TIME BANDITS: Was It Great or Were You 8? | Terry Gilliam | Sean Connery | John Cleese

[@jerryfoust3860]

I named my son Sean after Sean Connery as Agamemnon in this movie. Great movie.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

That is a cool tidbit!

[@celtwarrior7851]

Love the movie. Still watch it after all this time. It still makes me smile and laugh and enjoy a movie for a change.

[@fembotheather3785]

I was in my teens when it came out and still rewatch it.

[@JacobSchantz]

As a very young child, the ending left me absolutely floored.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Right? It shakes you up!

[@renheitman]

Love the George Harrison tune at the end credits.

[@MOZONEandGlambot]

One of my all-time favorites and one of my all-time favorite Gilliam films (of this era of Gilliam). I think it still holds up! I also had no idea there was to be a new series based on it. I REALLY hope they don't screw it up!

[@JohnHermann-b5t]

I was 13 I went on my birthday, when I went into this blind. I went to see the bomb Heartbeeps and bandits was second part of a double feature which I was unaware of. My first introduction to Python and I’m a big fan of Terry G since that happy accident.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Great story! How fun.

[@adrianac3258]

The 70s and 80s made kids resilient 💪

[@keim73]

Oh my God, you just referenced how to beat the high cost-of-living one of my favorite movies that I actually own lol

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Saw it so many times as a kid!

[@MrAjphux]

​@BreakfastAllDay I just bought a Blu-ray of that movie! Seen it edited on TV, glad to have this copy, always wanted one.

[@keim73]

@@BreakfastAllDay Ditto lol! Love it. And keep up the great work. Happy Tuesday

[@BreakfastAllDay]

@@keim73 Thank you!

[@commandZee]

I was 4 when my dad took me to see it. Lots of it creeped me out but I remember still loving the adventure of it. As an adult, like you, I really appreciate its underlying social commentary. Also as a relatively recent American adopter of Doctor Who, I can't help but see thematic and tonal commonalities between the two IPs.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

We definitely saw new things this time!

[@seanscanlan7211]

Suggestions: Ferris Bueller, Blues Brothers, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Sure Thing, Back to the Future, Heathers, Naked Gun, Airplane, Spaceballs, Sixteen Candles, Poltergeist, Trading Places, Indiana Jones, Child's Play, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Secret of NIMH, Coming to America, Wargames, Ladyhawke

[@BreakfastAllDay]

All good ideas! Neither of us was 8 for those -- the years we're looking at are 1975-76 and 1980-81 -- but we love revisiting that era. Thanks for the suggestions!

[@michaelhein5455]

Just started watching, and I hope with everything in me that you agree that Time Bandits is indeed great!

[@marysueechols2845]

"So *that's* what an Invisible Barrier looks like!"

[@RH1812]

Ahh. The times when physical effects ruled! Imagine that knight scene today! Snow White and the Seven Dwarves but Gilliamised

[@VikingMatt879]

When I was a kid, and other kids were watching The Goonies and were crazy about it, I was crazy about Time Bandits. Never understood the love for The Goonies; one of the most over-rated movies ever made. Time Bandits > Goonies.

[@postmodernrecycler]

Totally agree. I think there's something just very British in the sensibility of Time Bandits that didn't resonate as much as the junk food movie that was Goonies.

[@jasoncarrick5461]

I never saw this but it def falls in line with the other 80's fantasy movies "for kids" but could easily scare a child. "The Never-Ending Story" and "T/ Last Unicorn" are two that come to mind that most probably haven't seen. Oh......and "Willow"

[@marysueechols2845]

Labyrinth

[@zzorchh]

Hey there ---- congrats on making it to 30K subscribers! I know you were really pushing for that!!

[@BreakfastAllDay]

@@zzorchh Thank you! Onward!

[@cjwright79]

One of the guiding principles for Jim Henson during his creation of 'The Dark Crystal' is that it's healthy for kids to be scared sometimes. It was easily my favorite movie as a kid!

[@yiarkungfu]

I think what disturbed me most as a kid was the fact that the good guys didn't defeat evil.

[@JOHNNYRADIO]

Loved this movie as a kid! Need to rewatch, but I know for sure the Robin Hood scene still holds up... "Jolly good!"

[@VTiDelSol]

"And you're a robber too. How long have you been a robber?" "Four foot one." "Good lord!" This had me laughing as a kid, because I got that joke.

[@tonybowers423]

I was 16 when I first saw it...and I still love it!!

[@BreakfastAllDay]

That’s great!

[@JROTGS]

Wow! I just saw this (on HBO) so the timing of this was perfect

[@MrAjphux]

Time Bandits was/is great, hands down!

[@FunkyVerbV2]

Christy I just want you to know that I still sometimes think about that running bit on What The Flick where you were drinking water out of weird containers. I think one time you were casually drinking out of a blender lol. That was hilarious

[@BreakfastAllDay]

I have no idea what you're talking about :)

[@romasteve7292]

Randall is genuinely one of the great fantasy anti-heroes.

[@ChrisVCrawford]

Still proud of my help in creating this segment.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

You were the catalyst!

[@oneopinion6806]

I think my 80's child brain blended this movie with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and I had a general impression of enjoying both. Both those movies share also with Legend a dim and often smokey aesthetic with images/scenes that could traumatize my young brain if seen in the wrong mood (but I loved Legend as well, and had a crush on Mia Sara/Lil.) To this film I love the decision of the dwarves for a few reasons, both narrative wise it's clear their relative height is meant to make them more accessible for children as characters even though they're adults. Maybe Gilliam was trying to ride off the fantasy dwarves of The Hobbit with this crew? It looks like the remake just has run of the mill random adults and I don't see how that is going to hit the same. That is unless the remake is just aimed at those who were kids during the original and in that case I don't think us adults are going to show up for that either.

[@al5068]

Christy looks so pretty! ❤

[@grayforester]

Now do The Sterile Cuckoo - I was ten and it bent me for life.

[@kararemington5525]

I am with you. I have not seen Time Bandits since I was little but I think of it often. It scared me so much. I will have to rewatch this one.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Yes Kara, let us know if you do!

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Yes Kara, let us know if you do!

[@crithon]

wait, who's the good guys in minions? I saw only part 2, and didn't enjoy it enough. It's a series of skits strung along poorly enough for me to continue to stay awake at the theaters. Time Bandits is awesome!

[@liamoconnell7237]

Do "Krull"!!!! It was great & we were 8.

[@edfagan4251]

May have actually been eight when this came to the states...not sure if it's great but it's very good at least. Remember identifying with the protagonist as I was a bookish kid and the rest of my family would spend hours watching TV...and who knew that Lanthimos (Poor Things) was such a Gilliam fan?

[@julianjessevideo]

I remember wanting to watch this movie, but I never got the chance.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Now you can!

[@wolflarson71]

Loved this movie when I was 10. +1 ship hat.

[@robaquarian]

There were parts of ghostbusters that were scarey for kids

[@mijmijrm]

wow! ... it's George Lucas and Carrie Fisher talking about Time Bandits!

[@sweeney60]

Maybe I’m weird but 80s fantasy excited me but never scared me. I was terrified of Toy Story. Toys in my bedroom coming to life was a terrifying concept and early computer animation was just too uncanny for me.

[@rjg7112]

It was great, and I wasn't 8. I was 10 the year it was released, and saw it a couple of times in the theatre.

[@richfictionfighter]

Chrissy and Alonso, why haven’t you done a Movie News episode for a while? I really want to hear your thoughts all the celebrity deaths recently like Shelley Duvall, Shannon Doherty and Bob Newhart

[@BreakfastAllDay]

We've both been out of town and in different time zones, we posted about this on our community tab. Back in a couple of weeks!

[@tximinoman]

I watched it ages ago when I was a kid. I barely remember anything about it except being confused by the whole thing.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Give it another try!

[@seanscanlan7211]

You guys should do one on the Ernest movies knowwhutimean?

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Ha, thankfully that's neither of our childhoods :)

[@BrianOHanlon]

Honorable mention, that I was disappointed that neither Alonso or Christy mentioned in 1984 Beverly Hills film. If there is ever a former boss that I would wear it as a true badge of honour to have been reprimanded by (old school circa 1984, or even more like 1964), it would have been the part played by the actor who was Foley's boss in Detroit, and those explosions in the locker room. And more specifically how Foley responded to the same, and manages to remain diplomatic. We tend to forget that in 1984, there were people in management still around who cut their teeth on these jobs in the immediate post Second World War decades. And a lot hinged around that 'boss in Detroit' character, from a story point of view (as the only leverage the Beverly Hills cops had with Foley in California, was to report his conduct to that senior officer or seargeant from Detroit). And as we know, that leverage didn't count for a whole lot, but it was one of the few things that Foley was rattled by.

[@BrianOHanlon]

The point is, is that in developing characters and in order for Foley's character to be credible at all. There needed to be something that gave pause to the mechanism that existed inside the brain of that Axel Foley character. Otherwise Foley would be a completely un-believeable individual who seemed to have no constraints. Think of how the internal conflict worked inside of the brain of Shane, in the old black and white western film. Where he has to hesitate for a long while, before turning to brute force (as a means by which to counter a rival brute force who threatens the sod busting community, who have accepted Shane into their world). Foley's character is one in which he has a similar choice, to follow the instructions of his senior officer and boss. Or to wander off of the reservation. And because Foley wanders so far off of that reservation, to make that in any way credible, that senior police captain's character has to be equally as credible. In order to suggest or hint at an existence of some internal conflict. Which may have been playing out inside the mind of Foley.

[@BrianOHanlon]

And in some sense, Beverly Hills Cop is like a 'western' movie, in the same lineage and tradition of a film like Shane from the 1950's. And that is why Foley's boss from Detroit needs to exist, as that character is a throw back to a time and place in America which existed in the 1950's. At a time after the Second World War in which Detroit had helped the Allies to prosecute the war on many continents. And a time after the world war after which Detroit as a center for industry and innovation had started to decline and fall apart. If I was to imagine ways in which to create sequel movies to Beverly Hills cop 1984, what I think I want to know about is Detroit in 1954. And the story of that individual who was Axel Foley's boss. And what that police captain was faced with by the time he lived to see 1984.

[@MaD-gs9qx]

Went with friends to see this film in the theatre, after having ingested some magic mushrooms. Not sure we needed them . Pretty magical all on its own.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Ha, that sounds terrifying seeing it on mushrooms 🍄

[@MaD-gs9qx]

@@BreakfastAllDay It kinda was!

[@EppyGibbon]

Of course it's great. Never any question.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

It was fun to go back and reaffirm that!

[@romeroflores7576]

It was great and I was 8! 😃

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Perfect!

[@phimbalance]

If you're interested in a TRULY great time travel movie, look no further than "Time Chasers." Or at least the MST3K episode wherein it was featured.

[@ed1rko17]

You guys should do this with Return of the Jedi. I feel like people are blind to how bad that movie is, because when you're 8, it's the greatest thing ever. (Most movies are when you're 8)

[@keefriff99]

I was 4 1/2 when I saw ROTJ with my Dad...it's literally one of my earliest memories from childhood, so my love for that film is irrational, but yeah...the more I've watched it as an adult, I can definitely see why some older Star Wars fans weren't happy with it at the time...the same way I was incredibly disappointed with the prequels in my early 20s. I won't go as far as to say ROTJ is "bad"...I still enjoy it, but it was a missed opportunity to end the OT on a truly epic, mature and emotionally resonant note. Too much of the film is taken up with the Tatooine rescue, which was basically just an excuse to go wild with creature designs and FX shots. And the Ewoks...well, they were cute and funny as a kid.

[@ed1rko17]

@@keefriff99 Exact same for me. One of my earliest favourite movies. I've rewatched it recently with newer Star Wars movies coming out, and I find it almost unwatchable. It's a slog just to get through it, and the more I analyze it, the more I find it hard to see anything the movie does right. It all lines up with Gary Kurtz leaving the project because they took it in a direction to sell toys, and the reported feeling from George Lucas that he was over it and just wanted to wrap it up. It's also funny to hear that he pitched it to David Lynch to direct, and despite it easily being Lynch's biggest payday, he declined it because hearing George's pitch gave him a headache lol. The movie was a failure, but it gets lumped in with the brilliance of the other two movies because of nostalgia. Perfect movie for this series.

[@tlovehater]

Those Ninja Turtles movies are terrible and I was a big fan lol

[@timothyw98]

What you think of Ian Holmes role as Napoleon. You think I'm small you think I'm small no no no no no 🇫🇷

[@Jimvanhise]

The original cast included dwarf actors but the new, short lived TV series has none. The new Snow White (filmed 2 years ago!) does not have dwarf actors, just very strange looking CGI. What does Hollywood suddenly have against using dwarf actors? At the very least they should remake the Carrie Fisher film Under The Rainbow to make up for that.

[@tomlewis4205]

I loved this movie as a kid! Unfortunately, as talented as Taika is, I have no interest in the new series.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Oh no, how come?

[@devonellesse]

What is Alonsos DIET SECRET???????

[@BradGaby-su5tm]

Hello

[@irishkcguy]

Didn’t George Harrison produce this?

[@TechNoir-wz5ic]

Yeah he did his production company Handmade Films were behind it.

[@Tim_the_Enchanter]

Stinking Kevin!

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Ha -- have you watched the Apple TV+ show?

[@richardmaurer9174]

I was in my late teens through my late twenties in the 80's, so I was a little more discerning than a 8 yr old. That being said I think the 80's in general are overrated and there's way too many people looking at the films of that time through very foggy nostalgia googles. I'm not saying there weren't some great films in 80's, there were, but If I had to use one word to describe the overall tone of the movies of the 80's that word would be "Cheese".

[@vii9284]

produced by George Harrison iirc

[@AnthonyTyson-ym5gs]

Lyve 4evr Compadrez

[@JohnMC61]

The trailer for the TV series was so awful, it made me go back and watch Time Bandits again. While not the greatest movie, I still have a real fondness for it. The historical figures could have been better and even though I love John Cleese, the Robin Hood part is so cringe. David Warner though, just steals the movie. And the end theme by George Harrison-'Dream Away, is still one of my favorite songs. And I never realized Jim Broadbent was the game show host. I see a little of Harold Zidler in him here. I saw the movie almost 24 times back in the day but hadn't watched it in almost 20 years. I think it says something about how crap the series is going to be, that supposedly Terry Gilliam walked off from visiting the set in disgust. After Thor Love & Thunder, I'm done with anything from Taika.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Oh yikes, did not know that.

[@MarkArnoldMusic]

Kiwi here. This is absolutely not true, he was never on set. This was one of those toxic rumors that spun into a meme over a year leading up to the release. The tv show is meant to be pretty good...

[@BreakfastAllDay]

@@MarkArnoldMusic We've enjoyed the first couple of episodes! We're recapping over at our Patreon if you'd like to join us: www.patreon.com/bfastallday

[@Andrew-tf8jt]

Yeah..the new one is as usual these days utter crap and a total waste of time.