I saw that so so long ago. But I believe I liked it.
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Polter-Cow - Oct 19, 2004 9:40:40 pm PDT #4906 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DebetEsse - Oct 19, 2004 9:41:30 pm PDT #4907 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I saw Dark Crystal once, I think. I remember liking it pretty well, but I was pretty young. I should netflix it. (eta: Basically, P-C is me)
Labrynth>NES>DC
Mr. Broom - Oct 19, 2004 10:14:17 pm PDT #4908 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
The Dark Crystal was beautiful. It did so much more for me than any other kid-oriented fantasy movie of my childhood, Labyrinth included. I had a much more emotional response to Jim Henson's Creature Shop than I did to so many sub-par human actors of the time. This still tends to be true (Farscape, anyone?)
Jim - Oct 19, 2004 11:04:54 pm PDT #4909 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Made around the same time as Brazil, and equally fucked-in-the-head, if less well known.
Really? In the UK, Time Bandits is probly Giliams most famous non-Python work.
Strega - Oct 20, 2004 12:52:44 am PDT #4910 of 10001
Yeah, I think Time Bandits is more generally well-known than Brazil. Critics talk about Brazil more, but Time Bandits periodically runs on movie channels, and local stations as a Saturday afternoon matinee, and so on. I suspect that Twelve Monkeys is Gilliam's best-known movie here, due to the cast if nothing else.
I love The Dark Crystal in theory, but the main character (Jem?) is so unappealing compared to, well, all of the other characters, that I find it difficult to sit through now. It's definitely gorgeous, though.
Jim - Oct 20, 2004 12:54:46 am PDT #4911 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Twelve Monkeys is Gilliam's best-known movie here, due to the cast if nothing else.
D'oh. Good point. And actually for the same reason Fisher King is well known...
Strega - Oct 20, 2004 1:09:35 am PDT #4912 of 10001
I thought about Fisher King too, but I don't feel like that's had as much ongoing popularity over the years. I may be giving too much weight to the sci-fi fans, though.
Jessica - Oct 20, 2004 5:05:59 am PDT #4913 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Anybody here like the Dark Crystal?
I can't believe that's even a question.
tommyrot - Oct 20, 2004 5:29:21 am PDT #4914 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Martin Landau on the making of 'Ed Wood'
Some career similarities notwithstanding, Landau wasn't sure at first he could pull off playing Lugosi. "You got a character here who's 74 years old, who is a morphine addict and an alcoholic, who's Hungarian and has incredible mood swings, and that would be difficult," he says. "But [to top it off] he has to be Bela Lugosi?"
Nutty - Oct 20, 2004 5:32:27 am PDT #4915 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Dark Crystal:
boy: How come I don't have wings??
girl: Cause you're a boy, silly!
Fun movie. Well, any movie would be fun with villainous 6 foot tall cockroaches (surely an inspiration for Power Rangers villains to this day) and heroic stilt-walky 12 foot tall gazelles.
Neverending Story: A movie with excellent visuals -- it gave me nightmares too -- and a very different sense of adventure from your standard Extruded Fantasy Product. I adored the Luckdragon, and really liked the casting of Bastian and Atreyu. (Being who I am, I long thought/wished Atreyu was a girl.) I was even more intrigued when I read the book many years later and discovered the movie is only the first half of the book.
The second half of the book is much more adult, and I have no need to see it on a screen. That's one case where the book and the movie can be happily separate entities, being as they are so different.