Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

maybe a conspiracy minded lefty, but not seeing evidence of raging anti-antisemitism. that bio just read like some 4-chan style internet graffiti to me but i'm not exactly looking to do this research at work.

remove 1 anti there

oooh, i see that bio is on his FB page and not like wikipedia or something. n/m, walking away from that one.

for my part, I can't stop looking at LittleMike.net's facebook

https://www.facebook.com/LittleMike.net/posts/10153286065418645

Did you follow wins' facebook link? (MA posted a "Zionists control all US media video.)

xp

er, LittleMike.net's *facebook* xp

ok is this a pottery thing or have I had a stroke

wins link just took me to the top of his profile page for some reason. y'all are right, i rescind my "hold up guys!" sentiments above. xpsss

a pottery thing?

I mean some kind of mysterious autocorrect mangling my post every time I type "LittleMike.net's facebook"

facebook

lol what is going on here

-zionist conspiracy?
- the owls?

The zionists are not what they seem.

Regardless of his politics, TP without The Man from Another Place is surely a hugely diminished thing.

'hugely'?

I'd be okay with them substituting The Mystery Man from The Lost Highway as some kind of unholy hybrid between the man from another place and Bob.

Bob and the Man From Another Place both being gone seems kind of fitting. Maybe Al Strobel will appear restored, with both arms lol

There were other spirits, remember. Perhaps freaky high top fade dude will take center stage this time.

https://garmonblogzia.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jumpingman.jpg

haha I don't remember that one is that from FWWM

Yeah, while Bowie is recounting his adventures above the convenience store.

the actor who played that guy is back

Outic haven't you seen FWWM??

a bunch of times but come on there's a ton of random shit in there I can't remember everything!

the actor who played that guy is back

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For real?! I mean, I'm happy the creep will be there (I've been considering that Halloween costume for years), but if anyone could've easily been recast... Kudos to Lynch's loyalty to his original cast!

don't diminish the jumping talents of Carlton Lee Russell

anyway I'm in the process of acquiring the fan edit of FWWM with the missing pieces scenes edited back in. Wonder if Lynch will ever do this himself. The Bowie scene and the 'above the convenience store' scene make way more sense in the Missing Pieces.

That seems to have been Lynch's 'thing' back then, extracting bits until the narrative doesn't quite make sense. I was fairly disappointed after watching the deleted Wild At Heart scenes in the Lime Green box, as I realized that the story was initially much more linear and straightforward (relatively speaking, of course) and seemed to have been deliberately weirded up after the fact.

the version of TP:FWWM that's in the full script is annoyingly straightforward by comparison with the finished film. i'm glad he left it as it is.

wild at heart would probably be lynch's worst film in any iteration.

yeah it's easily his worst

it's the closet thing to lynch self-parody. i guess he was overextending himself in the early 1990s.

er, closest

it's probably his worst but i still like it *shrugs*

someday i hope there's a tell-all exposé on the making of Duran Duran: Unstaged

I think it's some combination of hubris, over-work and Barry Gifford being a shitty writing partner

I'd probably take Wild at Heart over Lost Highway, Dune, and a Fire Walk With Me. ~controversial ilx opinions~

Lost Highway is like 2/3rds of a good movie (I have serious objections to the way Richard Pryor was used), Dune is fantastic, FWWM has plenty redeeming qualities. WAH is just a mess, it has no center, it's just a bunch of empty gestures.

I love a lot of things about Wild at Heart (Laura Dern, the use of color, the jarring transitions between scenes), but it goes very far into mannerism.

IDK how Lost Highway, Dune, or FWWM are in any way LESS of a mess.

Anyway, won't derail. Definitely talked about this on another thread.

FWWM is still one of the glories of Lynch's work, however desperately bleak it is.

The wild at heart extra scenes made me like it a lot more actually! Not really arguing for their inclusion, the film as it is is already fairly narratively straightahead, it really doesn't need another hour and also I still don't really like it

Gifford is not good, I read all the sailor & lula books recently & bleh, but lost highway is great

Fwwm is brilliant, the missing pieces are also great but I really don't understand the desire to watch a "fan edit" that mashes them together

This is pretty much the only place where I've heard so much unreserved love for FWWM. I mean, I like it OK, but it's always been toward the bottom of the his filmmography for me. Will revisit soon, it's been a few years.

Count me as another FWWM lover.

I'd never seen Dune until a few years ago and was surprised that it both wasn't bad and that it was fairly faithful to the source material. The biggest obstacle he faced is that I don't think it's possible to film a Dune adaptation that is a) faithful, b) coherent, and c) under like four hours long.

lost highway has a really elegant /form/. it gets a little too self-consciously "scandalous" and self-parodic in some of its details, but on the whole it's just a very satisfying bit of surrealist narrative.

FWWM has definitely been critically rehabilitated in the past decade or so, such that i think appreciating the film now seems like conventional wisdom.

other problem w/ Lost HIghway (which is really just a minor problem) is that Balthazar Getty is kind of a nullity. Bill Pullman is perfectly cast though.

Saw Lost Highway in a theater a few months ago. It's good up until around the identity switch. Most of the stretch with Getty (that road rage scene...) has got to be a nadir of sorts for Lynch. Just does not work. Rebounds near the end, but not enough to save it.

my opinion on lost highway is a recently revised one, I think when I first saw it back in the day I had the common reaction that it was kinda lynch doing lynch in an unsatisfactory way. Now I really love it. Was it JLG who said that the first 45 minutes comprised one of the greatest films ever?

probably rivette. i can't imagine JLG giving two shits about david lynch. he seldom comments on contemporary films.

I need to rewatch Lost Highway. I honestly don't think I've seen it since its initial home video release. I have no excuse. And I still haven't seen Straight Story at all. I don't know what I'm doing with my life but it isn't good.

I like the messier stuff after the switch tho, all the rammstein in corridors stuff seems way more necessary on rewatch. xps no way the road rage scene is great!

(that road rage scene...)

yeah this is terrible