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Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
FWWM was a bad movie, an uneven mess that not even Lee's performance could salvage it. Re-watching it again recently only made me feel even more hostile towards it. There's some good scenes and I like that it was explored further with Leland being tormented by his demons (BOB) and the suffering Laura had to endure. The bad "spirits" from the Black Lodge make more metaphorical sense than what was suggested from the TV show. I know the film had to be cut down from 5 or 6 hours worth, but the editing was poorly done. Oh and Donna was a total miscast.

Overall it was a terrible misfire from Lynch, who is pretty inconsistent in my world (Mulholland Dr is like in my top 3 favorite films, that being said).

Love the original series except of course that disastrously awful run of S2 episodes up to and including the Windom Earle arc.

The new series probably is not going to be anything like the original, for better or worse. As long as Lynch/Frost have much more creative control over the project it'll be pretty drat good, but I'm not exactly expecting a total nostalgic revisit of the original series (a good thing). I'm glad Angelo is back to scoring the new series.

Confounding Factor fucked around with this message at 07:26 on May 20, 2017

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Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
HOLY poo poo THAT WAS AMAZING.

THAT loving THING IN THAT GLASS CUBE, JESUS. BEAUTIFULLY SHOT THOUGH

Love the Erasehead vibe in the beginning.

Confounding Factor fucked around with this message at 04:52 on May 22, 2017

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
It's like Mulholland Drive meets Eraserhead and Lost Highway and Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks rolled up in one.

Love everything I am seeing so far. It doesn't feel like Twin Peaks at all but I prefer the direction of this more.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Philthy posted:

Twin Peaks (The town) feels like it's waiting to be released. I think this is intentional and it'll throw us in when Agent Cooper gets out. If not? I wont be disapointed with hours and hours of more Lost Mulholland Highway cuz holy poo poo yes.

Exactly that's my favorite Lynch. I'm mindblown by how good this is so far. And we get 18 episodes of Lynch mindfucking us.

I know there are going to be diehard fans that think, so far, this doesn't resemble the original series much, as it lacks the campy goofy poo poo. My only concern is there are too many characters suffocating and not fleshed out a bit if that makes sense. Jesus there's what over 200 people in the cast, it's nuts. Even that said these two parts have been flawless. I'll wait til next week to see 3+4.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Cant get the first two episodes out of my head (waiting til next week for 3&4).

Probably going to re-watch tonight. Just wish I could watch all 18 episodes uninterrupted right now.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
LOL the log ladys dead husband. See this is why I dont want poo poo explained and kept ambigious. Fan theories are so nutty and wild and awesome.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
So someone brought up an interesting prediction on who owns that glass cube in NYC: Audrey. Maybe she knows its a way to bring back Cooper...

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
How clever of a bastard is Lynch? Naomi Watts has to take care of someone again who has memory loss issues. Brilliant.

LOL at someone saying the casino where "Mr. Jackpots" is winning is the heritage the Log was talking about.

Confounding Factor fucked around with this message at 04:04 on May 23, 2017

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Lord Krangdar posted:

So far to me it feels a lot like Inland Empire, but you should watch that after Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive.

The beginning of Ep3 literally seems like an Inland Empire outtake.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Ugh can't we just watch all the episodes?

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Exploder posted:

This episode felt a lot more like classic Twin Peaks than the previous four episodes. Frankly, I think we needed it. I'm digging everything about this so far.

I dunno the scenes that recall the old TP vibe feel forced.

There just seems to be too many characters and it's suffocating the episodes a bit.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

The Merkinman posted:

How do you feel about the number of locations?

I think Lynch drove by too many Twin Peaks Restaurants near Vegas and said "let's have most of the show take place here instead!"

LOL. Yeah I guess we could include the locations too.

But the bizarre thing is after watching Episode 5 it seems like all the loose threads are slowly starting to come together, but then we get a new puzzle piece that doesn't fit yet like the what's in Argentina and a few of the new characters.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
So wait I'm confused, do we know Briggs definitively died 25 years ago? We know that he went to his listening station and a fire was started there in which he was supposedly killed. The fire might've been started to cover up his abduction by Doppleganger Cooper and Jeffries or someone else, or it might've been started by Briggs himself to fake his own death and flee from them in order keep his wife and Bobby out of danger. He could've wound up in the Black Lodge or somewhere similar himself for a period of time. Remember, Cooper saw his face in the void whispering, "Blue rose!".

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
So I stumbled into reading this:

quote:

Well, an interesting observation someone made in another thread is this, the gold ball Dougie dissolved into? It's probably a pearl. After Mike picks it up, he walks over to the formica table, and guess what the bottom of the table is shaped like? A clam. This definitely fits in a roundabout way with what we know.
https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/6ffur9/s3e5_the_weird_text_message/dii0jrx/

I didn't notice the shape of the Formica table being like a clam, but I also likened the little gold ball Dougie dissolved into being pearl-like. Part of Dougie was vile black energy from Bob. Part was the gold pearl. From Coop? Does Mike need to get that back to Coop to make him whole again? Is that what he means when he tells Coop he was tricked? By entering our plane the way he did, did he lose part of himself, and render himself more helpless and easily dispatched by Bob's minions, leaving Bob the only one of the Coopers who will survive, since one of the two has to go?

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Best episode yet! DIANE!!!!

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Raxivace posted:

Has anyone, at any point in their lives, ever known a guy named Chad that wasn't a piece of poo poo?

Now that I think about it, no I have never meet a good guy Chad.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

SeANMcBAY posted:

This may be my favorite one yet. loving christ.

Like for me Parts 1+2 are in my eyes a stand alone piece and I'm so glad they decided to broadcast both parts seamlessly. It just works beautifully.

Episodic wise yeah this episode was the best yet. So many interesting things.

Turdfuzz posted:

i like how lynch can swing between horrifying tragedy of a kid bein run over n then a scene where mini vin diesel ice picks ppl to death

Lmao @ mini vin diesel. Holy gently caress.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Guys Dougie works at Lucky 7 insurance...and the next episode is #7...hmmm

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I hated Dougie at first but I'm starting to fall in love with the character. There's gotta be some deeper critique Lynch is making about petty surburban life.

Epsiode 6 was brilliant and had great pacing. I think this season is shaping up to be superior to the original in every way.

Watch Lynch troll everyone hoping for the return of Agent Coop and he shows up only in the final two episodes of the season.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

KyloWinter posted:

This show is hot garbage.

Please tell us more.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Solice Kirsk posted:

The biggest complaint I've heard is that there's no room for any characters to grow because each episode introduces 6 more and two more plot lines. Personally, I love it because I know not everything is going to be tied up or together and I'm interested in seeing how this all plays out. We're a third of the way through and Lynch is still setting the table. I'm assuming the last few episodes are gonna be jaw dropping.

I absolutely agree with that complaint and its a legitimate one. Strangely it doesn't detract from my overall enjoyment of this series. If the focus can stay on a few major characters and an overarching plotline then I don't care how many killed-off-in-1-episode characters or red herring plots they introduce. Those sort of spontaneous, wacky, weird poo poo works perfectly in Twin Peaks.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Ginette Reno posted:

I kinda wish this was released all at once because it feels like a show that should be binge watched. Ep6 didn't feel like it was all that self contained. It felt like a pretty arbitrarily broken up hour of TV. I still liked it of course, but dang if it didn't feel incomplete without ep7 to immediately follow it.

Yep exactly. They should have released the whole thing at once. I have so much other poo poo im watching at the moment that whatever minor details I should have remembered for the future episodes are long gone by now. I vaguely remember a few scenes from the first part, it feels like I watched it months ago lol.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

What is this and where is this from? Background looks like the Simpsons.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I love watching someone sweeping peanut shells.

And gently caress you!

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

How many straight minutes of sweeping with nothing happening was that? Like 2?

It felt like an eternity.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Came across this bit of criticism the other day:

quote:

A collection of rambling and samey set pieces amateurishly glued together by a frankly adolescent conviction that weirdness in any form – hey, let’s not bother with a plot – can pass for clever and interesting, it should never have been made (and, having poked about online, I detect weariness setting in even among those who hailed its promise at the start). People love to talk – The X-Files blah, True Detective blah – of the influence Twin Peaks has had on television in the years since it first screened (1990-91). But this is silly, overstated. Television changes for myriad reasons, and is changing still, thanks to Netflix. That Lynch seems neither to know of these changes nor to care does not make him a hero, or even an auteur. It makes him a fool, and a dinosaur.
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv-radio/2017/06/handmaids-tale-could-be-straight-out-raqqa

I like the show precisely because of those reasons.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
David Lynch is insane and I'm glad Showtime didn't stop the madness.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
The photo with Bad Coop at the NYC Cube, who is sitting with him?

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I love that Lynch is trolling the entire fanbase with Dougie.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I'd like a gif of Sarah Palmer taking off her face and taking out that dude's throat.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Escobarbarian posted:

They were 100% accurate. They didn't say that Bellucci would be playing herself, or the specifics of the James/Freddie scene, but otherwise had it all.

Wait are there leaks of the rest of the episodes?

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Ed and Norma, all that matters.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Audrey the dreamer...

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
This finale is going to be loving insane.

Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
This is a pretty awesome theory on the ending:

https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/6xxh4p/s3e18_theory_on_the_finale/

Makes a lot of sense...

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Confounding Factor
Jul 4, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I loved the creepy ambient music during Ep 18 credits.

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