oops
― akm, Thursday, 16 October 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
like Dennis Perrin i am getting a distinct "X-Files movies" vibe
1) from what?2) have you seen the X-Files movies?*3) have you seen The X-Files?
* there were X-Files movies?
― Starland Vocal Gland (sic), Friday, 17 October 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
I've been rewatching twin peaks. I never realized bryan cranston was the actor who played hank until just now. I feel so dumb.
― dynamicinterface, Friday, 17 October 2014 03:59 (nine years ago) link
I saw about 4 or 5 X-Files eps, which were fine, but i didn't need more.
yeah, i meant movie, i forgot how colossal a flop it was.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 October 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
and 1) from excessive enthusiasm and the track record of 20-years-later pickups
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 October 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
(or just 2 years later... I'm sorta fine with the plug being pulled on Deadwood now)
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 October 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
Not sure if the Bryan Cranston comment was serious or not. He didn't play Hank.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Friday, 17 October 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
― dynamicinterface, Friday, October 17, 2014 3:59 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post
ok wait what
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 17 October 2014 04:30 (nine years ago) link
the connections btwn TP and x-files are pretty clear imo (TP as Mulder run amok, XF as TP back at headquarters) and i sympathize with "oh this will be bad" feelings of the XF films but like
as a fan
fuck it--my homies are on the TV. i'l turn on my AV Club later.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 17 October 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
Also, David Lynch is pretty definitively not Chris Carter.
― Shed Your Nasty Jewelry (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 October 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
i'm not sure what that means
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 17 October 2014 06:08 (nine years ago) link
wait, there WERE two x-files movies, no?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 17 October 2014 10:40 (nine years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files:_I_Want_to_Believe
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 17 October 2014 10:41 (nine years ago) link
vindicated
I was gonna bring up Psycho II et al but yes Hitchcock was dead
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 October 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
I've always wondered whether it was intentional or a coincidence that both David Duchovny and Don S. Davis ended up playing similar characters (eccentric government agent, protagonist's military dad) in X-Files as they did in Twin Peaks...
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 October 2014 11:55 (nine years ago) link
By "David Lynch is pretty definitively not Chris Carter" I meant that Lynch has a pedigree of quality projects whereas Carter basically just has the patchy laurels of The X-Files (and maybe Millennium, if you're feeling charitable) to rest on, so more Twin Peaks feels like a way more solid proposition on paper than another X-Files movie.
― Shed Your Nasty Jewelry (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 October 2014 13:28 (nine years ago) link
aha
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 17 October 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
Michael Horse pops up in The X-Files also. And Richard Beymer. And Michael J Anderson!
― who cares? the moon sucks. (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 17 October 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
And Bryan Cranston (who plays Hank)!
― What Lies Behind The Beehive? (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 October 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
and Michael Cera (who plays Lucy)!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 17 October 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
I can't find confirmation anywhere online, but I swear I remember Kyle MacLachlan playing Dana Scully for at least two or three seasons of The X-Files.
― What Lies Behind The Beehive? (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 October 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
i think that was before the internet
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 17 October 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
this is especially confusing because bryan cranston was actually in an ep of the x files
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 20 October 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
rewatching this on netflix. Billy Zane tucks a thick sweater into his pants.
― I can't make my waterface turn into a *fart* (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 20 October 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
and i'm just like billy. billy billy billy. billy zane. billy billy zane. wat r u doin?
― I can't make my waterface turn into a *fart* (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 20 October 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/tucked%20sweater.png
― I can't make my waterface turn into a *fart* (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 05:17 (nine years ago) link
classy
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Part of the ongoing destablizing of inside/outside binaries in the series' mise en scene no doubt
― one way street, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
so is Laura Palmer actually in the Black Lodge? She shouldn't be, right?
― I can't make my waterface turn into a *fart* (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Maybe she was there because Bob killed her and stole her soul
Or something
― paolo, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
It's just that Leland talks at length about how Laura wouldn't let Bob in. But your right, I guess you can still end up there.
― I can't make my waterface turn into a *fart* (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
you're right, even
Doesn't FWWM end (like the Elephant Man, and Mulholland Drive) with an angelic vision? Suggesting salvation, I guess?
― Spaceport Leuchars (dowd), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah. I forgot to rewatch that. I don't remember it.
― I can't make my waterface turn into a *fart* (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
There might have been. Wild At Heart certainly has such a scene.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
I was previously unaware of this in the collection of recurring Lynch ideas.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
The beatific vision in FWWM, as in Inland Empire or Elephant Man, does seem significantly less ironized than those of Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive, or Eraserhead.
― one way street, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
the birds (robins?) returning at the end of blue velvet an instance of this trope too
― Clay, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
There might have been. Wild At Heart certainly has such a scene.― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:02 PM (6 hours ago)
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:02 PM (6 hours ago)
Guess who plays the angel?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 23 October 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
Bryan Cranston?
― cwkiii, Thursday, 23 October 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
It's Glinda the Good Witch and it was Sheryl Lee (Laura). Man I think I hate that movie.
― akm, Thursday, 23 October 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
It's really awful and offensive too iirc.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 23 October 2014 09:19 (nine years ago) link
"what he needs now is both your understanding, and a confederate victory."
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 23 November 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
"The bad news is your father's crazy. The good news is he's about to win the civil war."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
When the original series was out, I was 13 years old, and a friend and I joined a Twin Peaks discussion group which met in a now-nonexistent bookstore on Southport Ave. in Chicago. We passed around cherry pie and doughnuts and tossed about theories regarding owls, UFOs, the Black Lodge, etc. One day someone in the group (everyone save for Katie and I were over 30) announced that they had the new Playboy with Sherilyn Fenn and proceeded to pass it around. That was my first exposure to pornography, broadly defined.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, January 13, 2003 2:45 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is like the dream adolescence I never had
― ed.b, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah, no kidding! when the original series was out, i was 8 years old. i remember seeing a bit of it, once, just before i went to bed. i was heading to the kitchen to get a glass of milk and paused behind the couch that my parents were sitting on. i don't remember which season or episode or the scene. i just remember hiding there for a while, watching, and then my dad saying "i don't get it" and changing the channel.
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
I was a freshman in college and thus at the perfect age and marijuana intake level to have thoroughly enjoyed Twin Peaks when it first came out but I don't even think it was on my radar. One of my life's great tragedies.
― carl agatha, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
I was in middle school when it originally aired and there was a group of us in my homeroom who would discuss each new episode every week. Did TP originally air on Thursday nights? I feel like this was a Friday morning homeroom kinda thing.
― kate78, Monday, 24 November 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, the first time I saw eps of this was when I was first dating my now wife, pretty sure it was winter and we'd just hole up together and watch a few eps in a row. It was VHS tapes - we borrowed from a friend and he only had the first season so I didn't find out who killed Laura Palmer until years later!
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 November 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
i was heading to the kitchen to get a glass of milk and paused behind the couch that my parents were sitting on.
I am so sorry Karl, but I read this as "the couch that my parents were getting it on."
― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link