No comedy. The original TV series had a lot of comedic relief and this movie had virtually none.
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I beg to differ. There was a bit of comedy for the first 30-40 minutes or so wth Agent Chester. And really, this is about Laura at its core, so removing the humor when it comes to her story makes sense
shareI don't think that's why they hated it... in my opinion, not too many people had seen the entire series... maybe parts of it or the first season... and then FWWM came out with a ton of names in it... plus if I remember there was a little hype that came out with it... anyway, I think people watched FWWM ( like I did at the time) without knowing that much about the series... I remember thinking it was weird and boring... now after watching the series a few times, reading about it and kinda being into it... I love this movie, in my top 2 or 3... I really hope the third season is more like FWWM than Twin Peaks season 1 and 2....
shareI wouldn't say the unfamiliarity people had which made it more confusing was the sole reason. Films like 8 1/2 & Persona are pretty surreal, & they were highly acclaimed (and still are), at the time, with the former winning the best foreign language Oscar.
By the time FWWM was made, Twin Peaks ran its course. People got fed up with the drawn out mystery (I've read about news articles complaining when the second season started), & then with all the nonsense that came after the mystery was solved, & then later cancelled, people were sick of it.
Wild At Heart also won the Palme Dor at the Cannes Film Festival, which was a dreadful decision. It only won because Bernardo Bertolucci was head of the Jury & loved Blue Velvet. With the kind of success Lynch was having at the time, its like people were waiting for him to crash & burn, so they could tear him to pieces, which is what happened with FWWM.
Twin Peaks fans, of course, only wanted the same thing over & over, with Dale Cooper being rescued, so they didn't like it either.
Yes, the tone, visuals, direction, even character behaviour, was so different from the series I felt like it was another directors take on the TP universe.
shareThat's because Lynch only directed 6 of the 30 episodes of the original series, and of those he did direct, he didn't have free reign to do whatever he wanted like he did with the Showtime episodes.
shareI saw it in the theater. On acid. I loved it, still do.
shareThe only "craze" occurred when the show first premiered through the end of season 1. Interest steadily eroded after that, but because there is such a tenacious group of acolytes that love the show (myself included), it was deemed that enough interest existed to justify and conjure season 3 into existence.
Had it not been for the pandemic, there would have been a season 4 of Twin Peaks.
Well, the unofficial version anyway.
Bullshit. Lynch’s hubris killed off the show. The ratings were tanking, deservedly so. Season 3 was a spit in the face to what remained of the audience and to Agent Cooper.
shareActually, Netflix had green lit 13 hour-long episodes of a project from Lynch with a rumored budget of $85 million.
There were copyrights in place, several of the actors/actresses from TP's dropping hints, then this report:
"“In September of last year, I was told by someone in-charge of one of the original shooting locations in Snoqualmie that Lynch and his team had indeed been in town that summer shooting something that was post-apocalyptic in nature. I asked him four times if he was sure that Lynch himself was there, and the guy told me he’s positive that it was Lynch. That would line up with the reports that went out to local businesses alerting them of someone filming happening there, and reports of Amanda Seyfreid being seen in Washington at the time, and what Dern said about Lynch being “up to something radical and fantastic.” And of course, the hair-and-beard thing."
The working title was apparently "Wisteria" (later said to be Unrecorded Night).
My guess is that the show would have been in the TP's universe without actually being TP's per se.
I remain convinced that something will be forthcoming, eventually, but only time will tell.
That sounds terrifying.
shareIt has comedy, from a certain perspective. But it's not meant to be like Twin Peaks the TV show. That show is seen from Cooper's perspective, a man charmed by small town life and all its quirks. FWWM is seen from the perspective of Laura, and her experience of small town life is gnarly and horrific which is what the movie reflects.
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