Wooglie's Thoughts

No sorry this isn’t a post about the country, but the 1985 film, directed and written by Terry Gilliam (him off Monty Python). It was a very visual film and the DVD certainly drew you into Gilliam’s imaginary future world. The film is based around a big brother state department called the Ministry of Information, (Think more 1984 rather than dodgy TV show), where a dead fly falling into a printer causes chaos and the clerk “hero” who dreams of getting out of his job.

The film does tend to go a bit weird in places, especially the lead character’s dreams, but I would definately recommend you see it. It is quite a long film, the director’s cut I watched clocks in at 142 minutes, and my house mate gave up half way through due to tiredness, but I reckon it’s worth it.

Just got back from seeing this at the cinema. Excellent, got to be the best film I’ve seen this year. Definitely recommend you go and see it. Funny, clever and with some brilliant action scenes. There are some hilarious one liners and some clever set ups for gags in the last half of the film.

Go and see it now, you won’t be disappointed

This is one of those films where you don’t really want to speak afterwards. I have actually put off watching this film for quite a few months, as when I came to deciding what film to watch I ended up choosing the action or sci-fi, rather than have to engage my brain and (more importantly) my heart. I’m glad I managed to pluck up the courage to watch it. (Although compared to the courage displayed in this film, I shouldn’t even call it that). I dare you to watch this film without being moved and feeling uneasy. If you prefer your films to impact you then I recommend you watch this. If you don’t like violent or unpleasant scenes then give it a wide birth.

Check Nick’s review out for another point of view.

Come on, you must have seen this coming? You have got to love Star Wars (I mean this). There are, and always will be, debates over which of the original trilogy is best, most people seem to prefer the darker Empire Strikes Back, but I love the first film. You’ve got the young farm boy who becomes the hero, the evil bad guy, the old guy that teaches the young hero to fight. There’s a princess to save, comic robot sidekicks, huge space battles, what more could you want? I first remember watching this on a dodgy VHS recorded off the BBC and I watched the remastered versions when they came out in the cinema in 1997. I’ve bought the same (remastered) copies on VHS when they were released and I bought the “Slightly Different Special Version” copies when they came out on DVD.

I’ve also read lots of the books and comics based in the same universe and I own a life-size cardboard cutout of R2D2. I also have a replica lightsabre hanging on my wall. Yes, I am a Star Wars Geek.