Lost Highway
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Movie Reviews of Lost Highway
Movie Review: New Lost Highway DVD sucks.
Summary: 2 Stars
Why doesn't anyone ever actually review the DVD's and not just the movie in these reviews?
I love David Lynch. I follow his work religiously and I absolutely love this film. I've been awaiting an actual DVD release of this for years. Now that it's here, I can't help but feel gypped by him and Universal for putting out this piece of crap disc.
I'm very happy that the film at least got a DVD release. It looks amazing, and it's in widescreen, no complaints there. However, there's absolutley no extras on this disc. NOTHING. Not even a trailer. Why is it that the UK edition comes with 2 discs with extras? Why couldn't they just have made an NTSC copy of that? WHY? SOMEONE TELL ME. RIGHT NOW.
I should have just stuck with my VHS copy. Not like I would have been missing out on much by not purchasing this.
Movie Review: Great film, below average DVD
Summary: 2 Stars
I'll keep this DVD just because then I'll have a copy to lend to people that isn't the horrible pan&scan version from Canada. For myself, the next time I watch the film, it will be the Mk2 R4 PAL release. It's a better transfer and actually has extras. I originally bought a multi-region player just so I could play the Mk2 DVDs, although I've found more films since that are only available in non-R1 versions.
What a disappointment after waiting for this film to become more widely available in the original wide screen format. Neither the video nor the audio is up to the quality of the Mk2 release.
Movie Review: Lost Highway not so good
Summary: 2 Stars
The film quality is excellent and the DVD transfer didn't lose much. The actors are top notch, but the storyline is just weird and difficult to follow. I found the first half boring and was ready to pull the plug, but it got better in the second half. If there was a plot in there, I could not find it. If you are looking for an easy to follow, entertaining movie, Lost Highway is not the one for you.Movie Review: A bad movie that everyone should see once.
Summary: 1 Stars
The movie starts out with a man (Bill Pullman) that suspects his wife (Patricia Arqhardtospell) of cheating on him. He finds video after video proving that it is happening. After a bit into the movie, she ends up dead and the man ends up in jail.
In jail he has a strange dream the night before he disappears and is replaced by another man entirely! It is assumed that he transforms, it is not shown. The 19 year old that replaces him (Getty) is released and the original man is never mentioned again. There are hints though that Bill Pullman's character really exists.
There is a tie in between the two characters that is not seen until near the end. It is almost as if the man that wrote the 'Lost Highway' book wrote 2 books and smashed them together. 2 different men, with 2 different lives that exchange lives for a week or so in time.
The 19 year old is a mechanic working for a mobster Mr. Eddie (Loggia) who is really Dick Durant. Mr. Eddie's wife (Patricia Arqhardtospell) has an affair with the 19 year old and looks very similar to Bill Pullman's wife. Not just because they are played by the same actress, but because they are supposed to be ties between Bill Pullman and Getty.
The style of this movie seems to be a series of artistic shots that would be better off as photography. Shot after shot has 5 seconds of a person standing doing nothing. Then they do something, and stay there for 5 more seconds from a different angle. This movie is very easy to fall asleep to until the 45 minutes into the film when the character Peter Doyle comes into play.
It is an intentionally strange movie that is dark, sometimes crazy and heart pounding and other times eerie. Everyone should watch this movie just once for those reasons. The soundtrack is stellar and it is the best ad for this movie there can ever be.
Movie Review: Lost writing, plot, direction and editing on the Highway
Summary: 1 Stars
Sometimes you wonder why people put money, time and talent into a piece of garbage like this. If they had only given me the funds that were wasted on this movie, I would have invested it and made millions.
Neo-Noir? I'd spell it C-R-A-P. The script flew out of the car, onto the highway and wasn't numbered. So they just stapled it all together without checking with anyone and you got this.
It was like watching a Charlie Sheen look-alike acting badly. At 82 minutes into the movie (a miracle I go that far into it) I was contemplating pulling out the DVD and using it for target practice at the range. Robert Loggia played his oft-repeated tough-guy mobster role, Gary Busey in his pre-druggie days, and Patricia Arquette as the spaced-out, airhead girlfriend of Mr. Eddy (Loggia) who likes "doing it" with the Charlie Sheen guy (I forgot and don't care what his name was). Robert Blake played a hideous little imp with flour makeup.
I truly believe these type movies are made for when you are either drunk or stoned; or both. At 107 minutes you'll either be laughing out loud or screaming for the director's head. I'd be like Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder, and have the Key Grip punch out the Director and then I'd improvise and have the rest of the crew punch out the writer(s). Oh yeah, Bill Pullman wasn't very convincing as the spaced-out screeching sax player earlier in this tripe. You know what? Everyone involved in this movie was spaced-out.
What do you do with garbage? You throw it out. Do the same with this movie.