[ SECRET POST #2972 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2972 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

12. http://i.imgur.com/foy0hVv.png

[(Anonymous)]

That movie made me so uncomfortable I couldn't even finish it. Everything that was supposed to be funny was either disturbing or depressing.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never watched this; is it supposed to not be a disturbing movie?

[(Anonymous)]

More of an absurd comedy.

The parents in question are basically jerks from a Roald Dahl novel so their death isn't viewed as being a tragedy.

[(Anonymous)]

Mom! Dad! Don't touch it, it's evil!

Awww, yeah, I'm not saying it's a great movie, but I don't think it's meant to be taken so seriously.

[luxshine]

I always thought Agamemnon had reincarnated as the firefighter at the end? And my headcanon was that he adopted the main character after the explosion...

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure I read somewhere that that's the implied ending, which is nice. I didn't realise that when I was a kid though - I just saw his parents blow up and his house burn down and him left there with nothing and no one to look after him.

[snowcipher]

This is what I always thought too.

[(Anonymous)]

Had to image search to identify this. I'm pretty sure I Netflixed it at some point, but now I don't remember anything about it. Maybe I stopped watching? Or maybe I'm remembering Netflixing Baron Munchhausen...

[(Anonymous)]

I legit though this was tar season until I saw the comments confirming it's a real movie.

[lb_lee]

It's Terry Gilliam. What do you expect?

--Miranda

[ginainthekingsroad]

If anyone could bring the Tar Season mythos to the screen, it would be Terry Gilliam.

[(Anonymous)]

Completely agree, my dad showed me this when I was about 11 and promised it would be wacky and fun. I enjoyed it to start with, but the ending just made me so confused and depressed. I remember when it ended I just sat there saying 'is that it?' for about 10 minutes.

[hands4healing]

I loved this movie when it came out. It struck me as absurdist dark fantasy. My friends and I went around quoting the end lines for years afterward. Time Bandits is still a favorite.

I should get a copy for myself.

[visp]

Historically Agamemnon killed his daughter as a sacrifice and that's why his wife is pissed at him, so he really doesn't get too many Father of the Year awards. Plus he knew the kid for a few days, so how attached could they be?

[herpymcderp]

I think I'm the opposite here. I liked it, but only for the specific reason that it was a movie aimed at kids that was kind of brutal, bleak, and depressing.

It's something I think you could only get away with in the 80's, because I remember more media being like that when I was a little one (The Secret Of Nimh, The Dark Crystal, The Last Unicorn) whereas these days you can't really find anything thematically close to it.

[(Anonymous)]

...Time Bandits, OP? Really? Really?

[(Anonymous)]

O, god this film I thought I had made it up. Yeah that really scared me as a kid too. I do like Roald Dahl and dark comedies but that one was a bridge to far. It was like no one but that kid really cared about anything in that film. He seemed so lonely.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

All Terry Gilliam movies have that weird kinda bleak feeling to them.

[(Anonymous)]

That ending disturbed me so much as a kid. Everyone I bring it up with doesn't seem to get what the problem is, so it's nice to know I'm not alone! What I really hated was that not only do his patents die, but the firefighters just leave and he's standing there alone. As a kid, I didn't realize that if my parents died in a fire, I wouldn't be just left alone in the smoking ruins, but that Child Services or whoever would help me and contact my extended family.

[(Anonymous)]

I never saw the full movie as a kid, just parts on TV, but I saw the ending, and I was in exactly the same boat as you. I'd always had nightmares where touching something would turn people into that something, often in a chain reaction, and so what happened to the parents just hit those buttons hard, and then for the kid to be left alone without anyone at the end, and the chunks of whatever that evil stuff was still lying around there where an accidental touch could get him or anyone else... *shudders*

(I have no idea if I'm remembering exactly what happened right. Never went back to watch it again.)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry it disturbed you, OP.

I was older when I saw this movie and I've loved it ever since. It cemented my adoration of David Warner and David Rappaport. It was my first introduction to the outskirts of Monty Python. It has also given me a serious respect for Terry Gilliam's skill.

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[(Anonymous)]

Image: poster/art for Time Bandits

Text: This movie was one of the most depressing things I have seen.

Not only did Agamemnon not get to live with the son he loved (and who vanished)

But the movie ended with the kid being orphaned after his parents exploded.

[(Anonymous)]

I love this movie. The only thing that really bothered me about it was the kid and the little guys should have had a much more emotional goodbye.