Brazil, Film 4, 9pm Friday 2nd December 2011

[Rogerborg]

Sublime, ridiculous, visionary, crushing. A film predicated on a typo before most of us knew what a typo was:

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It's a Must See, and possibly even more relevant now than when it was made (1984). 27B-6 forms all round.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Haven't seen this in years, set to record
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[pepperami]

That gets a "very high" rating in my films to see before you die.
And when you think about what Mr Gilliam is trying to put across in a not so subtle way, it` still relevant and still quite disturbing!

Well done Terry !
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[blurredman]

I saw it three times in the last few months. Then I purchased the DVD.


I will probably watch this showing tonight too LOL
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[WildGoose]

I would have said it is definately one to watch, but to watch only once. I've owned it for years, but it took me a long long time to finally get around to it, because I know precisely how it would make me feel.

It is bleak and soul crushingly depressing.


I saw it mentioned on a breakfast programme one day last week, but couldn't tell what they were talking about because there was no sound on at the time, anyone know what that was about? Some anniversary of it?
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[Frost]

The film Repo men blatantly rips it off at the end. It is a good film, but a bit hard to watch in places, when it comes to gilliams work i think i prefer 12 monkeys. Speaking of him, fear & loathing is on right now

[Visitor Q]

I downloaded it some time ago... I keep uhming and arring about watching it... If it's /that/ depressing, I probably should avoid it today.

Might stop watching 'On any Sunday' and watch that instead...

OAS is good, but soooooooo twee.
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[neatbik]

Haven't seen this one yet, and missed it the other day.
Its on again on Thursday, i'll watch it then.

[UnknownStuntm...]

Watched this on Saturday - I was laughing my ass off in places, I thought the dark comedy was massively Brianesque! How the hell have I missed this film for so long!!

In all, it's a lot like the book 1984, but without Big Brother. Just a bumbling mess of buffoonery and nobody really in charge.

In all - a MUST watch. If you like V for Vendetta, most of Muse's work, Blade Runner, Batman (not the camp 60s nonsense...) and so on, you'll probably appreciate it.

[Visitor Q]

[Visitor Q]

Man this film is loooooooooooooooooooooong
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[Visitor Q]

You'd struggle to find a man who likes dystopic/eutopic stuff as much as me, but this is just arse. Total arse. Overly indulgent, overly symbolic... arse.

*sigh*

Ah well, at least I'm drunk now. They can't take that from me. Unlike my last two and a half hours.

Repo-men genuinely did it better.
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[Rogerborg]

Mmm, foreigners tend not to get it, it's more of a British thing.
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[Visitor Q]

[UnknownStuntm...]

[Visitor Q]

'Good for X year' does not equal 'good'.

Ack, just seemed like there was a lot of pointless bilge in the bastard. 150 minutes kiddies... 150 minutes...

I nearly shat an eyeball during the thing.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

In other news - loving the custom name, Bonny
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[Visitor Q]

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[Visitor Q]

[G]

And you liked equilibrium, oh dear!

Now, on it's own, I would consider it a pretty good film.
And I appreciate "there's nothing new under the sun"; but equilibrium seemed to suffer particularly badly from having plagiarised so much and having so little originality.

And for me that complete lack of originality from big works spoils it - I can understand it more when the stuff copied is cult or generally unknown, but in this case it's all taken from famous media.
For a generic action film; fair enough.

[Visitor Q]

[pepperami]