all. (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group Inc.)
Cast and Information
Directed By: David Lynch
Written By: David Lynch
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Brad Dourif, Dean Stockwell, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Kyle MacLachlan, Hope Lange, Jack Nance, Frances Bay, Priscilla Pointer, George Dickerson, Selden Smith
Genres: Suspense/Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
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djross | 97 99% |
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Greatest American film of the 1980s. There's a sense in which this film is about America, but it also seems, in some strange way, a response to the American involvement in Vietnam. More fundamentally, the undecidable question is whether the ear is attuned to the unconscious or to something more ontological. So influential that it's now difficult to look back and realise how original it was when it was released. My 1997 analysis is available by following the link at my full review. [Full Review]
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luc | 95 98% |
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Strange movie but very good, fantastic performance of
D.Hopper.
Brilliant !
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Vandelay1 | 85 94% |
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HEINEKEN? FUCK THAT SHIT!
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Moribunny | 33 17% |
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I don't know why Blue Velvet is held in such high regard. Everything here that's made by Lynch to look mysterious and shocking, just didn't really shock me at all. It's sort of a mediocre drama, with nothing much to say, disguised as a mystery.
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billkerwin | 93 91% |
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Surreal perversity at its finest. A college boy tries to solve the mystery of a severed ear he finds in a field, thus beginning a journey into the dark heart of America. Eventually, the evil is purged, and all is well . . . or is it? The new America looks like the old, but the smiles are a little false, and the colors just a little too bright.
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MartinTeller | 98 99% |
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Lynch divides the world sharply into good and evil -- those are those who are infallibly good and those who are unredeemably evil. Only the Dorothy Vallens character straddles the line, her essential goodness corrupted by prolonged exposure to Frank Booth and his underworld cronies. Blue Velvet doesn't run terribly deep, but it's always an interesting journey, both unsettling and amusing.
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Hawkins | 93 94% |
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David Lynch's subconscious presents Francis Bacon's The Hardy Boys in "Lust For Life: The Mystery of Sexually Confused America"
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Alex Watkins | 6 98% |
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The world presents Jeffrey Beaumont with two paths down which he can travel on his journey towards manhood: the way of light and of love, or the way of jealousy, primal urges and despair, as exemplified by Frank Booth. He ultimately chooses light, but not before traversing a bit of each. Lynch's arch and richly symbolic portrait of suburban kitsch and urban degradation has been unimaginably influential on the last thirty years of film.
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frederic_g54 | 6 35% |
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(2nd viewing) A mysterious trip determined to capture our crazy little world, though this is not the Lynch I know and admire. By the end of the film, I haven't come to cheer for the main characters and it fails to build upon its early momentum, undone by its overwhelming melodrama. Unfulfilling, unfortunately.
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Pickpocket | 10 98% |
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Creepy, unnerving, weird and totally inspiring.
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hotsake | 60 51% |
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David Lynch movies are not my style but even so I found parts of this odd and fascinating. David Lynch films tend to ride the fine line between fascinating and annoying and annoying usually wins, here though I'm torn.
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Jeb | 98 93% |
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This is the best Mystery since Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, and it's the most essential film of the 80s. Lynch created something here, something that cannot be touched on camera these days. Totally inspiring in every quality of filmmaking, and it's possibly the weirdest and freakiest movie ever to come out. Definitely not for all tastes.
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twincinema | 100 98% |
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Probably Lynch's most linear film narratively, but still packs so much psychosexual weirdness. This feels like the (oh god, I am going to say it) BLUEprint to Twin Peaks. This may be the one film I choose as a litmus test to see if me and another person will ever agree on film.
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XakkMaster | 96 97% |
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Absolutely flawless direction by Lynch. MacLachlan represents the fleeting innocence of an America-gone-by as his character is drawn into a seedy underworld by a well-natured, but naive curiosity. A fairly straightforward mystery plot is thickened by the unforgettable characters he encounters. Hopper's turn as the psychopath Frank is disturbing in all its sick glory and Rossellini's performance screams of twisted desperation. Topped off with a great soundtrack and sharp visuals, it's hypnotic.
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Luna6ix | 82 80% |
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A fascinating collection of characters. Dean Stockwell, Isabella Rossellini, and Dennis Hopper dwarf the lowly MacLachlan and Dern. It moves at a relatively slow pace, but when any of the aforementioned actors are on screen it is inspired. Undoubtedly a fresh reinvention of the thriller, but time has dulled its edge.
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BillyShears | 90 92% |
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Suburban nightmare
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comepelicula | 100 99% |
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This is pure Lynch, a bizarre story with very dark and compelling characters, Dennis steals the show with one of the most terrorific villains of movies. There are some quite great scenes, great music, great pace and great writing. I just love it.
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Trooth | 48 17% |
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David Lynch apparently lives in some kind of world where no social interaction or personal decision makes the least bit of sense. The characters in this movie don't really feel like people. I'd say they feel like cartoon characters due to how ridiculous they are, but cartoon characters at least tend to be logical.
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lex | 95 91% |
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A complex, surreal and thrilling Pabst Blue Ribbon advertisement.
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Gilly | 40 5% |
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Maybe I'm too young to understand this movie or the movie is too old... in my eyes it's a peace of crap!
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JohnnyZombie | 95 95% |
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A great look at the dark things that exist within us all. The acting (especially Dennis Hopper's performance) is incredible.
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glumpy_99 | 94 88% |
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Beautifully crafted effort from Lynch is a hypnotic, seductive and horrifying journey into the seedy underbelly; a film of broad, jagged contrasts between the conservative 1950s idyll of surburban life, and the fetid ugliness swarming like cockroaches beneath, and personified in a legendarily intense and terrifying performance by Hopper, and an equally committed effort from Rossellini. MacLachlan and Dern seem almost insubstantial -- no doubt the very clear point that Lynch is trying to make.
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heapshake | 90 94% |
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This is one of those films that I feel like I've seen from reading and hearing so much about it along with all the pop culture references that popped up over the last 30 years. I at least thought I had a grasp on the basic plot. I was completely wrong.
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hellboy76 | 74 90% |
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Utterly fucking creepy. Lynch's best work. So many bizarre or frightening (or both) characters.
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Va3H | 96 82% |
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The master of film noir returns. David Lynch's surrealistic direction adds a subconscious layer lying beneath the perfunctory activities of suburbia. A perfect depiction, juxtaposing innocence of the 50s to the everyday depravity found in common life; utilizing over thematically in Mulholland Dr. Also, deadpan humor and subtle sexual innuendos echo the Freudian oedipal complex. And classic Hopper, as Frank Booth embodies the wanton aggression and drive as a self-expression of true masculinity.
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omgfridge | 10 97% |
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Creepy, bizarre, strange, keep throwing words along the same lines to describe this. I saw this after seeing a few other Lynch works so knew what sort of mood to be in and wasn't disappointed. Hopper also plays a great villain. Left unsettled, a tad amused and totally satisfied.
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Wezzo | 95 93% |
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A wonderful film on so many levels. It works perfectly as a straight-ahead mystery. It's believeable as a film noir pastiche. It's effective as a paean to an old-fashioned America that no longer exists (and perhaps never did); it's a meditation on the "bugs" that lurk within us all. It's a dark, dark musical; it's the devastating underbelly of a romantic comedy. It's one of the most disturbing horror films you'll ever see, and it's David Lynch's crowning glory.
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loc42 | 100 99% |
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This is the ulitmate psychoanalitic cinema structured like unconscious and dreams. Jeffrey's odyssey from childhood to adulthood starts when his father goes "mute" and "disfunctional" and he discovers a cut off ear which is covered by insects; symbolically the ear is a door between the "real" and the "symbolic" and contains erotic connotations. Dorothy is his "anima" in the sense that she guiides him from darkness of his unconscious to the light and clean "reality" of his adulthood.
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Kingjohnbbq | 48 8% |
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Most amazing part of this movie is Dennis hopper. Worst part of this movie is the rest of it.
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Paxton | 80 87% |
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This movie did for small town America what The Shining did for giant empty hotels.
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jeff_v | 98 99% |
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Spellbinding, funny, sinister and moving. It's a good film that can provide such a range of reactions, and a great film that intensifies those feelings on repeat viewings. It's about the transition from innocence to experience. Jeffrey's dad has a stroke at the beginning, leaving him without a father figure. In steps Frank Booth, the raging id, who wants to fuck mommy. The root scene in the film is where Jeffrey spies Frank and Dorothy perverted sexual ritual.
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Bown | 96 98% |
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The sexual suburban horror and ironic loveable naïveté blend perfectly. Hopper, MacLachlan, and Rossellini give some of the bravest performances I’ve ever seen, while as with all other Lynch flicks the cinematography and production design is GOAT.
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3dRevelation | 83 86% |
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Well this was quite a surprise. A Lynch film that is easily understood and has a happy ending (or does it?), I would have never guessed he had it in him. Hopper is the best thing here as the unhinged and perverted villain. The story is interesting, but nothing that really blew me away. Lynch does a good job in his direction.
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Marnie | 86 59% |
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Look!!! My ranking is the same as the year:) COOL BEANS...haha...that's not funny.
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deaddilly | 85 84% |
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On rewatch: Never realized how linear and clear this film was. Probably the best way to lure somebody into Lynch's house of nightmares, where his lucid drifting between dream worlds only comes in small peaks.
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GravyMaximus | 90 95% |
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David motherfucking Lynch.
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Derekstar | 30 12% |
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This is my 5th David Lynch film. I'm long done with saying "I don't get all the hype." I get it. I just don't like David Lynch. I disagree with every aesthetic choice he makes. His camerawork, sets, colour schemes, performances, scores, editing, and general sensibility repels and annoys me.
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jimmynmu | 97 98% |
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The atmosphere is quite an experience. Lynch created something really special with Blue Velvet.
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Boobjuice | 89 90% |
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Sort of like "The Godfather" for total freaks and weirdos---a classic. This film is deeply odd and sexual in the most uncomfortable of ways. As macabre now as it must've been in 1986, there has been nothing like it since.
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immolations | 90 91% |
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It's ugly, it makes you uneasy, parts of it are shocking yet you can't stop watching. It's an excellent presentation of voyeurism. Yet, it's somehow accessible. Dennis Hopper does a great job in creating a memorable character. The scene with Stockwell is one of my favorites.
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| 2 | anderton | 90 88% |
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FUCK THAT. LET'S DRINK TO MY FUCK.
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nobamba | 70 76% |
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Very stylistic/atmospheric but also got quite boring for a bit until the bad guy shows up and takes Kyle MacLachlan for a ride. I was drifting away from the movie up to that point. Then things got more exciting. Probably the most mainstream David Lynch except for the sex scenes. Fav scene: ending with hiding the closet and using the police radio. He sure was lucky the revolver was loaded.
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backwardsuit | 93 99% |
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Retrograde Americana as a Freudian coming of age fairy-tale. The tone can be hard to handle if you think about it too much since Lynch's absurd and surreal style seems to play with horrific psycho-drama, cheesy satire and sincere melodrama all at once. If you can just let go of these distinctions and sink into its boundless dreamlike world it's an exerience like no other in cinema.
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feublo | 85 73% |
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PBR > Heineken.
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I do think that Lynch's portrayal of small town Americana and the darkness that lurks within is done better both in Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive. Those works just feel a bit more subtle and earnest in their commentaries. Additionally, many of the scenes in Blue Velvet made me feel uncomfortable, in a certainly intentional but dubiously necessary way. Still, it's obviously a great film, teeming with excellent Lynchian imagery, and featuring a standout performance by Dennis Hopper.
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Noblet | 91 95% |
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Frank Booth is one of the scariest movie villains around, any scene that he's not in suffers as a result. Overall, the movie is very creepy and memorable.
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This is the most uncomfortable a movie has made me in a long time.
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DesertPunk | 92 98% |
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While Blue Velvet does a wonderful job of illustrating how evil can and does exist everywhere, even more importantly, it shows us that love and happiness has the same ubiquitous quality. Just as love isn't an emotion reserved for the perfect, hatred and evil aren't reserved for the broken. David Lynch continues his track record of astounding directoral vision to bring home one of the most satisfying and surreal experiences I've had in a while.
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peyrin | 95 99% |
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I know Lynch's soundscapes have been praised enough but I can't get over the shots in the apartment where you can't see the door but Lynch always remembers to include the door closing and opening. I also can't get over how hot shirtless Kyle MacLachlan is
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| 1 | JaredLs_Soul | 10 3% |
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I hate this movie. It is trying to hard to be something that it never actually becomes.
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beardobaldo | 30 6% |
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David Lynch is great for making high students feel intellectual.
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JonnyHalftab | 92 96% |
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Ben is one suave fucker. I think it's how he uses his eyes
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woodoo | 90 82% |
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"Play Frank? I am Frank." - Dennis Hopper
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Rufam | 70 57% |
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Watching "Blue Velvet" is a rather hypnotic experience. David Lynch is a talented director and he proves it several times during "Blue Velvet". The acting is fine and the soundtrack is excellent. However, something feels wrong. Lynch obviously wants to say something, but "Blue Velvet" is too symbolic and weird to have any true resonance. Somehow, it's not endearing enough to get us emotionally involved, and thus care for whatever message its creator tries to convey. Interesting watch, though.
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| 1 | reverse | 75 61% |
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I didn't expect to see this from David Lynch: Blue Velvet is surrealistic and and weird, but it's also coherent and watchable. Also, Dennis Hopper is awesome in this.
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| 1 | bratings | 91 82% |
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David Lynch's hauntingly surreal Blue Velvet is a dark, mysterious, and unforgettable film that turns the coming-of-age formula on its ear.
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| 1 | DavidThomson | 100 98% |
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What's a boy to do when it's 1'986 already and the fairy-tale world of Lumberton is so close to the most alarming horror film you were never allowed to see? With many other Lynch films before and since, it was not possible to explain the obscure inward action. But with Blue Velvet it was impossible not to try. And it emerged seemingly from nowhere, not just a vision, not just a materpiece, but as American as Casablanca (though less safe).
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rosenritter | 10 98% |
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Frank Booth makes for a more distressing manifestation of the inherent pathological chaos of our brains than anything Thomas Ligotti could conjure (not to denigrate a great writer or anything). Disturbingly, his sickness comes across as an expression of the same irrationality that enables us to love. It's a strange world alright, and no one knows this better than Lynch.
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Boxcars | 8 71% |
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Straightforward in story yet complexly layered thematically, "Blue Velvet" immerses and unnerves viewers with its ominous atmosphere, shocking imagery, and perplexing characters, played with notable intensity by Hopper and Rossellini.
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le mami | 90 95% |
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Hard to express how Lynch manages to keep these level of mystery. However it's easy to express how he keeps us our emotions and nerves under control.
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Calabria | 87 91% |
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The most coherent Lynch film, and by far the best.
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rttntomatoes | 92 80% |
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If audiences walk away from this subversive, surreal shocker not fully understanding the story, they might also walk away with a deeper perception of the potential of film storytelling.
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Proximity | 85 86% |
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eCitizen | 80 83% |
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A decidedly odd movie with a haunting story that resonates. My least favorite parts were anytime Dennis Hopper was on screen, his character did not feel genuine and he was mostly just creepy.
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friendo55 | 90 88% |
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Frank Booth is the most terrifying villain I've ever seen. What a creepy, chilling and disturbing performance by Dennis Hopper. Yikes. And yet somehow he also has some of the most hilarious lines - maybe it's that unpredictability factor that you just don't see it coming. Isabella Rossellini is also fantastic in a very controversial performance. With Mulholland Dr being one of my favourite films, I kinda knew what to expect, and I've been looking forward to seeing this. This did not disappoint.
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| 1 | Nepeta | 95 96% |
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Like some sort of huge power play with its audience. Making you think you're in control and then pointing out that you most definitely aren't. Making everything seem real one moment, with us completely safe, and then plunging us in to a dream or a nightmare - by the end we aren't sure which it is with the blending of reality and the almost euphoric usage of Mysteries of Love on the soundtrack making even normalcy seem dreamlike. Deeply voyeuristic. Isabella Rossellini is amazing here.
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anus | 80 77% |
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this is great Lynch. this is before Lynch jumped the shark and stop making MOVIES in favor of annoying video-collages who nobody in their right mind can honestly understand or enjoy. yes you heard me.
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The Pirate | 84 77% |
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Heineken isn't so good that it deserves the stare of nostalgia and longing that MacLachlan gives it, but neither is it so bad that it's necessary for Hopper to curse it so angrily.
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jenna | 85 45% |
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MacLachlan (and Dern, for that matter) is enough to make you want to kill yourself, but anything with Rossellini or Hopper is briliant, so this gets a double bonus. Despite MacLachlan's stupid, stone-carved "duh-uh" facial expression throughout.
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| 1 | hedphurst | 50 36% |
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I keep trying to like David Lynch films, but I just don't care for them. I appreciate parts of them, and Dennis Hopper is great as a severely disturbed and scary gangster in this movie, but overall, Lynch just doesn't do it for me.
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overrated | 97 99% |
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Release the helium cut.
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Nathan S | 4 74% |
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Strange and perverse and uncomfortable, yet this is the most straightforward of Lynch's surrealist canon (which is to exclude The Elephant Man, Dune, and The Straight Story). This is a film about the seedy underbelly of Reagan's suburbia and the Oedipal urges of a mad man, and it doesn't beat around the bush. It is so bald, so far outside the realm of ordinary, that to call it subversive would be inaccurate. That unabashed embrace is what makes it so funny, so shocking, and so irresistible.
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| 1 | Dustyd | 40 11% |
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An interesting failure that delivers a nice performance or two and a few good scenes, but it's also just trashy for the most part.
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| 1 | st_fly | 88 90% |
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Very Good
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td888 | 30 18% |
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Obviously David Lynch style is not for me. I assume this must have been a really impressive movie when it come out, but it just doesn't work for me. I don't get all the hubhub about it.
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| 1 | alexp_funk | 85 95% |
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dennis hopper at his craziest, which is pretty crazy
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martryn | 78 72% |
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I used to masturbate to this film during my impressionable years.
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Stain | 100 95% |
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Absolute classic from David Lynch. Sirkian visual style married to a nonstop freakshow of evil
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TedDedon | 95 94% |
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Blue Velvet is a wonderful movie that portrays a lot of bizarre occurances in small-town America. Though it's not perfect it is certainly a modern-day classic. It's a must-see for any film buff.
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| 1 | Keau | 32 13% |
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Seen it several times and still left feeling......... "what did I just watch?"
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Carpetgiant | 85 64% |
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Ultimately, "Blue Velvet" is the type of movie that goes in one ear and out the other.
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muutanet | 91 97% |
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A brilliant pre-Twin Peaks movie of a timber running town and it's dark side.
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TheDiceman | 70 82% |
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Lynch classic.
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pilgermann | 90 94% |
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I watched this for the first time almost 5 years ago and wasn't too impressed. During this time it kind of stuck with me and I've finally given it another chance, and I loved it. Perverse but compelling, and one of the frightening things about it is that it seems completely plausible in reality.
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jhmclellan | 10 0% |
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What a waste of Isabella Rossellini. I guess I just don't get "film noir".
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AgentSnipe | 80 67% |
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This is one strange and trippy movie. Such a unique and strange movie by David Lynch. The film is sexual and violent, but mostly surreal. Watch the film for the bizarre and psychotic performance by Dennis Hopper. Believe me, you won't forget it.
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Actionberg | 80 71% |
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I'll admit, I wasn't as enthusiastically captivated by this as most of the world seems to be, but that's not to say I didn't enjoy it. It's pretty much the best Hardy Boys story ever composed, twisted and mature, but still strangely wholesome in its own way. If anything, it's certainly unique. It's got plenty of the kind of stuff I love in a Lynch movie: baffling yet somehow appropriate elements.
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willofgaia | 98 95% |
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Heineken?! Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
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Magb | 85 73% |
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Blue Velvet is the least confusing of Lynch's most "Lynch-like" films (that being all of them, except The Elephant Man and The Straight Story and maybe Dune). MacLachlan and Laura Dern are good, but Dennis Hopper constantly steals the show. Very entertaining.
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ktappe | 32 11% |
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Utterly forgettable. Literally! A week after seeing it I was unable to recall how it ended, and still cannot to this day. I've never had this happen with any other film. I guess I just didn't care a whit about any of it.
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| 1 | Manhatta | 98 94% |
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Lynch really comes into his own with this film and it defines the next ten years of his career. The themes are later explored in Twin Peaks to a greater degree, but it's still very exciting here, and Frank Booth is more terrifying then any backwards talking little person.
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jmarkthespot | 95 98% |
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A beautiful and nightmarish film that only becomes more appreciated upon further viewings.
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NathanDarko | 92 87% |
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My most favorite voyeur movie ;-)
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Tds4a | 3 80% |
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Here's to Ben. HERE'S TO BEN.
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| 1 | Launch | 85 82% |
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Creepy and disturbing are the words that come to mind when I think of Blue Velvet. Dennis Hopper plays one of the sickest characters ever portrayed on screen.
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freqflyer | 85 83% |
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Creepy, weird, original. What else can I say?
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JohnSandwich | 85 90% |
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pretty damn great. dennis hopper is so good in this it's scary
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ABUNCHOFCATS | 89 81% |
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Wonderfully bizarre.
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Thoughtgraff | 100 97% |
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I think calling David Lynch's films psycho noir is a big mistake. Doing that muddies the water. Why is this an important film? I'll sum it up in one sentence: This film expresses the derangement of the primitive parts of our brains, as they try to deal with the modern world.
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andagh | 100 97% |
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Pabst.. Blue.. Ribbon!!!!
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TripleSH | 81 71% |
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Dennis Hopper just makes this film, regardless of whether you like/understand David Lynch or not. I can see where this film loses a lot of people, but these seem to be the sacrifices Lynch makes deliberately in his work.
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| 1 | ol66 | 83 90% |
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Chilling, unnerving and convincing all at the same time, this movie picks up the stone that is small-town America and peers at the creepy-crawlies which run around underneath it. This horror movie is carefully plotted and looks great. Probably Lynch's most accessible effort. Lynch also proves that a good director can get a performance out of anybody (Dennis Hopper is actually good in this, if you can believe that)
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KWray11 | 60 20% |
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I haven't seen one David Lynch movie that I like.
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INDYATMN | 81 61% |
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The film that convinced major studios to let Lynch indulge in weirdness for weirdness' sake, this is still watchable despite some arthouse pacing. He hasn't descended into total inscrutability yet: there's a coherent story here w/ identifiable themes about the darkness underneath the surface & how we're drawn to it. There are also visual & soundtrack flourishes that reference the past, so no wonder critics loved it. The weirdness, for once, also makes sense as its a result of nutjobs & junkies
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Zealot185 | 95 97% |
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Like other Lynch films, it's unsettling, daring, and surreal. The local radio show reminds us that this is set in Lumberton, the town of "wood", "logs logs logs!", so expect both explicit (as in RAPE) and subtle sexual imagery/undertones. I love that the ending is left open to interpretation. Did this whole mystery adventure really happen, or was everything between the two "ear shots" entirely Jeffrey's Oedipal fetishistic fantasy? Also, Dennis Hopper absolutely kills in his role.
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purgatos | 91 92% |
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The movie rules. Dennis Hopper is genuinely terrifying in the most incredible performance of a bunch of great ones. The way that the worlds of Frank and Jeffrey, that start off so disparate, end up merging together makes for a fantastic ride.
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| 1 | donezo | 100 98% |
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A brilliantly terrifying twist on the coming-of-age story. Hindsight makes it fun to see Lynch plant the seeds of his other small town epic, "Twin Peaks." Dennis Hopper creates of the most frightening film villains of all time. I can't ever hear Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" the same way again. This is Lynch's very best film.
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paulofilmo | 73 85% |
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still like a roidy vertigo, but i liked it more after my twin peaks initiation. those alan splet rumblings///
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andayb | 30 7% |
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this film is like the dinner your kooky friend prepares with her "own recipe". "is it good?", she asks, while you're desperately trying to hold it down, you say "it's great" with mouth half open. it's a shitty dish, served in a shitty plate, put on a shitty desk by a shitty friend. lynch would have been an academic footnote if hollywood hadn't decided to stop making films and become a hasbro subsidiary.
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Biedronski | 58 30% |
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Maybe I just didn't get it, but this movie was just alright to me. Dennis Hopper was awesome, but that's all I really got out of it. The beginning scene with the guy collapsing and the close ups of bugs underneath just completely threw me off. Unless I missed it I don't think any of that was referred to later. I wasn't totally sure what was going on in the end, and I really didn't get that much out of the movie. I was really hyped up by my friends and dad, maybe I just expected too much.
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| 1 | Teorema | 100 98% |
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Both beautiful and unnerving, with one of the most entertaining screenplays. Frank Booth is probably my favorite villain. To your fuck.
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Barnowl | 95 72% |
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Mommy
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