Category: At the Movies

Wait…!  I’ve seen this!  ABORT!

Someone should get Terry more money.  That CGI is not good. Still pretty good for a scifi, though. So what’s next?  Apparently, Terry’s giving Don Quixote yet another go.  With no Michael Palin, like he threatened us with in 2008.

Title:	The Zero Theorem
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	8/10
Best / Worst:	Waltz / Damon

I took my internet down for a few days to rewire stuff, so I’m behind on my blogging. Saturdays are family movie night, as usual.   

Title:	Rise of the Guardians
Director:	Peter Ramsay
Score:	6/6
Dad says:	Yeah, ok, why not.

Phew! What a relief!  After that HORRIBLE Tideland, he gathered his limbs and made another good one.

Title:	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	8/10
Crushed:	Yeees….

I don’t like it!

Title:	Tideland
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	1/6
Finished:	No.

Gilliam takes a turn for the worse in this not-as-hopeless-as-I-remembered fairytale concoction.  He should’ve finished Quixote!

Title:	The Brothers Grimm
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	5/8
Crush of the day:	Cersei Lanister

Not actually a Gilliam-film, I’ve nonetheless included it in the festival program.  After completing Fear and Loathing, Gilliam set out to film a story based on Don Quixote.  Struck heavily by Murphy, the whole project stranded with little salveagable result, and that was that.  Pity.  Judging from this not-making-of documentary, I think he was still on a roll.

Title:	Lost in La Mancha
Director:	Keith Fulton / Louis Pepe
Score:	3/6
Director:	Not Terry Gilliam

I’m worried about this new development.  I went to an improvised jazz festival today, and the superior, kick-ass band was the band that played actual jazz!  Before you know it I’ll be sitting nodding my head, nipping to a glass of red wine and speaking pretentiously about atonal polyrhythms.

Title:	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	6/6
Crush of the day:	Christina Ricci.

Very different film to the last three.  Not sure this is a perfect match.  I do believe I thought better of it when it came out though.  Maybe it just hasn’t weathered well.

Title:	12 Monkeys
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	6/8
Miscasting of the day:	Brad Pitt.

I love Terry Gilliam!

Title:	The Fisher King
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	6/6
Only drawback:	I’ll be humming Sinatra for days.