Terry Gilliam - C/D, S/D

Out and good.

Parnassus? It's deece.

feeling older...

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2559

Good at blaming other people for stuff, isn't he?

Visionaries don't have time for nonsense like budgets and schedules and TIME I mean

"Imaginarium" was really pretty wonderful, aside from the Colin Farrell parts. I recently saw "Fisher King" for the first time and greatly enjoyed that too. Kinda get the feeling he keeps remaking the same story over and over - misfits triumphing against an insane world.

well, not in Brazil so much

Fisher King is allright except for the middle-third love story which comes out of nowhere and is just terrible (and then entirely abandoned for the final third)

just like irl tbh

awww

Well,, yeah Brazil is debatable because the ending is so open-ended. But you could argue that Sam ends it completely free of the Orwellian nightmare by escaping into permanent hallucinatory madness. The whole film was about him wanting to live out his dreams and the real world constantly interfering. So maybe - in his mind at least - he's won.

Yeah, I've heard Gilliam make that argument... He never had to sell that to a general audience.

I seem to recall "triumph" being a relative term in the new one as well?

I love Fisher King, top to bottom...including the love story even. I saw Munchausen for the first time earlier this year and really loved it. I haven't seen Imaginarium...I dunno, I'm kind of afraid of it.

dont be, imo. Pleasantly surprised by it

Munchausen, Brazil and Time Bandits are all the business. quality varies thereafter - am seriously trepidatious about the Imaginarium

a mixture of trippy and bodacious? Fitting, imo.

um

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trepidatious

ur middle name ought to be 'understanding of wordplay'

actually, that is the definition of "mo"

understanding of wordplay money understanding of wordplay problems

dont talk shite

see, you just don't understand wordplay

Parnassus was indeed great, but I liked Tideland too so

(really just made that post in order to throw Tideland into the mix and see what happens)

In future I really am not going to bump the thread of a guy who hasnt made a good film in a quarter-century just bcz he turned 70.

yes you will

But you alerted me to Quixote's funding going arse-up so completely worthwhile bump imo xp

totally dug imaginarium which i just saw last weekend. brazil is dope but too long. is fisher king with robin williams? i guess i have to put tideland on my netflix queue . . .

Fisher King Robin Williams, yep.

btw did that film disappear without trace? I've not seen it available anywhere in at least a decade.

I have Tideland and that's another that I've been a bit twitchy about watching.

It's incredibly fantastic but it's also very very confrontational and self-indulgent and monologue-heavy and just weird. But incredibly fantastic.

hurm....

I want to say more but there's so much to spoil.

spoiler:

horrid

That's def a good start.

reviews were pretty bad iirc

Unanimously, and it's pretty clear why (but to expound would breach spoiler etiquette).

Yeah I already knew a little about the storyline and I think that's what backed me off it. Maybe I'll give it a shot this weekend (so to speak)

Hey nice username, Almanac :)

Ahhhh. Righto.

btw if you make it halfway and it's not grabbing you you can stop.

;) xp

ty Almanac. Maybe I'll take a sedative or something before I start out, lol

Fisher King was pretty rad. But yeah most of it is Robin Williams doing his Robin Williams thing, acting like the genie from Aladdin or something, but it's not entirely bad cos it's balanced out by scuzzy Jeff Bridges and his hot-ass gf. Jeff spends alot of the movie looking like a bum, so you can almost imagine this is a prequel to The Big Lebowski or something.

Gonna check out Tideland soon, it's the only TG film I havent seen...

someone describing 'brazil' at work: "it's in the 80's, robert deniro, it's supposed to be set in brazil...."

this is the same person who referred to anne hathaway as "some english actress" when talking about One Day.

is tideland any good

Tideland's abysmal. So much worse than anything else he has done.

"...I think it's the movie version of Who's The Boss? except with only the grandma, and her face is made out of rubber."

"also her dog's asshole is taped shut for some reason"