Lost Highway
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Movie Reviews of Lost Highway
Movie Review: Fantastic Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie! There are twists and turns. It's probably one of my favorite Lynch movies!Movie Review: Excellent condition
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie was mailed promptly and in excellent condition when I received it. Thanks a ton!Movie Review: Step right up. Make your choice.
Summary: 4 Stars
Lost Highway is a movie that allows you to make a choice. Is it a Twilight Zone Movie in which you're dealing with soul transference & time travel. Could be. A faustian bargain? Are you dealing with the roving inner eye of an insane mind?
That was my choice & this review will reflect that choice.
The movie starts with a man & his wife whose house is being video taped from the inside. Is this being done by an outsider, evil spirit or is this the act of a sinister plan inside the home? I say inside job. If you're messed up enough to shoot video of your place to deceive either yourself or your mate, putting it in an envelope & leaving it outside is no biggee.
What a lovely relationship they have too. He's freaked out & she's subservient enough but also obviously has the quiet confidence to plan her way through her troubles. Enter now, the best character of the movie only listed as "mystery man", Robert Blake. He's never gone anywhere he states, that he wasn't invited. Sounds like an evil spirit all right & remember they've talked before. In my book they've talked many times, like each night as Pullman roves the corridors of his insane & escape proof mind.
You get a murder, an arrest & a conviction. So neat & tidy plus added stress on an already bent mind. What happens in Pullman's cell at night is the key to whether you go towards Twilight Zone or insanity. Is Bill Pullman & Balthazar Getty the same man. Is Pullman actually in prison or is he in the prison for the criminally insane with a real body played by Getty.
I chose Balthazar Getty as the real & very, very, sick, person in this movie. Pullman is Getty's uber-human. Pullman is what Getty wants to be. Not an auto mechanic that lives at home with mommie & daddie, (BTW- great cameo's here on ma & pa), but a musician in a nice apartment with a super hot lady that belongs to one of the BIG people in his little man's world. I mean Getty covets everything he perceives as being above his station in life. The car, the women & in the end the will to be violent to obtain his desires.
Now the lady & thank you Mr. Lynch for Patricia. A perfect fit for this role which I believe you see in the show Bound. This girl wants the money & there is nothing she won't do to get it. Attracted to power like a drunk to alcohol she has finally realized that if she has the money she can be the power, not bask in someone else's. Now look at how they meet. She did sorta make the pick herself. She picked that punk as soon as she saw he couldn't take his eyes off her while she was still in the car. Lamb to the slaughter she thinks, but this isn't Body Heat even though Patricia puts out tons of that.
Actually I believe the movie is pretty straight forward once you decide if your watching Rod Serling's Twilight Zone or if your seeing inside the mind of a little man with big dreams that went terribly awry & landed him in the prison we can't escape, our own minds.
The men's dreams are trashed. The woman's dreams are killed. Even the Big Boss is pancaked out of his dream in the desert. The only winner here is "Mystery Man" who never goes where he's not invited. Where does Mystery Man come from & where does he go to? Whose call does he answer? Isn't it to be expected that as the police close in for the capture, no O J here, Mr. Getty begins to revert back to his other identity. Sorta like Psycho without the maternal leanings so no insipid weakness.
I give the movie 5 stars for entertainment value as you can get sucked in here and wake up 2 hr's later thinking only 25 min's passed. Lot's of misdirection.
I give Patricia anything she wants. I'll be Getty for her.
The rest of the cast gets 4 stars except Blake who gets 5.
Movie rating is 4 1/2 stars.
A nice trip down the lost highway of my mind.
Private rant here: Where the H was the media circus that would of surrounded Getty's release from prison. Seems Hollywood either toons the Warden, the guards, the convicts, the media or the whole system. This show used the other method which is- just don't show it.
Movie Review: Long Overdue!
Summary: 4 Stars
Lost Highway was the my introduction to Lynch, and upon seeing it I went out and bought everything the man has put out. However if there's one of his films I would describe as mandatory, it would be this one, Lost Highway. Amazingly you would have had to shell out tons of cash for this or purchase an import version of substantial quality to see this film a month ago. (Or now I should say, it hasn't been released yet!)But believe me, a good release of this film was overdue years ago.
Lost Highway is a movie that seems to be based on a dream or nightmare. It has a rough storyline, but it has an almost schizophrenic feel to it in that it randomly switches over to things that serve no continuity with previous events of the film. To describe this film would literally be an essay because the events just happen as they happen, there is no conflict or goal or point to be made by the events of the movie. It's almost just like watching a week of somebody's life as it occurrs, there would just be no way to tell what is going to happen. Despite the lack of a real premise, the film still manages to captivate you for the whole length, and when it's over you will wish there had been more.
In short, our main character is accused of murdering his wife and is sent to prison. When they go to check his cell, he is no longer there, but someone else is. From that point on we follow this new character who has very little recollection of the past few weeks of his life. He begins an affair with one of his client's girls, another version of our previous character's wife, and is eventually caught. She ultimately leads him down the path to crime and deception with her promises of pleasure.
Add to that a great Soundtrack featuring Angelo Badalamenti, David Bowie, Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, and Smashing Pumpkins! This is definietly a Lynch essential that is unlike any other movie experience I can recall. I highly recommend it!
Movie Review: David Lynch is a force to be reckoned with...
Summary: 4 Stars
Well, as anyone who has seen the other works of David Lynch, he is a force to be reckoned with in modern cinema.
There are not many other (if at all, really?) film-makers quite like him.
Lost Highway is a simple story but its told in a very twisted way.
The atmosphere alone is strange enough and the many plot twists only make the experience better.
I have to say that many people might be turned off by the un-conventional story telling here but please give it a chance and watch it with an open mind.
Everything about this movie is great, from the music to the characters and the bizarre atmosphere that only David Lynch could create.
The DVD picture qulity is very good but I was a little sad to find no special feature at all.
This is also a movie that seems to get better the more times you watch it because you may notice things you never noticed before and the story may become clearer.