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Guybrush 11-11-2011 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra (Post 1118308)
Brazil

Finally got around to watching the full thing, and it's very very good. Rock solid throughout, and well deserving of it's legacy as a film.

And, it only gets better on subsequent viewings. At least I think so, although I do make sure enough time passes so that I don't get tired of it. ;)

Consider also checking out The Fisher King by Terry Gilliam. That one and Brazil are his two finest, I think.

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Since we're talking Gilliam, I saw this one again yesterday :

http://www.dvdactive.com/images/news...ebandits2d.jpg

Time Bandits, what a movie! It's fascinating that someone (Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin) could write something so silly and make a film out of it. For those who haven't seen it, it is, roughly speaking about a boy who joins up with a gang of robbers (all midgets) travelling through time using a map they stole from God while working for him. It's completely bizarre and sprinkled throughout with silly and often quite dark humour. Not brilliant by any means, but entertaining and it's such a curiosity that film buffs who haven't seen it will want to anyways. My favourite part is the brilliant ending.

debaserr 11-11-2011 08:48 PM

^ I have been eagerly awaiting my second viewing of Brazil. I figure six months is a good interval.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra 11-11-2011 09:54 PM

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The Graduate

Was ok. Obviously I take 'greatest classic ever to classic' films with a grain of salt. Not that it was bad, just hurt from some outdated aspects like scenes that go on a 30-40 seconds longer than they need to. (when every scene does this it really starts to bog a film down.)

Janszoon 11-11-2011 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by tore (Post 1118351)
Since we're talking Gilliam, I saw this one again yesterday :

http://www.dvdactive.com/images/news...ebandits2d.jpg

Time Bandits, what a movie! It's fascinating that someone (Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin) could write something so silly and make a film out of it. For those who haven't seen it, it is, roughly speaking about a boy who joins up with a gang of robbers (all midgets) travelling through time using a map they stole from God while working for him. It's completely bizarre and sprinkled throughout with silly and often quite dark humour. Not brilliant by any means, but entertaining and it's such a curiosity that film buffs who haven't seen it will want to anyways. My favourite part is the brilliant ending.

Saw it in the theater when it first came out, loved it ever since. :)

Tsunami 11-12-2011 06:59 AM

The Human Centipede 2.

Guybrush 11-12-2011 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1118436)
Saw it in the theater when it first came out, loved it ever since. :)

Yeah, it is fun and I tend to watch it again every few years, this time because it came out on blu-ray. It gives me an incentive (I think the word is) to re-watch a lot of old favourites :)

Mykonos 11-13-2011 11:03 AM

Just seen Four Lions. Bloody brilliant film. I'm always a fan of the comedies that just have the odd laugh with mostly subtle jokes, and it really achieved that.

bob. 11-13-2011 01:35 PM

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i loved this.....a great kind of coming of age dark comedy with that extra special British sense of humor......i honestly cannot say one bad thing about this movie

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra 11-13-2011 02:16 PM

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bHSVCs9rX0...even-veils.jpg

Another ****ed up masterpiece by Ken Russell. Of course, same traits. Story centered around a composer(Strauss), covering a controversial aspect of the composer's life(Anti-antisemitism/flirtation with the Nazis), includes heavy blasphemy(horny nuns replacing the cross with a swastika), extreme violence, sex, and is told in interpretive sequences.

This, of course, isn't as good as his film works, and is of the line of his TV movies. It's not bad, though. It's funny to see his weird humor in play(Strauss's wife, and a nazi soldier biting dual ends of a vienersnitzel during one of the music numbers). Very much a precursor to the amazing weird **** he did later, and possibly the only film I've ever seen entirely in red chroma style.

Mykonos 11-13-2011 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by bob. (Post 1119157)
i honestly cannot say one bad thing about this movie

As much as I loved it, I can. Some rather out-of-place characters and a pretty anticlimactic bit in the middle spring to mind. It was a great film though. The bit at the start where the boy follows through and celebrates having a shit always makes me laugh.


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