What is the best film by Terry Gilliam?

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I haven’t seen a Gilliam movie I don’t like (though I haven’t seen Tideland, and I haven’t seen The Fisher King in a long time). I really love The Brothers Grimm for some reason, though it’s not nearly his best.

Time Bandits, Brazil, 12 Monkeys and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus are all brilliant, but I think Brazil has the edge: it’s dark and funny and twisted and horrific and so very, very true-to-life. Gilliam’s mind is bursting with ideas, and in Brazil, not a second is spared in presenting something whimsical and bizarre.

42

…I actually love The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen. The rest are good to decent movies… but for some reason Munchhausen just makes me smile the whole time.

43

I always pictured Brazil as being set in a dystopian not far-beyond-the-present, but with a divergent point somewhere around 1943. Anyway, today’s food is not non-nutritional - the problem is too much nutrition of the calorific variety either in fat or sugar, or too much salt (which is pretty vital in building neurotransmitters).

Needless to say, I voted Brazil. Dark and whimsy go together so well.

44

I put the comedy of Grail on one side of the scale, and the vision of Brazil on the other side, and they were perfectly even.

I gave it to Grail, because it will never, ever get old. Ni!

45

I hate to pick nits, but this is both the Dope and one of my all time favourite movies…the form you are looking for is the 27B/6.

ETA: Sorry, I’m a bit of a stickler for paperwork.

46

Wasn’t that Terry Jones?

47

Holy Grail. I’ve only seen about half the films because the ones I’ve seen left me cold or annoyed. Loved big hunks of Baron M, but the moon scenes just dragged on and on. Liked parts of Time Bandits, but there were buckets of cutesy slop.

Holy Grail was pretty good though.

48

Oh dear…:eek:

I suppose I can expect a visit from information retrieval. It was nice knowing you all, hope they give my wife a receipt.