Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

I was a fan of "Twin Peaks" from episode 1 until the end. It was sad when the show went off the rails in season 2. I still stuck with it because I knew it would be great again and "It almost was".

In Season 2 when the death of Laura Palmer was solved the show should of shut down production for a few weeks so they could figure out where to take the show. Well they didn't do that and what we got was about 6 weeks of watching a show going down in flames!

When the show got its groove back it was too late. The audience was gone. What was worse was that the show ended on a cliffhanger.

I was hoping the film "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" would solve the cliffhanger but it didn't. However I still love the film. I herd for years there was deleted scenes but it took 22 years for those scenes to pop up. Once I saw them I loved them. I just wish David Lynch would have re-edited the film" to include many of these scenes.

Most of the missing pieces here are scenes that feature cast members from the TV show. The theatrical film however did not feature most of our favorite characters. Thankfully now we get to see them here.

To me some of the scenes that should have been left in should have been

*Teresa Banks phone Calls" "Laura Hiding in the bushes when she sneaks out"

The Blu-ray Set is worth buying just to see these scenes.

This is not a film. "So what is this film" you may ask? Well long time "Twin Peaks" (Like myself) waited for over 20 years to see this footage. When I finally got my set (2 weeks after I was supposed too) I was like a child on Christmas morning. I watched this every scene with a wide smile.

In 1992 when David Lynch released this "Feature film" fans of the television show were disappointed. See their favorite characters from the television show were almost non-existent. In fact the ones that did pop up were almost in cameo roles.

Now what these scene include is mostly footage that could of been included in the feature film but were cut for time. However I think all the scenes from that included the character "Theresa Banks" should have been left in.

Now again this is not a film this is just deleted scenes. They are however well worth watching. I wish David Lynch would however re-edit the film to include some of these scenes. (Not all of these scenes should be re-edited back in). David Lynch has been on the record several times stating the theatrical cut his his cut of the film. He has no intention of ever re-cutting the film. Which is fine. I do love "Fire Walk With Me" but he should think about it!

You can look for a re-edited fan cut of the film. It just won't be an official version. I saw one it ran way over 3 hours and seem to play faster than the official version!

The Missing Pieces is a collection of never-before-seen scenes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, the divisive prequel to the television series Twin Peaks. This feature length edit, put together by David Lynch himself, is almost like a second Twin Peaks movie. It is a chance to get some new scenes with beloved characters from the show, starts to explain some of what David Lynch was going for with the movie, and even has some scenes taking place after the end of the TV show. I actually enjoyed it more than the film it was cut from.

First of all are the additional scenes of the investigation at the start of Fire Walk With Me. These are mostly a curiosity item, a lot of them being no more than extended scenes. There is a pretty good fight scene in there. The most interesting part of this first 30 minutes is the scene with David Bowie's Agent Phillip Jeffries. In the movie, this came out of nowhere and went nowhere. You couldn't even hear what was going on half of the time due to the editing. Here, we can see a clean version of the scene, and it begins to explain some things. It's still a big mystery, but there are some new pieces.

Then we get to the main event. The Twin Peaks staples. There are lovely scenes with Norma and Ed, Bobby's parents, and a hilarious one with Josie, Pete, and an Old Man. That scene felt most like one from the show.

One of the main problems with the movie is that it shows us nothing but the dark, abusive side of the Palmer family, meaning we don't really get a chance to invest in the characters, so we don't care when devastating things happen to them. That's why the initial dinner scene from this edit is the most crucial scene that should have stayed in the movie. It shows us the Palmer family as a quirky yet functional and happy family, masking some darkness underneath. If they had kept this scene in the movie, it would have humanized them, meaning it actually means something when we see them dehumanized throughout the movie.

At the end, we see a scene with Annie from after the end of the show and an extended version of the show's final scene. Neither scene solves the massive cliffhanger the series was left on ("How's Annie?"), but they make it more intricate, tying in aspects from the movie plot.

In the end, this is a must see for Twin Peaks fans, even ones who didn't enjoy the movie. It provides new scenes in the style of the show, illuminates the thinking behind some of the movie's odd choices, and even provides more information about the massive cliffhanger from the end of the show.

This is not a movie, but a collection of scenes deleted from "Fire walk With Me". Standing alone, this movie is nonsense and extremely boring. I know that because I accidentally watched it before "Fire walk With Me". But once seen right after TV series and "Fire walk With Me", this addition gets a completely new shape and while watching it I enjoyed more than I enjoyed the movie itself. Those deleted scenes are more like the original TV show than the movie and I think that cutting them out was a terrible mistake. I suppose they did it to cut the movie to a reasonable length, because all together lasts almost four hours, but with these scenes included all objections to the movie disappear. With these scenes in it, the movie would have the same charm and atmosphere we loved in the TV show and most of the characters movie is missing appear here. Besides that, in several spots during the movie, we have sudden switches where it is obvious that something is missing. Well, these deleted scenes are missing. They deleted scenes without ironing the edges in places they were cut out. I saw somewhere that fans asked Lynch to make an extended version of the movie in which he would join "Fire walk With Me" and "Missing Pieces" into one harmonious piece of art, but he refused to do it. So some extreme fan did it on his own. You can find the extended fan version of the movie that lasts 3,5 hours. They did not include every single deleted scene in it, because the goal was to make harmonious result, not to put everything back at any cost. I have to find and see it one of these days, but it was too much for me to do it right after watching the whole series and movie in just a few days period. Maybe in a few years, when the time comes to refresh my memory. If anyone already saw it, I would like to hear your impressions. All in all, this is must watch for every "Twin Peaks" fan, because it fills many holes in the story and opens some new points of view.

8/10

So many great scenes but one is so good and I don't know why it was cut from the movie. Ofcourse, I'm talking about the scene in which Pete Martell is selling a piece of wood to the old man. Priceless.