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Joe Wright recommended Blue Velvet (1986) in Movies (curated)

 
Blue Velvet (1986)
Blue Velvet (1986)
1986 | Drama, Mystery
8.9 (7 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"What year was Blue Velvet? It was ’86, wasn’t it? So I was 15 when it came out and my parents were away for the summer, and they’d left me in the house alone. I got hold of a VHS copy of Blue Velvet, and I started watching it, and I couldn’t stop, and I got to the end of it, and rewound it, and played it again and again, 16 times over. And I watched it at least twice a day, every day, for that entire summer. You can see perhaps why obsessive behavior scares me. And it just blew my mind. I knew that cinema could be poetic, but I never had before understood that it could be poetic in that way, in such a raw and visceral way. And again, scared the living crap out of me. So there seems to be a theme running through here."

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David McK (3562 KP) rated Dragonheart (1996) in Movies

Feb 28, 2021  
Dragonheart (1996)
Dragonheart (1996)
1996 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
6
6.7 (15 Ratings)
Movie Rating
I've just spotted the release year of this film (1996).

I feel old.

I actually remember going to see this in the cinema when it first came out, and remember the buzz over the Special Effects created for the dragon (voiced by Sean Connery) in the wake of Jurassic Park: if I remember right, I think it may even have got an Academy nomination for the same.

Anyway, this is light family fantasy fare, with Connery (as previously mentioned) voicing the last Dragon alive, and with Dennis Quaid portraying a disillusioned knight who has vowed to wipe out all dragons, blaming the same for corrupting (or so he initially thinks) the son of a tyrant who grew up to be a tyrant himself (as portrayed by David Thewlis).

Also starring a - very young, pre Starship Troopers - Dina Meyers and Pete Postlethwaite, this is an enjoyable enough romp if nothing special!