Review of Lost Highway (1997) by Samuel P — 18 Aug 2010

Horrid. This is the type of movie you make when you can't write an actual story, you pretend to be deep and mysterious instead, David Lynch is M.S. without the twists and his stories are '?purposely?' non-coherent in-salvageable messes.

Many people claim that it's a style of incoherence that's suppose to leave the viewer lost, it's not, Fight Club and Memento are those, the successful pieces that this pile is pretending to be. In the end he's a hack like Jackson Pollock and no Salvador Dalí, or in his case Christopher Nolan.

I must note it would work well as a pure art film, one you know ahead of time not to sit all the way through because the story is an after thought. The cinematography is good (in the beginning it's awesome), but the 'story,' if one can call it that, is trying way way too hard with no results.

When the artist continually can't pull any story together they'll pretend that it was meant to be that way. That way, they can never be held responsible for having, in reality, created something that any ADHD 14 year old boy with a notepad, pen, and a red bull, would create out of his own nature. Which is an incoherent, confusing, and disconnected storyline.

And it's funny, no one would claim the boy was deep etc. because they'd see right through the charade, he's imaginative, yes, very, but is totally incapable of good writing and pulling it together, those shouldn't be confused. As it is with David Lynch, I'd have to say, I am not impressed, though David would probably go farther in inspiring people as a cinematographer under the direction of a director, scene writer, and writer with the correct talents to compliment the ones he does have.