Subject: Re: Fire Walk With me is great... no question
From: ckt4x@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Curt Tsui)
Date: 1992-08-31, 15:59
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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.
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Critics in general seem to have a desire to see a once lauded
director fail.  With Lynch, their attack appeared a bit after
Twin Peaks, when he was making various magazine covers and the
like.  That's probably one reason for the bad reviews.  Another
may be that none of them even watched the show before, so
there's no real way they can or should expect themselves to
totally follow the film, but unfortunately they don't realize
that fact.

Anyways, as a friend of mine says, "a film critic is nothing
more than a glorified movie-goer."  Their opinions should be
respected as their own, but they have no more credentials than
you or me.
--
                               - Curt Tsui -
           curt@Virginia.EDU
   "Happiness might very well be a glandular condition." - David Cronenberg 

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