RobertScorpio
Pariah
First off..all you NETFLIX streamers who use X360. They have updated it to where you can just pick movies from your xbox, and not have to use the internet...which makes it real easy to find movies like this one which I didn't even know they had for streaming..
I saw this movie when it came out with my then 11 year old nephew. It had the same affect on him as 2001 had on me at the same age.
This movie, though kind of plodding, is still a great movie. Terry Gillam must have the strangest mind ever. The sets and the effects are so crazy, and just pure genius, I wonder if it even won award for them.
Seeing Robin William's head flying around the moon, which he is the king of, or the depths of volcano, or people climbing down from the moon on a thread of hair, or a flying zepper made of women's underwear, was just as nutty when i saw this last night as it was all those years ago.
I think the movie bombed over here, in America. I am not sure how it did over in Europe, but I hope it found a better following.
The movie is about an old man who claims to be the legendary Baron who arrives on the scene to try and save the city from the advancing Turks. Robin Williams, Sting, Johathan Pryce (I think thats his name) and a very young and VERY sexy Uma Thurman (she plays a mermaid) really help give this movie a strange fable feel to it. John Neville (who plays the Baron) and Eric Idle steal the movie as the most strange pair of friends you'll ever see.
On a scale of 1-10, I give this movie a solid 9! Its slow in parts, but it really tells a great story with an amazing imagination!
Rob Scorpio
I saw this movie when it came out with my then 11 year old nephew. It had the same affect on him as 2001 had on me at the same age.
This movie, though kind of plodding, is still a great movie. Terry Gillam must have the strangest mind ever. The sets and the effects are so crazy, and just pure genius, I wonder if it even won award for them.
Seeing Robin William's head flying around the moon, which he is the king of, or the depths of volcano, or people climbing down from the moon on a thread of hair, or a flying zepper made of women's underwear, was just as nutty when i saw this last night as it was all those years ago.
I think the movie bombed over here, in America. I am not sure how it did over in Europe, but I hope it found a better following.
The movie is about an old man who claims to be the legendary Baron who arrives on the scene to try and save the city from the advancing Turks. Robin Williams, Sting, Johathan Pryce (I think thats his name) and a very young and VERY sexy Uma Thurman (she plays a mermaid) really help give this movie a strange fable feel to it. John Neville (who plays the Baron) and Eric Idle steal the movie as the most strange pair of friends you'll ever see.
On a scale of 1-10, I give this movie a solid 9! Its slow in parts, but it really tells a great story with an amazing imagination!
Rob Scorpio
