Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Not bad, eh?

you tell me. i'd like it to be good?

sequel to this?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457419/

Worth seeing. Good performances from Waits and Ledger and Plummer, and a creditable attempt to finish a movie that was hard to finish. I wouldn't say I'd rush to see it again, but it had the Gilliam touch and was entertaining and interesting.

It had the Gilliam touch of falling short of a wholly satisfying film for 24 years?

didn't we have a thread on this? how did you guys spell it?

AV Club liked it. i'll probably see it soon, if nothing else b/c the last Terry Gilliam flick (of sorts) I saw on the big screen was Lost in La Mancha

I found 12 Monkeys wholly satisfying fwiw. But I understand it would be against your religion to admit liking it for a number of reasons Morbs, and I respect that.

But to be clear, this DID fall short of wholly satisfying for sure.

better than avatar

way better than i thought it'd be tbh

after the first TIFF press screening everyone was all, "wait... that was... ok."

this movie was so damn well cast

Way better than Tideland, which I am having a hell of a time getting through. Shame about the CG.

the crazy thing about this movie is the alternate-actor thing actually like WORKS pretty well... and i can't think of another movie that would have been so well-suited for such a switcheroo.

i could understand why the lady would see him as johnny depp, but don't know why he envisioned himself as jude law or colin farrell

srsly only fifteen posts on this?

tryin to decide if i should see the laaaaaaaate show or just go to bed

srsly only fifteen posts on this?

Well, Heath Ledger's dead.

This was awesome

I thought it was very good and would recommend it to any Gilliam fan.

there's more discussion here: Terry Gilliam - C/D, S/D but I could swear there was a thread dedicated to it...

Month-old question but:

i could understand why the lady would see him as johnny depp, but don't know why he envisioned himself as jude law or colin farrell

He imagined himself as Jude Law cuz Jude Law was a famous, respected rich guy and he wanted to be like that. Valentina was the one who imagined him as Colin Farrell because Colin Farrell was the guy in the magazine picture she was always looking at.

I liked this a lot, and I have a feeling I'd enjoy it a second time around since I wouldn't be unconsciously looking for seams.

bumped to help ian decide if he wants to see today

This was... OK. Christopher Plummer unusually well cast. But a semi-mess like everything Gilliam's done since Brazil. I did like the effects way more than, say, Avatar.

yeah i have nothing to say about this one. completely missing any emotional resonance. last act was horrible. the rest was ok.

I liked this movie a whole lot. The last act is dumb, I agree, but i love Heath's stuff and the effects and crazy sets.

wanted very much to like this movie, and did like about 75% of it - but still came away feeling a bit disappointed. takes too long ramping up to immersion in fantasy-land, and doesn't really deliver once we get there. it's not the cg i object to, cuz i love the look of the monastery and the kid's playland, it's that the last act is more silly and predictable than truly awe-inspiring. other big flaw is the weird absence of dramatic tension and deep emotion. the performances are all great, but i never felt the suspense i think i was meant to in response to the daughter's predicament, or the pathos of the closing scenes. it's reminiscent of the adventures of baron munchausen in lots of ways (good and bad), but munchausen eventually manages to wring some real emotion out of its struggles with aging and loss.

i dunno, i might like imaginarium more on a rewatch, when i wasn't so concerned with evaluating it relative to gilliam's career and my own expectations. it's a hell of lot better than either tideland or the brothers grimm, that's for sure.

final act rushed-together messiness aside, i really enjoyed this. casting, sets and the gilliam 'feel' all present and correct.

tom waits, christopher plummer were both great

stopped watching when johnny depp showed up; I think i'm done with gilliam

damn that's cold- you sure you're not thinking of tim burton?

that is an awfully early place to leave the film. this was pretty good, better than I'd been led to believe, certainly

agree that this was "not bad" - plenty of stuff to enjoy it and had the prototypical Gilliam visual wit and flair but ... script was a bit of a mess, definitely lacked any real tension/emotion, just kinda rambled on towards the end.