Kermode Uncut: Film Club: Twelve Monkeys
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The Kermode Uncut Film Club is back with Terry Gilliam's brilliant sci-fi thriller Twelve Monkeys. Watch the intro and the film and let me know what you think.
I've watched '12 Monkeys' six times or more. It is surprisingly funny in places. Lots of weird characters perfectly cast.
Bruce Willis is more "watchable" than in anything else he's done. The look on his face when he hears music on the car radio, wow. John McClane is nowhere to be found in this movie. Brad Pitt's lunatic performance is stunning. Madeline Stowe is the only normal person, but gets her world unraveled.
If you like Gilliam's style, you'll love this intelligent and memorable film.
Test audiences = the biggest threat to filmmaking next to the MPAA?
Saw the film last night, still trying to work out what to make of it. Haven't been so devastated by an ending in a long time. Certainly one of the best sci-fi films I've ever seen.
One of the best films of the 90s
Madeline Stowe and Bruce Willis are marvellous in this movie. Also the parallels to Vertigo are beautiful.
But there's one thing Kermode forgot to mention. The film perfectly depicts the duality between all the reasons why humanity shouldn't exist and all the reasons why it should.
Oh how beautiful it would be to extinct the human race and let nature reign again. But who would even be capable of recognizing this beauty, if it wasn't for mankind?
Fine choice! Mark's more passionate about cinema than some filmmakers.
What I prefer in Twelve Monkeys is how enigmatic it really is. Gilliam does enjoy the surreal and it shines through in tonnes. Looper, on the other hand, is more straight forward and to it's benefit, too. Both films are very similar yet they both have each their strengths, the influence for Rian Johnson is definitely there but Looper stands resolutely by itself.
I always liked time travel and paradox stories. This is probably my fave on film.
Beautiful film, one of my favourites of all time- unbelievable. Fantastic choice Mr Kermode!
I'm so glad Mark mentioned La Jetee... it is indeed in the background of these other more recent movies
Great movie and a haunting score!
honestly I have seen 12 Monkeys and Looper and I really cant see a connection other than time travel and Bruce Willis. Looper I felt went for a more dark and gritty take on time travel and was purely more of a fun ride. 12 Monkeys on the other hand was more about ideas than time travel and made note of humans and their nature.
12 Monkeys is like an elegant physics theory. It is a work of great beauty. Always have insurance!
amazing film,I've always loved this! his best film imo.
already an all-time fave of mine. good choice.
Great film
Great film, I've got it out from lovefilm at the moment, its my favourite Gilliam film. I didnt realise it was such a success financially.Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt are both excellent in it too.....
I remember watching the opening sequence and thought to myself "wow this is fxxking amazing!"...then later found out that it was inspired by Hitchcock's VERTIGO.
I watched it once ages ago and just couldn't decide if i liked it or not. Gonna have to give it another go.
Being a child of the 21st century I probably would have appreciated the plot of this movie more had I not seen many time-travelling titles . This was still a great film and easily one of Brad Pitt's best performances .
Willis lied to Gilliam telling him that he improvised the glass picking
Or really? I guess he wanted that role.
so even Kermode was sold on the notion that this film was about time travel? ....
Why not show a still from the scene where the hamster is actually involved? The scene in the future of Cole drawing his own blood is where the hamster is, not where he is shackled to the floor in the holding sell of 1990.
Have you seen La Jetee?
Disappointing that you failed to mention Time Bandits, Dr. K. It's Gilliam's first film about time, death and madness (and religion, philosphy, reality, consumerism, imagination, etc)... And it's a better film than Twelve Monkeys (and I REALLY like Twelve Monkeys).
I didn't care for it.... *Munchausen* was the last film of his I really liked. I'd heard that making that and *Brazil* really messed him up. Judging by what he's made since then.....
Gilliam peaked in the 80's with Brazil. Baron Von Munchausen was good too.
Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys should be top of your list of terrible performances in great films. Fortunately he’s not on screen for very long so doesn’t detract from it too much.
I didn't think it was terrible. Just a little overdone. In a way he had to go over the top because Willis' character is "crazy" also.
"Looper was 12 Monkeys with more guns" RUBBISH!! 12 Monkeys was a great film "Looper" was garbage.
Yeah Looper sucks pretty bad.
Dont like Brazil or Twelve Monkeys, their visual style is too mutch for me. Do not seem like reality. I like both Blade Runner however.
Gilliam is like an alternate future in which the microchip was never invented.
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