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Posted: Aug 10 2009 01:36 pm

The last thread regarding this was about season two comming to DVD and that was in 2007 so I thought I'd make a new thread instead of necroing an old one.

I just started watching this and I like it a lot through the first seven episodes. It's a drama but there still seem to be trace elements of "soap opera" in it. It's very entertaining and addicting, if they are in I'm renting the discs from season two tonight.

The DVD of season one did not include the pilot so it took a little bit more thinking to understand the importance of everyone.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

I thought the movie "Twin Peaks : Fire Walk with Me" was alright the first time I saw it, mostly because I was like "OK, there is a message in there somewhere. I'll get it after several viewings". I didn't, and hardly anyone else did either.

It's like David Lynch is just out to fuck with peoples head without having any substance in his films. He's suppose to be this godly director who makes arty movies for only an "in" crowd. I told someone at work that I thought he was a hack and he told me "Well, you have to have a certain intelligence to GET his movies." I then told him to lick my balls.

Lynch even once said in an interview that people who try to dissect and explain his movies are wasting their time.

But I could just never get into the show. I'll try and give it a whirl again sometime.

Joined: Aug 10 2009 Location: GA USA Posts: 12

joshwoodzell wrote:

It's like David Lynch is just out to fuck with peoples head without having any substance in his films. He's suppose to be this godly director who makes arty movies for only an "in" crowd. I told someone at work that I thought he was a hack and he told me "Well, you have to have a certain intelligence to GET his movies." I then told him to lick my balls.

I could not agree more. David Lynch is a hack, ever see "Eraserhead" fucking weird. Yea i can understand the symbolism but that doesn't make it a good move. I think people just like shows and movies just to prove they are smarter than other people.
As for twin peaks it starts out like gangbusters, first season was the great. They could have wrapped it up but wanted to drag it out just to sell more episodes and forced more plot twist then was needed.

First season great after that not worth watching.

Posted: Aug 12 2009 12:01 am

Some people hate it, some love it. I'm looking more for the people who do like it, and why they like it.

I loved season one, season two is getting very strange but it is still enjoyable imo anyway. If you are going to watch the first season, you might as well watch the second season. I'm just hooked on it right now, maybe that will change if I don't like where it goes from here.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

I have a hard time defending Lynch, while I enjoy some of his movies; Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart, I can also hate a lot of his movies; Dune, Mullholland Drive (not so much hate it, but really just swerves you way too much) and Inland Empire.

I haven't watch either Twin Peaks the movie, or the TV show, but I did watch the pilot episode and really enjoyed it.

I can see why people think he's a hack, but I can make the same arguments towards guys like Ang Lee and Peter Jackson.

Posted: Nov 23 2009 01:54 pm

Personally, I think the series itself is beautiful, less so Fire Walk with Me, but not much. The scoring by Badalamenti, the interactions between the varied cast of characters (all of whom played their parts with aplomb), the way that he portrayed the seamy undercurrent that goes on through the day-to-day life of a town, much like he did in Blue Velvet? It's a strange and freakish creature that's beautiful in it's singularity. It's a shame that Lynch chose to focus on Wild at Heart, one of my least favorite of his movies, to the detriment of the series, but even so, I would definitely say that it's worth a watching. It's a damn shame that you'll never see a show like it anywhere else, probably ever, though a lot of shows (X-Files and Lost, just off the top of my head) owe it everything.

Posted: Nov 23 2009 09:53 pm

I liked season 2 and I would have liked to see what other story arcs could have unfolded for the show. I at least wish they didn't leave it on that cliff hanger.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Didn't the fans of the show petition to get the cliff hanger resolved? I could've sworn that happened.

Posted: Nov 25 2009 03:19 pm

Not quite. The fans petitioned CBS, successfully, to get them to finish the series, not to resolve the cliffhanger. I imagine that, had season 3 been filmed, they would've probably wrapped everything up there. Sadly, it's not the case, and Fire Walk with Me's extra hour or so of footage is still currently in the hands of a French film distributor who's holding it over Lynch's head.