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Summary: the best in suspense
Review: Obviously, such films are not for everyone. With Lynch, either you love it or you hate. I belong to the former. The best thing about the movie is that you can actually say 'it has NO plot' while still calling it a great film. I think anyone who thinks they understood the film is kidding themselves, and nobody (probably not even Lynch) knows what happened on 'that night'.
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Summary: A masterpiece of the 90's
Review: This film is an IQ test. If you don't get it, you are doomed
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY the BEST movie I have EVER seen!
Review: Obviously as seen, David Lynch isn't for everybody. I remember on January 27, 1997 when I took my dad to see "In Love and War" for his birthday, I saw a preview for "Lost Highway." It didn't have any speaking or any pictures, but it had Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette and David Lynch's name flash across the screen while playing David Bowie's "Deranged." Even though I really didn't know a thing about it, I had to see it. It opened on February 28, but it took me until March 14 ('97) to get to the theater. I'm 17 now, so I was 15 when I saw it, and previously I had never seen a David Lynch film, nor even heard of him. After I saw it,I really wasn't confused, I just took it for what it was. But the Monday I went back to school and recapped the story, I scared the hell out of myself as well as them. It took me 45 minutes just to try and recount the plot points. I was so intrigued by this movie --unlike any I've ever seen before. So I went back and watched all of Lynch's other movies. The man is a genius. I have not disliked any of his movies --I even found "Dune" to be somewhat entertaining. "Lost Highway" has become my favorite film and also the best film I've ever seen. Sure the story's weird and out there, but if you don't strain yourself trying to figure it out, the answers will come easily, albeit not all of them WILL be answered --they're not meant to. Bill Pullman suspects that his wife (a brunette) Patricia Arquette is having an affair. They begin to receive mysterious videos, first of just their house, then of them sleeping. They're both freaked. So are we! Robert Blake shows up as a Mystery Man (he's unexplained, a figment of Pullman's imagination maybe?!) and before we know it, Arquette is murdered. We never do find out who really did it, but Pullman is convicted and sent to deathrow. While there, he metamorphises into Balthazar Getty, a mechanic. The whole thing is that he really doesn't change --this is all hppening in his imagination. In his head he makes himself a young irresistible hunk with an awesome and gorgeous girlfriend (Natasha Gregson-Wagner). But even in his mind, the world is destroyed upon the presence of the figure of his wife. Arquette now appears again, but now blonde. She's the girlfriend of gangster Robert Loggia, but Balthazar has an affair with her, and again his world goes topsy-turvey. There may be no real explaination to the film, Lynch doesn't want it that way, and I understand his reasons. If you knew all the answers to a mystery, it would cease to be a mystery. Movies should make us think, and in reality, we DON'T always find the answers. The symbolism is great, as is the acting, direction, writing, cinematography, editing, et al, and of course picture! 'Nuff said! P.S. Widescreen edition is best, Lynch makes adept usage of the camera, and you have to see it more than once. I think I'm up to 37! (maybe more).
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Summary: Spooky Sh-t
Review: Just like the guard says in the movie "this is some spooky sh-t we got here". The movie's a bit goof ball for my liking. Circular and inside out. The end begins where the beginning ended. Like wow man, pretty cool for those who like movies that make no sense. Lynch fans like this because its a Lynch movie. Put someones else's name on the credits - down the tubes, down the street and into the swamp for this movie.
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Summary: By far the worst film I have ever seen.....
Review: While Lynch fans (who are these people???) will lap this film up, I was alternately bored, humiliated, riled, and depressed. Nothing, and I mean nothing, makes sense and before some pretentious wiseguy tries to tell me about postmodern nihilism or anti-narrative otherness, let me say that while film can be an instructive tool, it must also be entertaining and I can't imagine who would want to curl up with this waste of time at any point in their day. I would describe plot elements, but they would be irrelevant. Proceed at your own risk.
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Summary: Looser flick
Review: It s good movie from a weirdo's point out of view. Try to get into the guy's head if you can put up with the dumb story line. If you can get into Fred's head it might work. It didn't work for me because I didn't care about Fred and maybe thats why I didn't care for the flick. I think the director should have had a little more of the background on Fred at the beginning and it could have worked. But I think anybody who walked into the theatre 30 minutes after it started and then walked out 30 minutes before it ended probably know more about the ending than those who watched it over and over again. Who'd want to do that. The movie is more for first year theatre students that like to read Karl Marx in Bagel cafes three blocks away from university cafes and use four letter words in front of the waitress while railing against corporate America. Geez - bring on Michael Moore, at least he's up front about it.
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Summary: Yeah - Stupid - I agree
Review: I have to say there really is some balance in these reviews and I have to agree with both sides of the argument. But in the end I think I agree with the guy from New Zealand. This movie is a tad strange and maybe a bit off-the-wall by its exploration of split personality and the whole Lynch thing about "life imitating art". I truly think Blue Velvet and Fire Walk are not only his greatest movies but are great movies within the whole industry. Too bad Fire Walk didn't get the reviews Blue Velvet did. I don't think Lost Highway will be remembered at all personally speaking, nor do I think it'll get the "cult status" of Dune and Eraserhead. I do think Elephant Man needs to be re-released. Luved that but I was so so on Highway. And by saying this I don't think anyone should say "Oh he just doesn't understand David Lynch" - that's just too arrogant. I luv Lynch - I didn't like Highway - Sorry. Too weird - too stupid - too long. I hope his new TV series makes it like Peaks did. Remember Jack N.
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Summary: A FUTURE CULT CLASSIC!
Review: Man suspects wife of cheating on him. Man bumps in to creepy guy at party. Man kills wife, but can't remember it. Man transforms into another man. If this sounds baffling, be warned: it's only half the plot! Fans of David Lynch will love it, as will anybody who enjoys film noir, kinky sex, mystifying mystery or visual and aural decadence.
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Summary: excellent
Review: this movie is fantastic. its bitter confusion and utter madness secure its role as an amazing theatrical accomplishment. the people giving this movie negative reviews cannot deny that they were fastened to their seats for its duration trying desperatly to make sense of its terrifying and intriguing nature. This movie sucks you in, envelops you beckons you to search your own depths for answers. because the plot was not pretty, clear and obvious makes this movie great. its what modern cinama needs. hollywood has been putting out some pretty crappy movies latly lynch should be praised for giving movie lovers a breath of fresh air. the lost highway explicitly defies the beaten path of mainstream cinema. i for one cannot wait for another lynch title.
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Summary: More Lynch magic....
Review: This is VINTAGE David Lynch, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me an Lost Highway must be the two most under-rated films of the 90's, they are both true masterpieces of sound design, cinematography, complex plotting and surrealism.I can perfectly understand people like Nick Palliser not liking this movie, but why they would come to this page simply to leave a narrow-minded, negative review is beyond me. Just because you have not the intelligence to understand the films of David Lynch, doesn't mean you have to try and discourage other people from discovering it.
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