Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me

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Alternately fascinating and frustrating--and no doubt deliberately so on both counts--this controversial Twin Peaks installment (it was roundly booed by mystified audiences at the Cannes Film Festival) appeared in theaters after the series was canceled, serving as both prequel and coda to the whole remarkable Twin Peaks phenomenon. Designed especially for dedicated followers of the series (it would just bewilder anyone else), Fire Walk with Me further investigates the murder of Laura Palmer by exploring events that took place before the series's brilliant debut feature (Twin Peaks: The Premiere), up to and including the long, dark, terrible night of Laura's death. Familiar Twin Peaks denizens Sheryl Lee, Grace Zabriskie, and Ray Wise (as the three members of the Palmer family), Kyle MacLachlan, Peggy Lipton, James Marshall, Dana Ashbrook, Miguel Ferrer, Mädchen Amick, and director David Lynch himself reprise their series roles (with Moira Kelly subbing for Lara Flynn Boyle as Donna Hayward), joined by an equally motley group of guest stars, including Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie, Chris Isaak, and Kiefer Sutherland. --Jim Emerson

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Dumb and Tacky.......2007-08-09

Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum, with popcorn, served by two squirrels dressed up as boy scouts. Yeah, that's David Lynch allright.
After seeing "fire walk with me" I would gladly ask Lynch "why?"
I saw the tv serie, I engulfed it with pleasure, despite it's sometimes goofy moments. I know that you should never follow up any of Lynch's work under a convencional, sometimes even rational, posture. Lynch is the mastermind of any filmed nightmare and he will never explain his mysteries.
This movie, however, seems to be made by two scholars trying to emulate David Lynch, by having a somehow interesting plot and then twisting it until it hurts and then adding and substracting characters and situations, twist again, shake, eat, throw up, and then put on the screen.
The metaphors and simbolisms are grotesque and utterly tacky, the acting is an insult and a risk to anybody's career and even the music is repetitive and tiresome.
To those who, like me, enjoyed the serie and wanted to know more, I suggest you use your money on something smarter, like burning it. You will maybe get some satisfaction out of it, because the movie delivers none.
David Lynch's movies are only for their fans to bear, as only us can enjoy the torture, but this so-called movie went way to far. I consider it a lack of respect to any DL fan and even to David Lynch himself. He has done much better things. THis is not the work of a genius, it rather appears to be a sick joke from a dumb wanna be director.

Disappointing!.......2007-07-09

I ordered this DVD midway through viewing the 2nd season of Twin Peaks (which we really enjoyed). This movie was a complete disappointment. It was 95% a recap of what was discovered in the series; the new information that was revealed was of no importance and trivial at best. While the show was scary and funny the movie is just drug use and sexual in nature.

The final disappointment is the jewel case which the movie comes in - cardbord.

Do You See Creamed Corn On This DVD?.......2007-05-07

Naturally, it's Twin Peaks fans that will get the most out of this film coz that's the audience this film was made for. Sure, any fan of David Lynch will watch this movie whether they've seen the show or not, but it'll end up being confusing. Even though it's a prequel to the series' events, it's made for those familiar with the plotlines from the show. Characters will appear in one scene and will never be seen again, leaving those unfamiliar saying, "who was that and what the hell did he have to do with anything?" Not to mention Laura's killer not being a secret at all . Even some fans were let down by this one coz many were expecting answers and probably ended up with more questions than anything. Typical of Lynch though, eh? The movie is definitely Lynch all the way. It has the same slow, dreamy feeling of most of his films. Of course it's full of oddball characters who's only purpose is to say goofy things and act weird. But among all this strangeness, there is a story. With an R rating, you get the feeling that this is how the series might have played out if Lynch wasn't bound by the restrictions of network television. The first 40 minutes or so focus on the investigation of the girl murdered one year before Laura Palmer. The investigators are played by Kiefer Sutherland and Chris isaak, who seem right at home in Lynch's FBI world next to characters like Agent Cooper, Albert Rosenfield and Gordon Cole. Once that's done, we jump into Laura Palmer's last few days. My problem with this is the fact that Laura comes across as extremely unlikable. She's always screaming, snorting coke, screwing someone or freaking out somehow. It makes it difficult to work up any sympathy for her considering you kept hearing in the series how loved she was by everyone in the town. I do realize that it was said that in her last few days she began to act strange, and a reoccuring theme throughout the series was that she had a dark side. I guess it does make sense that in her last few days the dark side would be at it's peak, but even with that said, she's still kinda irritating. Also, the appearance of Agent Cooper(the star of the series, but more or less a cameo in the film) seems kinda forced, like he was required to appear coz it's a Twin Peaks movie. His character had nothing to do with anything until Laura Palmer died, but in this film they try to work in some kind of psychic link/premonition thingee with him and Laura that doesn't seem to work so well. Most fans won't care about this though coz they get to spend a little more time with their favorite FBI man. Supposedly Lynch had to leave over an hour of this film on the cutting room floor. In doing this, many characters from the show were completely deleted from the film. Fans have been demanding these lost scenes for years now. I don't know if these scenes would really clear anything up, but they'd certainly be fun to see. Lets hope it happens. All in all, an interesting movie if you've seen the show, and a confusing and seemingly pointless movie if you haven't.

A must have for Twin Peaks fans!.......2007-03-29

If you own the series on VHS, you will want to add this to your collection. I wish as many others do that the publishers would make the series box set on DvD. My VHS tapes are still in exellent condition, but we all know the disc boxed set would last longer & have even better picture quality. They could only stand to profit. I would definitely buy it. If you never watched the series or even if you have but not this movie, know that it deals with, shows the darkest side of a demented man with a heart and soul that is just a cosmic black hole. Not for children of any age.
Kyle McLaughlin is fun to watch in his role in this & the series.
If you like David Lynch, you like this this off & dark movie which shows you the days previous to & the night of Lara Palmers death & killer.

Even the angels can't save me........2007-02-10

I was tempted to hit five stars, but I'll save my gushings for the review. You other Lynch fans out there know what you like and we know what to expect--the unxexpected. When the series, Twin Peaks, came out was when I bought a vcr--so not to miss an expisode, even greived when it went off the air. This movie takes up the last few day of Laura's life and us through a nightmare world of roaring and howling parallel universies that seem the only logical avenue to illustrate the horror Laura goes through. I love what one reviewer said, that Lynch had to love this character to make the viewer so compassionate towards her. Striking soundtrack and cinematography that thrills with the bleakness of the trailer park and the saturation of the "white lodge"?--where Laura ultimately goes. The scene between Laura and Log Lady is magnificent: When the fire starts, all innocence is in danger (my paraphrase of a much better scene)says LL to Laura. And when the siren Julee Cruise sings "Questions in a World of Blue," the angels indeed, as Laura says, cannot help her.(Note the scene when the angel disappears from the stylized picture of the 1940's.) Lynch's dialogue always wows: Donna: "Where are the cookies?" Laura: You mean Fred and Ginger?" Donna: "Ah, dancing." Nobody, but nobody can write such dialogue. I saw Blue Velvet first (maybe my all time fav. movie) and was hooked. Twin Peaks came next. The girl running out of the school building looking like a 1950's scream queen--mainlining Lynch ever since. Lynch is not for every taste, but he sure is for mine.

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Outstanding look into the film business
Topnotch documentary about two female stunt legends
Double Dare
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Double Dare
Starring: Jeannie Epper , Zoe Bell , Lynda Carter , Lucy Lawless , and Eurlyne Epper
Director: Amanda Micheli
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Release Date: 2005-06-07

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DOUBLE DARE is a double-barreled, action-packed documentary about the struggles of two stuntwomen in male-dominated Tinsel town to stay working, stay thin, and stay sane against the backdrops of Xena: Warrior Princess, Wonder Woman, and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

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XD lovely.......2007-08-24

I loved watching this - over and over... and over. It's not at all boring, not one second. You really get to see Zoë and Jeannie in their almost day-to-day life. It's worth buying. I got it for my birthday and I've never been happier.

Outstanding look into the film business.......2007-08-17

I'm in the film industry myself, and this is a great look at the inner workings; how hard life can be and how erratic careers can flow. Very highly recommended!

Topnotch documentary about two female stunt legends.......2007-08-01

When Amanda Micheli started filming DOUBLE DARE, about two top female stunt doubles, she certainly had no idea how lucky she had become. One of the two women was Jeannie Epper, one of the top female stuntwomen ever, a pioneer in a profession where women had previously been doubled by men (best illustrated in the film by a still photo of Irene Ryan, best known as Granny on THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, standing beside a man dressed up in an outfit similar to hers) and perhaps best known as the double for Lynda Carter on WONDER WOMAN. Her inclusion in the documentary was basically a no brainer, but selecting Zoë Bell had, in 2001 when filming began, to be something of a gamble. Though she possessed over-the-top skills as a stunt double, she had only one item on her resume. That one item, however, was doubling Lucy Lawless on XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, perhaps the most stunt intensive role for a woman ever seen on television. They certainly had no idea how Zoë Bell's half of the story would develop and luckily for both her and Micheli the film ends with Bell in Beijing where she is filming the stunt scenes for Uma Thurman in Tarantino's KILL BILL. The rest, as they say, is history. Tarantino was one of the first directors ever to express strongly in public fashion how much a production had relied on the work of a stunt double. He went on to make the film DEATHPROOF (the second half of GRINDHOUSE made with Robert Rodriguez), the second half of which was built around a stuntwoman riding on the hood of a Dodge Challenger while a car driven by a mad man slams into the car at high speeds. It was a role written for Zoë Bell and she pulled it off magnificently.

If much of the documentary focuses on the immensely talented up and comer Bell, it is equally focused on the pioneer Epper, who in her early sixties is finding work harder to come by but who is determined to keep working as long as she can. Unlike Bell, who came to stunt doubling completely on her own (though I had wondered whether she was related to Peter Bell, who was the stunt coordinator on XENA -- she isn't), Epper is part of a large family of stunt doubles. Her father, who is shown in some wonderful old sequences, was a leading stuntman, and her brother is a top stunt coordinator. Her daughter is also a stuntwoman, though during the filming of the documentary her career was being hampered by a shoulder injury. What the two women the film is built around have in common is that they are remarkably likable personalities. Jeannie Epper comes across as a deeply caring and upbeat person, perhaps best illustrated by the fact that when her friend Ken Howard (THE WHITE SHADOW star) had to have a kidney transplant, she donated one of hers upon discovering that she was compatible with his blood type. I'm not sure what more you can say about a person than that. As for Zoë Bell, her base facial expression seems to be a huge grin accentuated by the lip ring she wears most of the time when she isn't working (there is a very, very funny moment when Zoë is asked by Epper whether her lip ring didn't interfere with a certain sex act made famous in the Clinton years and she replies that no, she is great at that particular act). They both seem like people you would love to know.

The disc also comes with a lot of great deleted scenes. Most of these center around Zoë Bell on XENA. There is also a scene that confirms what one often hears about XENA, that Renee O'Connor did much of her own stunt work. And indeed, although there is a stunt double dressed much like O'Connor, she isn't called upon as O'Connor is able to do all of Gabrielle's fight scene. I always thought that one of the ironies of XENA was that O'Connor, who played the sidekick, was actually the more athletic of the two actresses. In fact, a number of affectionate but unflattering nicknames attached themselves to Lucy Lawless and I have suspected for a couple of years that the line that Lawless that spoke in the episode "Downloaded" in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, about always being a complete klutz after being resurrected (for non-initiates, on BSG Cylons, when they die, have their consciousness downloaded into a new and identical body). Also, in the Season Three BSG gag reel produced for the wrap party (available on Youtube though it probably will be included in the Season Three DVD extras) there is a shot of Lawless walking down a sidewalk on the New Caprica set when she suddenly stumbles and falls forward. But very much to her credit, in this film Lucy Lawless states that Xena was played by two women. (And let me add that in every interview I've seen Lucy Lawless seems to be massively likable -- on top of this the two Kiwis I've known have also bee utterly loveable individuals. Is everyone in New Zealand likable?)

I strongly recommend this film to just about anyone. Fans of KILL BILL or XENA will love it for background for one of the hidden stars of both films. Students of film will love it for getting a sense of how the role of women stunt doubles has grown over the years (anyone will recognize many of the stunts that Jeannie Epper is shown performing, such as Kathleen Turner's stunts in ROMANCING THE STONE). And students of Gender Studies will appreciate the struggles that women have had in pursuing their profession (e.g., having to perform stunts with minimal padding because the actress they are doubling usually has a fairly revealing outfit on, so that Zoë Bell had to do Xena's stunts wearing no padding on her arms).

Double Dare.......2007-05-16

Watching this documentary video on various stunt people proved very interesting, learning about the poeple through the DVD proved easy, definitely worth watching if anyone wants an understanding about this type of career.

double dare you to watch.......2007-05-13

Double Dare is a great documentary! You really get an inside look at some of the behind the scenes stunt stuff you never really get to see, and you see who Jeannie Epper and Zoe Bell are. This documentary shows you more than what happens on set. You get to see these women in their homes, and see their relationships with their family, friends, and with each other. After this documentary, I'm a huge fan of both these stuntwomen.

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Starring: Kate Capshaw , Jeroen Krabbé , Gregory Sierra , Valerie Mahaffey , and James Sloyan
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Thriller for grown-ups.......2006-02-20

I saw this movie on TV many years ago and fell in love with it. It stood out from the many "routine" thrillers you could watch every week in one form or another.

Here you had real quality! Kate Capshaw was excellent as the "retired" CIA agent, forced to go on one more mission out of gratitude to a colleague, who once saved her life.

Well, you get thrilling chases, lots of humorous sitiuations, getting to feel the icy fear of not being able to trust even those sent you on this dangerous mission; ending up facing lethal danger, only having yourself to rely on. There is also good support from her co-stars. Picture- and sound quality is fine on this DVD release.

Bravo Kate and CO!

Kate Capshaw in one of her best roles.......2005-10-12

I have to warn you that this was first shown on TV back in the late 80's. Thus there are no overt sex scenes, mindless violence or such. Plot, well written and delivered dialoge are what this movie has going for it. It actually would have done very well in the movie theatres instead of on TV. Capshaw, Greggory Sierra are very good. Give it a shot you won't be disappointed.

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