Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

was talking w/ a friend about the tweets on Saturday evening and he said that he'll be disappointed if Dale Cooper is not now the Mayor of Twin Peaks

Answers are the phallic signifiers that hold the promise of a creating a unified self.

I never really cared. Pretty sure Lynch wanted the mysteries to deepen.
I'm a huge fan of Fire Walk With Me but I barely followed what was happening. I never bothered with series 2 and I don't plan to ever see it.

Lynch has been consistently disappointing about explaining his work. It drives me bonkers.

Like, you can't just put this stuff out there and not tell us what it means. Hellooooooo.

i have never watched a frame of this after the original run, so make up Cooper quotes all you want and i'll buy it.

(a friend just mentioned Windom Earle on FB and I have *no* memory of this character)

Old Lunch- I think the overall atmosphere and the sense of possibilities and ideas is what matters. I doubt he has concrete explanations. Just enjoy the dreams.

yr sarcasm detector is broken

Yeah, just havin' a larf. Lynch is responsible for some of my favorite cultural products from the last 30+ years.

Oh! It must be. Sorry!

what is it with people and wanting "answers", really

otm

Pretty psyched for this.

I feel like Twin Peaks is an unacknowledged ancestor to a lot of Showtime dramas, in that it's second season turned to intellegible shit.

(needs some work on wording, but it's exactly 140 characters!)

Twin Peaks first season was the best thing Lynch ever did. Downhill from that peak ever since culminating in the unwatchable pretentious nadir of Inland Empire.

Inland Empire is my possibly my favourite film ever. I don't like everything about it but it still blows me away.

couldn't finish it.

how many more delightful challops do you have

His last two films are his best and are also sit high among the best films of the 21st Century. I assume. Couldn't finish either.

haha

his last two are def among his best

Even if you hate it you gotta see the bits at the end. There's at least 3 bits in that film that terrified me like nothing I had seen since I was little.

IE's closing musical sequence is so great

I first watched Inland Empire in the dark, late at night, on my laptop, with headphones. Highly, highly recommended (except maybe the laptop part).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8biyY3trpc

Twin Peaks first seasonMulholland Dr was the best thing Lynch ever did

that he was distracted from TP by making the slop that was Wild at Heart is tragicomic, tho.

agree 100% on that last point. wasted opportunity.

wild at heart's so wonderful; one of the best examples of just how distinctive his range & tone are, that he can lend this feeling of sense to surreal digressions, internal logic to unexpected asides

he and Gifford were a poor match imo

Mulholland Dr was the best thing Lynch ever did

Agree with this, I think. The fact that it was carved out of a hunk of unused TV pilot makes me hopeful for what he does for pay cable.

MacLachlan's onboard, no shock there:

Kyle MacLachlan ‏@Kyle_MacLachlan 6m6 minutes ago
Better fire up that percolator and find my black suit :-) #Twinpeaks

David Bowie and Kiefer Sutherland: busy

Search and Destroy his various other tv projects, short films and adverts?

I like The Grandmother, Alphabet, Absurd Encounter With Fear and the PlayStation advert with the deer.

I didn't enjoy most of his short films, the comedic ones in particular.

There's still a bunch of stuff I haven't seen. Does anyone recommend Industrial Symphony or the Inland Empire outtake compilation More Things That Happened? I really want to see the latter someday.

did you skip On the Air? Best described by a friend of mine as "a comedy by people who don't understand comedy" - intermittently charming and weird and funny, but usually for the wrong reasons

I like the one about the cowboy and the frenchman

http://i.imgur.com/vJfCxzS.png?1?4968

Haven't seen On The Air. The cowboy/Frenchman one is actually one of my least favourites aside from one or two funny bits.

this news has totally made my day

and I was having a pretty shitty day

Is On the Air on youtube? I think it was only available briefly on VHS back in the day.

On The Air is around. Parts of it are among Lynch's most bizarre moments. Can't say I'd exactly recommend it, though.

yeah I wouldn't either, and def not to Gilmour's tastes I would wager

should i watch this show

More Things That Happened is kinda essential, I think. For me, the whole point of Inland Empire is that it has all these overlapping stories exploding and consuming each other, with no center keeping it all together. More Things That Happened further undermines Inland Empire as a cohesive work, and puts it on the plane of stuff happening, which is where it belongs, and why it's unique, and a masterpiece.

Yeah, I watched it immediately after watching IE and it didn't feel at all superfluous.

Cool, I'll need to find a copy of Inland Empire that includes it.

How about Hotel Room?

I have somehow never watched the More Things That Happened stuff. Should rectify that.

was this on an IE disc release?

I'm sure I saw some of On the Air, nothing stuck with me.

Conversely, I think the Wild At Heart deleted scenes in the Lime Green Set made me dislike the movie more. They suggest that the film was at one point more coherent and slightly more traditional, narratively speaking, and that Lynch snipped away at the film in an effort to make it more Lynchian.

has it really been almost 10 years since he's done a feature-length film?!?

Yeah, Morbs, the More Things That Happened content is on a second disc (along with the Rabbits shorts) of the copy of IE that I have.

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It's tempting to imagine an alternate career for him where he did both good, "conventional" studio films (tho I don't consider that a wholly accurate label even for Elephant Man) and passion projects, a la Soderbergh.

I have mixed feelings about that Marion Cottilard handbag advert. There's nice stuff in it but I still couldn't shake the feeling I get from other fashion adverts that try for some sort of emotional depth but don't achieve it.

hope everybody says coffee and pie a whole lot, call me a dreamer maybe we can get some hashtags out of it. that'll be so great