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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:19 PM
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Poll question: Best Terry Giiliam movie?
Edited on Sun Aug-15-04 09:30 PM by ChavezSpeakstheTruth
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:29 PM
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1. I would have voted for one of the Python films,
but Gilliam only co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Terry Jones directed the other two. So I went with the Orwellian Brazil.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:37 PM
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6. I had seen Brazil long before I read 1984
It sort of killed alot of my respect for Brazil when I read it. I still love the Director's Cut.

Sure he only codirected Holy Grail - but to codirect a film that good is to get full director's credits in 8 run of the mill flicks!
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:39 PM
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8. Agreed.
:)
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Zing Zing Zingbah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:33 PM
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2. Tough poll...
I like a whole bunch of those movies. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Meaning of Life, Twelve Monkeys, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas were all great. I picked the Meaning of Life because I love the "Every Sperm is Sacred" song. Plus, I can't get over that bit with the fat man and the wafer thin mint.
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Zing Zing Zingbah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:36 PM
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3. Someone vote for 12 Monkeys
That movie was awesome.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:36 PM
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4. Gotta go with Baron Munchhausen
Great story-in many ways a movie within a movie
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:38 PM
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7. And Robin Williams (who worked for scale in it) was awesome
That's my vote too!
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No2W2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 10:29 PM
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16. and Uma!
don't forget Uma....

and Oliver Reed as Vulcan negotiating wages with the giant's union....

and the Sultan's torture organ....
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 10:31 PM
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17. And Jonathan Pryce lisping away
I love it!
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 08:25 AM
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21. My Heart Belongs to Baron
for its unbridled imagination.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 08:36 AM
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24. Me too--Brazil is artier, but Baron is awesome
Plus Uma Thurman made an impression on me as a younger lad. :D
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C_eh_N_eh_D_eh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 09:05 AM
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27. No argument here.
That film kicked ass on so many levels.

I'm also glad to see that nobody voted for that piece of crap, "Jabberwocky." What Gilliam was thinking when he wrote it, I'll never understand.
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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:37 PM
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5. Love the Fisher King.
,
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:41 PM
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9. best, edit, ever.
I'm going with Brazil
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:42 PM
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11. which one? Original or director's cut?
?
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:43 PM
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12. No! *L*
putting all the dvd covers in :7
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Zorro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:42 PM
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10. The Fisher King got my vote
Edited on Sun Aug-15-04 09:43 PM by Zorro
It has a touching message about the power of broadcast media and the unintended consequences when that power is ignored or abused. It's also quite inventful how Gilliam wraps a story about human tragedy and hope around a modern day quest for the Holy Grail.

Most of the other movies are entertaining, although I really really hated Brazil, which I thought was a confused mess of a movie that aspired for profundity but achieved banality.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 09:44 PM
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13. Did you see Munchausen?
I found it to be a masterful display of fantasy storytelling - with that great Gilliam dark side
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 10:23 PM
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14. Check out Lost in La Mancha too...
Too bad that movie never got finished. Wonder if Terry will get to do anything else after that unfortunate fiasco.

Sid
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 10:27 PM
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15. come on! of course he will and IS - check this
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355295/
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-15-04 10:32 PM
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18. Excellent!
Edited on Sun Aug-15-04 10:33 PM by SidDithers
I'm sure he'll have fun with that material :)

Sid

Edit: Check out the Genre listing for this movie:
Genre: Comedy / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller

LOL! Pure Gilliam!
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 08:17 AM
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19. Unclassifiable
:thumbsup:
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 08:19 AM
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20. "Time Bandits"...well, at least *I* think so. :-)
"Time Bandits" was marvelously witty and imaginative.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 08:30 AM
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22. and dark - don't forget dark
I loved the way it was like 8 movies in 1
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 09:18 AM
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28. Yes, this is the correct answer.
Time Bandits rules. :D
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 08:32 AM
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23. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
I love that movie, it always makes me laugh.

I also think 12 Monkeys is a really good movie, with one of the best endings ever. I actually liked Bruce Willis in it, and Brad Pitt played a pretty good psycho.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 08:37 AM
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25. Brazil
but it was hard to choose between that and Baron. And Time Bandits is one of my favorites too. :)
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 08:41 AM
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26. "Get thee to the liquor store, and buyeth thee the Jack of Daniels
that ye may be shitfaced! Dulang, dulang!!"

"They said that?!"

I vote for "The Fisher King." It's one of my favorite ten films ever.
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-04 09:23 AM
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29. didn't he make Follow That Dream?
it's on Turner Classic Movies right now
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