Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

gay guys love joan chen

i guess that i sort of enjoy the descent into campiness. i think the only sub-plot i truly loathe is the one involving the woman and james, but i also hate everything involving james, so that's a given.

• his hair
• his face

<3 that subplot. The one I can't quite get with is the Andy/Dick/progeny-o-Satan storyline, but at least that one only lasts a couple episodes.

I'll admit that James is, in general, very punchable.

yes, with a brick.

joan chen is a pretty woman, but after the first season all the plotlines with her go nowhere (er, she shot agent cooper why exactly?), and her acting is consistently painful.

actually, the whole mill/ghostwood thing, on a recent reviewing, is pretty dull from the start.

i love all that local politics shit!

when it's purely humorous it's funny, but all the machinations with catherine/ben horne/josie/hank/leo/etc. get pretty dull--and incoherent--pretty fast.

i guess that was their "plot B" all along, but it never seemed worthy to me. (or maybe "plot B" was james/donna, and this was "plot C"--i dunno if they theorized TV like that back in 1990; sure do now.)

IMO of course.

you hate pretty much everything about this show afaict

yeah why don't you just stfu

Laura Palmer was on an episode of House recently and it was so strange to see becasue I haven't really ever seen her in anything else.

*sigh*

tehresa and roxymuzak, you can read upthread for my more positive thoughts on TP, dating back to 2003 ... as i welcomed you to do a few posts above.

also, if i'm not mistaken, isn't roxymuzak like a 40-year-old single mom or something? then why is she posting like a 12-year-old who hasn't had her snack yet?

because im 29 and havent had my snack yet

oh wait, you're the one who was at the pilot light in knoxville when i was there. never mind. i get ILX people mixed up.

no kids btw. why are you being such a bitch today? its just twin peaks dude!

kinda wishing you were

― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, August 3, 2009 1:03 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hey fu amateurist!!

― tehresa, Monday, August 3, 2009 1:04 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

you hate pretty much everything about this show afaict

― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, August 3, 2009 3:41 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah why don't you just stfu

― tehresa, Monday, August 3, 2009 3:43 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

hstencil left ilx, someone had to fill the void.
xpost

you realize those are by two different people, correct?

xpost hahaha

yeah, sorry roxymuzak, i guess tehresa was being more of a pain. but i felt a bit abused. peace.

i'm sorry my posting style = being a pain.
fuck off you gigantic twat.

tehrbota

what

sometimes the SB feels good

I'll say it: James is hot. Minor league hot, but still hot.

And, yeah, not much of a fan of season 2.

"Just You" - Classic or Dud?

ONE OF THE MOST CLASSICALLY LOL THINGS IN THE HISTORY OF EARTH

that's one of the better moments in the 2nd season, and not surprisingly it's a david lynch-directed episode.

i wouldn't call it LOL (at least, it doesn't make me LOL), it's certainly odd but quite beautiful in its way.

i'm sorry my posting style = being a pain.

your posting style was just asinine. it's telling me to "fuck off" that qualifies you as being a pain. but as a wise man once said around these parts, i don't even know who you are.

one thing that makes that sequence so odd = do we ever see james with a guitar, or singing, prior to this episode or after it? i don't believe you. it ties in, i suppose, with his whole persona ("wild one"-style biker, hair that hints at an elvis pompadour), but it just announces itself as a conceit so forcefully. why does this out-of-nowhere moment please me so much when others irritate me? i suppose because it doesn't pretend to be of any consequence to the plot.

i don't believe SO.

sorry for typos! writing fast.

magical drums from nowhere = lol

xpost shes a sitewide mod! ;)

i find it really a pain when people don't check for typos before they post

i read the phantom drums as a reference to all the musicals with their phantom orchestras playing behind a tap-dancing/singing gene kelly, etc.

lynch is obv fascinated with the ontology of recorded sound -- see the "no hay banda" scene in MULHOLLAND DR, the lip synching in BLUE VELVET, etc.

ok tehresa let's talk about twin peaks now, OK?

thats funny, though

i believe i attempted to do that before but it was a pain so

haw

we can all agree that FIRE WALK WITH ME is boss, though, right?

only a few people i know like it. whereas i think it is so mercilessly scary and weird that i fucking love it. especially the 'pink room' scene.. wish there was more of it up other than what this asshole posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpH0imTHw6Y

Got y'all some friendship donuts.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/160443802_c7c4ea4376.jpg?v=0

iirc we already disagreed about it a year ago xpost

Fire Walk with Me is my second favorite film. The first thirty minutes, and all of the Bob/Mike/Black Lodge shit is just mindblowingly awesome for me. I still hope the rights issues get resolved and we get the deleted scenes someday.

I'm still pissed that they fucked up the audio for the Pink Room scene on the DVD release, making the dialogue easily audible and the subtitles useless. It ruins the hypnotic quality of the scene.

yeah, it is a shame.

yeah, in the theater the dialogue was incomprehensible. there's a neat, and to my mind similar, moment in THE STRAIGHT STORY where lynch cuts to a long shot and the characters' dialogue suddenly becomes scarcely audible, as though we along with the camera had backed up out of easy earshot. it's a good example of "defamiliarization" -- he takes something simple, like a cut out to a master shot, and reminds of the convention of the typical sound mix, where the dialogue's volume seldom accords with what (or how much) we see on screen.

i would love to see TPFWWM again in 35mm, by the way. probably will never get the chance.

i think a lot of critics are coming around on this one, either reversing their earlier dismissals or finally just coming out and admitting they like it. kent jones carries the torch for this one (although, unlike me, he thinks MULHOLLAND DRIVE is a superior go-round of similar themes).