We're watching the oddest movie.

[theweaselking]

Watching Time Bandits. It's basically "Monty Python does The Neverending Story crossbred with Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure". It's extremely British

Comments

[ungulata]

You've never seen Time Bandits before?! I really ought to see that movie again sometime.

[miz_geek]

Mum, Dad, don't touch it it's Evil!

[ed_dirt]

I was hooked on that movie from the moment that the horse crashed through the little boy's bedroom.

Also, I met Terry Gillian in Dublin and was able to tell him that, to his face.

[virginia_fell]

I have never seen this movie but I am watching it immediately. I swear it's on Netflix instant queue; it's happening.

[fatpie42]

Damn right. You won't regret it! :)

My favourite film of 1981:
http://fatpie42.livejournal.com/84444.html

Mad Max 2? Nah!
An American Werewolf in London?? Nah!
Raiders of the Lost Ark??? Nah!

Time frikkin' Bandits! Oh yeah!!! ;)

[rimrunner]

I am mildly stunned that you've never seen this before.

[theweaselking]

I've never heard of it?

[theweaselking]

Why?

I mean, seriously, nobody ever makes references to this movie, nobody ever mentions it on "lists of classic movies" or "my favourite movies from when I was a kid" - and no, I really *haven't* gone through and watched The Compleat Terry Gilliam, ever.

So what's supposed to have made me pick some random 30-year-old kids movie and watch it, before now?

(The reason we did watch it: A friend got a gift copy of the DVD and already had a copy, and was gushing about how this was a great movie that she'd loved as a kid. Which gave us incentive to watch it that we don't have, for, say, The Wizard, or any other early-80s kid flicks.)