Subject: Re: Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me (possible spoliers)
From: Cliff Chaput <chaput@ils.nwu.edu>
Date: 1992-09-01, 12:02
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <Btt4wy.Hwt@well.sf.ca.us> Robert Chao, rchao@well.sf.ca.us
writes:
> >I saw Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me grudgingly, just because a friend
wanted
> >to go. I felt David Lynch had gotten carried away with himself lately, as
> >I didn't like Wild At Heart or the pilot for the second season of TP.
> >I LOVED THIS FILM.
> >I HAVE NO IDEA WHY.

I just have to say, for the record, that I had been an avid TP fan, and I 
absolutely *hated* this movie.  It was embarassingly bad.  Yuck.

Not that this movie didn't have its moments.  It certainly did.  The 
opening credits and opening scene (the extraction from the television, 
etc.) make a definite statement.  And Cooper's FBI office dream sequence, 
with the videocameras and Bowie, are remarkably spooky and dream-like.

But, looking back, that's what the whole movie seemed like to me, a bad 
dream, which would be a appropriate backdrop for a TP story, but there
was 
no story.  Just a handful of facts, half of them there to tie into the 
series.  No explanation or character development.  And the dialog!  
"Gobble, gobble, gobble"?!  Give me a break.

Well, just my $0.02.

Cliff Chaput                   | "The scribes on all the people shove
Institute of Learning Sciences |  and bawl alliegence to the state.
Northwestern University        |  But those who love the greater love
chaput@ils.nwu.edu             |  lay down thier lives; they do not hate"

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