The Brothers Grimm

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Has anyone seen this?

I saw it this morning. It's not nearly as bad as the critics make it out to be. It actually has great visuals and descent plot. It does lack a thesis statement, but as a action/horror flick it works well.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Its a gilliam piece so I expect its pretty good. Critics always hate his stuff at first and then revise and say how good it is.

[Spriggan]

Never!  The world will know of your post for ever!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

/me has it engraved in stone and set up as an obelisk

[Spriggan]

*Spriggan looks for someone to sacrifice to the obelisk

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

It's like 2001. The obelisk is going to teach us how to kill each other with bones.

[Spriggan]

psh, I learned how to do that from the last Obelisk you erected.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Here's the review

[Skar]

thpppppftht!

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Er his directorial debut Brazil?... erm...  he had like 4 films under his belt by then...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (co-directed with Terry Jones) (1975)
Jabberwocky (1977)
Time Bandits (1981)
The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983) - A short supporting feature that accompanied Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Brazil (1985)
The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (1988)
The Fisher King (1991)
Twelve Monkeys (1995) - Inspired by Chris Marker's La Jetée.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Tideland (2006)

Ok only Jabberwocky and Timebandits were solo directorial feature length films, but still... he did a lot before Brazil.

And by a lot I definitely mean Time Bandits,... which is one of the best films of all time. With some amazing social commentary and biting humor Time Bandits is an amazing visual spectacle.

But then again so is Brazil and Baron Munchausen, and Fear and Loathing

Gilliam has one film that always eluded him though, Don Quixote. Making that film for him was like chasing windmills.

[Patrick_Gibbs]

Oops. I don't count the other stuff, because I was referring to solo features. I was thinking "Brazil" came before "Time Bandits."

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Jabberwocky was solo too

[Spriggan]

I find it interesting the Ledger did this film and many of his others to, and these are his words not mine, "destroy his film career".  Its hard to tell with him ,since he's a jerk like Russel Crow in real life, if he did these less main stream films to get rid of his "teen" movie status or just because he to literally have people stop offering him roles in mainstream movies.

Oh and we should get the Brazil mistake switched to Jabberwocky as well.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

can we shoot him? Never in the history has anyone's career been destroyed by a single movie. And besides, being a movie is who's fault? Oh yeah, the guy who signs the contract.

[Entsuropi]

Crowe is a good actor, but an absolute tit IRL. Kinda sad really.