Siskel and Ebert review BLUE VELVET

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Old_Zircon

- 2017-06-18

When Ebert was wrong he sure committed to it.

Old_Zircon - 2017-06-18

Although he liked Reanimator a lot more than Blue Velvet, so he got that right at least.

BHWW

- 2017-06-18

Ebert basically went nuts over "Blue Velvet" and became a reliable "thumbs down" for Lynch - so much so that Lynch ran an ad for Lost Highway that said "Two Thumbs Down--Two More Reasons to See Lost Highway".

Then Mullholland Drive makes it's way into theaters and suddenly Ebert decides there's some merit to Lynch's work after all. What made the difference: Mulholland Drive's lesbian sex scene, which was one of Ebert's "critical" preoccupations. Of the many stupefying, dumb statements in his review was the line "The way you know the movie is over is that it ends."

Bort

- 2017-06-18

"The way you know the movie is over is that it ends."

I'm not sure that's as dumb as you're making it out to be; his point is that "Mulholland Drive" doesn't have a coherent story to tell, and as such it can't stop at the completion of the story, so it just stops at whatever arbitrary point David Lynch stops it at. I've never seen "Mulholland Drive" so I can't say whether Ebert is right or not, but I can get what he's saying.

I did see "Mulholland Falls" and I got to see Jennifer Connelly's boobs, so that's something.

Two Jar Slave - 2017-06-19

I have seen it, and he was right.

Old_Zircon - 2017-06-19

Mulholland Drive is kind of a mess, it really, REALLY shows its roots as a rejected pilot that was hastily reworked for theaters.

In my opinion anyway. It was the last David Lynch movie I bothered to see (unless The straight Story came out later, I honestly wish Lynch would do more conventional narratives like Straight Story and Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man, he's much better at them).

Old_Zircon - 2017-06-19

I also saw Mullholland Falls for the same reason Bort did and it delivered.

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