Watching Time Bandits. It's basically "Monty Python does The Neverending Story crossbred with Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure". It's extremely British
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Evil is the best character in the movie, by far. God would be better if he'd had more lines.
(But seriously, YOU CAN TELL which parts where written by Michael Palin. The horse-skull-head scythe minions making horsey noises? Gilliam. Kevin's parents and God? PALIN. Nobody writes "horrible people with one-track minds being hilarious" like Michael Palin.)
Actually isn't it a whole lot more akin to Bogus Journey, given that God is in it and all?
(I still think if they're even gonna bother with a third Bill & Ted flick, they should just get around the absence of George Carlin by casting Pam Grier as Rufus outright and leaving it at that.)
Apparently the test screening they did was really poor quality with the sound too loud and made it an absolutely hellish experience. Everyone who was there hated the whole thing. This meant that on the questionairre at the end when saying which bit of the film they liked best, nearly everyone ticked "the end" because it meant they could get the hell out of there.
So when the producers were raising questions about the ending, Gilliam and his team could point to this questionairre and say "the one thing test audiences like was the ending, so we've GOT to keep that." LOL!
SPOILERS FOR ENDING Okay, so he loses his parents and then Sean Connery says goodbye and drives off. Finally he's all alone going "mum? dad?" as the camera zooms out, so that we're leaving him all alone too! Gilliam claims that the moral is "listen to your kids". If your child says "don't touch it, it's evil" going right ahead and touching it might be a bad idea... END OF SPOILERS FOR ENDING OF TIME BANDITS.
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I watched that movie a billion times as a kid. I wanted to grow up to be Evil.
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(But seriously, YOU CAN TELL which parts where written by Michael Palin. The horse-skull-head scythe minions making horsey noises? Gilliam. Kevin's parents and God? PALIN. Nobody writes "horrible people with one-track minds being hilarious" like Michael Palin.)
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(I still think if they're even gonna bother with a third Bill & Ted flick, they should just get around the absence of George Carlin by casting Pam Grier as Rufus outright and leaving it at that.)
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Apparently the test screening they did was really poor quality with the sound too loud and made it an absolutely hellish experience. Everyone who was there hated the whole thing. This meant that on the questionairre at the end when saying which bit of the film they liked best, nearly everyone ticked "the end" because it meant they could get the hell out of there.
So when the producers were raising questions about the ending, Gilliam and his team could point to this questionairre and say "the one thing test audiences like was the ending, so we've GOT to keep that." LOL!
SPOILERS FOR ENDING
Okay, so he loses his parents and then Sean Connery says goodbye and drives off. Finally he's all alone going "mum? dad?" as the camera zooms out, so that we're leaving him all alone too! Gilliam claims that the moral is "listen to your kids". If your child says "don't touch it, it's evil" going right ahead and touching it might be a bad idea...
END OF SPOILERS FOR ENDING OF TIME BANDITS.
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