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Summary: One of Lynch's finest.
Review: This is more than your typical movie. I cannot explain this film to anyone who has not yet experienced it. I recommend this film to people with open minds.
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Summary: Lynch is like that
Review: A) If you've had very little experience with the series, you're more likely to like this film. It is much more connected to Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive (and stylistically forms a trillogy with them the main recurring elements being a deranged voyeuristic male and a starlet that keeps changing from blonde to brunette).
B) Fire... leaves you with a strange sinking feeling of redemption. The only experience comparable was the last major car accident that I was in.
C) It is terrifically beautiful.
I also want to mention that the documentary is the most Lynch-ian thing I've seen and I'm amazed to hear his "fans" say they hate it. Non-linear, subjective, and very very funny while also illuminating and ironicly dark. That's Lynch and the documentary in a nutshell.
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Summary: What the hell is Garmonbozia?
Review: As a fan of the Twin Peaks series, I was somewhat disappointed in Fire Walk With Me on first viewing. However, I now own the DVD, and upon repeated viewings I rank this film among Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive as the director's finest. I find Laura Palmer's final week alive and her descent into near madness to be absolutely fascinating. I love the bizarre dreamlike sequences and the strange clues that Lynch gives us: the ring, the Indian whooping sound, the writing on the missing FBI Agent's car, the burning smell, the old woman and the boy in the white mask, and David Bowie. All of these elements, as well as a super-surreal scene in a Canadian nightclub, make for one of Lynch's most rivetting mysteries. A warning to die-hard Twin Peaks fans, Fire Walk With Me is very different from the series in terms of tone. While the series had a very darkly comic tone, the film's tone is just plain dark(Except for the Chris Isaak/Keifer Sutherland prologue). But think about it, the film covers the events that lead to Laura Palmer's emotional breakdown and eventual murder. How is one supposed to make that humorous? And to fans of Kyle Maclachlan's Agent Cooper, savor every scene he's in, because he ain't in that many. But at least he, unlike many of the show's other regulars, actually appears in the film. But with this said, Fire Walk With Me is David Lynch's brilliant portait of a doomed and psychologically tortured girl and is a must own for every Lynch/Twin Peaks enthusiast. Anyone else though, might find themselves asking, "What the hell is Garmonbozia?"
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Summary: sometimes my arms bend back
Review: david lynch is god, really he is. i had to rewatch the whole season and see this to GET the whole twin peaks world, and what a fantastic world this is.
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Summary: This is Twin Peaks?
Review: A dark and disturbing move, Fire Walk with Me abandons the humor and melodrama that made the original Twin Peaks series so likeable, and descends into the horrifying (and sometimes horrifyingly tedious) tale of Laura Palmer. It is not that Fire Walk with Me is a bad movie. It is similiar in tone to David Lynch's other work. But he abandons many of the story lines from the series. And, perhaps more confusing, he chooses a completely different tone and feel for the movie that at times seems heavy handed and bizzarre without the orignal's eccentric characters and offbeat humor. Still, the ultimate conclusion to the question "Who killed Laura Palmer" is satisfying and consistent with the plot lines from the series. It's just handled in such a dark and dreary fashion that is very inconsistent with the show.
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Summary: Twin PeakAholics here's another to knock back
Review: This movie is awesome ... it will be confusing to those who have never seen the TV Pilot, and the Series (And even a little confusing for them as well) I recommend if you buy this movie get the book called, "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer" by Jennifer Lynch it explains and puts everthing together. When you read the book you'll go Ohhh that's why that is that and this is this. It is the bible to understanding the who whole F'n show. It is the best series you'll ever experience
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Summary: Great movie
Review: Twin Peaks seems like a nice town, but somethings terribly wrong here. The homecoming queen, Laura Palmer, is spiraling out of control. She's leading a secret life, turning tricks to support a cocaine habit, and losing her mind. Since the age of 12 a man she knows as "Bob" has been molesting her. The closer she gets to figuring out who Bob is, the nuttier she gets. I think Fire Walk With Me has more bizarre "dream" sequences than the entire Twin Peaks series. Very bizarre stuff. I've been a fan of David Lynch for a long time, but I don't watch t.v. So I never saw Twin Peaks while it was airing. I did see Fire Walk With Me shortly after its release. Another great David Lynch film (my favorite is still "Blue Velvet"), I was especially drawn in by Sheryl Lee's performance. This film is what turned me on to Twin Peaks. Not the other way around. Luckily my sister-in-law had almost every episode on video. I don't have the usual complaints about certain Twin Peaks characters not being in Fire Walk With Me. This movie is all about Laura Palmer's last days, which is interesting enough. However, it would have been nice to see some deleted scenes from Fire Walk With Me. If Lynch had at least 4 hours, there had to have been something of value that got cut. It's dvd, so why not?
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Summary: Where's my hot water, Karl?
Review: The only TV character to be dead for the entire life of the television show and later get her own movie. Sheryl Lee convincingly screams, cries, laughs maniacally, and generally loses her mind in scene after scene. One watching will leave you heartbroken. Another viewing and you'll be secretly rejoicing in her ultimate salvation. Yet another time, you'll stifle laughter. Truly an engaging movie that only grows better with repeated viewings. And you get Harry Dean Stanton in a trailer brewing Good Morning America!
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Summary: Sheryl Lee is brilliant
Review: David Lynch's films have been a bit of a mixed bag for me; while I loved Blue Velvet and Lost Highway, Wild at Heart sent me sleep and although Eraserhead had it's moments it generally wasn't to my taste.
I have not seen the series from which this film originated, and was unsure whether the movie would make much sense without it, but my apprehension soon gave way to jaw dropping awe as this incredible story played out. Fire Walk with Me was a revelation.
Sheryl Lee's criminally ignored performance is so emotionally wrenching as she disappears into Lynch's nightmare rabbit hole that I'm left gobsmacked that she isn't the kind of megawatt movie star she clearly deserves to be.
The soundtrack is equally brilliant.
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Summary: Honestly you can't go wrong.
Review: Forget all of the overhyped debate on the qualtiy of this film,that was all created by people who did not get what they wanted out of it. No, it is not a two hour episode. No it does not have all of your "favorite" characters from the show. No it does not have all of the quirky humor. Blah, blah, blah. Frankly it didn't need these things, as a matter of fact they probably would have hendered it's goal of showing our beloved Laura's last days. Anyways, as a stand alone film it is simply
amazing. My god whenever I see David Lynch let loose on celluloid i get a funny tingling feeling in my heart. His are movies of pure expression, and that is true art. One note though, I have not noticed anywhere that someone has noticed, but is it just me or are the vocals during the "orgy" scene louder on the DVD than in any other release?
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