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Trigger Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 09:02 AM
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Time Bandits, an underrated film.







Who agrees?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 09:05 AM
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1. *raises hand*
I agree. That was a really fun movie.
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 09:06 AM
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2. That movie was great
Terry Gilliam is one of my favorite directors.:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 09:06 AM
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3. I liked it when I saw it many years ago...
I don't remember much other than liking it & that it has a lot of dwarfs in it.
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Trigger Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 09:08 AM
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4. It was one of those movies,
that I saw as a child and scenes from it always haunted me. Especially when one of them throws the skull to shatter the glass in the desert to reveal the evil lair. I had forgotten the name of the movie for years and was plagued by that. Then I just stumbled upon it again a couple years ago and was so happy to find it again!

:hi:

:)
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 09:08 AM
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5. One of my favorites. Saw it in the theater. I agree 100%
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Squeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 09:27 AM
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6. Yeah, but
not as good as Fisher King. I think I liked Baron von Munchhausen better too.

Gilliam does make amazing movies. Brazil creeped out Mrs. Squeech considerably, but it might be time to watch it again, in honor of our government's policy regarding "unlawful combatants."
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Trigger Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 09:28 AM
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7. Brazil really got to me too.
Very :scared: in light off all *'s doings. :)
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 11:21 AM
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21. Brazil is my favorite movie EVER.
Very powerful.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 10:02 AM
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11.  Baron von Munchhausen
Have you gone mad?
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 09:29 AM
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8. my favorite movie as a kid
:bounce: :bounce:
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 09:52 AM
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9. Been a long time, but I remember that I liked it
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 10:00 AM
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10. Thanks for the reminder.
It was on sale at Target for less than $10, so I picked up a copy. But haven't watched it yet. Sean Connery as Agamemnon--woof!

Although I was planning on "reviewing" LOTR this weekend--in preparation for catching the LOTR exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The exhibit from New Zealand--with weapons, costumes, etc. And the life-size model of Dead Boromir in his boat.
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Trigger Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 10:03 AM
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14. Less than $10
Great buy! :)
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 10:03 AM
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12. Oh I Truly LOVE That Movie!! Hard To Believe It's Almost 25 Years Old.
Katherine Helmond cracks me up.
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 10:03 AM
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13. FYI - much of the soundtrack for that film
is an inventive reworking of the first movement of Gustav Mahler's 6th Symphony.
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jandrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 10:14 AM
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15. It is an unheralded classic.
Edited on Fri Jun-24-05 10:14 AM by jandrok
Truly one of my favorite movies.

"Mom! Dad! Don't touch it! It's EVIL!"
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11cents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 10:17 AM
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16. Gilliam's best, IMHO
The only problem with it is that the Mycenaean/Sean Connery part is so attractive that you really resent the damn dwarfs for taking our hero away from it.
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LeftyDarthBrodie Donating Member (941 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 11:00 AM
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17. Not so much a fan of Time Bandits
but Gilliam has TWO, yes TWO, new movies coming out in 2005. A nice change of pace and something to actually look forward to seeing this year.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 11:01 AM
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18. i love that movie
:D
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 11:11 AM
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19. terrific movie
one of my alltime faves
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 11:19 AM
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20. New Terry Gilliam film out in August!
Looks good! Trailer: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/thebrothersgrimmqt1.html

Gilliam is one of my all time fave directors, but Time Bandits is my least favorite of all of his works.... it just didn't "ping" for me like some of his other stuff.

Here's hoping that this film will allow him to go back and finish the Don Quixote movie he was working on. Although you have to wonder if Don Quixote movies don't have a curse on 'em, seeing as ... was it Orson Welles? .... never finished HIS Don Quixote movie either.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 11:25 AM
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22. Yes it is... and so is Erik the Viking, IMO.
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