Subject: Finally saw "The Movie" (European release?)
From: kalin@cbnewsm.att.com (andrew.j.kalinowitsch)
Date: 1992-01-29, 11:07
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Finally saw this thing last night and I must say, I'm
disappointed.  Granted, it's impossible to convey
anything but the sketchiest impressions of one-and-a-half
series worth of episodes into a two-hour movie, but . . .

* * * SPOILERS AHEAD * * *


Big deal!  BOB killed Laura.  So what?  I don't know how
a first-time Peaks viewer would react to this, but to me,
it was a severe letdown.  The ending seemed much more
rushed than I expected it to be; sure, twenty minutes is
not very much time to resolve the plotline, but sheesh!
It reminded me of the ending of _The Abyss_, hacked to
death by Hollywood bureaucrats.  I think I would have 
been more satisfied if Lynch had tacked on the "How's
Annie?" segment instead.

If Mike _knew_ that Bob was in the hospital basement, why
didn't he just go down there and shoot him in the first
place rather than calling Cooper? 

And the "25 years later" scene -- what was _that_ all about?
Seemed like it was gratuitously thrown in for no other reason 
than to let Lynch show off one of the more bizarre scenes 
from the series.

Since I deliberately did not read any postings concerning the 
movie, I will now ask:  Did anyone out there get actually _like_ 
this thing?  

Anticlimactically,

Andy
--
"How wrong Emily Dickinson was!  Hope is not 'the thing with the feathers'.
 'The thing with the feathers' has turned out to be my nephew.  I must take
 him to a specialist in Zurich."
- Woody Allen