Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me - Angelo Badalamenti

A David Lynch teen movie(???!!)

Advantages: A real challenge to the brain cells, if you're up for it!
Disadvantages: Unwatchable as a stand alone feature.

?Fire Walk With Me? (FWWM) was the eagerly anticipated prequel and sequel of sorts to the television series ?Twin Peaks? released in 1992. For the uninitiated: Twin Peaks was a show that took television by storm at the start of the 1990s. It followed Special Agent Dale Cooper and his attempts to solve the murder of teenager Laura Palmer. The series ran two seasons before a totally polarising finale and cancellation in 1991, the fans were hungry for more whilst the general public were left scratching their heads in puzzlement. I was firmly in the first camp. David Lynch?s television series fired up my imagination. The mix of surreal humour, a conventional whodunnit theme and moments of buttock clenching terror was like food and drink to my fertile teenage mind. Kyle McLaughlin played Agent Dale Cooper (or ?Coop) an incredibly wholesome ...

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Bite The Bullet Baby

Advantages: A horrific murder scene, answering for sure the real question on everyones lips
Disadvantages: Long, badly editited and confusing

Welcome to Twin Peaks! Set just prior to the television series Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me sets out to explain the story of Laura Palmer. Laura appears to most to be a sweet an innocent girl in her late teens in a small community. However Laura is heavily involved in S & M, Drugs and other what could be considered as deviant behaviour. If you have not seen the movie, but have seen the television series be prepared for a shock. Personally I loved the television series it had a blend of nice drama, humour, romance, horror, and mystery. Fire Walk With Me forgets everything bar the horror and the romance. It's not filmed the way the series was, you know that the terror is there from the very first scene. Fire walk with me is very twisted indeed, and for me there were few redeeming features. As the movie begins we see a montage ...

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Dont Call Out The Fire Engine

Advantages: Style, Atmosphere, Surrealism, Ambition, Vision
Disadvantages: WEIRD

To say that David Lynch has a unique vision as a film maker is to try and say black is an off white. The opening shot of his Twin Peaks movie is David Lynch putting an axe through a television set. An appropriate beginning, for in adapting his dark soap opera for the big screen, Lynch turns the cult show into a deeply unsettling and ultimately stunning examination of the effects of child abuse and teenage nihilism. In short, David Lynch is in prime weird country - again. Fire Walk With Me is a prequel to that love it or hate it television series Twin Peaks. It opens a year before the discovery of Laura Palmer’s body, with the corpse of one Teresa Banks being found. For this first section of the movie, Lynch is working in a different, lighter, key. It’s almost as if the movie is working in ciphers similar to ...

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