Escobarbarian posted:

I can’t wait for the eventual thinkpiece on how Last Jedi and The Return arguably have very similar themes in some ways ”gently caress your nostalgia”, basically

eSporks posted:

Ep 18 legitimately caused me to confront my depression and seek positive life changes.
It sounds really stupid and cliche, but it changed my life.

Alan_Shore posted:

I think, not matter your opinion on Twin Peaks and how it handled continuity or the finale or anything like that, we can all agree that watching it every week... there was nothing else like it. And there never will be.

A True Jar Jar Fan posted:

Lynch just wrote to clarify this whole dumb thing.

"Dear Mr. President,

This is David Lynch writing. I saw that you re-tweeted the Breitbart article with the heading – Director David Lynch: Trump ‘Could Go Down as One of the Greatest Presidents in History.’ I wish you and I could sit down and have a talk. This quote which has traveled around was taken a bit out of context and would need some explaining.

Unfortunately, if you continue as you have been, you will not have a chance to go down in history as a great president. This would be very sad it seems for you – and for the country. You are causing suffering and division.

It’s not too late to turn the ship around. Point our ship toward a bright future for all. You can unite the country. Your soul will sing. Under great loving leadership, no one loses – everybody wins. It’s something I hope you think about and take to heart. All you need to do is treat all the people as you would like to be treated.

Sincerely,

David Lynch"

Escobarbarian posted:

I genuinely don’t understand your reaction at all here lol

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

I got The Final Dossier on my Kindle for my birthday a few weeks ago but have yet to read it

It's only 100 something pages, isn't it? I'm sure once I start it, I'll blow through it rather quickly.

kaworu posted:

David Lynch is the only filmmaker who can truly make me feel physically ill from watching certain films and things, and most artists don't even approach that level of deep, visceral reaction. I watch and look at art for that feeling.

You know that feeling when sometimes you're standing in art gallery looking at a painting and it just makes the hair on your back of your neck stand up and you get cold little shocks of adrenaline going through your body because it's so affecting... Lynch is probably one of these three filmmakers who can give me that sensation..

SeANMcBAY posted:

Season 2 isn’t even that bad. I expected way worse going through it last year by how people talk about it. The James plot with the woman is definitely the low point.

Capntastic posted:

People who waddle up to me leaking their broken hearted thoughts about how they love Twin Peaks except for most-of-the-episodes need to address their inability to accept that life is about taking the good with the bad and appreciating both.

Franchescanado posted:

hawowanlawow posted:

honestly Jim Belushi was great in s3, and I don't like that guy

Pinterest Mom posted:

I haven't seen most of S2 and I have zero regrets.

Rocco posted:

The Nadine stuff is boring as gently caress

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

Episode 8 is the greatest episode of television ever and the fact that it's so divisive only reinforces that.

eSporks posted:

https://25yearslatersite.com/2019/03/29/surrealist-objects-in-twin-peaks/

I really liked this article and the comparisons it makes to other surrealist metaphor. At the end of the day the correct way to experience Lynch is to feel it and allow the meaning to be vague.

Breadallelogram posted:

I just read secret history and final dossier over the course of like 4 days. Mark Frost really knows how to grab my attention.

Raxivace posted:

All that Lost theorizing really caused a lot of people to miss the forest for the trees though and get mad when the finale didn't give them "answers". Hell I was one of them.

Like I remember dozens of people swearing up and down that Lost wasn't a character drama- despite a third of most episodes being spent on pure character backstory.

HD DAD posted:

Lost was literally “it was about the friends we made along the way”.

(I was over here in the minority calling the finale absolutely perfect. And I still do.)

Rageaholic posted:

Yeah. When the season first aired on Showtime, the quality was nowhere near as good as the Blu-Rays.

Speaking of which, I need to do a rewatch of my Blu-Rays too.

kaworu posted:

It makes me really happy to hear that I wasn't the only one who felt that there was something kinda magical/special about watching and discussing Twin Peaks, that summer. It definitely was a memorable experience for me, and I hadn't felt that involved or passionate about anything media or pop-culture related in a VERY long time. In some ways it actually made me feek young, which was really the opposite of what I expected.

Something that I love more and more and more and more every time I watch them are the phone scenes between Michael Horse (Hawk) and Catherine Coulson (Margaret "Log-Lady" Lanterman) on the phone. Those just... It's clear that the phone calls became increasingly more about the pain Margaret/Catherine was in at the time, and it's impossible to NOT hear her struggling with each and every single breath. Hawk's side feels somewhat disconnected from her, but it kind of works due to the vague weirdness that permeates the use of telephones (especially cellular ones) through the series' course. It seems significant that both Hawk and Margaret are using land-lines. But anyway, the last couples scenes with those two on the phone just gets more and more devastating. "There's some fear in letting go. My log is turning gold. The wind is moaning. I'm dying... Good night, Hawk."

It''s the knowledge that she was truly dying, and really speaking to Lynch as he was the only other person in the room at the time, I think. It's very emotionally direct and intense for Lynch - reminds me of the deeply empathetic, grounded Lynch who is more in touch with the concrete realities of what it means to live a life of suffering and unfulfilled desires; basically, I'm referring to the Lynch who directed The Elephant Man and The Straight Story. Someone in this thread once made a great point about The Return, and I will try not to totally butcher it in paraphrasing it - they said that it was kind of like Lynch's final big "thesis statement" or final product at the end of his career, that have him a chance to utilize and flesh out a lot of the kinda stuff he's been doing in various media - frog moths, musical acts in nearly every episode, etc etc. There was something a little indulgent about some of the scenes, but Lynch's indulgences tend to also be my indulgences - like Cera doing an a perfectly loquacious "Wild One"-era Brando.

kaworu posted:

Aww, thank you guys I love you all too! It feels really really nice to hear that those posts mean something to other people, because I *do* put effort into them. I'm pretty bad at being insincere and a troll, so it's good to know my sometimes painfully sincere posts work out sometimes

zelah posted:

Yeah, don’t skip anything. If you’re gonna watch twin peaks, watch twin peaks. It’s all twin peaks.

HD DAD posted:

Lynch most likely operates almost purely on dream logic, with his imagery hinting at a feeling he’s trying to evoke. Any detailed granular analysis is probably going to be complete nonsense.

Trying to “solve” Twin Peaks is like trying to find out why the clocks are melting in Dali’s Persistence of Memory.

disaster pastor posted:

I figured there was a thread!

I won't be reading it yet, because I'm watching it with a friend and we're still early on (episodes 2–3 of season 2 tonight), but man, I'm obsessed. This show is exactly my poo poo and I can't believe I didn't watch it sooner.