‘Good, hot, black coffee’. Twin Peaks Boxset…frustration
OK, buying dvds is a minefield. One false move and BLAM you’re sat there shitting yourself with bloody stumps where your arms used to be. Well maybe not quite that bad, but it’s still fucked. There’s a new ‘definitive’ edition of Twin Peaks being released on dvd this month. The problem being that in this case ‘definitive’ is clever Illuminati code for ‘half-arsed’.
So what these clever bastards have done is gather up all the dvd extras they can, restore the prints and locate the best mixes of the sound they can find (DTS 5.1 in this case), get a hold of the uncut pilot and dig out some commentaries… then scatter these jewels to the wind and see where they land. The result is a R1 season 1 boxset with some extras, a not great print, the commentaries, DTS sound but no pilot. A R2 boxset with the pilot included, but no DTS. A definitive edition that adds a bunch of new extras, restored prints, but loses DTS sound, loses the commentaries and loses some other extras that were on the individual season boxsets.
Congratulations, and welcome to the asshole club.
The only good thing to come out of it seems to be the above clip that accompanied the set on amazon.com titled ‘Good, hot, black coffee’. Awesome.
I need to check out the ‘Agent Cooper tapes‘ too… regain my David Lynch shaped erection.
Hey dude i have those agent cooper tapes, i am sure i do. If you want a copy give me a holla x
It’s not that they’re incompetent, it’s just that they don’t give a shit. Which is not just our loss, it’s theirs, because they could be making more money. Wankers. Supposedly there’s some rights issues over the Pilot, which was why it wasn’t included in the US S1 box set. But they used the US boxes for the box set they released over here, so even though ours *does* include the pilot, there was a booklet inside which said “The Story So Far” and laid out the plot of the Pilot scene by scene. Imagine how many people read the booklet, thinking it was necessary, and then had to sit through 90 minutes of what they’d just read, ruining it. And the pilot is the best episode. Not a single person in charge of releasing it bothered to actually check what they were releasing.
The extras are not worth much, in my opinion, but the inferior sound is *really* inferior. Back when they were released on tape, it was so bad that between scenes and in silent moments, it sounded like there was a welder just out of shot.
These are the same people who used to put some random techie in charge of Panning & Scanning somebody’s carefully shot cinematography because they thought people would complain about the black letterbox strips. They should all be killed.