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Summary: David Lynch, grow up!
Review: Loved Blue Velvet, hated Lost Highway. What a disappointment. It had a great cast which was largely wasted on David Lynch's personal apprehensions and fetishes. Like Scorsese and Kubrick, Lynch is a painterly director, and has always had great visual and aural sensibilities. But here he is indulging in some sort of dopey Betty Page noir fantasy, where women, in the 90s, wear high heels with their bathrobes, and basically have no personality. The dialogue was awful. I knew it was bad when I was more interested in the color of nail polish Patricia Arquette was wearing than in what she was saying. David Lynch has taken German expressionist angst, kept the anger part for its sensationalist value, and lowered the whole gestalt of German expressionism to suit his own more shallow, banal vision. He has a tiresome need to indulge in some part of his adolescence, from which he, apparently, can not get unstuck.
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Summary: You'll never understand it, and that's what makes it great
Review: You'll never "get" Lost Highway, but you'll think you've come close... like there's just one or two agonizing details that would explain everything if you could only figure them out. In other words, it's baffling enough to remain a fun brain-teaser, but not so incomprehensible that you're going to just give up on it.Lost Highway is a movie you'll want to see over and over again. It is a bit depressing and disturbing... not necessarily due to its content, but just because it's a bit unsettling to think that there is such a wonderfully twisted mind as that of David Lynch.
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Summary: An intriguing look at the future of horror/sci fi noir films
Review: This films takes an in depth look at the inner workings of the mind and how guilt, physical pleasure, envy, and trust can affect it. David Lynch has again done an incredible job at explaining his own thoughts and feelings on these subjects. It's a true classic and masterpiece of the modern film industry.
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Summary: Outstanding, eerie, don't expect to get it right away.
Review: This is the first movie that I can categorically call a work of art. No other movie has so many different sides, twists, and turns that it can be interpreted differently each time you watch it. It's so hard to follow that I felt as useless as I did in a snooty poetry class while trying to decipher a meaning of a poem. This 'reads' like a difficult book. I believe, however, that if you 'read' it enough times, you will get it. That is how I know it is a work of art. Much like the Mona Lisa and other perspective art, this film is different every time you look at it. One minute, it is trivial, and the next....
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Summary: One of the greatest...
Review: Confusing? Yes. Sensual? Yes. Easy to understand? No. But, Lost Highway is STILL worthwhile to see. Understand madness and the frustration of the mind's fugue state.
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Summary: Frustrating and Intriguing at the same time.
Review: I'm a big David Lynch fan, and this movie frustrated the hell out of me, UNTIL I found out what it really was about. Nothing seems to make any sense, and you rack your brain trying to figure out what everything means. You want to make everything fit together and form a complete picture, but that won't ever happen. (Actually read what Lynch was trying to do with this movie in an interview with him, let me know if you want to know what he said about it.)
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Summary: Finally, a movie that really makes you think.
Review: American audiences are so used to being spoon-fed the same crap in movies that movies like Lost Highway are rejected by audiences because they don't have a plot that a second-grader could understand. Yes, the plot in Lost Highway is very difficult to follow, no matter how smart you are. You'll definitely have to watch it several times to catch all the intricacies. Some problems with it.. the first hour of the film was horrendously boring. David Lynch could have easily shortened the film by 30-40 minutes if he cut out all the scenes with Pullman staring blankly into nothing. I was grateful for all the sex and nudity, too. Finally a director has the guts to make a movie with *gasp* promiscuous sex in it. Don't let my glowing review fool you, though. Chances are you probably won't like this movie. Oh, well.
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Summary: IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE SCENCE
Review: Maybe the point of this movie was to confuse, and maybe that wasn't the point, but none the less it confused the hell out of me. The style of the film was pretty decent and it was intriguing, but I couldn't make any scence of the plot. It there doesn't have to be a plot that makes scence for you to enjoy a movie and you are happy with style, you might want to check this movie out. But be forwarned : This is a very bizare and disturbing film!
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Summary: An absolute waste of film, money, and talent
Review: Lost Highway is certainly one of the strangest movies I have ever seen. Until the last moment, I was somewhat intrigued by the incomprehensible story, waiting for answers. It was extremely difficult to stand the many unpleasant and disgusting scenes of the movie, yet I was hoping that at least it was all for a purpose. However, when I discovered that all of this was only for its own sake and could never be explained by anything other than "life itself" (probable meaning of the title), I could find no excuse for the existence of this work. What kind of life is this, anyway?! Musically, this is one of the most memorable films I have ever seen, but when the beautiful sountrack is wasted in such a pathetic way, it does not redeem the movie too much. Definitely the most unpleasant film by David Lynch so far.
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Summary: The most disturbing film ever....I LOVED IT
Review: There's not a chance in the world that you'll ever come acrossa more disturbing and thought provoking film. The story itself is indiscribable; there are so many twists and turns you'll watch it again and again, wondering what really is going on. For any Lynch fan, this defidently won't let you down
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