Movie Night #47 – Time Bandits

Scott — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:32:44 +0000

On this week’s episode of Movie Night at Geekshow, hosts Scott Carelli, John Pavlich, and Matt Smith discuss Matt’s pick of “Time Bandits” from director Terry Gilliam.

SPOILERS for the film begin at 16:02.

Join us next week for listener Sunshineyness’s pick of “Unforgiven”

You can email your comments and film suggestions to movienight(at)geekshow.us

Terry Gilliam Thinks Johnny Depp’s New Movies Suck.

TotallyNotNick — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:56:52 +0000

So this bit of news comes from New York Magazine, the link to the article can be found below.Apparently, famed film director Terry Gilliam (The Fisher King, Brazil, Time Bandits) was interviewed by Drew McWeeny over at Hitflix and during their chat, Gilliam expressed frsutration with the state of colleague and one-time collaberator Jonnhy Depp’s career.

“He’d better start making some good films … I’m not a great fan of Public Enemies, because I think [Michael Mann's] a fucking extraordinary filmmaker, but personally I didn’t think Johnny had enough room to act … He’s making so much money….It’s like, ‘Come on. You’ve got the power to make some really good films happen. Why are you doing this shit?’”

This is very strange. Yeah, Public Enemies was a dissapointment considering all the huge talent involved with the project, but Sweeney Todd? Awesome movie. Pherhaps he was referring to Depp’s somewhat curious choice of upcoming projects, inlucing A fourth Pirates movie, Alice in Wonderland, The Lone Ranger and a Dark Shadows Movie.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/08/terry_gilliam_johnny_depp_had.html

Gilliam is like Spike Lee in a way; whenever he has a new movie coming out. His marketing stratergy is shitting on other filmmakers. When The Brothers Grimm was coming out in 2005, I remember reading an Entertainment Weekly article where Gilliam bemoaned the recent work of Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg; that is to say, The Island and War of the Worlds. Could this Depp hate just be Gilliam blowing steam to promote The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassasuss?

Wait, isn’t Johnny Depp in that movie?

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Movie Night #47 – Time Bandits

Terry Gilliam Thinks Johnny Depp’s New Movies Suck.