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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

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From Time Out Film Guide

'Goddamn, these people are peculiar!' opines Harry Dean Stanton's trailer-park manager in Lynch's big screen prequel to his cult TV series. He's right: not only are his fellow-characters weird, but the film's makers must be pretty odd too. For one thing, they evidently never felt that the tortuous narrative need make sense to audiences; for another, they appear to have made no attempt to conceal the cynicism that presumably motivated their desire to cash in on their TV success. It begins a year before Laura Palmer's death, with FBI agent Desmond (Isaak) investigating the murder of one Teresa Banks (Gidley); meanwhile, Dale Cooper (MacLachlan) has his usual premonitory dreams. The whole thing looks like off-cuts from the series that were eliminated because they were either too nasty or too inept. Moreover, the cast consists largely of the series' weakest performers (Lee, particularly, as Laura Palmer, proves she can't carry a movie). Self-parody would seem too generous an assessment of Lynch's aims and achievement.

Author: GA

Time Out Film Guide

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Brett S said...

Posted on Feb 02 2012 23:36 Oh yes, another thing, idiot, Lynch is hardly the only "weird" filmmaker. Bergman, Polanski, & Welles have made much more weird films than Lynch has ever done. But, based on your ignorance in your review, I'm not surprised you are ignorant on cinema history.

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Brett S said...

Posted on Feb 02 2012 23:33 This "review" is pathetic. Your disgusting remarks about Sheryl Lee's performance are very wrong. Her facial expressions (which you obviously never bothered to pay attention), are some of the best pieces of acting in the last 20 years. In some ways, its quite reminiscent of the silent era, & she does a fantastic job.
Your hero MacLachlan isn't capable of giving any convincing emotion. And Sheryl's performance (along with the actual film itself), really had such a strong emotional impact on incest victims, who had been able to get some sort of emotional release from the film.
Your "review" lists no example as to why its a bad performance, & clearly the idiot who wrote it thinks what they say is true authority based on the arrogant tone that your turd radiates.

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James Lee Kennett said...

Posted on Jul 26 2010 16:20 Certainly one of the best films, David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' needs to be experienced to be believed. Free from the expectations created by the TV show, an audience has been building who see this film as an example of cinema at its most powerful. If you love film, you owe it to yourself to watch this film.

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