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

just rewatched FWWM for the first time in ages. i remember being disappointed with the movie initially because i felt it trying to explain away some of the show's mysteriousness. or something. for instance: oh i see. they're all complete coke heads! but, rewatching it, i noticed something about the coke. there's the scene near the end. laura is doing giant rails of coke and the camera pulls back and she's in bed. doing rails to go to bed! doesn't make sense. but it's the night where she sees her dad rather than bob "having her." meanwhile, her mom, who has just been gently forced by leland to drink something it's safe to assume is drugged, is having restless sleep and visions of a white horse or whatever. it's safe to assume that leland has been drugging his wife and laura for years ("he's been having me since i was 12" laura told her therapist). by doing the rails of coke, laura was able to counteract the drugs and see her dad. it's this kind of explaining-away of things that i initially didn't like about the film, but i've made peace with that i think, because ultimitely it still doesn't even begin to explain the other dimmension death cult or whatever it is. i've just written way too much about this. again. sheesh.

OMG!!!!

AMATEURIST.

Despite awful moments, his second best of the nineties.

Kinda think it's his second best period.

what's your first?

Either Mulholland Drive or Inland Empire, depending on which side of the bed I woke up on.

now i want to know what alfred thinks is his first-best of this period.

The Straight Story!

his creepiest film

haha i always forget the straight story came out in the '90s tbh.

i have still never seen fwwm.

every time I watch it I go from "lol what the hell is this mess" to terrified and crying by the end of it

Sheryl Lee is almost as heartbreaking as Naomi Watts.

fwwm is great. so is wild at heart. the rest of you can go suck it fwiw imho

too many acronyms to worry about

this is one weird-ass movie so far

i keep waiting for large marge or some other pee-wee character to show up

The first half hour is fun but rather pointless cept for Keefer blinking blankly at the waitress ("You wanna hear the specials? We have none"). And Bowie in a Magnum P.I. shirt.

i rented this when i was like thirteen and it really freaked me out

My first Lynch movie -- I was eighteen. Lots of scenes in this movie are at that level.

http://www.nme.com/photos/50-best-film-soundtracks-ever/207108/1/47

Yes. Love the scene in that barn-club with the drugged-out neo-rockabilly band playing like Dwight Yoakam produced by Brian Eno.

Uh, that NME link didn't go where I wanted it to.

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

okay well this got unnerving real quick didn't it

jess I love how you just sat down and let the thing unfurl so quickly

haha well i saw it was all on youtube so i said why noy. then about 40 mins in i noticed ot was missing part 12 of 13 so i gotta wait for netflix to send it to me.

where did you stop

special agent gene krupa was jawing with harry dean, so i assume i haven't even gotten to the goods yet

Wait till Special Agent Chick Corea transforms into a blue rose.

("You wanna hear the specials? We have none")

"Those drugs are LEGAL." Love the waitress.

The sound design is also astonishing in FWWM.

Alfred OTM about the Mulholland Dr comparison. In a lot of ways I think FWWM is a truer predecessor to that movie (& most def Inland Empire) than Lost Highway

LH is a monstrosity. I've tried to like it. Everything about the movie is wrong: the casting, pace, ideas. Well, the soundtrack is okay, but it's the first time he yielded to contemporary trends.

Full disclosure: I've yet to see Lost Highway. I know it had the body-switching thing that MD used to great effect, though, and for that reason, critics tend to paint a straight line between the two.

lh is pretty damn bad.

there's something bullying about it (and wild at heart) that makes me understand (almost) why people find him grotesque

guess he thought that, well, hey, Dean Stockwell was funny-frightening in makeup -- let me repeat the joke with Robert Blake, for whose work he probably paid $56.

pullman's saxophone o-face is almost enough to make me have some affection for it

wild at heart is the only one i dislike but i really dislike. srsly spent the whole movie wishing everyone would quit yelling.

i feel the same way re wild at heart, it's awful.

Lost Highway is obviously not perfect but it has some (thrillingly) terrifying scenes - robert blake asking pullman to call him is unfuckwithable and the gory flashbacks to arquette's death are genuinely shocking.

this movie is fucking awesome. it's probably the weirdest feature he made between eraserhead and inland empire.

wild at heart is pretty hard to take, i agree.