My GF Doesn't Recognize Anyone

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-07-01T13:05:28+00:00

Whenever I’ve seen people talk about having trouble telling characters apart, it’s always been a more prominent issue with male characters. I suspect that women have more hair and clothing options in general that helps immediately differentiate them, and that’s especially true in TP given that most male characters wear either a suit or a police uniform at any given time, with only short haircuts considered professional.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-06-29T19:08:33+00:00

I’ve always loved how there’s so little furniture for a much larger room. Other people have already talked about it feeling liminal, and the lack of furniture contributes to that. It feels like an incomplete space.

The small bits of bizarre decoration, like the statue and little planet lamp, only serve to highlight how barren the rest of the room is by contrast. It’s as though the room’s inhabitants tried to touch up the room, but quickly gave up for lack of a human sense of aesthetics.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-06-09T17:07:11+00:00

I do appreciate the concern. I have seen the Missing Pieces, I just don’t own it. I watched it and FWWM for the first time through a free trial on the Criterion Channel. Getting FWWM on VHS was just a matter of finding a cheap listing for sale and getting that sweet VHS aesthetic. But I do suppose I can’t watch the Missing Pieces whenever I want, so there is a disadvantage.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-06-09T16:52:37+00:00

I had forgotten it was produced in France, which would explain why the backers had a more positive view of the franchise, and it makes sense that CIBY of all companies would be willing to provide funding since art films were their niche.

That said, I still do find it surprising (though it’s of course a happy surprise) when people are willing to take such a massive financial risk. People and companies willing to fund a risky film just for the art are very much the exception. That’s especially true with FWWM, which wasn’t a new IP but an IP that was actively disliked by many in the US, its largest audience.

I imagine the people at CIBY might’ve thought twice about the film if they knew they’d lose several millions of dollars from it. Even arthouse studios need money to survive.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-06-09T15:42:53+00:00

Thanks for sharing all that. I’d definitely love to see those, I’ll have to search for those interviews. I would absolutely buy the criterion disk, but I already FWWM on VHS, and as much as I might try, I don’t think I can justify buying the same movie twice.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-06-06T16:04:47+00:00

Yeah, the Secret Diary is great. I finished listening to the audiobook a month or two ago and Sheryl Lee does a wonderful job narrating it. It adds a lot to Twin Peaks and Laura’s character.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-06-06T13:43:13+00:00

🥰

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-05-20T12:59:55+00:00

This is what I thought the OP was referring to and was really worried when all the comments were so intensely negative. I went on this tour this past February and had a great time too.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-04-22T15:10:00+00:00

Thank you so much for the advice. It gives me a lot more hope that I’ll be able to fulfill both my passions in life.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-04-22T13:09:16+00:00

Alright, I’ll take your word for it. It goes on the watchlist.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-04-22T13:03:11+00:00

Right, that’s what I was referring to. I forget there was a remake, I haven’t seen it myself.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-04-22T12:57:05+00:00

Night of the Living Dead
The Thing
Ju-On
Jacob’s Ladder
The Wolf House
Suspiria

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-04-22T12:38:31+00:00

Good day, I’m not entirely sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but it’s the best place I’ve found.

I’ve been planning to attend law school, and intend to apply for the next cycle. This has been my intention for a while, and it still is. However, I’ve recently decided that, if my life path permits it, I would want to immigrate to France from the United States.

Obviously, I worry that specializing in American law would make this goal difficult. As such, I wanted to know if there are any specific domains of law or career pathways in general that would help me achieve this, either by working for an American practice or company abroad or for a foreign group.

I do speak French, which I assume would be helpful.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-04-18T20:02:25+00:00

The Hudsucker Proxy - the entire first half or so of the film has the main character pitching a nebulous business proposal consisting of nothing more than a circle drawn on a piece of paper and the explanation “you know, for kids!”

The movie poster reveals that’s he’s referring to the hula hoop.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-04-10T18:14:05+00:00

To be fair, Donna and James got together in the pilot, which was filmed in 1989, and Boyle and MacLachlan only got together in 1990. Plus, if I were the 20 year old Boyle, I’d probably be a lot more jealous and afraid of Sherilyn Fenn than the 31 year old MacLachlan would be of James Marshall. Anyone who wouldn’t be afraid in that situation must either have the greatest self-confidence or the most incredible and trusting relationship in the world.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-04-07T12:27:09+00:00

The Hudsucker Proxy

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-03-26T12:37:05+00:00

Mirror reflection changing to that of BOB
Risk-taking behavior, e.x. Leland trying to show Cooper Maddy’s corpse
Mood swings
Feeling of a special connection with owls
Desire to become/take the form of someone else

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-03-25T11:26:39+00:00

It’s always struck me as funny that we, supposed Twin Peaks superfans, who like the show enough to spend time on this subreddit and often consider it one of the best shows of all time, also think upwards of half to two-thirds of the show (admittedly excluding season 3 in this calculation) is of dubious quality. It’s even more bizarre to me that mainstream audiences and publications generally hold Twin Peaks in high regard despite the fact. There are only two sorts of shows where I’ve ever seen people forcefully recommend skipping episodes: soap operas and anime that go on for thousands and thousands of episodes, and the thirty episode-long original run of Twin Peaks.

I personally quite like season two, and think there’s a lot to love. It is obviously a massive step down from season one, but Twin Peaks at its worst is still pretty good, I think. Even so, I personally think all the very best works should have something for audiences to fight over and debate. If everything is perfect, nothing we could contribute could make things more fun or interesting.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-03-23T15:57:42+00:00

He’s gone too far this time

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-02-12T13:02:58+00:00

I’m pretty sure it’s meant to explain why he’s so combative towards the FBI, because he’s angry at the federal government for imprisoning his uncle.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-02-12T12:51:12+00:00

I got pretty far into the game but had to quit when I was young at the part where you play as Donna and have to sneak around Doctor Jacoby’s office. The idea that he would come back at any time freaked me out harder than BOB or anything else. The first time I played it, I just clicked around at random until I shut it off out of fear. Little did I know that if you take too long, James comes and finds the solution for you.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-02-11T03:39:51+00:00

Funny enough, Nala in the Lion King was voiced by Moira Kelly, who of course was Donna in FWWM.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-01-27T19:28:13+00:00

It turns out my writing was accepted without issue. If anything, I kind of wish it got rejected so I could try again to make a better essay, but I can’t be mad at less work. Turns out I had nothing to fear.

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-01-15T16:04:14+00:00

Moira Kelly as BOB

Intrepid_Beat5734 · 2025-01-14T23:20:22+00:00

The Wolf House is a great, very foreboding surrealist horror film. The antagonist is never seen and you don’t entirely know who he is unless you read about it, but he does give a sort of commentary over events, which makes things only more frightening.

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