Blue Velvet (1986) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2025-02-02 20:52:18 +0000 UTC
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Man, now that you say it, this could have been made in the 50's by Sam Fuller
Smooticus
2025-02-04 11:19:56 +0000 UTCWhat a description! Such a great comment! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-02-04 05:41:41 +0000 UTCThis makes me so much more excited to check out more of his work! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-02-04 05:40:43 +0000 UTCOoh! Mystery! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-02-04 05:39:15 +0000 UTCOooh Sissy!! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-02-04 05:35:44 +0000 UTCLOL truth! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-02-04 05:35:25 +0000 UTCThank you! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-02-04 05:35:08 +0000 UTCSo glad we finally got to it! We’re excited to get to more Lynch! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-02-04 05:34:51 +0000 UTCWe definitely want to check these out! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-02-04 05:34:17 +0000 UTCIsabella Rossellini (Dorothy) and David Lynch fell in love while making this movie and were a couple for about 5 years. Blue Velvet was a major step for Lynch. His first film Eraserhead was very surreal and idiosyncratic but he followed that with the more conventional studio fares The Elephant Man and Dune. The latter film's failure pushed Lynch to smaller movies where he would have complete creative control. There's a clear progression in his work from Blue Velvet to Mulholland Drive then his final film Inland Empire where he progressively leaves plot behind in favour of mood. In a way circling back to his first film but with the added years of filmmaking experience. Lynch did make one last "normal" movie later in his career aptly named The Straight Story that his very good and heartfelt. It starred Richard Farnsworth (the nice sheriff in Misery) in an incredible performance with a supporting turn from Sissy Spacek. Twin Peaks is a must watch. It's all over the place in the best way and there's really no show quite like it. If you ever have a spot for it in your schedule, you have to react to it. Nothing against Desperate Housewives or Fallout, but that is MacLachlan's finest hour. PS: Ben and Frank listen and vibe to Roy Orbison's "In Dreams". In Mulholland Drive, Rebekah Del Rio sings a Spanish cover of Orbison's "Crying" in Club Silencio.
ED209
2025-02-04 03:43:57 +0000 UTCWith his Rickenbocker and real roots reggae! 😂
Marcus Cato
2025-02-03 21:42:57 +0000 UTCWhat I love most about Blue Velvet is that it feels like it could have been made in the 1950s
Jason Dolan
2025-02-03 19:36:00 +0000 UTCMacLachlan is also hilarious on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Twin Peaks is only 30 episodes (and a movie Fire Walk With Me) so you guys should do it!!!! Essential Kyle MacLachlan THE HIDDEN SHOWGIRLS DAVID LYNCH’S DUNE THE DOORS CONFESS, FLETCH
Jason Dolan
2025-02-03 19:33:10 +0000 UTCDavid Lynch was a true artist, and he goes with his artistic instincts whether they make sense to an audience or not. If you watch more of his movies, it might help to not try to figure them out as they go. He cares more about mood and feeling as opposed to connecting the dots of a plot. He wants people to feel something deeply that doesn't require a rational explanation. One thing about his villains. There are charming and intelligent villains in movies and TV that we actually like. David Lynch's villains are all id. They are not really people. They are impulses, they are instincts. They are not malevolent people, they ARE malevolence. You can't reason with evil. My personal favorite Lynch is the first season of Twin Peaks. There ain't nothing like it. But if you do another movie, The Straight Story is a nice opposite to Blue Velvet. It's rated G!
Ellie Miller
2025-02-03 08:25:12 +0000 UTCThis is definitely on the list of 'Top 10 Movies You Would Never Want to Watch With Your Parents'. I talk about seeing movies like this with my parents all the time, but I never want to watch certain things with them. If I mention Blue Velvet, they'd probably say something like "...really? You liked... that?" 🤣 I don't know why, but I always forget that the guy chasing them near the end of the movie is Mike. Every single time. I hope you guys bite the bullet and watch Twin Peaks one of these days, but I'm betting your watch list is getting massive.
Brandon
2025-02-03 07:59:54 +0000 UTCThat's funny I always see Kyle MacLachlan as the mayor in Portlandia.
Joe D. MacGuffinstuff
2025-02-03 04:32:06 +0000 UTCFor me Dennis Hopper is one of the Best Villians of All Time ... His Performances in this one and Speed are Outstanding !!! You watched already three good ones of him (Speed, True Romance and now Blue Velvet) ... I would recommend Easy Rider with Jack Nicholson (1969) and Hoosiers(1986) with Gene Hackman For more Dennis Hopper !! Fore more Lynch "Eraserhead" and "Fire Walk With Me" (But you must watch Season 1 and Season 2 from the Hit Series "Twin Peaks" for understanding Fire Walk with Me)
Florian Meier
2025-02-03 04:14:29 +0000 UTCHere are some quotes from David Lynch that I think will help quite a bit as you get further into his filmography. "It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else. In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone. But what's so fantastic is to get down into areas where things are abstract and where things are felt, or understood in an intuitive way that, you can't, you know, put a microphone to somebody at the theatre and say 'Did you understand that?' but they come out with a strange, fantastic feeling and they can carry that, and it opens some little door or something that's magical and that's the power that film has. I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. I think the American public is so surreal, and they understand surrealism. The idea that they don't is so absurd. It's just that they've been told that they don't understand. You go anywhere and old-timers will tell you very surreal stories with strange humor. And everyone has a friend who is totally surreal. This is something I see everywhere -- I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places -- I mean, they're all out there." Ultimately, I think Lynch knew what he wanted to express, and he viewed it as being his job as the artist to express that in the way that made sense for him, and then what was interesting to him was how the viewer interpreted it. And this makes perfect sense too: if you made something, assuming you have no ego about whether or not you were understood, it would be infinitely more interesting to hear what feelings or thoughts it inspired in other people than to just find out whether or not they could parrot your own ideas back to you. For me, the thesis of Blue Velvet is expressed pretty directly. Why are there people like Frank? Lumberton is picturesque, but Lynch's camera zooms in to the dark areas underneath the surface and finds those creepy bugs. Later, when Jeffrey is given the chance to walk away, he can't: he's uncovered a bug beneath the surface of Lumberton in Frank. At the end, when Frank is dead, the robins that Sandy says will fill the world with love has picked up one of those bugs and is presumably going to kill it, like Frank has been killed. What's more important, and what I find Lynch is so good at, is the way the viewer is lured into these mundane but dark spaces, like a seedy apartment or a random house with a clown doll in it, where bad things are happening. It should be depressing, and it is often very dark, but I also always feel like I can sense his hope that the evil, the Franks of the world, can also be defeated.
Tyler Foster
2025-02-03 04:06:02 +0000 UTCThe look of bewildered fascination on Sam's face for most of this movie is terrific
Smooticus
2025-02-03 02:32:31 +0000 UTCIt was a pleasure to watch this again with you guys, and it’s been long enough that I had forgotten some of the details. Lynch has always had a magic touch for taking viewers into a realm that’s a mixture of fantasy and dread. He juxtaposed darkest evil with sentimental sweetness like no one before him. I think Frank Booth is one of the quintessential villains of cinema. And likewise, Ben singing into the shop light is an indelible image. In those few short minutes of screen time Dean Stockwell created an icon. And yes, the animatronic robin was intentional — another level of questionable reality.
David Wilkins
2025-02-03 02:30:03 +0000 UTCTrivia flash: Isabella Rossallini is the daughter of Ingrid Bergman, who was Ilsa in Casablanca
Smooticus
2025-02-03 02:20:14 +0000 UTCSome years ago, Blue Velvet was on Quentin Tarantino's top 10 film list. Please, PLEASE, watch Twin Peaks some day. TV was changed by it and it's really great.
PIG
2025-02-03 02:19:10 +0000 UTCI can't tell you how many times my friends and I crashed a party and it turned out to be something lame and weird like the one Dennis Hopper drags Kyle MacClachlin to. Except those didn't have anything cool happen like Dean Stockwell lipsyncing into a light bulb to Roy Orbison
Smooticus
2025-02-03 02:03:18 +0000 UTCThe Criterion bluray features a large selection of deleted scenes, some of which were cut because Lynch was contractually obligated to deliver the movie at under two hours. It has a different introduction for Jeffrey in which he's first seen observing a date rape in his dorm basement from the shadows for an uncomfortable amount of time. He only intervenes after someone calls his name from upstairs to let him know he has a call from home (the call about his father). A young Megan Mullally makes a brief appearance in the deleted footage as Jeffrey's college girlfriend.
Brad P
2025-02-03 01:12:55 +0000 UTCI don't think anybody juxtaposes the mundane with the bizarre better than David Lynch did. I love the idea of peeling back the layers of a Norman Rockwell America to reveal a corrupt underbelly. Great film.
James Rogers
2025-02-03 00:30:14 +0000 UTCIt feels like Lynch's filmmaking career really snapped into focus with this movie. The roots of everything that he would go onto explore in his subsequent films and Twin Peaks can be felt here. Lynch evokes the feeling of being trapped in a nightmare better than any other filmmaker, and he gets at the sense that there is an evil lurking right under the surface of the normality we see every day, as well as a potential darkness lurking within ourselves. It's the sound design that really freaks me out with Lynch's movies, it gets right under the skin and wraps around my nerves. You should watch all of his films; I'm particularly fond of The Straight Story, which might seem like the odd duck of his filmography but it shows how sincere and invested he was in his depiction of his characters' humanity. It really feels like one of the lights went out when Lynch died, there was nobody like him.
Henry Graham
2025-02-02 23:16:51 +0000 UTCAnother great Lynch mystery/thriller is 'Lost Highway'. I like it more than Blue Velvet tbh
Odd Thomas
2025-02-02 23:14:58 +0000 UTCHeineken !?! F**k that s**t! Pabst! Blue ! Ribbon !
Samolina Pilchard
2025-02-02 22:21:45 +0000 UTCGot my Tucher Nürnberger Rotbier,mmm
Will Zamora
2025-02-02 22:01:40 +0000 UTCI got my Heineken ready
f hf
2025-02-02 21:50:51 +0000 UTCWith this being your third Lynch film, it might be time to hit the reset button and see The Straight Story before venturing back into his more esoteric material. It's so life-affirming and charming, plus you get Sissy Spacek in a supporting role!
Paul Cox
2025-02-02 21:44:48 +0000 UTCWhen a movie starts with an ear in a field, it's gonna be good...and fucked up.
Steve Mercier
2025-02-02 21:40:03 +0000 UTCAnd the Missing Pieces
Kevin Charley
2025-02-02 21:15:57 +0000 UTCTwin Peaks! The two series, then the movie, then the third series.
Odd Thomas
2025-02-02 21:08:49 +0000 UTCAwesome! Tried to get you guys to watch this with the lottery for a while 'til I switched to Eraserhead. I hope you continue with the Lynch journey because he's really beyond what anybody else in the US ever did despite them getting way more attention... it's not even really close.
Jimmie V
2025-02-02 21:03:57 +0000 UTCBeen so excited to rewatch this with you guys!! My favorite Lynch movie!!! Hope you guys will sometime get to check out some of his other stuff like the original Dune and Twin Peaks! :)
Brent
2025-02-02 21:01:01 +0000 UTCMe too!!! :D
Brent
2025-02-02 20:57:22 +0000 UTCmy favorite david lynch
Felix
2025-02-02 20:53:39 +0000 UTC
