Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me (1992)

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• xGary X

  
  A pretty high school girl who dabbles with drugs and prostitution is haunted by bizarre dreams and stalked by a mysterious figure known only as "Bob". David Lynch's prequel to his hugely influential TV series Twin Peaks bears all his usual hallmarks. It's the story… More
  A pretty high school girl who dabbles with drugs and prostitution is haunted by bizarre dreams and stalked by a mysterious figure known only as "Bob". David Lynch's prequel to his hugely influential TV series Twin Peaks bears all his usual hallmarks. It's the story of the unseen horrors of middle America featuring unsettling and deliberately obtuse imagery which is scored brilliantly with inventive sound design and populated by offbeat characters. The opening in particular as the FBI investigate a similar case a year earlier is classic Lynch and to be honest I wish he'd stayed with them a bit longer. Chris Isaak, Kiefer Sutherland and Harry Dean Stanton all give very memorable performances and Sheryl Lee ably tackles a very complex character. The story set in Twin Peaks features the final days of Laura Palmer and for this reason Fire Walk With Me works neither as a stand alone nor as an introduction to the series; those who have not seen the show will find it incomprehensible while at the same time it gives away far too much of the story. Taken as a companion piece for fans it's a thought provoking and disturbing requiem to a heartfelt story with a very important message.

• Randy T

  
  Do you know who I am? I am the arm.

• El Hombre I

  
  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me can be both nightmarish and beautiful and both at the same time. Far from consistent or meaningful structure, but like most of David Lynch's films it relies on other methods than plot, storyline and performance to achieve its effect. This however,… More
  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me can be both nightmarish and beautiful and both at the same time. Far from consistent or meaningful structure, but like most of David Lynch's films it relies on other methods than plot, storyline and performance to achieve its effect. This however, makes no allowance for a viewer unfamiliar with the characters and the information needed. Such scenes as a bloodied Annie Blackburn, or references to the Bad Dale in the Black Lodge, will be meaningless or at least less effective to anyone unfamiliar with events of the TV series. The films of David Lynch are an acquired taste. Some people are entertained by some of the quirks and impressed by the creepiness, while still so irritated by the character hysteria and irrationality, and dense episodic events, that they fail to be won over. You'll really have to see this one and decide for yourself. <a href="http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/?action=view&current=TwinPeaks.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/TwinPeaks.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

• _kelly .

  
  "So Fucked Up" highlight: Bob

• Stella D

  
  cbs has made full episodes of the original tv series twin peaks available online!! http://www.cbs.com/classics/twin_peaks/

• Derek D

  
  For fans of the television show (quite obviously). If you haven't seen the show, then you'll be completely lost. Ties up some loose ends from the prematurely-cancelled show, but fans were clamoring for just a bit more. Look for the perplexing cameo by David Bowie.

• Michael G

  
  I've seen Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me dozens of times and feel like a total jagweed for not reviewing it sooner. Fire Walk With Me is a great, great movie filled with absolutely beautiful imagery and chock full of David Lynch's trademarked random lunacy. The problem is… More
  I've seen Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me dozens of times and feel like a total jagweed for not reviewing it sooner. Fire Walk With Me is a great, great movie filled with absolutely beautiful imagery and chock full of David Lynch's trademarked random lunacy. The problem is that Fire Walk With Me is by no means a standalone movie. You'd probably be lost regardless but if you haven't seen at least half of the Twin Peaks series you're pretty much out of luck. This movie's got a great cast even though most of the characters from the show are barely in this movie if they're even in it at all. Rumor has it that Lynch's original cut was 3 1/2 hours and was going to wrap up the whole show--too bad we couldn't take it...

• Cassandra M

  
  This film actually got me into Twin Peaks, simply because I wanted to find out what it meant. I was a fairly staunch David Lynch fan, though, which should explain why it hooked me. Even though it has its flaws and redundancies, I'd rate this as one of Lynch's best movies, on… More
  This film actually got me into Twin Peaks, simply because I wanted to find out what it meant. I was a fairly staunch David Lynch fan, though, which should explain why it hooked me. Even though it has its flaws and redundancies, I'd rate this as one of Lynch's best movies, on a par with Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story (that set of five movies should testify to his oft-overlooked versatility). Either way. The strength of Twin Peaks lay in its defamiliarisation of Twin Peaks the town, the strength of the movie (from that baffling, caustic opening half-hour on) is about defamiliarising Twin Peaks the show. Of course, this could explain why it was a bomb at the box office. Nevertheless, there's a whole new sense of tragedy to the series after watching this. We know already that Laura Palmer is not the perky, confident, lovable girl the inhabitants of Twin Peaks tell us she is in the pilot episode of the TV show. That makes it even more wrenching to watch. Are they lying, or just in denial? For understanding the difference between films and TV so adeptly, this is probably the best TV-film transfer in the history of those two mediums. Many great set-pieces, including one in a traffic jam that, like all Lynch's best moments, makes you feel terrifically uncomfortable without allowing you to understand why. Yet underneath all the strangeness, overdone dream sequences and inexplicable David Bowie cameos, this is about Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), a genuine tragic heroine. Incest victim, cocaine addict and prostitute, the film never glamourises or eroticises her torment, keeping the uneasy edge while Lynch observes with purest sympathy. And there's nothing weird about sympathy, is there?

• Curtis L

  
  Wow, David Lynch. You do make some messed up movies. Too bad they arn't messed up good, just messed up 'rape your dad' kinda messed up. This film had some redeeming parts, mostly the midget talking about garmon bozia to a one armed man.

• Jason S

  
  This is good if you were a fan of the tv show. I really wouldn't bother with it other wise.

• Candy R

  
  Spooky and weird prequel to TV series.

• Lafe F

  
  A very disturbing movie, with a much darker edge than most of the TV episodes. I am creeped out simply thinking about some of the things which occurred in this movie. David Lynch is a director who can create a feeling of dread and wrongness in an ordinary setting, and there is much of… More
  A very disturbing movie, with a much darker edge than most of the TV episodes. I am creeped out simply thinking about some of the things which occurred in this movie. David Lynch is a director who can create a feeling of dread and wrongness in an ordinary setting, and there is much of that here. I would say this is essential viewing before and after the series, as it depicts the last days of Laura Palmer's life, but also fills in some mysteries from the series.

• Christopher M

  
  It definitely seems like this must be one of Lynch's most under appreciated works, because I loved it from the first frame to the very last. Stylistically (also chronologically) falling somewhere in between Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - this film tracks (as Mulholland Drive… More
  It definitely seems like this must be one of Lynch's most under appreciated works, because I loved it from the first frame to the very last. Stylistically (also chronologically) falling somewhere in between Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - this film tracks (as Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire do) a fiery blond protagonist being swallowed into some other world. This is definitely one of Lynch's most twisted and challenging films - he has become one of my very favourite directors and truly, he is in top form here. What is great about this film, and is true of most of his work, is that there are just so many interpretations and inferences one can draw from the film, any number of themes you might apply to it, any number of different ways to examine, or you can choose to just sit back and take in the expect directing work, the totally weird and mystifying images, and one of Angelo Badalamenti's best scores. The cast is a bevy of interesting characters, all (well) acted in that distinct intense, over the top style that is typical of Lynch's films. This is a prequel to a television series Lynch did, and this definitely makes me want to check that out. On its own, though, this totally ranks in quality up there with Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead and all of Mr. Lynch's other fucked up, wonderful films. This one culminates especially well in an almost operatically twisted ending which had me in tears. This certainly didn't make me love the dude any less, and if you're a David Lynch fan at all, you really need to see this film.

• Stuart B

  
  Why oh why make Twin Peaks even more confusing. Seems to make more questions than it answers. Over indulgent sh**

• Steve B

  
  A few discrepancies between the TV show and the film -- and the built-in give-away ending that comes with it being a prequel -- do nothing to lessen the impact of this film.

• Alec B

  
  A terribly underrated David Lynch film. I love the TV show, but I'm not one of the hard core fans who believe that Lynch ruined the show with this movie. The show was about the town, this is about Laura Palmer and how she died. Sheryl Lee deserves a lot of credit for her… More
  A terribly underrated David Lynch film. I love the TV show, but I'm not one of the hard core fans who believe that Lynch ruined the show with this movie. The show was about the town, this is about Laura Palmer and how she died. Sheryl Lee deserves a lot of credit for her emotional roller coaster ride of a performance. Her character literally has five emotions occur in as many minutes in several scenes. I wouldn't watch this without seeing the whole series first. I was confused enough (the david bowie scene is a real head scratcher) by some of what transpired and I cannot imagine how this would play out for someone who has never seen the show. From a directing standpoint its one of Lynch's best films in my opinion.

• Sylvester K

  
  Kinda of an unnecessary prequel. Was very disappointed that Donna didn't reprise her role. The film still offered some insight to the television series, also there was the usual Lynch Suspense.

• Eduardo C

  
  I'm not sure what David Lynch was thinking here. Revisiting "Twin Peaks" was a great idea. Betraying and destroying it was not. Still, there is something to be said for the effectiveness of this brutal, sledgehammer to the face of a movie about the final days of the oft… More
  I'm not sure what David Lynch was thinking here. Revisiting "Twin Peaks" was a great idea. Betraying and destroying it was not. Still, there is something to be said for the effectiveness of this brutal, sledgehammer to the face of a movie about the final days of the oft tortured Ms. Palmer. However one may feel about the film in comparison to Twin Peaks, the ending is undeniably great. Laura, perpetually trapped in purgatory since the age of 12, deserved release more than almost any modern character I can think of and and Lynch found a rather beautiful way of finally giving it to her.

• Adam M

  
  Prequel to the cult classic TV series from David Lynch where we see what happened to Laura Palmer during the last seven days of her life. This is definately one to watch after you've seen both series of Twin Peaks as you need to understand that world of weirdness to get the film.… More
  Prequel to the cult classic TV series from David Lynch where we see what happened to Laura Palmer during the last seven days of her life. This is definately one to watch after you've seen both series of Twin Peaks as you need to understand that world of weirdness to get the film. But thats what was intended anyway as this came out a while after the series had finished. If you do get that world and enjoyed Twin Peaks as much as me then this is a great film, ful l of frightening images and dramatic and tense scenes that draw you in and won't let go. Great stuff.

• C.R. L

  
  It's unique in it's storytelling and plot, it's original in it's line of mind bending twist and psychological tricks but falters in it's acting, script which causes an extremely original an engrossing story to stall out halfway through the film. But I will say… More
  It's unique in it's storytelling and plot, it's original in it's line of mind bending twist and psychological tricks but falters in it's acting, script which causes an extremely original an engrossing story to stall out halfway through the film. But I will say this in favor of the film David Lynch's "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" is every bit as twisted, demented and mind boggling as you would expect from the creator of one of the most original and twisted series of all time. "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" is the prequel to the beloved series "Twin Peaks" it sets up the events leading up to the series and while that is good and informative to see how it all began the film as a whole just doesn't sit right. It's too lopsided and uneven in it's' story and far too convoluted and disjointed in its plot to be convincing as a film. What it does have is originality and amazing visuals and that and that alone saves this enormously perplexing and at times confusing film from being a complete waste. Most will say it is too overblown and under acted, while others will say that it is a visionary piece of art that is hugely underrated. Like all films, it can sink or swim and this one sinks like a rock. Kyle MacLachlan is great as always but his lack of screen time diminishes his once leading role to nothing more than an irrelevant cameo that serves no real purpose in this film. Nevertheless, MacLachlan screen time is good but not great. Chris Isaak is a complete and utter eyesore in this, his acting is below sub par and when his time in the film is up your truly glad, he's gone. Isaak is a good singer but here he is out of place in the role of a tough as nails FBI agent I will say this in his favor he did try and for that I tip my hat to him. Sheryl Lee is as terrible as young actress get she has no skills and absolutely no talent to be an actress while thankfully she is easy on the eyes there is truly not much that can be said in her favor except this isn't the job for her. The entire casts, excluding Kyle MacLachlan, are an utter and complete tragedy they act like a bunch of mental patients and are a complete wasted due to the poor script and distant direction of David Lynch. Under better direction and a much better script the cast may have been able to hold there own and keep this leaking boat afloat , but alas it is only a dream. "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" is a great way for fans to get the answers the television series left for them but non-fans of the cult series will find this film too out there and confusing. It has no consistence to it ever finds solid ground because it is always in space and it really never comes back down.? Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" will not garner any new fans for the series or David Lynch, what it is a psychologically terrifying film that if only was better made it could have been one of the most original horror films to ever be made. Sadly, it settles for below average.

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