Review - Fire Walk with Me
Dec. 29th, 2008 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akaihyoAnd some comments about Twin Peaks in general.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is a prequel to the Twin Peaks series (reviewed here) though it was filmed after the series ended. Lots of strange casting, the singer Chris Isaak as Agent Chester Desmond with Kiefer Sutherland as his assistant, Sam Stanley, and a cameo by David Bowie among others. The first half hour is pure Lynchian weirdness involving the FBI agents investigating a murder in the Pacific North-West. Unfortunately, there is about another 100 minutes after that visiting Twin Peaks and covering the week before Sarah Palmer's murder and up through the murder. It is all bad, maybe one or two small questions get answered along the way, but most of it is just badly paced, uninteresting, distracting and pointless. No one who appears in Twin Peaks comes out looking good and most of them are shown to be much worse that we had come to believe from the series. So, watch until the screen shows "Twin Peaks, one year later" at that point, take it out of your DVD player and put it away. My Grade: D+/C- (If you just watch the first section C+/B-)
Thinking back on the first Twin Peaks, just watch through the end of the first season. You get the best parts and do not have to suffer through the increasingly rapid downward spiral of the later part of the show. If you end the series at the end of Season 1, I would give it a C+ grade.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is a prequel to the Twin Peaks series (reviewed here) though it was filmed after the series ended. Lots of strange casting, the singer Chris Isaak as Agent Chester Desmond with Kiefer Sutherland as his assistant, Sam Stanley, and a cameo by David Bowie among others. The first half hour is pure Lynchian weirdness involving the FBI agents investigating a murder in the Pacific North-West. Unfortunately, there is about another 100 minutes after that visiting Twin Peaks and covering the week before Sarah Palmer's murder and up through the murder. It is all bad, maybe one or two small questions get answered along the way, but most of it is just badly paced, uninteresting, distracting and pointless. No one who appears in Twin Peaks comes out looking good and most of them are shown to be much worse that we had come to believe from the series. So, watch until the screen shows "Twin Peaks, one year later" at that point, take it out of your DVD player and put it away. My Grade: D+/C- (If you just watch the first section C+/B-)
Thinking back on the first Twin Peaks, just watch through the end of the first season. You get the best parts and do not have to suffer through the increasingly rapid downward spiral of the later part of the show. If you end the series at the end of Season 1, I would give it a C+ grade.