I just saw The Adventures of Baron Munchausen last night. Anybody else seen this and liked it? I thought it was alright. It was pretty fucking wierd, but it held my attention. I loved Robin Williams as the King of the Moon.
Oh, and Uma Thurman = Hot.
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I kept thinking about this movie the entire time. It is equally as bizarre.
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Yeah, I really fell in love with it. Gilliam always has really good costumes and set design pieces, and I think he really succeded with this early one.
What's even more interesting was the struggle during filming. The budget ballooned to be double what was expected by the time filming ended.
I don't know if there is an official record of what went on, but he mentions a lot of it on "Lost in La Mancha" and the doc on the "12 Monkeys" DVD. With the over-budget of this one (not to mention not earning any money in theatres) kind of put Gilliam off as "out of control."
How does this movie stack up to Time Bandits and Brazil? My roommate is a pretty big Gilliam fan, and he's thinking of blind buying it, but it's a fairly expensive non-Criterion dvd...
Quote from: SoNowThenHow does this movie stack up to Time Bandits and Brazil? My roommate is a pretty big Gilliam fan, and he's thinking of blind buying it, but it's a fairly expensive non-Criterion dvd...
It's on the same page as "Time Bandits" and (to a lesser degree) "Brazil." I actually like "Baron" more than the two above. It's pure fantasy.
I think your roommate will love it.
I'm gonna pass that on to him. Mostly because I wanna see it, but don't have an extra $35 to spend in this dvd :) .
i'd like to kill whoever green lit nothing but trouble.
Weird coincidence here. I just saw a clip from this movie about a week ago in a production class, and thought it was the weirdest most obscure thing. Small world, then, that I'd find a thread about it here. I haven't seen much of it, but what I did see was fascinating. I saw the scene where the protagonist promises some sort of wine or something and will surrender his life if he doesn't deliver. The axman, or whatever he's called, can't see very well, and gives the protagonist a trim, just before he's saved in the nick of time. The dotted line on the protagonist's neck, and the fat women in the wading pool were two touches I liked. I'll probably check out the whole thing when I get a chance.
If anyone has Cinemax and hasn't seen it yet, they've been running it lately.