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Lost Highway

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Entertaining Enigma
Review: This movie was so good and thought-provoking that I watched it twice in one night, and I plan to watch it again.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Lost Highway
Review: For Lynch fans, this is unbelievable! Contrary to what some reviews indicate, there is a plot (only it's not quite the plot the film critics have written about... if they were able to follow the plot they apparently could not bring themselves to write about it).

It's dark & scary! Of all of the Lynch films this left me in the darkest place.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the man's a genius...
Review: ...but he has his bad days. I think this film, much like Wild at Heart and Twin Peaks has many flaws, most of which are just annoying and superficial. But beneath this minuia, Lost Highway is one hell of a cocktail-- Lynch is not one of the greats-- he is the greatest filmaker working today-- perhaps ever. How can people not see the similarities between this film and Eraserhead-- it is these two films that need to be examined together. And then to go out and make a film like the Straight Story-- just amazing. Hero worship? I'm not ashamed.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Insensatez
Review: What starts out as a jazz musician and his wife being sent perverted video copies of them and their house turns into husband murders wife and is sent to prison but transforms into an auto mechanic. The story then follows the auto mechanic as he falls for gangster's girlfriend and they struggle to get away from him when he finds out. Manages to shock and entertain throughout most of the movie without too many difficulties but falls completely apart from the murdering/robbing Andy scene to the end. Given imperfections, this movie is still spellbinding.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER!
Review: This movie rocks! It was violence, nudity, and is the most messed up thing I have ever viewed! This is one of Bill Pullman's best offerings and Marylin Manson's role as a porn star is inspiring.At least rent this movie, it's worth a watch.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Back to Form.
Review: I'll admit it took me 2 and half screening of this one for me to actually get it. At first I thought it was just a mood piece, but actually there is a Plot and a coherent narrative, it's just not readily apparent.

This may be Lynch's most literary work and absolutely reaches back to Eraserhead and Elephant Man for it's approach, but if you could get into the head of Eraserhead, Naked Lunch, or Videodrome, and make sense of the stories then this one is only slightly more chalenging.

The film doesn't exactly play fair in many respects, but then again we don't really want Lynch to anyway, and it never really tells you that this is not an objective narrative. Figuring out what Lynch is doing and what is being said is difficult and Dave really makes you work for those nuggets, but thats the fun here.

Again, not a film for everybody but, if you can handle very subjective cinema, then you've got a chance.

Long live the fighters!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Movie
Review: "The Lost Highway" is by far one of the best movies I have seen. Bill Pullman is cool in this movie, and Patricia Arquette well she is self explanatory. I haven't quite understood why nobody likes this movie because me and my friend thinks it is one of the best movies we've seen in a long time. I find this movie very hillarious, especially the tailgating seen, me and my friend was rolling on the floor after that. Not only is Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette great in this movie, but there are other actors such as Henry Rollins, and Richard Pryor that make this movie even better. In my opinion David Lynch did a great job in directing this video, his best work yet! I recommend this video for anyone who likes sick humor and a great suspense.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Lynch lynched himself with LOST HIGHWAY
Review: David Lynch is a very skillful director. His use of the moving camera, special effects and use of filters is worthy of Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick. This movie uses all of these skills and really gives us a haunting look at Lynch's vision. The main problem with this movie, however, is the plot. There is none. The film only makes some sense on a subconscious and very ideological level. It barely does that. Unlike Blue Velvet, which was at least a story of coming of age and lost innocence, this movie has no point. Blue Velvet at least made the comparison between the dark world of Rossellini and the pure, sheltered and dull life of Sandie. Lost Highway attempts to deal with Pullman's obsession with his cheating wife. We never really feel that he is that bothered by it. Even as the mechanic, he still says nothing about her. He does not have an opinion on this new woman. This whole film is a character study. Yet the only thing we know about Pullman is that he lives in a synthetic house with a plastic-like wife and sweats a lot. We never get into the emotions or character of the main players. If the movie is going to be this abstract, it needs to deal with an emotion or human predicament; Lost Highway deals with fancy camera angles and Arquette's naked body. It is a Remaking of Blue Velvet with more sex and violence. All of the moments in the end up to nothing. They are just like most of Lynch's work, totally empty.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Uninspired
Review: I lost faith in a great director as a result of watching this film. It is Lynch's worst film, second only to Dune, and that says a lot. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is a beautiful, terrifying, harrowing, emotional and brilliant film, and like Blue Velvet, shows what Lynch is capable of at his absolute best. Lost Highway looks like a really really long Marillyn Manson clip, unenthusiastically directed by a dirty old man. A shocking cast, lead by the consistantly dreadful Bill Pullman, go through the paces, bringing not even a hint of the magic Lynch's previous casts have created, to the screen. I'm convinced Bill Pullman was cast in Independance Day to make the aliens look real. He is as wooden and irritating as ever in this one. Patricia Arquette speaks like a spastic hooker, and Getty is really the only thing worth even a glimpse (and just a glimpse!). There is the usual vivid imagery and nastiness all Lynch fans will love, but in the end it looks like a bad take off of Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet. You've seen all of this before only better. Fantastic soundtrack however!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Uninspired.
Review: This is David Lynch's most uninspired film, and his worst, second only to Dune, and that's saying a lot. Bill Pullman and Patricia arquette are the worst casting choices, especially coming from a man who I think has assembled some of the most interesting casts ever. I'm convinced that Bill Pullman was cast in Independance Day just to make the aliens look real, next to his wooden and superficial performance. Fire Walk with me was brilliant, emotional, terrifying, heartbreaking. Lost Highway looks to me like the wet dream of a disinterested, but dirty old man. I really lost faith in a great director as a result of watching this film. He has misfired before, sure enough (Wild at Heart, Dune), but at least those disasters showed glimpses of pure genius. Lost highway looks like a REALLLY long Marillyn Manson clip, without even the substance Manson has. Soundtrack is great though.


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