witchy_mac
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What is it about marijuana jokes that always seem to be universally hysterical?
This movie is basically a punk-horror flick with (other than the perfect music) side-splitting laughs and a little too much gore to add to the unbelievable wackiness of the story.
Anton is the slacker we've always secretly wanted to be, who just doesn't care if he's walking around his neighborhood in just a shirt and boxers... he has to get his weed! And when his hand gets possessed and kills his friends (while still attached to his body so of course he has to live with the guilt,) his friends come back from the dead to still have some kick-ass fun with him, and his life gets weirder and weirder every second.
Mick and Pnub are just like my brothers, with their lackadaisical look on the trip to heaven and their constant ribbings of each other. Seth Green did an awesome job, almost too awesome...makes me wonder about his personal life...
Good, semi-clean fun with enough drug references to make your Hippie parents blush.
This movie is basically a punk-horror flick with (other than the perfect music) side-splitting laughs and a little too much gore to add to the unbelievable wackiness of the story.
Anton is the slacker we've always secretly wanted to be, who just doesn't care if he's walking around his neighborhood in just a shirt and boxers... he has to get his weed! And when his hand gets possessed and kills his friends (while still attached to his body so of course he has to live with the guilt,) his friends come back from the dead to still have some kick-ass fun with him, and his life gets weirder and weirder every second.
Mick and Pnub are just like my brothers, with their lackadaisical look on the trip to heaven and their constant ribbings of each other. Seth Green did an awesome job, almost too awesome...makes me wonder about his personal life...
Good, semi-clean fun with enough drug references to make your Hippie parents blush.
This is one of the few movies that I am actually ANGRY at. I never really played the computer game that it was based on, but I know enough about it to say that the game was basically dog-fighting with a little plot thrown in for spice. A fun mix.
The movie, on the other hand, had maybe what, 2 scenes of actual dog-fighting? And even then they were royally depressing in their lameness and short lengths of time. And yes, the whole idea of a "persecuted-Christian in the time of Romans" parallel made me want to vomit.
The acting was atrocious. I basically despise Freddie Prinze Jr. anyway, so that was no disappointment. He always has that smile on his face that says "Hi, I think I'm irresistible" but really makes me want to plunge him head-first off a bridge with sharp, nasty rocks at the bottom. Saffron Burrows gave us a very flat performance... and her change of heart over Maverick seems way too sudden to be remotely believable (how many movies involving planes or the like will have the hotshot male lead be named "Maverick," by the way?) She was a wench who turned into a mushy wuss in a split second. And don't even get me started on Matthew Lillard. He is always playing the same type of character with that same idiotic grin... "Wing Commander," "Scream," "Salt Lake City Punk"... the list goes on. Can we say "type-cast"?
I admit, the only reason I went to see this movie was because I had been led to believe that there would be a trailer for "Star Wars: Episode 1" in the coming attractions (which there wasn't, so of course I was disappointed). Now I really REALLY wish that I hadn't wasted my time on this.
The movie, on the other hand, had maybe what, 2 scenes of actual dog-fighting? And even then they were royally depressing in their lameness and short lengths of time. And yes, the whole idea of a "persecuted-Christian in the time of Romans" parallel made me want to vomit.
The acting was atrocious. I basically despise Freddie Prinze Jr. anyway, so that was no disappointment. He always has that smile on his face that says "Hi, I think I'm irresistible" but really makes me want to plunge him head-first off a bridge with sharp, nasty rocks at the bottom. Saffron Burrows gave us a very flat performance... and her change of heart over Maverick seems way too sudden to be remotely believable (how many movies involving planes or the like will have the hotshot male lead be named "Maverick," by the way?) She was a wench who turned into a mushy wuss in a split second. And don't even get me started on Matthew Lillard. He is always playing the same type of character with that same idiotic grin... "Wing Commander," "Scream," "Salt Lake City Punk"... the list goes on. Can we say "type-cast"?
I admit, the only reason I went to see this movie was because I had been led to believe that there would be a trailer for "Star Wars: Episode 1" in the coming attractions (which there wasn't, so of course I was disappointed). Now I really REALLY wish that I hadn't wasted my time on this.
Ok, so after reading some of these reviews I think I might understand the movie now. Maybe.
I learned about this movie from a couple of friends who had the soundtrack with the Nine Inch Nails song "The Perfect Drug" on it, so I figured "hey, it'll be weird, but possibly good." Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell.....
The whole abstract plot really got on my nerves. I'm sorry, but isn't movie-making for the purpose of entertainment? Rather than, say, to stick your nose up at people who didn't understand the totally messed-up story that had no explanations whatsoever of what is going on, so if we don't know about damn "fugue states" we're basically lost from the start.
When you TRY oh so hard to make a cinematic masterpiece, usually you fall flat on your face and look like an idiot. That's what I got from this movie... no altered ways of looking at life, no renewed appreciation of road-rage and strange men dressed in black with camcorders, and no understanding of what was going on!! After a while I just continued watching the movie in hopes that it would all come together....and after that hope started failing I watched it just to see where "The Perfect Drug" was played... and I missed it while I was probably in the john during a commercial break! GRRR
On the whole, I thoroughly do NOT recommend this movie, because it is just far too confusing for such a simpleton as myself, I suppose. It was "too deep" and so "cerebral that it was over my head," according to these stuffy folks.
I have a suggestion: get your heads out of your butts and stop tagging people as dense just because they couldn't understand such a confusing and pointless movie as "Lost Highway."
I learned about this movie from a couple of friends who had the soundtrack with the Nine Inch Nails song "The Perfect Drug" on it, so I figured "hey, it'll be weird, but possibly good." Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell.....
The whole abstract plot really got on my nerves. I'm sorry, but isn't movie-making for the purpose of entertainment? Rather than, say, to stick your nose up at people who didn't understand the totally messed-up story that had no explanations whatsoever of what is going on, so if we don't know about damn "fugue states" we're basically lost from the start.
When you TRY oh so hard to make a cinematic masterpiece, usually you fall flat on your face and look like an idiot. That's what I got from this movie... no altered ways of looking at life, no renewed appreciation of road-rage and strange men dressed in black with camcorders, and no understanding of what was going on!! After a while I just continued watching the movie in hopes that it would all come together....and after that hope started failing I watched it just to see where "The Perfect Drug" was played... and I missed it while I was probably in the john during a commercial break! GRRR
On the whole, I thoroughly do NOT recommend this movie, because it is just far too confusing for such a simpleton as myself, I suppose. It was "too deep" and so "cerebral that it was over my head," according to these stuffy folks.
I have a suggestion: get your heads out of your butts and stop tagging people as dense just because they couldn't understand such a confusing and pointless movie as "Lost Highway."