Subject: Fire Walk With me is great... no question
From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Date: 1992-08-31, 07:19
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Saw FWWM Friday night (it was in a neighboring city). Here are my thoughts:
The film was beautiful. I loved it.
Let's face it, the critics are panning it because they are fools with no souls.
They all have feet of clay, how could they possibly understand a brilliant
piece of work like that? They want movies like _Ghost_ or _Home Alone_, stupid
movies (apologies to anyone who liked these flicks) with a plot your average
five year old would sneer at. I don't care that the critics panned it, because
all they want is mediocre anyway. If Twin Peaks hadn't been the trendy thing
to watch back in the beginning,they'd have panned it then; the only reason
they didn't was because everyone else said it was great.
Let's face it, Lynch made that movie for *us*, the die hard, dyed in the wool
fans who tried to keep the show alive, and who discuss it still. In my opinion,
the film was his way of saying "Thank You" to all of us who supported the show.
I think that, right from the beginngng (when they showed the TV that was tuned
to a channel off the air...get it?) Lynch was saying "I made this for you."
The film *did* have its flaws ( we would all have liked to see this or that
character a bit more), but I think Lynch did what he could for us. I think the
people who are saying "It's just another drug adiction movie" are foolish. Think
about it. "just another" drug addiction? What kind of a statement is that?
Two years ago, the critics loved TP because it was "realistic". The movie
followed the same vein, and now they're panning it because it's depressing.
The bloody movie deals with incest, rape, drug addiction, murder, and they want
JOKES?
The critics sneered at __EraserHead__, until Lynch became trendy. Then they
decided he was a visionary, and their opinion of that film changed, or at least
they kept their philistine opimions to themselves. Now they are just moving with
the rest of the flock. It's that simple.
I'm sorry if this is incoherent, but it isn't that often I find a film I really
like, and it burns me when the critics act like a bunch of sheep. They knew what
the movie was about when they went in, and they were still too stupid to
understand. All they want is 10,000 episodes of _Who's the Boss_ to turn their
putrid little brains into third grade oatmeal. Quite frankly, all the critics
can go straight to hell. I thought the film was magic. It was wonderful. It
broke through the cynical shell I built around myself, grabbed hold of me and
didn't let go for the whole length of the movie. The movie made me *feel*.
My heart almost broke at the end, and I felt *good*, knowing things will be
alright for Laura and Coop. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'll
remember and treasure that film for the rest of my life.
ANyway, that's what I think.
Later!
Mike
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