I agree.  And I don't think there's a subpar actor or acting job in the group.  I also agree with the idea that the most intense scenes are kept and that what might put a damper on it for me -that it is always at level 10.

I think Sheryl Lee was nominated for a Razzie for this, and it's such a cheap shot -she has a Herculian task to have to carry -what I think is- an impossibly difficult movie.

Sheryl was nominated for a Razzia? WTF. Then again, emotions are considered as something useless in today´s society. But the human spirit will ALWAYS have primitive and raw elements, to deny that is to deny the human nature. 

I can´t imagine another Laura Palmer. But I agree with Ivan Sputnik, FWWM could have been presented as a t-h-r-e-e part mini-series. Yes, that way the viewer would progressively been taken Laura Palmer´s wonderful world.

Let´s tip their power balance, tear down their crown,

Educate the masses, let´s burn the white Lodge Down!

nope, sorry my bad.  She wasn't.

I checked and couldn't find anything.  Maybe I'm just remembering some of the punching bag reviews at the time.  I really thought Bowie was nominated for some worst  supporting actor award, but couldn't find anything.

 and some of us thought the first part was the best thing ever done

 totally love it.

There was a fiish..iinn the percolatrr!

Jordan .

I first saw FWWM long after first seeing Twin Peaks as a kid (back then I only saw up to episode 14), and I didnt know what to make of it. Only after seeing the whole 29 episodes and rewatching Peaks did I begin to understand it more.

 I'm kind of on the fence about FWWM, but I can see why it was panned by some. I liked it but it wasnt "oh my fucking god" brilliant

"Ive got good news....that gum you like is going to come back in style!"

"I'm a WHOLE DAMN TOWN!"

'Your former partner flew the coop, Coop'

I enjoyed the first half of FWWM. However, in the second half, I thought some of the action didn't make sense. Bobby's character shooting the guy always baffled me, because we have no indication Bobby has that remorse inside him when Cooper first questions him in the series. Also, the way Donna acted was strange. I'm not a fan of the second half, although it is beautifully filmed.

But I loved the beginning: David Bowie, Kiefer Sutherland and the conveinance store crowd!! I just wish we had seen more of them.

I mean it like it is .... like it sounds ...

 ^^ That.

"There is no need for medicine. I am not in pain."

To borrow one of Coolspringsj's expressions....."Hell to the Yeah"!   Of course I LOVED it...still THE most dark, disturbing, and yet beautiful film (not to mention an incredible soundtrack) I've ever seen!

                                                      Liked it!! 

As a movie on it's own, it needs work. So it would make a poor first glimpse of TP but as a wrap-up gone wrong, it was as good as it could be considering Lynch had the money to make it but not the passion to make it the way he wanted to. I think the studio broke his link with the project when they made him tell the TP audience whodunnit. So FWWM stands as a quirky, facinating, attention-grabbing, modern parable that every viewer experienced differently and a difference that some of us experience to this day every time we watch it.

The Hollywood Screenwriter's Dictionary defines "other people's editing" as an experience not unlike having your newborn child urinated on and then run through a meat grinder -- twice.

I just watched the quarreling of the pawn scene this morning over on CBS.com and drew yet another layer of insight out of my latest download. Twin Peaks remains full of new connectednesses and intricacies even now! Is it just me or does the TP scene have a lot of visual puns. Quarreling with a guy in a pawn suit, then the shooting him with a crossbow bolt or quarrel. Leo and Jaques doing naughty stuff in front of Waldo thus contributing to the delinquency of a Minah?

I will say yes, but it wasn't at all what I expected.

At the risk of being spoiled for who murdered Laura, I did basically no research on what the film was like, nor did I assume that it would be like any of Lynch's other works. I figured it would be more 'Twin Peaks' than something like 'Inland Empire'.

Throughout the entire series they paint such a dark and tormented picture of Laura Palmer, so I was incredibly intrigued to see her character and what she was like, how she interacted with those around her etc. Sheryl Lee did a phenomenal job!

However, I felt a lot of this film was very Lynch-esque because he could...not because it matched what was happening. I didn't expect it to be a mirror image of the series, but I expected it to be more of the same that had been presented to us during Season 1+2.

The Laura Palmer story is dark and tormented, as well as being interlaced with a fair bit of sexually explicit material, and I have to say it was executed perfectly...even if it strayed along way from the series. It's a haunting story that I don't know if I will watch again in a hurry, mainly because it shook me to the core like no film has in a long time.

I thought it was great. 

After the fantastic TV series ended and a year had passed with complete TP withdrawal the opening of FWWM was a must see.

No TV screen for one thing, here was a full tilt cinema film on a weekday summer afternoon! The film engulphed you (me) and the big screen and full tilt sound made it a powerful EXPERIENCE . A powerful, visual and sonic trip.

One plus was it put you right there, right in the middle of the story, you were there in the Pink Room.