The biggest problem with the original run was that Lynch only directed a few episodes. This new series appears to correct that.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
I don't recall more than two episodes being "bad," perhaps, but a lot of it seemed like marking time. And I did like the movie.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
(after the exposure of the killer I mean)
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
My understanding is that, aside from the last episode, Lynch was barely involved with that latter half of season two (tied up with Wild At Heart and Industrial Symphony No. Blah). That he's involved with the entire upcoming series and that it's being posited as a wrap-up seem like good signs to me.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
omg the bob/madz sequence was genuinely shockingly brutal in a way i can't believe was on ABC in 1990
Yeah, prior to the horrific stuff that has become pro-forma on crime scene investigation shows, that scene is absolutely the most horrifying thing I ever saw on the Big 3.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
As long as it's on cheap dv, and there are talking rabbits involved, I won't be too dissapointed that this takes time away from the making of Inland Empire II.
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
Be pleasantly surprised if this is worthwhile. The feeling and atmosphere had gone by the second year. Second series was only holding my attention because of first, from what I remember. Recreating 90s atmosphere seems impossible today.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
People who bitch about the second half of S2 dismiss the original series finale at their peril.
― Simon H., Monday, 6 October 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
I'm hoping he actually amplifies the atmosphere to Inland Empire levels but I guess that's sort of unlikely.
― Simon H., Monday, 6 October 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
9 hours of Lynch directing anything is a gift
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
Incidentally, a 9-hour director's cut of his Duran Duran concert film is coming soon. You're welcome.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
My favorite "arc" of the original show was the large audience who didn't know David Lynch from the mailman slowly figuring it out it wasn't a regular soap opera, and bailing.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
It definitely was one of the stranger things to become a mainstream phenomenon.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
As long as it's on cheap dv
ha, otm! format is totally the most engrossing part of this to me? lynch talked about watching old footage to put the dvd together & being in love with its quality. & it's academy ratio, too, right? i don't know anything about shooting for tv but even the prospect of that seems kinda pleasingly anachronistic.
― schlump, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
I'd be very surprised if these new episodes answered everything. More likely that it will all get more weird and mysterious.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
I'm glad this is so far in the distance. I have plenty of time to rewatch everything, none of which I've seen since it originally aired on ABC.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
If I don't get a detailed exegesis of exactly what the owls are, I'm going to write such a scathing post on my Livejournal.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
what is it with people and wanting "answers", really
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
they want BOB's resume and CarFax
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
^^^ yup
not interested in resolutions myself
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
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
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Answers are the phallic signifiers that hold the promise of a creating a unified self.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Lynch has been consistently disappointing about explaining his work. It drives me bonkers.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
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)
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
yr sarcasm detector is broken
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, just havin' a larf. Lynch is responsible for some of my favorite cultural products from the last 30+ years.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Oh! It must be. Sorry!
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
otm
Pretty psyched for this.
― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
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!)
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 October 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Monday, 6 October 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Inland Empire is my possibly my favourite film ever. I don't like everything about it but it still blows me away.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 October 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
couldn't finish it.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Monday, 6 October 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
how many more delightful challops do you have
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 October 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 October 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
haha
his last two are def among his best
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 October 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 October 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
IE's closing musical sequence is so great
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 October 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
I first watched Inland Empire in the dark, late at night, on my laptop, with headphones. Highly, highly recommended (except maybe the laptop part).
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 October 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8biyY3trpc
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 October 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
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.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 October 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
agree 100% on that last point. wasted opportunity.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 October 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
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
― schlump, Monday, 6 October 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
he and Gifford were a poor match imo
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 October 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 October 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
MacLachlan's onboard, no shock there:
Kyle MacLachlan @Kyle_MacLachlan 6m6 minutes agoBetter fire up that percolator and find my black suit :-) #Twinpeaks
― Simon H., Monday, 6 October 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
David Bowie and Kiefer Sutherland: busy
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 October 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 October 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link