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Blue Velvet

After reading the synopsis and realizing that there’s a severed ear involved, I was pretty spooked and apprehensive about this movie. Especially since I watched Mulholland Drive and there was that spooky jumpscare at the very beginning. But very glad to see a very young Kyle Mclaughlin in a cute lil silver hoop playing detective.

Like Mulholland Drive, I mostly enjoyed the colors, and soundscape of the movie. The atmosphere felt so tense and loaded. I also don’t know very much about the mystery or noir genre, they honestly never really appealed to me. “Like oooh who could have done this?” I don’t know!!! Not my problem…! And noir only appeals to me in the aesthetic sense of having a hot femme fatale, and things taking place at night time, hopefully with cool reflective neon bright colors. I’d say Blue Velvet delivered on most of that which is why I’m ultimately glad I watched it.

Blue Streak (1999)

I watched this movie because a coworker referenced a joke about how to break open a safe. Granted, I was playing Balatro while watching this so I totally missed the joke.

But I don’t think it matters, I had fun watching it. Martin Lawrence’s “Believe that” reminded me a lot of Naruto’s “Believe it!” …………

I found myself bopping my head to the music and honestly laughing at a buncha the jokes just because they were so earnestly slapstick. Honestly felt very nostalgic. Although this was overall a really random watch, I’m glad I did.