Dec. 18th, 2006

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I saw this Terry Gilliam movie in the theater last year, and I enjoyed it well enough but recall thinking it was messy and fairly minor. The special effects and production design seemed low rent -- a disappointment in a Terry Gilliam movie -- and Peter Stormare's campy Italian torturer and Jonathan Pryce's blandly cruel French commander seemed to be from some other movie entirely. Now I've watched it twice in a row on DVD (once with Gilliam's commentary) and like it quite a bit more than that, although I still wouldn't say it's in the top tier of his work. (For me his top tier would be Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and -- provisionally, at least -- Tideland.)

In which I never describe the plot, which is probably saying something ... )

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