Movie Details
| Title: | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | |
| Director: | Terry Gilliam | |
| Year: | 2009 | |
| Genre: | Fantasy | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.27.09 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (5)
- The Brothers Grimm
- The Fisher King
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
- Tideland
- The Zero Theorem
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.27.09 | Alamo South Lamar | This Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2009 Whew. VIP Badges selling out in 2-4 minutes is pretty scary, even if you got one. Anyway, the third secret screening was the movie everyone said would be the second secret screening. I have a feeling Harry didn't know what was showing so he passed it off as an insult to those that use twitter. I've never heard so many gasps at the words "London, England" before. Me? Even after Eric said he liked it a lot, I still wasn't exactly excited to see this. I kinda like Gilliam and he's made a few movies that I like a lot (12 Monkeys, Fear & Loathing as long as I watch less than an hour at a time) but mostly he's too much for me. Too much packed into his movies so i get overloaded. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, just my personal taste. But then on the other hand, I found Brothers Grimm to be not weird enough (like Sleepy Hollow... should've been better) so... this seemed like one or the other. It was ok. The girl was really hot. Like super hot in one of those japanese fantasy ways where the girl doesn't look exactly human but her feminine bits are accentuated to the point of faerie-like cartoonishness... with big boobs. Oh right, the movie. Yeah it was ok. What's odd is I don't really have much to say about it. I liked the little hairs that stuck out behind Tom Waits' ears as a nice weird little thing. The CG in the imaginarium was colorful and whatnot but something about it seemed like... well to be honest it reminded me of Richard Stanley's Dust Devil. It seems like it could've or maybe even should've been a really cool film but due to a number of factors wound up being a movie that barely comes together and kind of strains against the duct tape keeping everything together. I can't say the entire plot made entire sense to me... like how Plummer is immortal then mortal but then apparently immortal again or something? or why exactly Heath Ledger's character is shady in some way, or why the other dude turns into Harry Potter at the end. But damn that girl's legs (and boobs) were nice. Sorry, anyway...yeah another middle-of-the-road entry for me. I forgot to check out the highball tonight before heading home. It was probably too early to see anything memorable anyway. From here on out I'm skipping midnights (except maybe wednesday) so I can put in some work hours in the mornings. We'll see how that works out. Imagine a world filled with wild images that you imagine |
