As many of you seem to be my generation and similar etc. etc.
Anyone remember the film brazil ?
It was a bit like 1984, 1 guys struggle not to become a number, i luvvvv that film.
I AM a rebel in secret.
I love it, it's great. What? Did you want a dissertation or something? I also have the making of Brazil and that's great too.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la lahhh.
I'm fed up working for a living but have got used to my rather elaborate lifestyle, therefore I have decided to turn to crime in order to finance it. Do any boarders know of a sure fire way I can accomplish this without getting caught and having to pay the price?
Regards,
Karne
Yep it's totally f*ckin' brill, one of my fave films but so saaaad....Terry Gilliam f*ckin@ genius. Have you seen Jabberwocky? It's never ever on the telly and I've never seen it for hire/sale erm I s'pose I cud track it down on t'web but anyway that's by him too and that is also fabbydabbydoo
Z
I bet there aren't many people here who would disagree with you there! I heartily recommend Time Bandits, Fear and Loathing and Baron Muchasuen too. BM appears on the TV a bit, and there is quite a nice DVD for time bandits.
Anything by Terry Giliam is worth watching. Even 'mainstream' films like the fisher king seem better with his hand on te rudder. I would happily watch ay thing by the man. Especially after watching him jump around in the all-together in Life of Brian. Class.
rotts
I could cry.
ex-secret sci-fi fan realises that pretending to be a 'norm' was bad idea, one should come out and out with a 'i robot' book in my coat pocket etc.
we ARE kindred spirits
kewl
thing i love most about brazil is the 'man against the system' bit, i have been fighting to be a freeish spirit all my life
SCREW THE SYSTEM
Don't fight. Just be free!
And don't forget the brilliant "Twelve Monkeys".
And the credit sequence for Monty Python...Giant foot chortle chortle
Yeah Brazil is a nicely dark masterpiece that Gillam had to fight to get released un-butchered.
The man's a god... he should have done the Harry Potter flick
Brazil is fantastic & a much under shown film, i mean theyve screened 4 weddings & a sodding funeral 58 times yet ive only seen brazil twice. Its great.
sci-fi geeks, now is our time to stand up & be counted, our way is the true way, with our anoraks we can defeat the system...
(slightly delirious with flu) Bou'
Brazil is, IMHO, the greatest film ever made. I've seen it countless times, and ther's always something new in it.
For those with multi-region DVD players, I can heartily recommend the Criterion 3 DVD box set, which features Gilliam's definitive cut, 2 documentaries, numerous other extras, and the "Love Conquers All" cut which the studio wanted to release, complete with an excellent commentary explaining precisely why it's rubbish. It's a superb presentation of a truely great film, and also a fine lesson in the art of film making/ editing.
Link: Buy this! you won't regret it
BRAZIL
truly a great movie.in a wow awesome kind of way
the end is brillant. completely makes you feel
HE WON. HE BEAT THE SYSTEM. with the twist which stops it being a hollywood style happy ever after.
you just know they wanted the last scene chopped. which makes it even better.
now thats a eveings entertainment.
I read somewhere that Time Bandits, Brazil and BM were meant to be a trilogy loosely connected by the notion of the fantasies that men experiencs at different stages of their life. But that could be a load of bollox...
I heard that as well, It would be nice for a box set wouldn't it?
rotts
once i have 'got my shit together ' - reference to easy rider there guys - i is going to buy me that there cd...
wooo brazil fans
wicked
...and what about the 'Fisher King'? that bit in Grand Central Station? not to mention Central Park.
The man's vision is amazing, I haven't seen 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' which I think he made recently, is it any good?
Middenpus
Best Acid scenes ever, and the opening scene (with the bats!)is amazing.
DUKE (V/O)
We had two bags of grass, seventy-
five pellets of mescaline, five
sheets of high powered blotter
acid, a salt shaker half full of
cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-
colored uppers, downers, screamers,
laughers... Also a quart of tequila,
a quart of rum, a case of beer, a
pint of raw ether and two dozen
amyls.
DUKE (V/O)
Not that we needed all that for the
trip, but once you get locked into
a serious drug collection, the
tendency is to push it as far as
you can
DUKE (V/O)
The only thing that really worried
me was the ether. There is nothing
in the world more helpless and
irresponsible and depraved than a
man in the depths of an ether binge.
And I knew we'd get into that
rotten stuff pretty soon.
And when they do, it's very funny. As someone above said, I wouldn't turn down any Gilliam movie, but Fear and Loathing was great fun and Depp is pretty darn good as well.
I just watched Fear & loathing last night, inspired by this thread. Bonkers brilliant!
AT first i was rolling around laughing saying oh i didn't know it was a funny, but then the fear & loathing kicks in, ewwww yukky. unbelievable, so how did MR Gillian explain that to the Drugs squad, " well sir i extroplated the feel & look of the film from the accounts of others sir, i never touched any gov'" the first bit in the reptilian bar was too close to Glastonbury 85 to be funny.....
So is Brazil any good then?
It's fantastic. Robert DeNiro as a vigilante plumber. You just don't get better than that. Also Bob Hoskins as a mad looking official plumber, scarily like Mario!
Good to see everyone agreeing on something for a change. I'm a huge fan of Terry Gilliam too. Brazil is ace, 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits, Jabberwocky, Fear & Loathing (NO ONE else could have made that as well) are all brilliant. Plus the Python ones, although that's obvious. Critics hate the man, which just goes to show what they're all about and how good Gilliam actually is at making films we really want to see.
Missed Lost in La Mancha at the pictures (documentary style thing about failing to make Don Quixote, again with Johnny Depp, sounds very bizarre). Hopefully be out on vid soon.
SD
coo that sounds good. Depp is another hero, he always plays the wierd stuff no-one elses ego would let them near.
He does that! Even more so with this film by the sounds of it. I've heard about a scene where he has a long monologue with a fish :o) Could be a cameo appearance by our King!!
Looks like the guy that played Baron Munchhausen's in it too (I think)
Lost In La Mancha
Just to add that Brazil is really good, and if you have not seen it - you must.
Jabberwocky - not as good (it's been on tv a few times and gets occasional outings on sattelite), but still better than average - and funny too.
M.
flashbacks to the super marion bros movie damn you strontium doug damn you...
on topic however i have seen all of the films mentioned
Yes, Brazil is a great movie, one of the best ever. TG is like the pretty little girl with the pretty little curl - when he`s good he`s a genius and when he`s bad he`s dreadful. 12 Monkeys and the Fisher King were great, Munchausen was a shocker, Time Bandits was ...well nice idea but the film was very ordinary. He`s trying to make a film of Don Quixote now.
stay rebellious
I think the Don Quixote film has gone t*ts up. There was one disaster after another and then the money people pulled it. There was some release or another about the disaster behind the making of the movie, but I can't remember the details.
M.