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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

August. 28,1992
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7.3
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R
| Drama Horror Mystery

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

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ThiefHott
1992/08/28

Too much of everything

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Jeanskynebu
1992/08/29

the audience applauded

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AutCuddly
1992/08/30

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

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Scarlet
1992/08/31

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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gridoon2018
1992/09/01

In comparison to the 30-episode TV series, "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" is approx. 130 minutes of pure, undiluted David Lynch weirdness. This means primarily two things: a) there is no soap-opera filler, b) it does not make a lick of sense. Some scenes have a hypnotic, trance-like power, but others are simply lethargic. The first section, which takes place outside of Twin Peaks, risks alienating viewers early (Chris Isaak's half-asleep performance is dreadful). The film is also surprisingly humorless; agent Cooper is barely in it, and he doesn't seem quite himself. And then there are the logistical problems, like the absence of the Hornes or Donna's unfortunate and unconvincing re-casting. As in the series, Ray Wise takes the acting honors, and Angelo Badalamenti's music is as beautiful as ever. **1/2 out of 4.

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MartinHafer
1992/09/02

"Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" is a film made just after the TV series "Twin Peaks" and covers material leading up to the beginning of the first episode of the series. The show begins with a different FBI agent (Chris Isaac) investigating the death of Teresa Banks...a year before Laura Palmer was killed by the same perpetrator. This, and a brief appearance by Kyle McLaughlen, make up the beginning portion which lasts about 20 minutes. The rest consists of seeing Laura Palmer during the final week of her life.So why did I say in the summary that it was rather unnecessary? Well, this is because there weren't any surprises....after seeing the series you know who Bob is and because of this I didn't see a lot of reason for the film. Plus, although Lara Flynn Boyle refused to appear in the movie, she was a very important character and it's obvious that Moira Kelly is NOT Boyle. Finally, the film is much grittier than the series. You couldn't show the nudity and extreme violence of the film in the TV series....but, for me, I did NOT need to see Laura's breasts or all the blood. Sorry....just didn't get a lot out of this one...even though I did enjoy the series.

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nhawdon
1992/09/03

I would like to preface this review by saying how much I loved Twin Peaks. If it hadn't been for the Twilight Zone, it would be my favorite show of all time. It's how deeply I loved and appreciated the show that led to my disappointment upon finally watching the movie.People often extol David Lynch as a visionary, an under-appreciated master. Personally, I think he's a talented man, who excels at the avant-garde. Mulholland Dr. and Eraserhead come to mind as perfect examples of this. The problem comes when he is given way too much creative freedom. Although I don't know too much about the production of FWWM, I'm thinking very few people intervened, or reined Lynch in for the entire process. The result was a jumbled, bleak, depressing, and just generally off putting mess.Part of what made the show so great was its ambiance. When I watch it, I still get this warm, fuzzy feeling. Despite the dark subject matter, somehow Twin Peaks still seemed peaceful, friendly, and almost otherworldly in its charm. There are little moments sprinkled throughout the series bursting with folksy humor. It's almost as funny as it is suspenseful. In part due to it's folksy-ness, the whole town felt separated from the real world. Maybe it's because I didn't grow up in that kind of place, but I felt just like Dale Cooper; delighted with everything I saw.That's all gone in the movie. No charm, no fuzzy feeling, no humor. It's bleak, disturbing, and unnecessarily dark. It didn't have the same sensibility as the show. It felt more like Silence of the Lambs, which, don't get me wrong is an amazing movie, but it's not right for Twin Peaks.Now to my other problem: everything else. From David Lynch's comic relief character from the show who he shoehorned into the movie for seemingly no reason, as he provides no comic relief whatsoever, to the uncharismatic Dale Cooper lookalike and his somehow less charismatic partner, to the actual Dale Cooper, who seems more like an emotionless clone of Cooper than anything, to David Bowie's remarkably unnecessary character and his dreadful American accent, to the discount Black Lodge with its numerous pointlessly weird spirits, who all eat creamed corn for some reason, to the x-rated after-school special life of Laura Palmer, to the soul crushingly disturbing incest/rape "climax," which was in fact nothing more than an extended mashup of people screaming and crying which was either actually two hours or just felt like two hours, Fire Walk With Me was a mess.It seemed more like David Lynch feverishly trying to figure out how much nonsense, violence, and nudity he could pack into two and a half hours, simply because he was finally free from network standards, than it did a cohesive story. I get that Lynch doesn't like it when people try to make sense of his movies, but it's incredibly frustrating as a viewer, especially when he doesn't even throw me a bone.

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Zoomorph
1992/09/04

Twin Peaks was a good and enjoyable TV series. This movie is terrible in comparison. For one thing, it lacks all the charm, suspense, plot twists, story lines, quirky characters, and polish that the TV series had. But even worse, there are blatant inconsistencies. For example, Laura was supposed to have had sexual relations with three men on the night of her death, and to have been attacked by the bird. In this movie we only see her with one male and she is not attacked by the bird. This movie brings almost nothing new to the plot and just summarizes what we already knew from the TV series, so I expected that it should at least try to be consistent and get the details right. The characters are dull, it drags, it has a low quality B-movie feel, and it's complete with pointless little cameos from other characters from the TV series that don't belong in Laura's story. (The majority of this movie revolves around Laura and Donna exclusively, with minor roles for Bobby, James, and Leland.) It has no suspense, but it does have some nudity and unnecessary grotesqueness. Presumably this poor excuse for a movie was a shameless attempt to cash in on the success of the TV series. I would not recommend it, even to fans of the TV series. And if you haven't seen the TV series you won't understand any of it - something that might not bother Lynch fans!

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