Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

CLASSIC

Even after the second season when they find the killer and Lynch isn't directing anymore and you know it will never be as good as it once was, you still CANNOT STOP WATCHING. Love the show. Except I wanna kick Billy Zane in the nards.

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^^^ this is like my favourite moment in television

James Marshall is truly one of the world's worst. He and Eric Da Re and all the other crappy actors make the show more lolably soap operatic though, which is obviously classic.

caek otm, that scene never fails to make me tear up a little

FYI, folx:

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Now you can go about squandering your work day.

YES, thank you caek!

It's weird that you dig John Waters stuff, ACO, and Suspiria, CaptainLorax, but not Blue Velvet. I mean, these aren't terribly dissimilar.

Also, I don't mean to imply that Lynch is an intellectual filmmaker AT ALL. The guy himself openly talks about his process as being nearly wholly intuitive.

intuitions, complex emotions, can be intellectual... art can be challenging.

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intuitions, complex emotions, can be intellectual... art can be challenging.

― CaptainLorax, Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:29 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so can opinions

That scene freaked me the fuck out the first time i saw that movie. Almost as much as the weird face at the end of Inland Empire.

whats the point, he just has a normal movie with eerie settings and throws in something surprising

wheres the meat?

Dude has the uncanny ability to transform Norman Rockwell-worthy mundane Americana into something genuinely unsettling. That takes a special kind of talent. I am a horror buff, and I find certain Lynch scenes far more spooky than even the scariest of "scary movies." If nothing else, you've got to give the man his due for his expertise in dread and tension.

I mean: Robert Blake cell-phone scene in Lost Highway. wtf

Norman Rockwell-worthy mundane Americana - no one believes in that
it's already unsettling you can look out the window

I'm not talking about actual reality. I'm talking about Garrison Keillor/Leave it to Beaver-type shit.

Since this is a TP thread, I'll use this as an example: In a certain pivotal episode in Season 2, there is a scene with the Palmers discussing Maddy's move home to Montana as Leland plays "What a Wonderful World" on the phonograph. There is nothing outwardly sinister about the scene at all, but the elements are combined in such a way as to leave you feeling totally uncomfortable.

I fell totally uncomfortable watching bad movies too.

That is because you are a structuralist. Post-structuralists have a lot more fun watching "bad" movies. lol

Maddy's move home to Montana as Leland plays "What a Wonderful World" on the phonograph. There is nothing outwardly sinister about the scene at all, but the elements are combined in such a way as to leave you feeling totally uncomfortable.

Even better is that later in that episode, when Leland murders her, the needle is stuck in the runoff groove of this same record.

I would also like to submit that the murder of Maddie is one of the scariest sequences ever to be shown on network TV.

OMG also, interview with actor who plays BOB (starts about 1:50). Still fucking creepy, even when behaving normally:

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Awesome. Sigh.

here is is

OMG Leland murders her?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

j/k

I would also like to submit that the murder of Maddie is one of the scariest sequences ever to be shown on network TV.

YES

yo the special feature doc on the twin peaks movie dvd is really funny. Whoever edited it made most of the actors who took part in it look like huge idiots

Hawk: Some of my best friends are white people.

That scene freaked me the fuck out the first time i saw that movie. Almost as much as the weird face at the end of Inland Empire.

― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 29 September 2008 10:15 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I got around to watching Inland Empire and that face is pretty fukking nasty

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yeeeeeeeeah I should not have clicked on that.

whats the point, he just has a normal movie with eerie settings and throws in something surprising

― CaptainLorax, Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:54 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest

I can't think of a single David Lynch movie that would qualify as a normal movie, even if you would go in an remove the obvious 'weird' parts. The dialogue alone throughout his movies is enough to make them a surreal experience.

yeah - Lynch's sense of pacing is nothing like a "normal" movie

DNFTT?

That scene freaked me the fuck out the first time i saw that movie. Almost as much as the weird face at the end of Inland Empire.

― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 29 September 2008 10:15 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I got around to watching Inland Empire and that face is pretty fukking nasty

― wilter, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 00:18 (Yesterday) Bookmark

Yes. Also I've just realised that's Laura Dern's face, isn't it? It's the same as the bit when she's running in slow motion under a spotlight, then abruptly zooms right into the camera with a really terrifying stretchy-mouthed rictus. That bit really shat me up.

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when the face turns into ^^this, it seems to be underwater, the blood kind of floats up?

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah I need to stop clicking on those.

after watching that murder scene on TV, I think it was late 1990? I went to a graveyard shift at the bagel bakery and carried a big knife around with me all night because I was so scared.

next week we all got ready to watch the show and my girlfriend and I suddenly realized that there would be "last week on Twin Peaks" clips and we ran and hid in my room while my housemates screamed in horror, again.

i am trying not to read this thread until i finish watching this thing, but ep 15 (first post Leland-as-Bob) was not directed by Lynch, right? this is unwatchable.

i guess he only directed a few of them. and i think it's the writing, really. what happened here?

i don't remember when i stopped watching the first time around

i am trying not to read this thread until i finish watching this thing, but ep 15 (first post Leland-as-Bob) was not directed by Lynch, right? this is unwatchable.

that was my exact reaction while i was into this show and saw that episode. i stopped watching it after that episode and have never picked it back up.

after reading this thread i've decided i need to see the rest of season 2!

'Neb, it's not nearly the worst in that season. That particular episode was written by Scott Frost (brother of Mark, he also wrote the autobio of Cooper -- "My Life, My Tapes") and directed by Caleb Deschanel.

i.e. it only goes downhill from here. Though there is an upswing when Coop figures everything out, it goes WAY further down after that. Then back up again whe Wyndham comes around.

*when

(The other episode that Scott directed is the one in which the big highlight is that Leo Johnson is reanimated, but mostly all that goes on is more boring-ass James/Evelyn crap, i.e. worst plot ever)

(And I'm happy to blame Scott for the badness of that particular episode you mentioned, 'Neb, because Caleb directed a couple of other episodes. One is in the first few [5, I'm pretty sure] and is a classic, and the other is the one in which Dick Tremaine imagines Little Nicky in a thought bubble over his head dressed as Satan, ergo classic.)