# Best Terry Gilliam movie

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 11, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-terry-gilliam-movie/118338 "2002-07-11T00:48:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-terry-gilliam-movie/118338/21 "2002-07-11T20:15:18Z")

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-terry-gilliam-movie/118338/22 "2002-07-11T20:17:23Z")

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i’ll go with time bandits.

Gilliam story: Was at college when he was going to lecture and show his cut of “Brazil” but the studio would not allow him to show it. he was on the phone with them on and off during the evening in negotiations. Well, I got up to go to the can, and on the way back to my seat, I ran into him in the lobby. He had just hung up the phone and was shut down by the studio. I asked for an autograph, and he happily gave me one, complete with a little original sketch of a monster with a pencil for a nose. He gave it back to me, then started up a conversation! I was dumbfounded! I gave some kind of lame response and thanked him for the autograph and told him I wouldn’t waste anymore of his time and bailed out to my seat! What a rube! Nice guy, Mr. Gilliam!

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-terry-gilliam-movie/118338/23 "2002-07-11T22:00:05Z")

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I’ve seen some of the footage from Gilliam’s aborted _Don Quixote_ movie (who wants to touch me?) and I think it may very well have turned out to be his masterpiece.

Since he tragically was unable to complete it (yet, anyway), I’m going with _Brazil._

Oh, and the _Good Omens_ movie is stuck in Development Hell. I’d say there’s maybe a fifty-fifty shot it ever gets made, and I’m being generous.

P.S. Cool story, gato.

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