Rated 1 out of 5
This was an excellent movie...
FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!I hate to bad-mouth movies, but I will not be able to cease apologizing to my poor friend who I asked to watch this with.
I would prefer getting multiple root canals to having to watch this movie again. It is a rare film that makes me cheer for the protagonist to just freakin’’ DIE so that, if nothing else, it would end. Bravo.
The people who enjoy this movie are actually lying. They did not enjoy it, but they do not want to be alone in their suffering; therefore, they have given it multiple stars to trick you. Don’’t let them win. I AM your friend. I wouldn’’t steer you wrong. If you trust them and watch it, you will end up spending too much money attending film school to try to figure out what the heck that movie actually was.
Rated 2 out of 5
Singleplusungood
My name is alcarillo and I am a co-dependent movie watcher.I saw this in the theater and professed to like it because so many cineastes said it was a landmark film.
I rented it several times thereafter because it had become a cult classic among cool undeground movie-types.
I got the DVD because well, I had to have the special edition with all the cool features, and even though I never really liked this film I had to fork over 50 bucks anyway.
OK, this isn’’t a terribly bad movie, just over-earnest and very clumsy, nothing more. And while the art direction has Gilliam’’s unmistakable -- and wonderful -- stamp, the execution of the story and the characters (no pun intended) is tiresome.
Yet, I’’m supposed to believe that this film -- and the act of it being made -- is some sort of epic myth. That it’’s a p-ss take on the Great Ruthless Clueless Hollywood Machine; that it’’s an indictment of Thatcherism and Reaganism. No, it’’s just a confusing, unrestrained Gilliam mess. He handles "12 Monkeys" with much more restraint and balance, which makes it a far better (in fact the best) Gilliam film.
It has it’’s moments: Lowry’’s encounter with the fearful, but ultimately menacing ventilation repairmen is one of my favorites. So is the fight over the shared desk. But in the end (whichever end you choose: Gilliam’’s or Hollywood’’s), I felt cheated in a way. That I was to end up not caring about Jill or Lowry or anyone except -- oddly -- Jack, seemed like the bigger crime committed here (next to the price of this DVD).
So I had to let it go; admit once and for all that no, I don’’t like "Brazil" in any incarnation. I had to accept that I was indeed in denial, and once I did that I sold my DVD to a local video store -- at a great loss. At least I saved some considerable DVD shelf space.
Rated 4 out of 5
