Ponderous Personal Projects

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.

We resume our reagular programming with one of my all time favourite films.  But then I’m probably biased, as one of the books (not sure which, maybe the one by Bangs) is one of my first memories of actually enjoying a novel. Not the first–that would be Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar. Let that be a lesson to you all.

Title:	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Score:	6/6
ObCrush:	Uma.