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A dark and stunning masterpiece on a good DVD
Love it or despise it, director David Lynch's 1986 trip into the dark side "Blue Velvet" is one of those films that's hard to get out of your system. Clean-cut Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) returns to his home of small-town Lumberton to visit his hospitalized father. While traveling to and from the hospital, he discovers a severed ear in a empty field. From there, he starts looking into the seedy side of a world he thought he knew and discovers many unusual and terrifying characters, such as a mentally destroyed singer (Isabella Rossellini) and a sadistic, drug-sniffing madman (Dennis Hopper). Unlike Lynch's latter movies (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive), the use of dreamlike imagery doesn't drown out the basic story, but amplifies the drama. Boasting terrific performances from the main cast, including Laura Dern and Dean Stockwell, this one of Lynch's best movies ever and among his most polarizing. This release of "Blue Velvet" includes a terrific 70-minute documentary featuring interviews with the cast, which reveals surprising details about the making of the film (such as Dennis Hopper's "non"-audition, Isabella Rossellini's actual singing ability) and details about director Lynch (this movie comes from the mind of a Eagle Scout?). There is also a montage of deleted scenes (in this case, scenes pieced together with photos taken, due to the fact that the actual scenes are currently missing) and a quick clip of the movie being reviewed by "Siskel and Ebert" (a surprising little bonus), and a photo gallery. Being one of the great films of the 1980's, and among one of the most shocking of it's time, "Blue Velvet" is definitely a unforgettable trip into the dark underbelly under the white picket fences covering the house of your dreams.

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Blue Velvet, the best film of the 80's
In what one could regard now as a precursor to TWIN PEAKS, David Lynch explores his primary fascination, the possibly seedy under-belly that may or may not exist in Middle America.

Jeffrey(Kyle Maclachlan) lives in an idealic small town. It's picturesque, everybody knows everybody, and the doors are left unlocked at night. However, evil is lurking. Jeffrey discovers this one day as he walks through a remote field, he finds a human ear. Jeff takes the ear to a local Police Detective, who thanks him and then asks him to stay away from the case. But Jeff, with the Hardy Boy inside getting the better of him, does no such thing, and with the help of the Detective's Daughter(Laura Dern) he decides to investigate. His snooping eventually leads him to a mysterious and seemingly disturbed night club singer, Dorothy(Isabella Rossellini), who Jeffrey is uncontrollably intruiged by and attracted to. In fact, it is only when Jeffrey meets Dorothy's derranged tormentor Frank Booth(Dennis Hopper at his twisted best) that he starts to realize that he just might be in way over his head.

Bizarre, captivating, hypnotic, and haunting. You've heard these words describe BLUE VELVET before. But that's because these descriptions are very accurate. This is David Lynch's brilliant painted portrait of what might lie beneath. It's violent, it's comedic at times, it's disturbing at others. It's a film that Lynch fans will love, and that non-Lynch fans will find pointless and boring.

But then again, that's true of all of Lynch's work. His films are definately an acquirred taste. Here's the best way to describe it. All the mystery aside, it's about a young man who loses his innocence on his way to adulthood. That's BLUE VELVET in a nutshell. In way it's one of Lynch's most straight forward stories(THE STRAIGHT STORY being an exception).

So to all Lynch fans to have yet to see BLUE VELVET for themselves, log off your computers, run to your nearest Blockbuster, check out this masterpiece, and be prepared to pay some major late fees. Because this is one film you will want to experience over and over again.

Thanks for reading my review.

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Much Less Than its Rep
Weird, dully acted, occasionally gross and sometimes unintentionally funny. Lynch desperately wants to have his cake and eat it too by being so uncool that he's cool. Lynch cannot just tell, he has to show. All the time. Like the weird kid in 3rd grade who always brought something unsettling to show-and-tell and the kids told their parents and the parents complained and the teacher had to talk to his parents about his not bringing anything else. The weirdos Lynch populates his underworld with are hilariously overacted by actors who obviously don't know what the heck is going on and probably think Lynch is full of it. Dennis Hopper is hysterical. He basically didn't change his act a bit from Apocalypse Now and, of course, the critics and fans raved about how "brilliant" ansd "electrifying" his performance was. After Blue Velvet, I imagine Hopper got down on his knees every night and thanked God for giving most people short memories and short attention spans.