Movie Details
| Title: | The Zero Theorem | |
| Director: | Terry Gilliam | |
| Year: | 2013 | |
| Genre: | Science Fiction | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.26.13 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (5)
- The Brothers Grimm
- The Fisher King
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
- Tideland
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.26.13 | Alamo Lakeline | This Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2013 And here it is... the last movie of the fest. And I'm writing these notes ON THE DAY! I think this may be a first for me... I will wake up tomorrow with none of this hanging over me! Yay! So this takes place in a near future where ad saturation, consumerism, idiocratic dumbatization, and NSA surveillance have all run rampant. It's a very interesting world that yells GILLIAM in every corner of the frame. Christoph Waltz plays a weird bald guy who probably has Asberger's who works for some huge Big Brother type figure played by Matt Damon. The movie deals with all sorts of topical themes that... funny enough we had a video intro where Gilliam kind of rambled on funny tangents but as I watched the movie I suspected those tangents weren't so random after all. If that was intentional then... that's a pretty crazy intro! Also, Gilliam's taste in beautiful actresses is exquisite. Jesus Christ is Melanie Thierry hot in this just like Lily Cole was hot in Parnassus. Whew. Let's see what else. In thought it was OK. Certainly better than Parnassus and Tideland and probably Brothers Grimm. Still, it was missing a certain something for me to really connect with it. But you know... fuck me. I'm so glad we're in a world where Gilliam still gets to make movies that he wants to make, movies that are challenging and say something and ask questions. This week has really bolstered my faith in creative storytelling through cinema. Either I'm getting damn good at avoiding the bad movies or this year's programming was pretty damn good. After I got out I watched a guy get lit on fire then jump from the roof of the Alamo into a inflated cushion, then I saw the explosion of a car blowing up, a glimpse of a guy on fire, and a tiny bit of a car jumping off a ramp into the burning carcass of the previous car. Yeah stunts! I did my best at the party. I guess because of the stunt thing (or maybe other reasons) the party was held in the parking lot outside the theater. They had pork and potato salad as well as corn dogs and a bucking bulldog thing set up along with a big slide and a mini version of the death-defying leap where you fall into a bouncy castle type thing. They also had a dunking booth where I saw Tim League get dropped and - most curiously - an impromptu game of slapfighting or whatever it may be called. People just started gathering around in a circle Fight Club style and slapping each other silly. It was pretty odd. It was also muggy which made me sweaty and uncomfortable, but I did get to hang out with all my movie friends one more time which made me want to see them more often. Maybe this year I will!? Once again I need to remind myself that this week is tons of fun and not a burden and to look forward to it next year rather than stress over it like I seem to do every year. If I get a VIP that is. Dear lord please let me get a VIP. Anyway, recap time: I think I saw 30 movies, least favorites were: 1. Machete Kills 2. Goldberg & Eisenberg 3. The Green Inferno 4. Patrick 5. Mirage Men And those were really the only five I didn't like, which is great. Top five were: 1. Gravity 2. Grand Piano 3. Jodorowsky's Dune 4. Why Don't You Go Play in Hell 5. Maruyama The Middle Schooler And now I guess I return to real life! Bummer... |
