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.
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...
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.
Anybody here like the Dark Crystal?
I can't believe that's even a question.
Martin Landau on the making of 'Ed Wood'
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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?"
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.
boy: How come I don't have wings??
girl: Cause you're a boy, silly!
Maxipad product placement?
The second half of the book is much more adult, and I have no need to see it on a screen.
Is the second half of the book the same thing as the second movie?
The Dark Crystal
scared the bejeesus out of me when I was little.
It's been years and years since I've seen The Dark Crystal so I can't remember anything about it beyond that the puppets freaked me out. Even the supposedly cute main characters.
- Never saw Magnolia
- Liked Mars Attacks though there were parts I found dumb
- Never saw Time Bandits
- Remember liking Neverending Story a lot as a kid. Haven't seen it in ages, though.
- Love Groundhog Day
- Like Troy for the fights and whatnot (Hector vs. Ajax is my personal favorite) but beyond Sean Bean's Odysseus it doesn't have much else going for it.
