Subject: Re: Finally saw "The Movie" (European release?)
From: csd15@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.M. Friel)
Date: 1992-02-02, 08:02
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Jan29.190726.13952@cbnewsm.att.com>, kalin@cbnewsm.att.com (andrew.j.kalinowitsch) writes:
> > 
> > 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 . . .
> > 

It should be remembered that this film was made as pilot for what was at the 
time a potential tv series.  The film wasn't intended to summarise the whole
of the series in the first place!  After all it hadn't even been made at the
time.  The ending which was put on was just to make the film (sort of) 
complete (probably just in case the series never got off the ground).  
Also, as you probably noticed, the first episode of the first series was just an
extended version of the film, only with a different ending.  In fact the final 
scene of the film wasn't even used in 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?  

I feel that this is a bit of a silly question.  As a film in its own right, in 
my opinion, it was pretty good apart from the `obvioiusly added on at the last
minute ending'.  But once you've seen at least the first series the film becomes
virtually obsolete.

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