Brazil

Pros: Themes, imagery, very engaging set/scenery. 
Cons: Acting is weak.  Story will be too esoteric for many.

Terry Gilliam’s Brazil is not for everyone; let’s face it, the more esoteric something is the fewer people will be entertained by it.  I’ve never seen a study but I think it’s safe to say that the relationship to ...

Pros: Gilliam's Directing, Script, Score, Look, Visuals, & Cast including Pryce.
Cons: None!

The only American in the British comedy troupe Monty Python, Terry Gilliam stood out for his quirky and abstract animation sequences that came between some of the comedy sketches in their Monty Python's Flying Circus shows. Gilliam would often ...

Pros: Brilliant fantastical sets; heart-pounding pace; great performance by Jonathan Pryce; imaginative twists
Cons: Some find the storyline difficult and/or out-of-control [but, don't listen to them!]

I'm cheating a little here. Despite this film being titled Brazil, it is an English language film and has nothing whatsoever to do with the country Brazil. It is, at least, a "foreign film" from the U.S. perspective, having been made in the U.K. ...

Pros: An eye-popping, imaginative, modern classic.
Cons: The consistency of vision and depth of themes may intimidate some.

I awoke, the morning after the White Party, on some tropical beach. My little white cocktail frock was in shreds and stained with salt water. The ship was nowhere in sight and my only company was a large sea turtle of unpleasant disposition. I was...

Pros:   A great movie on the dream of a man.
Cons:   Not a movie to casually watch.

  This is a movie about a middle aged man working in a retro-future where beaucracy is king. He is a simple man that knows how things work but doesn't have any ambition to improve himself or his place in life. His mother, who can pull some strings, ...

Pros: A beautiful, haunting, and hilarious film the second time I saw it...
Cons: ...that confused and annoyed me the first time I saw it.

Pros: Outstanding cinematography, wonderful set decoration, brilliant concept.
Cons: Acting in parts is a little weak, romantic narrative takes away from the overall telling.

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Pros: Wonderful set design, beautiful direction, great pre-computer effects, wonderful acting...
Cons: Takes a couple of viewings to truly appreciate this wonderful film.

Imagine a world in which your computer monitor is five inches diagonal... and you have a magnifier placed in front of the screen to blow it up to a readable size. Imagine a world in which a single corporation runs all of your utility services, but when...

Pros: Acting, Direction, Characters, Plot, Effects, WRITING!
Cons: Not a One!

"Brazil" is one of those films that people have trouble describing; and well they should, the film does not create a simple plot, instead it makes an entire world. It is easily the best film of all time. Right above "Magnolia," "Brazil" is a ...

Pros: Interesting cinematography
Cons: Confusing and Convoluted

I must say... this was a very very very weird film. It was hard to follow and make sense out of it. So, if you ever really want a headache for some peculiar reason.... rent this film. Otherwise, if you want to stay sane... keep away. I really wanted to...

Pros: Bizarre nightmare, a surrealistic vision
Cons: At 142 minutes, the film runs a little long

Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" is like the friendliest nightmare you have ever experienced. It plays out, demented and bizarre, but it has such a charm to it that you can't decide whether or not you are supposed to be scared. Of course, by the time...

Pros: visually stunning, challenging and tough
Cons: bleak enough that it won't be everyone's cup of tea

Brazil is not a comedy. It's a savage, dystopian satire that might have been penned by Swift. The point of satire is not to make us laugh, chuckle or feel good at about something, it is to make us wince and squirm in our seats uncomfortably. That's the...

Pros: Thought provoking
Cons: Requires a lot of attention to follow the plot

Brazil is set in a bleak future. This future world looks like it was created from the imaginings of some intellectually limited visionary from the 1930's. For instance, television picture tubes aren't bigger they just have magnifiers in front of them....

Pros: Briiliant, visually stunning, smart, funny, and on and on...
Cons: Nothing

This is not a Monty Python Movie. Just because Terry Gilliam used to draw for the Python both, does not make this a Python picture. There is nothing in this movie that Pythonesque to me. Even Palin is playing a straight, almost scary role.

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Pros: Fantastic visuals
Cons: Some weak characters

Former Python Terry Gilliam fought long and hard with studio executives to keep his neo-dystopian 'Brazil' in one piece. Thank God he mostly succeeded - with each passing year, his darkly comic masterpiece set "Somewhere in the 20th Century" looks...