The board's server will undergo upgrade maintenance tonight, Nov 5, 2014, beginning approximately around 10 PM ET. Prepare for some possible down time during this process.
Twin Peaks: The Return was outstanding all around.
Masterful.
A huge part of my enjoyment of that particular series was anticipation and letting the previous episodes ferment in my head for a week. I am planning a full Twin Peaks revisit soon.
A good friend of mine decided to do a full series watch (he's never seen any of it before) about six months ago. He finished S1 and S2 in time to go see FWWM in theaters on Twin Peaks day. He hasn't started The Return yet. I just can't wait for him to see it.
Suggest he takes his time with it.
The Return aired on Sundays... I think I can make an episode a week work with my sched, July 3rd penciled in.
Oh yeah. I made sure he didn't binge any of it. I told him to give it at least three days between episodes. For The Return I'll make sure he takes a week per.
Twin Peaks: The Return was outstanding all around.
I think you can make an argument that this doesn't fit in with the current trend of reboots, since most of the other series/movies listed above were "dead" properties that were brought back to life, often on a wave of nostalgia, whereas Twin Peaks Season 2 promised a return in 25 years. It was planned all along.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47164 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
BurtReynolds wrote:
Eh, Affleck probably feels like he owes him.
Yeah Smith's early championing of the Good Will Hunting script is well documented. But at this point wouldn't it be easier to just write Smith a check for $1M every time he wants to reboot Clerks?
(And an interesting side note: there's enough proof over the years to suggest the original script -- at twice the length -- included the genesis of what became The Accountant. The earliest drafts saw Will Hunting going to work for the CIA as a genius assassin).
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 3:35 pm Posts: 32290 Location: Buenos Aires
BurtReynolds wrote:
The real question is how did Kevin Smith make a movie like Clerks to begin with? He doesn't seem capable.
What do you mean? A cruddy-looking film about a couple of underachievers sitting around throwing pop culture references at each other, made up of mostly static mid-shots? How is he not capable of that?
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10280 Location: in the air tonight
Clerks came at a time when you could sell a movie just by making it at least eighty minutes long and telling people it cost less than $40k to make. It didn't catually have to be competent or good. Robert Rodriguez similarly benefited from this phenomenon
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 3:35 pm Posts: 32290 Location: Buenos Aires
BurtReynolds wrote:
I just meant personality or temperament mostly, but I'm going to rescind my previous comment anyway.
Clerks just felt so authentic to me, but nothing else he's ever done has.
I think I know what you mean. My take is that the authenticity you describe was actually an affectation. I think pre-fame Kevin Smith was motivated by an aspiration to indie DIY coolness. He wanted to be Richard Linklater or Hal Hartley. He lost that almost immediately and gave in to what I believe is his more authentic self: a goofy comic book man
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 2:23 am Posts: 3645 Location: The In Between
Top Gun: Maverick just passed $700 million domestically. It’s about the cost of a Honda Civic away from passing Black Panther for 5th all-time (unadjusted for inflation, obviously). This film is somehow both David and Goliath.
I don’t know if the new Lord of the Rings series fits here, but the movies came out 20 years ago. Seems like not much of RM is watching. I loved the first two episodes.
We’re less than a week away from Cobra Kai season 5.
Top Gun: Maverick just passed $700 million domestically. It’s about the cost of a Honda Civic away from passing Black Panther for 5th all-time (unadjusted for inflation, obviously). This film is somehow both David and Goliath.
I don’t know if the new Lord of the Rings series fits here, but the movies came out 20 years ago. Seems like not much of RM is watching. I loved the first two episodes.
We’re less than a week away from Cobra Kai season 5.
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 84 guests
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum