Brazil the movie (directed by Terry Gilliam)

Jules22 · #1 04-12-2006, 05:23 PM

from imdb
I really can't tell you how much my first viewing of this movie knocked me out. Nearly twenty years ago, before Terry Gilliam's reputation is what it is today, seeing this in a cinema without knowing ANYTHING about it, it was one of the most unforgettable movie experiences of my life! Still is. I was a Python fan since childhood and well aware of Gilliam's animation work, but nothing could prepare you for just how bizarre, funny, scary and disturbing 'Brazil' is. It's still one of the most original and inventive science fiction movies ever made, with a surreal, retro future quite unlike anything seen on a movie screen before or since. Gilliam mixes Python's anarchic, intellectual humour with Orwell, Kafka and Theatre Of The Absurd elements and comes up with something really special. John Sladek kinda sorta wrote some stories in a similar territory before this, and Dean Motter has written some comics since, but 'Brazil' is really in a world of its own! Jonathan Pryce was fairly obscure at the time and an odd choice to play the leading role, but is perfectly cast, and it's hard to think of an actor who would have been as convincing and sympathetic. The rest of the cast includes an amusing cameo from Robert De Niro, Kim Greist (only her second movie, after 'C.H.U.D.' of all things!) as Pryce's love interest, Python's Michael Palin, and a bunch of excellent Brit character actors - Bob Hoskins, Ian Richardson, Ian Holm, Jim Broadbent, etc.etc. It goes without saying that when I praise 'Brazil' I am ONLY referring to Gilliam's cut. This is still an utterly brilliant movie, one of the very best of the last twenty-five years. I can't recommend this movie highly enough, it is a masterpiece pure and simple.
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I pretty much agree with this review, but when you hear amazing movies brought up this movie is usually neglected. What does oot think?

hedxcold · #2 04-12-2006, 05:24 PM

i had to watch this for a class a few years ago. i liked it, worth checking out

neuroman · #3 04-12-2006, 05:27 PM

INNOCENT!

miajag · #4 04-12-2006, 05:28 PM

Brazil is one of my favorite movies, as is Twelve Monkeys. I can't stand Monty Python but Terry Gilliam is a genius.

Georgia Avenue · #5 04-12-2006, 05:31 PM

A fantastic movie.

One part I didn't get exactly at the time (I was very young the first time the edited version popped up on sunday afternoon tv) and really don't understand now...Is the dental torture scene a deliberate homage to Marathon Man, or not? It really is remarkably similar.

--GA

pryor15 · #6 04-12-2006, 05:33 PM

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I pretty much agree with this review, but when you hear amazing movies brought up this movie is usually neglected.

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uh, no. it gets a lot of love. 175 on the They Shoot Pictures list.

slickpoppa · #7 04-12-2006, 05:43 PM

I'll probably get flamed for this, but I thought it sucked. I think it is one of those movies that is so abstruse that people assume it must have some profound meaning when it is really just nonsensical. I bet if you got a big-name director to make a movie of some guy taking a dump for 3 hours some people would probably praise that movie too. And this is coming from someone who liked 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Jules22 · #8 04-12-2006, 06:38 PM

i try not to flame people for posting their opinons. in fact i can understand why some people dont like it, some movies arent for everybody. a lot of the enjoyment i derived from this movie is that the beuracracy (not spelled right) has gotten so out of control that a lot of things in the movie are a little disorienting and confusing. another thing is the main characters fantasies distort reality. its just a great movie i really need to watch it again as i am fuzzy on a lot of the details i just realized. i tried to download it but all i found were a bunch of mike in brazil clips, which while enjoyable are not exactly what i was looking for

bobbyi · #9 04-12-2006, 06:45 PM

I really enjoyed this movie. I think it is great. But man, I really don't like Baron Munchausen or Time Bandits at all. I was surprised to find out that there are people who really like those movies.

2Fast · #10 04-12-2006, 06:46 PM

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i tried to download it but all i found were a bunch of mike in brazil clips

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Lol! FWIW I like the move but your quote better - I can't lookup anything on Google without getting some sort of porn angle thrown at me - man, how do people with kids filter all that stuff out? Gotta be impossible.