1985 Review Blog
Brazil
Grade: D+ 10/13/2008
I keep trying to like Terry Gilliam. He was part of Monty Python so he Has to be good right? Wrong. TIME BANDITS, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, BROTHERS GRIMM, and now BRAZIL...movies that all have great ideas behind it but fail in their execution because Gilliam was a bit too preoccupied in making the movies weird. I really like Jonathan Pryce and Michael Palin in this film...but it is all too weird for the sake of weird, and I hate that. I did like the fact that the computer screens were so small that they needed magnifying glasses to see them. Now that was clever!!
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
Grade: D+ 10/13/2008
I keep trying to like Terry Gilliam. He was part of Monty Python so he Has to be good right? Wrong. TIME BANDITS, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, BROTHERS GRIMM, and now BRAZIL...movies that all have great ideas behind it but fail in their execution because Gilliam was a bit too preoccupied in making the movies weird. I really like Jonathan Pryce and Michael Palin in this film...but it is all too weird for the sake of weird, and I hate that. I did like the fact that the computer screens were so small that they needed magnifying glasses to see them. Now that was clever!!
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Grade: A- 10/08/2008
This film is one of Woody Allen's most magical fables. It is a love-letter to the movies...and that is something right up my alley. Mia Farrow is the gentle woman who finds her only solace from the Depression and her abusive husband at the theater, and "The Purple Rose of Cairo" is her favorite movie. Things get a bit crazy when the film's star (Jeff Daniels) walks right off the screen because he is in love with Farrow. I loved the comedy surronding the cast left up on the screen and how Hollywood is going haywire since one of its characters has walked into the real world. It is amazing I had never seen this Allen flick, since now it is up on the top of my favorites of Allen's.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
Grade: A- 10/08/2008
This film is one of Woody Allen's most magical fables. It is a love-letter to the movies...and that is something right up my alley. Mia Farrow is the gentle woman who finds her only solace from the Depression and her abusive husband at the theater, and "The Purple Rose of Cairo" is her favorite movie. Things get a bit crazy when the film's star (Jeff Daniels) walks right off the screen because he is in love with Farrow. I loved the comedy surronding the cast left up on the screen and how Hollywood is going haywire since one of its characters has walked into the real world. It is amazing I had never seen this Allen flick, since now it is up on the top of my favorites of Allen's.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die