Twin Peaks - DVD

Twin Peaks - The Definitive Gold Box Edition (The Complete Series)

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Total reviews: 141 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

So scratched, you'd swear it was used. 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

What can I say? Being a fan of odd movies and bizarre TV shows like Northern Exposure and X-Files, people begged me for years to check into this show. I finally did, and 3 of the 10 discs are so scratched they skip. Some online research showed me that a LOT of people had scratched discs. More people even said they couldn't navigate the menus on some discs. I'm sure the show is good, but this is to review these DVD's, and they suck.

FINALLY! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I waited years for this to be released in an ultimate DVD set. I pre-ordered it and was so thrilled when it arrived. The packaging is great, and includes several limited edition postcards of stills from the show. Also, the original and extended endings are offered for the pilot! I had held off on ordering the first season when it was originally out because the version of the pilot was not the original version (I instead ordered a copy of the original pilot from SOUTH KOREA!). It's so lovely to have everything in one gorgeous little box!! If you are a Twin Peaks fan, or a fan of David Lynch in general, as I am, definitely get this set! What are you waiting for?!

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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 10/30/2007 Rating: Nr

Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me

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Total reviews: 198 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Not even one star 1 out of 5 stars.
2 of 13 people found this review helpful.

Terrible. Dialogue was constantly mumbled. The plot made no sense, and characters that were introduced were just forgotten about.
If you like this movie, you have no taste, and little self-respect.
If you complain, "Hey, it's just one of those movies to trip out on."
Then you haven't seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Unnecessarily Graphic and Crude 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Call me a prude if you like. But the explicit graphics of the sex scenes could have been more subtly done without sacrificing the plot. And Bobby's profuse use of the f word was unnecessary. As one who followed the original series devotedly, and watched the entire series with rapt attention in the Gold DVD Box edition, I must say this turned me off.

I understand and appreciate the effort to fill us in on the murder motive through this prequel. I think as a Twin Peaks fan, I would have appreciated a sequel too, one which resolves the tension of "hero become villain" in the very last scene of Season 2, as well as the problem of Leo Johnson left with tarantulas hanging overhead courtesy of Windom Earle. The reference in "Fire Walk With Me" to "The good Cooper is in the lodge and can't get out" suggests that there might have been a solution coming??? But as it is we are left hanging, just like Leo.

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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/20/2004 Run time: 134 minutes Rating: R

Twin Peaks - The Second Season

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Total reviews: 116 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Turn on to Amazon 5 out of 5 stars.
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Couldn't stop watching! 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you've seen the first season, then you have to see the 2nd! The Laura Palmer murder is solved less than halfway through, and lots of interesting sub-plots come into focus for the rest of the season. (There is one not-so-exciting transition episode, but then it picks back up again.) Also, there are a lot of episodes in season 2, so it will keep you busy for awhile.

excellent 5 out of 5 stars.
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a great murder mystery that is full of twists and turns and at times can make you feel uneasy. it can be slow when it goes into details of each characters lives but i really enjoyed getting to know each of them and their dark secrets. and if these series doesn't make any sense it helps if you watch the movie which was also pretty trippy.

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All 22 episodes from the 2nd season Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/03/2007 Run time: 1081 minutes

Twin Peaks - The First Season (Special Edition)

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Limited Availability 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 16 people found this review helpful.

I totally agree: Things should only be available for extremely limited amounts of time, and then never available again save for at an exorbitant resale price. How else would the people who happened to be in the right place at the right time be able to gloat about their "accomplishment" in buying a thing when it was available?

Hey, people should just EXPECT that things aren't going to be available for reasonable durations of time, and blow ALL THE MONEY THEY HAVE on them just to make sure they get these things before they're GONE FOREVER.

Viva la glorification del consumerismo!

Break the code, solve the crime 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

"Twin Peaks" was the ultimate cult TV show -- suspenseful, complex, hilariously written and with hidden layers that casual channel-flippers might not catch.

And though it's only eight episodes, the first season of David Lynch and Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks" is a brilliant piece of television, with a dozen subplots all somehow linked to the mysterious death of the beautiful, troubled Laura Palmer. Brilliant writing, quirky acting, and great cherry pie are all mixed up in the darkly eerie season.

For the record, it doesn't contain the pilot episode, where Laura is found "wrapped in plastic," and Special Agent Dale Cooper(Kyle McLachlan) is called in to investigate. Nope, the first season starts with the episode after that: Cooper continues to enjoy the comforts of the hotel, while continuing the investigation -- and getting some surprising results from the autopsy.

What's more, the question of who killed Laura is getting more complex, due to a bloody shirt, a drug deal, a secret affair and a heart necklace. People catch glimpses of a one-armed man and a grey-haired killer -- and Cooper has a prophetic dream with both men, as well as a red room, a double of Laura Palmer, and a tiny man who dances to jazz music.

While Cooper tries to sort out his evidence and dreams, he finds that Twin Peaks is not the small-town idyll he thought it was, and Laura Cooper was enmeshed in its darkness. There are secret love affairs, town crazies, drug smuggling, corporate devilry about a mill, and an evil presence that lurks in the woods nearby...

"Twin Peaks" is hard to even describe, because the plots were a perfect balance of the surreal and mundane. It starts off as a basic murder mystery that allows us to the see the underbelly of rural America. But starting in the second episode, it becomes something much, much more.

Lynch loads the storyline down with eerie symbolism, creepy visions and inscrutable (but important) lines ("Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see...."). But he and Frost also spun up some wonderfully quirky scenarios, such as Cooper throwing stones to determine who killed Laura, or his famous dream of a dancing midget and a strange Laura double, both talking in a weird "backwards" manner.

And the dialogue has that brilliace that most series cannot keep going for long ("Fellas, don't drink that coffee! You'd never guess... there was a fish in the percolator"). Considering how strange the characters are -- including Cooper -- it's not too surprising that it's crammed with quotables ("Black as midnight on a moonless night...." "Pretty black").

And the characters are VERY strange. Cooper himself is played with quirky brilliance by McLachlan -- he's a bright, lovable, friendly kind of guy who loves Tibetan mysticism, tape recorders and a "damn fine cup of coffee." He's not your average hard-nosed FBI agent.

And Cooper flanked by a number of talented actors playing two basic varieties of characters: the relatively normal ones with a slight quirk, such as abusive truckers, the sheriff, teen lovers, obnoxious FBI agents. And the REALLY strange ones, like the weird Log Lady, the one-armed man, the spacey Lolita, and the eerie spirits that haunt Twin Peaks.

Quirky and surreal TV is currently in vogue, but they all stem from the little town of "Twin Peaks," and the first season is an entrancing experience.

Twin Peaks - Pilot Episode [IMPORT]

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Total reviews: 74 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Misunderstood 4 out of 5 stars.
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I was going to skip writing a review to this disc. I was one of the very first to get it in the States and even then there were so many reviews that said what I was going to say that I decided to skip it. However, reading some of the negative reviews I think that many people do not understand the situation with this release. Yes, it has problems and you should go in with your eyes open. But it's not as bad as some make it out to be.

First of all, the negatives. As other reviewers have already mentioned, the sound seems to be sped up. I suspect that it is actually just a pitch change, as the action still looks normal and the voices still synch. The video has some slight artifacts, and the special features are really pretty nonexistant.

In any other DVD, this would make me tear my hair out (or, at least, return the disc). But the negatives are far outweighed by the positives. In order to explain why, let me give a brief history.

When the pilot for Twin Peaks was made, the money was provided by Warner Bros. Since it was not known at the time whether a network would buy the series, WB insisted that Lynch/Frost produce an ending for the pilot. That way, if the series wasn't picked up, they could get their money back by selling the pilot as a stand-alone movie. The ending produced really didn't wrap anything up, but the footage was designed to be salvaged later as Cooper's dream in episode 2. The pilot, with the surreal ending, was shown briefly in some theaters in Europe before ABC greenlit the series, thus it is sometimes called the "European version".

Fast forward to the end of the series. When the decision was made to release the series on video, Propaganda films realized that it couldn't get rights to the pilot. WB refused to give the rights up because they hadn't made all the money that they could. They released the pilot on their own (separate from the series episodes and never mentioning that it was a series in the first place) on both VHS and LaserDisc. Problem is that they released the version with their "special unaired footage". In other words, the artificial ending that was produced under duress and that keeps the "European version" from meshing with the rest of the series. This version was NOT the way it was intended to be seen, despite what some reviewers have claimed.

Until now, that has been the only version ever available on any sort of video. The pilot was broadcast in its intended form three times by ABC (its initial airing, and then twice over the summer to increase viewership for season 2) and several times by Bravo (as part of their "TV Too Good For TV" nights). Other than that, no one in the US has seen the correct version of the pilot until this DVD became available.

So, the positives? Simply, they are the fact that we now have a version of the pilot that we can play before watching the rest of the series without having to go into a fifteen minute explanation of why the ending doesn't fit with the beginning of the next episode. We can see Sarah Palmer's correct vision (the one referenced later in the series). We can, just for a moment, go back to the first time we saw the show and remember gathering with friends awaiting the next revelations from Lynch & co. without having to do some fancy editing work or pull out our ancient, fading tapes from 1990.

Don't listen to the complainers. If you want to watch this amazing series, you MUST start with this disc.

My review = 4 stars (5 stars for content, -1 for technical glitches)

TWIN PEAKS: SECOND SEASON (6PC) / (FULL DUB AC3) - TWIN PEAKS: SECOND SEASON (6PC) / (FULL DUB AC3)

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Twin Peaks [IMPORT] [Region 2]

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Break the code, solve the crime 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

"Twin Peaks" was the ultimate cult TV show -- suspenseful, complex, hilariously written and with hidden layers that casual channel-flippers might not catch.

And though it's only eight episodes, the first season of David Lynch and Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks" is a brilliant piece of television, with a dozen subplots all somehow linked to the mysterious death of the beautiful, troubled Laura Palmer. Brilliant writing, quirky acting, and great cherry pie are all mixed up in the darkly eerie season.

For the record, it doesn't contain the pilot episode, where Laura is found "wrapped in plastic," and Special Agent Dale Cooper(Kyle McLachlan) is called in to investigate. Nope, the first season starts with the episode after that: Cooper continues to enjoy the comforts of the hotel, while continuing the investigation -- and getting some surprising results from the autopsy.

What's more, the question of who killed Laura is getting more complex, due to a bloody shirt, a drug deal, a secret affair and a heart necklace. People catch glimpses of a one-armed man and a grey-haired killer -- and Cooper has a prophetic dream with both men, as well as a red room, a double of Laura Palmer, and a tiny man who dances to jazz music.

While Cooper tries to sort out his evidence and dreams, he finds that Twin Peaks is not the small-town idyll he thought it was, and Laura Cooper was enmeshed in its darkness. There are secret love affairs, town crazies, drug smuggling, corporate devilry about a mill, and an evil presence that lurks in the woods nearby...

"Twin Peaks" is hard to even describe, because the plots were a perfect balance of the surreal and mundane. It starts off as a basic murder mystery that allows us to the see the underbelly of rural America. But starting in the second episode, it becomes something much, much more.

Lynch loads the storyline down with eerie symbolism, creepy visions and inscrutable (but important) lines ("Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see...."). But he and Frost also spun up some wonderfully quirky scenarios, such as Cooper throwing stones to determine who killed Laura, or his famous dream of a dancing midget and a strange Laura double, both talking in a weird "backwards" manner.

And the dialogue has that brilliace that most series cannot keep going for long ("Fellas, don't drink that coffee! You'd never guess... there was a fish in the percolator"). Considering how strange the characters are -- including Cooper -- it's not too surprising that it's crammed with quotables ("Black as midnight on a moonless night...." "Pretty black").

And the characters are VERY strange. Cooper himself is played with quirky brilliance by McLachlan -- he's a bright, lovable, friendly kind of guy who loves Tibetan mysticism, tape recorders and a "damn fine cup of coffee." He's not your average hard-nosed FBI agent.

And Cooper flanked by a number of talented actors playing two basic varieties of characters: the relatively normal ones with a slight quirk, such as abusive truckers, the sheriff, teen lovers, obnoxious FBI agents. And the REALLY strange ones, like the weird Log Lady, the one-armed man, the spacey Lolita, and the eerie spirits that haunt Twin Peaks.

Quirky and surreal TV is currently in vogue, but they all stem from the little town of "Twin Peaks," and the first season is an entrancing experience.

Vintage San Francisco Infrastructure Film Series - Golden Gate Bridge, Twin Peaks Tunnel, Bridging San Francisco Bay, Lincoln Highway Dedication, California State Highway 101 and More

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This collection of films explores the construction of major landmarks in San Francisco in the early 20th Century. The total run time of this collection of films is 54 minutes and some of the earlier pieces are silent films. Here are the films in this collection: Film 1: Golden Gate Bridge Opening - 1936 - A montage of scenes from the opening day of the Bridge.; Film 2: Twin Peaks Tunnel Construction and Opening - 1917 - Scenes of the Twin Peaks trolley tunnel being constructed and its opening ceremony.; Film 3: Bridging San Francisco Bay - 1937 - A film explorign the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.; Film 4: The March of Progress - 1945 - Take a tour of the interurban trolley system as it travels through San Francisco's East Bay and over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge circa 1945.; Film 5: Lincoln Highway Dedication - 1915 - Dedication cerimony of the western terminus point of the Lincoln Highway (old U.S. 30)in Lincoln Park, San Francisco.; Film 6: California State Highway 101 Opening - 1929 - Opening cerimonies for California State Highway 101 at San Francisco, with 50,000 people attending including Mayor James "Sunny Jim" Rolph of San Francisco; Mayor Taylor of San Mateo, Queen Clara Carli and others.

Vintage San Francisco Infrastructure Film Series - Golden Gate Bridge, Twin Peaks Tunnel, Bridging San Francisco Bay, Lincoln Highway Dedication, California State Highway 101 and More

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This collection of films explores the construction of major landmarks in San Francisco in the early 20th Century. The total run time of this collection of films is 54 minutes and some of the earlier pieces are silent films. Here are the films in this collection: Film 1: Golden Gate Bridge Opening - 1936 - A montage of scenes from the opening day of the Bridge.; Film 2: Twin Peaks Tunnel Construction and Opening - 1917 - Scenes of the Twin Peaks trolley tunnel being constructed and its opening ceremony.; Film 3: Bridging San Francisco Bay - 1937 - A film explorign the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.; Film 4: The March of Progress - 1945 - Take a tour of the interurban trolley system as it travels through San Francisco's East Bay and over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge circa 1945.; Film 5: Lincoln Highway Dedication - 1915 - Dedication cerimony of the western terminus point of the Lincoln Highway (old U.S. 30)in Lincoln Park, San Francisco.; Film 6: California State Highway 101 Opening - 1929 - Opening cerimonies for California State Highway 101 at San Francisco, with 50,000 people attending including Mayor James "Sunny Jim" Rolph of San Francisco; Mayor Taylor of San Mateo, Queen Clara Carli and others.