Dude this is the most entertaining Peaks video I've ever seen. Also never thought of that Laura/Judy connection. And you used 2 coats!!

That's SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO to you

How the hell does this not have over a million views? Absolutely excellent video!

5:40 I am pretty sure the figure in the dark clothes ins Bernard Renault, who works together with Leo on the drug trade and gets killed by Leo, so we never see him again. He just shares an outfit with Leland. There is no reason to think that Leland worked with Leo running drugs. Would also be a huge risk after he attacked him the night his daughter died. But who knows what Bob / Leland were up to. I also always interpreted the make up on Vindom Earl as a costume / trick he pulls on Leo. Vindom is constantly discusing himelf and I thought he might just want to scare Leo a bit and the plan to enter the Black lodge and take its power to do evil adds up with his Earl's motivation and not Bob's. Bob has the power of the Lodge, Vindom wants to get the evil power of Bob. I am not sure he would want that while controled by Bob. Vindom Earl's plans change a bit when he realises that he can open the way to the Lodge with fear, using Annie to open the door and not just kill her and Coop. But I also do like the idea that Bob took over Earl, either way I always saw it as Bob playing both Vindom and Earl by louring them in to the lodge, to take his new victim (he directly appears infront of Coop after Josie is killed, planting the idea how to enter the lodge in Cooper's head). I do think all other explenations work out pretty perfectly.

Thank you for pulling so many heads out of asses.

This is hilarious and brilliant. Thank you kind sir. After watching many of the 'hidden meaning' videos you're talking about, I really needed this exorcism of stupidity today (PS You missed mentioning the Captain of the Titanic and a baby Donal Trump in that final photo.)

Love the movie and book, and love videos with theories about the movie. I dont buy most of them, but they are fun to hear. Not big on the Wendy theory, to me just doesn't add up. Great video!

the tree at 6:10 is supposed to show us they're in the same area

My problem with season two was that a lot of the storylines for the characters were stupid and didnt feel like they had any stakes. Dale being framed, ok mifht have been a one or two episode story but got dragged out. Nadine having super strength, ben horne doing the civil war stuff. James' whole stupid storyline. Then josie revealed as being possessed by bob too. What i think they should have done was have the bob murders continue and they have to find the killer and its josie this discovery then leads dale to the black lodge in the last episode. So much was just dumb

LMAO, i like this

Very good video. I laughed n enjoyed it. Heard some things I never thought of and learned a lot. It’s kinda like one of your favorite song.. it means one thing to you but another fan will have a completely different approach on the song. If you like it… you like it. Keep the meaning you got from it for yourself. After all that’s the one that counts. Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed it. 😊

I love The Shining. I've been watching videos about it here on KZfaq over the last few days, and yours is by far my favorite. I laughed a bunch of times and I'll probably watch it again. I totally agree with you about how batshit most of the theories about it are, including those laid out in Room 237. Like you, I think it's stupid to come up with convoluted theories about tiny details that can probably be ascribed to continuity/human error and could never have been expected to picked up on by viewers in the pre-home theater and computer era of the late 1970s.. Nevertheless, I love Room 237 and will probably continue watching more of these videos "explaining" the film just because it's fun to see the perspectives of people who are are intrigued by it as I am. I remember a professor totally blowing my mind by pointing out ways that small details foreshadowed later events in a short story I wrote, none of which I had intended. Since then I've been a little more open to the idea that the interpretations people come up when experiencing art (a term I use extremely loosely re: to my college short story) are valid/worth considering even if they aren't in line with anything the artist intended when creating the piece. But yeah, the moon landing and backwards/forwards theories are insane.

Fantastic work once again! That moon landing bit had me lulz 😅. OREGONNN!

Inland Empire has always given me the feeling reminiscent of one of those endless dreams where you feel as though you're fading in and out through a series of surreal worlds each with its own concept of logic, meaning and purpose It's one of my favourite films of all

I saw your recommendation thumbnail and watched the movie before watching the video here. (Will most likely do that same with any other you suggest.) This was an utterly fantastic film. It kind of changed my impression of Peter Jackson as someone who knows how to properly focus his various passions very well as I thought the closest he got to doing something serious before Lord of the Rings was The Frighteners. I can't help but wonder about The Lovely Bones after watching this. This movie is perfect evidence that he was the right director for such a dark and touchy subject yet I don't think that movie fairs nearly as well. I wonder if it has to do with so many studios and big names attaching themselves to his work post LOTR but not wanting to back something that risky to their reputations. As depressing as it would be to see an indie movie director getting devoured by the hollywood machine, I suppose it's a better alternative to believing he just lost the ability to navigate these kinds of stories.

By far my favorite interpretation of what is happening in Twin Peaks piece by piece. Corn Pone Flicks is the Dale Cooper of squirreling out secrets from David Lynch’s magnum opus.

20:16 yes. It's David Bowie. Of course the scene would have been good 😄 Yes, Lynch's workaround was interesting, but if Bowie could have done it 💯 , Lynch would have still made his scenes incredible. I view Phillips look in the season to be as a reault of being tossed abiut from lodges and the Dutchman's, through time, so much. If we had David Bowie, we likely could have got some form of dishevelled man , gone almost mad over time. I dunno, im picturing some sort of Apocalypse Now, Conolel Kurtz sorta vibe to the scenes if we had him there.

So many kitties.

I think the problem is that stupid ppl have too figer sht out…on viddy screens.

Just across the sea in Adelaide, South Australia we have a home production of a visceral film based on a series of murders in the 90s called Snowtown, you may or may not know of it but I would say it's a worthy mention

I started watching your video and stopped right away to watch the movie first, as I’ve never heard of it. So thanks for discovery!

What are your thoughts on the prequels? Will you ever review them?

hypothetically wouldn't it be great if you could find this whole film by putting its title into the search bar of a major video server website hypothetically?

Weird. You can’t find this to stream on Netflix or Amazon.

Great video. Would absolutely love if you covered Primer & Forbidden Planet in detail, they're incredible films.

Happy to see a new upload from you ❤️

Great film I was hoping The Lovely Bones would have this tone but it didn't, I wish Jackson would make a few more films like this.

I really love this movie. So dynamic and personal. I was fortunate that a friend who worked in theater wrote a play in 2006 that serves as a sort of "fictional sequel" to Parker and Hulme's story, called "Where Are They Now?" by Cindy Williams. I saw a preview performance seated on the floor in a library, very close to the actresses and it was fantastic

great to have a new video from you, and hopefully more soon! thanks so much for starting out by calling out the distinction of "underrated" and "overlooked" - that too has driven me crazy for years and it's thrown around so easily, often just to get cheap "likes" for whatever reason.

I too love this film, and other early Jackson films, and similarly had hope when I heard he was doing LOTR largely based on what I'd seen in Heavenly Creatures. When trying to talk to people about it, it seems they either haven't seen it, or think they've heard of it, but the person who has actually seen it seems rare.

Great to see new post. Film now on my list. I agree with your view about making murder as awful as it is. My take is violence in films isn't violent enough: shoot someone and they seem to be napping, not twitching and rolling about taking half hour to horribly die... Thanks again

Now I have a Descendents song stuck in my head. This happens to me. Milo goes to my head.

I live in Christchurch and, for a few years, rented a flat in a house a few doors down from the real life Parker home on Gloucester St. (which had also been developed into rental accomodation - while my old address was demolished following the 2011 earthquake, the old Parker house still stands today). I had the privilege of seeing a premiere screening of the film as part of a film festival at the Regent Cinema in Cathedral Square, attended by Jackson, (who gave a short introduction before the screening), which left me giddily comparing it to the likes of Scorsese. At the time people doubted Jackson could pull off such a serious dramatic story but I trusted that he had demonstrated a brilliance for inventive visual storytelling and I think ultimately that determines how good a film is, whatever genre. A few months later the film went on general release in a slightly edited version and I went to a poorly attended screening and had a completely different reaction to it; second time around it seemed heavy-handed and almost tastelessly over the top, milking the comedic moments and indulging in the lurid fantasy sequences. I left that screening shaking my head at how differently the film affected me; I have always taken pride in my indepence of thought and never felt that the reactions of an audience or critical reputation ever infuenced my opinions of a film but, how else could I explain this? A few weeks later, the film had found its audience and was doing well, accumulating positive word of mouth. Out of curiosity, I decided to try it again and was amazed to (re)discover the tragic wonder of the film; the tasteless excesses and mocking tone now seemed entirely consistant with the teenage girls' melodramatic view of their world, the "indulgent" flights of fantasy revealed and revelled in the essential escapism of their collective psychosis (a folie a deux). The film made dramatic sense again and this time I left amazed at how my perceptions had been changed once again. There have been other films whose appreciation of which have either grown or diminished for me with successive viewings but never like this, and never so dramatically! I think it's still Jackson's best film.

Watched it for the first time a couple months ago, it was really good! Still have to finish watching Peter Jackson's filmography

I'm always happy to see when you upload new videos. And I'm so glad you covered Heavenly Creatures!

This movie sounds great but it being out of print is a bummer since I want a blu-ray version.

Matt, were you in Killer Klowns from Outer Space? There is an extra there that looks just like you. Honest question. Love your videos BTW

@1:34 For me this movie showed that Jackson would understand LoTR, but "The Frighteners" sold me because that proved he could handle a large budget movie.

Thank you for this. I like to think of myself as fairly well versed in film history, and I’m a fan of Jackson’s work - despite all that, Heavenly Creatures completely flew under my radar. Time to rectify that.

Remains my favorite Jackson movie. The movie isn't accessible because the movie is disturbing, and one wonders if Jackson (and Kate Winslet, perhaps) are a little embarrassed by it, and would be fine if it sank into oblivion - after all, Jackson works with Sir Paul McCartney now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway, looking forward to more in your series!

Added to my list. Thank you!

I remember stumbling upon this film on tv as a teenager, got completely sucked in and then the murder scene chilling me to the bone.

Great overview. I'm also shocked that there isn't a bluray rerelease.

This was a great favourite when it was still available. There are two other crime films from about the same time, "Manhunter" and "Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer", a trifecta of truly classic films.

I think accessibility is an issue with this movie being overlooked. It isn't easy to find.

Peter Jackson really needs to make his earlier works more easily accessible

Yes. Thank you. We need more videos on movies that deserve a spotlight.

Finally. Hometown represent. Christchurch, NZ. I walked through that park where they "moidered Mother" so many times.

I watched this when it was released in the 90s. It definitely stayed with me. Beautifully terrifying.

"underrated" is an overrated term