Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Classic or Dud [spoilers]

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wow gersten came along way from being that little boogie woogie brat with braces.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

this was quoted before LH IIRC.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

This is what I have:
> >Im thinking of getting the Twin Peaks box set but unsure as to which one
> >would be the better choice. I read that the US version has DTS but no pilot
> >episode and ive also seen a spanish version that includes both series 1 & 2
> >selling on ebay.
> >
> >Just wondering if anyone has any ideas as to the best one to go for.
> >
> >TIA
> >s
> >
> Yes, I saw those. anyone know if there are any European sites that
> are selling this now?
You have three options:
1. US Box set - Episodes 1 - 7 remastered with DTS but no pilot, which is
more or less essential to appreciating the whole
experience (it's like a 2 hour movie). A few cool extras.
2. UK Box set - Pilot + Episodes 1 - 7 remastered, no DTS but otherwise same
extras at Region 1.
3. Spanish Box Set - Pilot, Epsidoes 1-7, Episodes 8-29 (Series 2), ok you
get the whole lot here (apart from the film Fire Walk With Me) *but* the
quality is pretty dire. The picture is grainy and sound is DD2.0, there's
also zero extras. There are also a few scenes where Spanish subtitles are
hardcoded on. However, it is the only way to watch the entire series and
costs about the same as the UK Series 1 box set RRP. Available from
dvdgo.com (Spanish site) for around £50 including postage.
Basically I would advise you get hold of the UK box set first, if you like
that then go ahead and order the Spanish set just so you can see Series Two
(you'll be dying to know what happens if you enjoy Series One). Also, make
sure you don't watch the film Fire Walk With Me until you've seen the whole
two series all the way through or you'll spoil everything!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Am I right in thinking that the kid with the pointy nose mask in FWWM is Lynch's...son?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

it does seem to me that the weird shit in the series comes across as much more refined and mysterious than it does in the movie, which is almost slapstick in it's weirdness. this is true for most of lynch's movies for me, with the exception of Mulholland Drive, which seems much more refined in the way the series was. Also created for television. What is it about that medium that restrains him?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

similarly, the Hotel Room episode with Alicia Witt is totally unsettling .

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

tv producers sniffing his shit at every second?

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Am I right in thinking that the kid with the pointy nose mask in FWWM is Lynch's...son?
-- adam. (adamr...), August 31st, 2004.

yes

though he is not the same kid as the "grandson" of the old woman served by donna in the "meals on wheels" program

OMG NOW I KNOW WHERE ALL THOSE BRAIN CELLS I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND HAVE GONE

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link

he's supposed to be the same kid but they used a different actor, right?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link

monkey mouths eating creamed corn!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

did you see "on the air" kyle?

i have the mulholland drive TV pilot (poor quality) if you're interested in a burn.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

garbonzola

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yes what about Harold? He was a strange character!

g!-PLEASE

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

he's supposed to be the same kid but they used a different actor, right?
-- kyle (akmonda...), August 31st, 2004.

YES OMG I AM SO LAME

P.S. ts: lara flynn boyle vs. moira kelly

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

i did see on the air. i remember liking it but I was hardly a very discriminating critic at the time since I loved everything he did. I haven't seen it since. I like Squiggy though.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Moira Kelly

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.glastonberrygrove.net/texts/cards/

anyone ever get a signed one?

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Did someone upthread say where TP was shot?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like to run my fingers trhough some of those Douglas Firs.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

moira kelley was cute as a button and why is she a MOM on that WB show now? Thanks for making me feel ancient!

Did anyone else watch that made for TV film with her and Sheryl Lee where Sheryl Lee killed her husband or something? That was great! cinnamon brown!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

"rockin' back inside my heart" >>>>>>>>>>>>> "falling"

externals in snoqualmie washington. internals in los angeles.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

"the world spins" >>>> all the other songs

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

i have been tossing ideas around in my head for the BEST JULEE CRUISE ESSAY NEVER WRITTEN so y'all better vote for it in the "90s poll"

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I wanted "falling" to be played as the first dance at our wedding but my wife nixed it because she thought the connotations were too creepy.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"rockin' back inside my heart" >>>>>>>>>>>>> "falling"

OTM

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

adam let's go to the twin peaks festival next year like GIANT FUCKING DORKS

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

actually it will probably be lame, but anyway

XPOST

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

there's a festival? I'll definitely go. I think this is one of the only things I am truly a fanboy "nerd" about. And I say that without a trace of irony.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone own/intend to own the box set of Lynch's short films? It is quite beautifully packaged.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.twinpeaksfestival.com/festival/

No sherilynn fenn this year, she cancelled. Like she has anything better to do!

Adam I have that.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

i am not ready to sacrifice my dignity by going to a fan convention

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

but there's a costume competition! "Log Baby" won!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Amateur!st you don't want to meet "The Giant" IN PERSON?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

The shorts box is pretty great.
all the early animated psychodrama stuff, plus deadpan 3000 shit like "Cowboy and the Frenchman."
The box is awkward, though.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.hrfc.ca/resources/images/exec/comicguy.gif

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Wasn't Jerry Stahl a staff writer for Twin Peaks? That would explain a few things.

xpost-haha!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Why have I not been following this thread today??

Anyway, I saw the entire run of Twin Peaks within a span of two weeks in August 2000, while I was unemployed and staying at my parents' house before moving to Chicago. I then spent the next month (at least) completely obsessed with the show.

I bought the Secret Diary at a library book sale for $1.00.

I also read the "Critical Approaches" book, but I don't remember much of it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link

It is patchy.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Doesn't surprise me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

god i can't imagine reading academic "interpretations" of this show. what a fucking waste of time.

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I was still convinced at the time that I was bound to be an academic, so the idea excited me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I wanted it to be good. I was a film studies student, so it made sense at the time.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

i have no trouble with film studies or academics in general, just that wing of it that devotes itself to novel post-freudian literary "interpretatons" of popular culture

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

But you have to admit that Lynch is probably too tempting a subject for those post-freudians to resist!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

amateurist, your theory, please!!!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

but i'm so lazy

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

actually i sort of want to watch it again to test my theory

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I bought and read all the books as they came out. And great they were too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Pervert.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

You're just jealous.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

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