Sci-Fi Classic Review: TIME BANDITS (1981)
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- Time Bandits was a successful kid's movie a year before E.T. exploded the market in popularity. It's also one of Terry Gilliam's best works.
If you're looking for a "review" in the traditional sense, then let me just say I like this movie. This video, however, is a "review" in the literal sense (using the Miriam-Webster definition "a retrospective view or survey"), in that I'm going over the history of the film and its place in cinema history.
In other words, please stop commenting on how my videos aren't what you consider "reviews."
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01:11 Intro: Kid's Movies 40 Years Ago
02:10 Synopsis
02:56 Production Background
04:44 Casting
08:41 Filming
10:37 Release & Legacy
12:25 Opinion & Analysis
14:51 Outro
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David Warner has so many great lines in this movie. "Benson, dear Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence!" I love him in a lot of movies, but this might be my favorite role of his.
" you say the nicest things to me!"
I'd say waxwork is my favorite of Warners.
"Why have I let the Supreme Being keep me here, in the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness?"
"Because, yo--"
"Oh shut up, I'm speaking rhetorically!"
I’m sure it was torture for my dad sitting through all those kids movies in the early 80’s. But it was all those movies and tv shows that became the building blocks of who I am today. Granted from a financial perspective I had a very difficult childhood but it was made so much more enjoyable with movies like Time Bandits. Thank you Daddy.
Time Bandits was amazing, so glad you reviewed it.
A watchable time travel, fantasy, sci-fi, action, comedy that I haven't seen since the early 80s. Perhaps time for revisit. I think Terry Gilliam was underrated as a Director. Brazil is very interesting film.
I touched the thumbs up button -- cause it's evil!
Gilliam fascinated me even before his directorial career with python and a animation show he did for bbc kids tv (in the uk) im not sure if ever shown in usa. But with his distinctly none english accent he was different to the other pythons and his animation extrodinary.
As to TB i think it stands test of time with the wonderful mordant wit and regular stabs at consumerism ( at the rise of Reaganism and thatcherism) the two charmers who conned the world into "trickle down economy" .
As for the actors personally i feel its a tie between holm in an inspired performance as Napoleon, Richardson (in one of his many fantasy movies) Connery -selling Agamemnon completely (even with a clear sight of SCOTLAND FOREVER tattoo on his arm) , and jack purvis. Final word though David Warner scene stealing as EVIL a role he made menacing ,banal and OCD. Truly brilliant cast and wonderful movie.
Soon to get Fxxked over in terrible tv series which Gilliam reputedly stormed off the set of.
A great if underappreciated film.
I am absolutely shocked that Connery's reappearance at the end was Connery's idea, because to me it ties things up in the best way possible, as though it was all part of the Supreme Being's plan: You're going to lose your parents and go through terrifying trials ... but at the end, the only other character in the film who is an upstanding hero will reenter your life. And I don't even think it needs a line like "The fireman adopted the little boy" because it's so obvious he will.
This is one of my all-time favorites, a real comfort movie for me. I was 11 when it came out, and I was a total ancient- and medieval-history geek and Python fan trapped in suburbia, so I was the perfect age and place to identify with Kevin. I really had the impression that it had been made just for me.
Time Bandits sequel should start with our heroes dropping in on the 12 Monkeys.
Favourite kids' movie? I'll say "The Princess Bride", although I didn't see it for the first time until I was 27 (which was also when I first saw "Time Bandits").
I saw it upon it’s original release in the cinema. It had an intermission just before they arrive on the Titanic. Favourite line: “Have you ever seen a slug operate a computer?”
Loved this movie as a kid when I first saw it on video cassette back in the early eighties, and love it now on the Criterion Collection DVD and the special edition blu-ray. Actually my favorite film. I spent years rewatching it and wondering what would have happened if Kevin had jumped down the second time hole in Sherwood Forest instead of the one that led to Agamemnon’s time, or what if they would have gone to Babylon as Randall suggested instead of listening to Og while he was possessed, or what if they had all just jumped down the giant time hole beneath the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness after Kevin took back the map, even though Og was still half-pig. I even overanalyzed Horseflesh’s role and wondered why they never acknowledged him when he, Benson and Evil trapped them. After all, they all knew him but thought he was dead, which was stated earlier in the film. Yes, I admit I am a superfan of this movie! Thank you for the great review!
I found Time Bandits an entertaining and odd movie when I saw it in the movies. The 1980's was an interesting bag of movies. Thanks for the review.
I have to confess that i have never seen this... but after watching this im going to give it a go (:
True genius movie. Ignore the misleading kids movie attached to it
I'm going to take the exact same reasoning people use to call this a kids' movie
and start referring to Pan's Labyrinth and The Omen II as "kids' movies"... :)
I've always wondered if this movie directly influenced Bill & Ted.
And why do I always feel like I need to take a shower after every Gilliam film?
I wish his stories were as consistently great as his designs.
I never thought of Time Bandits as a kids' movie. I thought of it as a Terry Gilliam movie, which I put in a pigeonhole with Tim Burton movies: not for anyone except the director himself and weirdos like me. (An aside: I love both Time Bandits and Brazil, but I've never even been able to sit all the way through The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.)
I’m with you. I haven’t given Munchausen a try in years, but the last time I did, I found it boring and nonsensical. 🤷🏼♂️
@@TheUnapologeticGeek- I've tried to watch it three times, thinking maybe I just hadn't been in the right mood for it, but no. I was bored to death in the first half hour every time.
I've seen Time Bandits multiple times, but Brazil and Munchhausen only once each. Brazil was more interesting, but I just haven't been interested. I don't like Munchhausen.
@@TheUnapologeticGeekthe wizard 1990 movie 😊
One of my all-time favorite movies.
Loved this film when i was younger. Been years since ive seen it
I was traumatized by the "God head" chasing them through the "hallway".
Some of the best classics are those that have a very unique "look" to them. Time Bandits is one of those.
This was such a good movie then and now.
Ralph Richardson the actor who played “The Supreme Being “ was also in “Dragonslayer” . It may not be sci-fi, but that dragon design was one of the best. And it wasn’t CG.
Your voice is perfect for narration.
Thank you!
Wow I learned something
Loved this movie ever since I saw it in the cinema oh so long ago.
“I must have fruit!”
my favorite movie!
It’s the most Python movie without actually being a python movie.
Eh, that's probably "A Fish Called Wanda." But this one's up there too.
Erin really loved this episode--one of her all time favorites (as ours). Great info, as always! Where'd you find it to watch? Streaming anywhere or did you watch on an old fashioned DVD? (Are DVD's "old fashioned" now? Yikes--we're old). Rob
They’ll have to pry my physical media from my cold, dead hands! I have it on DVD. There’s a good Criterion Collection Blu-Ray out there as well.
A wonderful, bizarre little film. Best seen with a group of friends and plenty of Beer & Nibbles.
This movie is a real candy !
It’s not a kids movie. It’s about a kid. You could look at Brazil, Gilliam’s masterpiece
Great movie! "Don't touch it!"
And Watership Down is one of the greatest family films of all time, blood, violence, death, swearing and all.
Neat!
" ... the Time Bandits TV series looks absolutely terrible."
I would expect nothing less. Succesful series (typically being faithful to the source material) are rare, as "creative types" put their own spin on adaptations to prove their cleverness, or for political reasons. For every good adaptation like "One Piece" there are probably a dozen bad ones (Like "Willow" making 2 "unconventional" relationships the focus, rather than, you know, Willow).
Told you I was watching this next lol
1:22 I see that most of the kids movies from the 1970s were made by Disney.
That is correct.
Loved the video but isn't this more a fantasy film?
Solarbabies terrible movie 😊
No I am not paying for your 4k blu-rays. Get a better paid job.