Subject: Re: FWWM - first impressions/audience reaction
From: gcpahren@eos.ncsu.edu (GREGORY CHARLES PAHREN)
Date: 1992-08-29, 13:53
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Aug29.050621.7706@scubed.com> stevens@scubed.com (Jeff Stevens) writes:
> >
> >  Good movie overall.  A little weak at the beginning and the
> >end, but excellent in the middle.

   I thought it was an excellent movie!!!!!  Best of the year.  One of the best
ever!!!!!  I agree the beginning was a little (and I stress little) weak, but 
necessary to give us some insight into the Theresa Banks situation.  Lynch's
directing was outstanding!!!  And the acting was very good, except for Moira 
Kelly who, although a Lara Flynn Boyle clone, just never gave me the impression
she was really Donna.

  The dream sequences and supernatural effects were incredibly eerie.  When
Laura gets the message from the old woman and the boy that "The man behind
the mask is under the fan". WOW!  Then she goes home to find BOB in her room.
That scared me s**tless.  Then her dream that night, and Annie shows up
telling her "The good Dale is in the lodge".  The whole movie I was in awe. 
   

> >  The reaction of the audience was interesting.  

  Interesting is an understatement.  There were certain scenes in the lodge
and when Leland/BOB is attacking Laura that there was dead silence in the 
theater.  I mean DEAD silence.  No popcorn crunching, no seats rustling,
no whispers, and the theater I was in was full!!!  This was a very powerful 
movie.

   I just have one question (well, only one that I'm really concerned about).
When Bobby killed the drug dealer, Laura kept saying "You killed Mike, You 
killed Mike".  What did she mean?  The spirit MIKE was in the one-armed man,
and it certainly wasn't Bobby's friend Mike.  Anyone who could shed some
light on this one would certainly be appreciated.

> >
> >  Hope it does well enough for a sequel!
> >

   As a general rule, I refuse to see sequels.  However, I am so hooked on
Twin Peaks, I would LOVE to see another movie.  Peaks is Lynch's best work
so far and I want more!!!  From what I can tell about Lynch, though, it 
won't matter how well it does for him to decide to make another or not.  I
mean if he went solely on the basis of TV ratings, this movie would never
have been made.  So I think that if he feels like doing another one, and
he can come up with some good ideas (which we all know he can), he will
make another. 

 
               "Fire, walk with me"
 

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