What's different about that version? What would you like to see done with it? How could it even be released? Longest ever iTunes store movie?I hope I can find the few extras from the new Blu-ray online sometime. I'm not buying all of it again!
― maffew12, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
My understanding is, just as I said in my post: Lynch has remixed the sound for cinemas What I’d like to see done with it I thought was also clear: I’d like for it to be exhibited more than once ever. I (and others too, I reckon) would be up for seeing it in a theatre, without having to travel to New York/January 2018 to do so
― YouGov to see it (wins), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
there could be a weird motel you walk into that leads you into New York, January 2018
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
sorry, this was quite a poor effort on my part. I even had to Google "dcp". Best of luck in your endeavor to bankrupt movie houses
― maffew12, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
I think wins wants it to be available in cinemas, meaning he'd be paying to see it live?
(dcp meaning the digital release that is sent directly to theaters in place of film reels in the current time)
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
I'll see you at the curtain call
― maffew12, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
The moma screening was free! Also, split across several nights. Here in the uk there’s a pretty expensive 3-day festival for fans of this series and it always sells out insanely quickly, I might be wrong but I reckon if a movie house put this on as a special event at an appropriate price it wouldn’t lead to bankruptcy I was being (lowkey) hyperbolic when I said “lowkey criminal” I don’t think anyone should be arrested for not screening this every weekend until they go bust, I was just trying to say it would be cool to see it
― YouGov to see it (wins), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
I demand it be screened every weekend
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
imo screening two episodes a week would be an excellent way for an arthouse cinema to show this
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
dougy jones was made for imax
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
9 eps per day over one weekend or bust
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 September 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
when I first saw it I had to watch each episode twice in a row, there was so much to take in
― Dan S, Thursday, 5 September 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
I capped off summer 2017 weekends watching this with the girl I would later get engaged to that fall at Salish Lodge (aka the real Great Northern).
― Chris L, Thursday, 5 September 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
:)
always wanted to visit Snoqualmie
― Dan S, Thursday, 5 September 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
it makes me happy that that happened to you, Chris L!
― Dan S, Thursday, 5 September 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
Thank you, Dan! I certainly could have never imagined it.
― Chris L, Thursday, 5 September 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
― maffew12, Wednesday, September 4, 2019 5:32 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah because they're doing great showing Siodmak noirs and Visconti melodramas. there are usually like 10 people at the revival series I go to. whenever they're anything DL related, they clean up. tons of people. they could show the entire S3 in installments over a month and make more than they ever would with Chinatown or whatever A24 has out now.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
still, i for one welcome any and all support in my continuing endeavor to bankrupt movie houses
― I am also Harl (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
you are far away
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
what? do things appear?
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
Started rewatching from the very beginning. The pilot is such a perfect thing. It's interesting to see it again from the perspective of The Return. Gerard (one-armed man) was a traveling shoe salesman? At some point did he ditch the real world and wander into the red room for good?
I'm almost done with the first season and it still blows my mind that this was on network TV in 1989/90.
Shots of the Palmer house exterior give me the willies now. It is almost a character itself.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 09:48 (four years ago) link
Who says Gerard/Mike was ever in our world or the lodge for real long stretches? (What is time to a being like that anyways?) Maybe he is back and forth, selling shoes to sherrifs all over the place, making valuable connections.Occasional spells doin murders, when creamed corn is running low, I guess
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:07 (four years ago) link
Re network TV, did they even look at the episode with Maddie's murder before it aired? Yikes
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
I wonder if there is some connection between the way they highlighted the opiod crisis / general sad state of the youth in The Return and Mike appearing to be a good guy. His need for garmonbozia collection well looked after with a steady stream of suffering in the town he is minding. Of course maybe the entire thing is a trap for Cooper. Aah this show.
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
I don’t know if Gerard existed before MIKE - we know that MIKE is like BOB, and rebelled/converted, cutting off his arm. He hides in the Gerard identity, but whether it’s a possession or if MIKE/Gerard’s appearance is like the appearance of BOB when outside of his host.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
(He hides with the use of anti-psychotics)
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
Right right. Gerard would've been born around the same time as Sarah and the bomb? Maybe a radioactive spider bit his arm.
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
Is MIKE one of the few people with understanding to mention God? “When I saw the face of God...” or what have you.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
damn, I guess? The only split lodge spirit as well? The arm and Mike were one, right, not some kind of double possession before the arm came off?
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
I'm all kinds of mixed up now. I'm early into a rewatch and I checked out the new series of videos on YouTube by "corn pone flicks" (recently completed?) that gave me a lot new to chew on. Only half remembering all of it.
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
Extra-textual explanation would just be that it was the pilot, and the God stuff is just out of place.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
laura palmer is the face of god/love
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
definitely some stuff in the pilot that it seems like they discarded. But didn't he talk God again when they were questioning him at the police station?
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
Brad, do we have confirmation on this?
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:47 (four years ago) link
I might be getting the timeline muddled. He certainly seemed more central in the pilot than he turned out to be, I guess?
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:47 (four years ago) link
I had some theories about MIKE being the only Lodge entity that looked the same in his real-world manifestation but they got shot all to hell over the course of The Return.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
wait, what other forms does he have in the Return?
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:49 (four years ago) link
― maffew12, Wednesday, September 25, 2019 5:47 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
nope it literally just occurred to me as an idea. sounds right to me, still
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
― maffew12, Wednesday, September 25, 2019 7:47 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yes, Lynch explained it in both his Blu-ray commentary and in the many interviews he's given where he patiently answers in detail every lingering question about the show.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
MIKE doesn't take other forms in The Return but I had some whackadoo notion that Doppelcooper would wind up losing an arm at some point or something, I don't even know, we were all in a wildly speculative mode back then.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
lol whatalso, Blu-ray commentary???
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
Yeah, he recorded several of them. Once he finally popped the cork he just couldn't stop explaining everything.
(If it isn't clear, I'm talking utter shit rn.)
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
you know i don't think i've ever really thought about this before but if bob had been successful in taking over laura the world would've ended pretty much immediately
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
everything would've been erased and we'd be at peace
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
Gerard/Mike occupies a strange place in the show. Started as an homage to The Fugitive and was meant to be a brief nonspeaking role. Once Lynch realized that he was a legit actor he wanted more of him. Gerard is only glimpsed briefly in the pilot (except for Euro movie version). I think he mentions God during Cooper's dream (which used the same footage). I haven't gotten to the interrogation where they deny him his drugs, so I can't remember if he mentions God there. But yeah, God can mean a lot of different things.
Lynch and his cowriter for Fire Walk With Me began to really figure out Mike & The Arm (little man from another place) during the writing of FWWM, so a lot of what happened with them prior to that was just winging it.
In my imagination, Philip Gerard was a real man that got wrapped up in the lodges. He was a salesman, his best friend was Bob Lydecker, the veterinarian in Twin Peaks. Between season 2 & 3 he went into the red room and stayed there, trying to make up for the wrongs he had done in the past. But trying to make real sense of it is a fool's game.
Still, I was taken aback at seeing him acting as a normal dude with his shoes and whatnot.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
I’m pretty sure in the interrogation he repeats a lot of stuff he said in the dream verbatim (the poem obv, but I feel like some other stuff too) so the god line may have reappeared there
― YouGov to see it (wins), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
I guess we'll never know for sure
― maffew12, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
I practically never type this, but: lol.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
how do i know you know anything about... this?
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 27 September 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
purple ocean dimension: shades of planet caladan (and unrelatedly, myst)
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 28 September 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link