h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, it's a pretty old book, but it's in really good condition.
You know what? I want to have a really good in depth conversation about 2001: A Space Odyssey, it's symbolism, what exactly happened at the end and stuff... so I'm going to start (or find) a new conversation somewhere.

Talk to me here:

http://www.h2g2.com/forumframe.cgi?forum=28283&thread=30417

Love Terry Gilliam's stuff, especially "The Fisher King". Definitely a candidate for the Best Use of the Word "F@@k" in a Dramatic Role award.

Terry has a great line on psychological demons (eg Death in Munchausen, the Samurai in Brazil, Fisher King's Red Knight), and he's a great user of colour.

sure, count me in for Terry Gilliam - I have all of his movies (although I have to admit that I liked the use of the f-word in 4 weddings & a funeral, too - they translated it in germany - to sh*t )

I didn't know that Terry Gilliam directed The Fisher King. I haven't seen it. Is it good? The only ones that I knew he directed were Baron Munchousen (however it's spelled), Time Bandits (where at the end, god appears wearing a suit from the actors own personal wardrobe), Brazil, and Twelve Monkeys (I'm sure I'm forgetting something).

Fear And Loathing perhaps?
For more Terry Gilliam, go to:
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Gilliam,+Terry

*ding ding ding!!!* You win the grand prize *Hands over coveted cookie*

In the credits of "Clerks", at the very end, you'll see the line "Jay and Silent Bob will return in Dogma". I'd never noticed that until the last time I watched it. Pretty cool, huh?

I think I could spend the rest of my life watching Gilliam's movies! Brazil is still my favorite without a doubt, but I love any director that throws in all sorts of weird stuff in the background, just within sight. (i.e. Kevin Smith and Kubrick, yet again!). And I love how Gilliam ends his movies - never the way that you'd expect!!

In response to Placebo, Fisher King is generally regarded as a good film (4 out of 5), with some finding fault with it's OTT flamboyance, but then this also the movie's strength. It has a certain magical feel about it, and New York work's great as a medieval setting, in what is essentially a medieval romance, a story about flawed knights & noble quests. (A grail film from an ex-Python - who'd have thunk it?)

I was thinking of The Jabberwocky (which I haven't seen).

I didn't know he did Fear and Loathing!
It was really well directed, and the hallucinations were awesome. But the madness and total randomness of events didn't quite live up to those of Where The Buffalo Rome, which had Bill Murray playing Hunter S. Thomson.

Hey everybody! We made Peta's Picks! I'm excited about it! Free Coffee All Around!

~Irving

Broomshtick- I have to disagree. Gilliam's film version of "Fear and Loathing" was nearly taken shot for shot from the book. It incorporated all of the madness that Hunter himself put down into words - he even makes a cameo! "Where The Buffalo Roam" was great in it's own way - sort of detailing Hunter's experiences in the "sweepy" way he usually does himself (and Bill Murray is nuts!), but Gilliam did a much better job of captuing that sort of deluded, drug-hazed feel that you get when reading Hunter's books. IMHO, of course. Caulk it up partially to modern film-making technology, but mostly to a fabulous director.

I'll compromise. Gilliams film capture the madness through good directing and wicked special effects while Murray's (not that he directed it) captured it through fine acting (though I must say, Jonny Depp handled the cigarette holder very well).

Okay, we'll agree to disagree.

Yep, it does. It says they'll return in "Clerks 2."

I wonder whether my roommate knows about that?

~Irving

OK I feel there hasn't been a lot of film discussion going on here over coffee/tea recently. Irv a cup of your finest English Breakfast Tea, and let's start talking pictures that move again.

You may want to start a new thread, though, otherwise people'll kill you for dropping new, fresh, interesting and (dare I? I dare ) even witty commentary in a thread this long, since it'll take 'em all 15 minutes before they can read any of it, new servers or no new servers.

I had assumed that this thread just plain died! But if you all want to start the conversation anew, I'm not going to stop you! Here you guys go c(~) c(~)

~Irving