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Lost Highway

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Satan himself could not have made a better movie!
Review: Satan himself could not have made a better movie

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Non linear accuracy
Review: Once you indulge into the world of david lynch, it is hard to come back from the reality of non essential life.

Lost Highway portrays the lack of control that every mind has over what reality exists inside this world, inside the lost highways of our mind.

As pullman accurately points out, "I like to remember things my own way", that is, an icon to life, it does not really matter who you are, what you encounter in life, as much as how you decide to remember everything that comes about in life.

David Lynch (Twin Peaks) has once again proved his worth as a director, as the ambient of the movie, the darkness and feeling of the movie can really involve and devour the attention of the viewer...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The solution to this puzzle is BARELY out of grasp.
Review: To Amazon and David Lynch: I'll buy a copy of "Lost Highway" when it comes out on DVD, okay? The home theater setup that my partner and I have invested in has spoiled us, and we don't even bother with VHS anymore. Videotape pales in comparison to the superior audio and visual quality of DVD.

The first time I saw "Lost Highway" was by way of a very poorly transferred preview tape with a timecode at the bottom of the screen. The lousy video and audio quality combined with the extremely oblique plot and narrative structure left me scratching my head and saying, "HUH?" Later, when the film made its way to one of our local movie theaters, I decided to give it another chance. That the audio and visual quality was vastly better goes without saying ... and I was also able to mull over the story and at least try to piece together the puzzle. After I viewed the film yet a third time, having rented a copy from a video store, my opinion of it had improved greatly.

But make no mistake about it: Viewers who like their movies spoon-fed to them and want plot and narrative to be tidy and neat will not like this film. In "Lost Highway" David Lynch has given us a world in which the notions of cause and effect are not QUITE was we are accustomed to, a world in which one might literally assume a new identity if pushed to emotional extremis, a world in which one might come face to face with his own doppleganger in the darkened hallway of one's own home.

You can watch "Lost Highway" over and over, and each time you might feel like you've come a little closer to putting all the pieces together and solving the puzzle ... but the solution forever evades your grasp ... just barely. It's frustrating and provocative all at once, an enigmatic Rubik's Cube of a film. Many people don't like movies like this, but I do. The best works of art are often the most intellectually challenging, and in David Lynch's universe a good mystery doesn't necessarily have to have a solution.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Looks Great, But Makes No Sense.
Review: "Lost Highway" is one of those movie where you lovethe look and feeling, but you end up not enjoying the film because of it's structure. David Lynch is a talented director, but here he presents a poor example of style exercising. The problem is, it makes no sense. It seems as if Lynch only filmed scene notes and not a finished, well-structured screenplay. Some scenes seem as if they've just been thrown in, for no reason,just so we could see them. "Lost Highway" has some wonderfully intense moments, like when the little pale man in black does a telephone trick on Bill Pullman, making it seem as if he's in two places at once. But, who is this guy? What perpose does he have? What perpose does any of this have? In the area of style, it's a great movie. But you scratch your head too many times because nothing is in order, there's no story really. You could only recommend this movie for a few series of images, and that's it. This is about style, not cinema. Even the soundtrack surpasses the film with darkly entertaining songs like Marilyn Manson's "I Put A Spell On You." Other than that, this is a poor movie that needed a screenplay.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A wee tad bit TOO abstract...
Review: Whereas I appreciated the abstract, progressive filmmaking of "Mulholland Drive," this movie was so abstract that it took the jump from progressive to ambaguous (yes, that's a word). In fact, I discovered, upon viewing this film, that it is actually possible to spontaneously combust from confusion. To make things worse, I made the mistake of taking a lovely young lady on a first date to see this movie (needless to say, we didn't date very long after that). Patricia Arquette's well-proportioned jumblies are the only two things I found remotely fascinating about this turd.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Don't try so hard... you'll hurt your brain.
Review: I'll make this short...

This is one of the greatest, strangest, creepiest movies I've ever seen.

The problem is, people try to analyze this movie waaay to deeply. It's simple... what you are seeing is movie about a dream, without the dream-sequence ending (the "waking up").

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Fun for the whole family.
Review: Some guy meets the devil at a party and trades his soul for the ability to go bowling while being locked up in jail for murdering his wife.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Lynch tops it off
Review: As with all of Lynch's movie's, the viewer is allowed to think instead of being spoon-fed the story. With Lynch's LOST HIGHWAY we are finally able to try to decipher a movie without drooling all over ourselves. Many different interpretations abound about the meaning of this movie and isn't THAT what it's all about? Talking and discussing great cinema? Rather than "yeah, it was good." People have become so lazy in this modern technological age that the mere idea of thought is devastating to the psyche. Lynch continues his pursuit of art in motion and successfully achieves one of his greatest masterpieces.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: get lost in David Lynch's Lost Highway..and I mean literally
Review: David Lynch writes and directs this very bizarre and weird look at whatever it was that this movie was pointing out. I myself am a Lynch fan and I think this isnt his best work but it sure makes your head throb trying to think about what the hell is going on. It's intoxicating and you cant leave the room. You gotta watch the whole thing and just go wow, that didnt make any sense but it was awesome. All I got was that Bill Pullman is a saxaphone player who thinks his wife is cheating on him and he gets these videotapes and one part looks like he kills his wife, played by Patricia Arquette so he is sent to prison and that he goes into the mind of Balthazar Getty, seeing threw his eyes, the secrets that unravel about his wife and he secret life and at the end where he kills Robert Loggia, Pullman is actually the kid and he kills him and then Pullman as the kid goes and tells Pullman the jazz musician that Loggia is dead and then takes off on the Lost Highway...but that is all I got and it could be totally different but that's my conclusion on it. Fascinatingly directed by Lynch. Is it just me or is this as confusing as Twin Peaks? Also starring Robert Blake looking like a mime, Richard Pryor in a wheelchair, Rocker Marilyn Manson in a small snuff film, Rocker Henry Rollins as a Prison Guard, Giovanni Ribisi as one of Getty's friends, Natasha Gregson Wagner as Getty's girlfriend, Gary Busey as Getty's father and Michael Massee as that Andy guy. A Tour De Lynch Force.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A wee tad bit TOO abstract...
Review: Whereas I appreciated the abstract, progressive filmmaking of "Mulholland Drive," this movie was so abstract that it took the jump from progressive to ambaguous (yes, that's a word). In fact, I discovered, upon viewing this film, that it is actually possible to spontaneously combust from confusion. To make things worse, I made the mistake of taking a lovely young lady on a first date to see this movie (needless to say, we didn't date very long after that). Patricia Arquette's well-proportioned jumblies are the only two things I found remotely fascinating about this turd.


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