I named my son Sean after Sean Connery as Agamemnon in this movie. Great movie.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
That is a cool tidbit!
@celtwarrior78512 ай бұрын
Love the movie. Still watch it after all this time. It still makes me smile and laugh and enjoy a movie for a change.
@fembotheather37853 ай бұрын
I was in my teens when it came out and still rewatch it.
@JacobSchantz3 ай бұрын
As a very young child, the ending left me absolutely floored.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
Right? It shakes you up!
@renheitman3 ай бұрын
Love the George Harrison tune at the end credits.
@MOZONEandGlambot3 ай бұрын
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-b5t3 ай бұрын
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.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
Great story! How fun.
@adrianac32583 ай бұрын
The 70s and 80s made kids resilient 💪
@keim733 ай бұрын
Oh my God, you just referenced how to beat the high cost-of-living one of my favorite movies that I actually own lol
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
Saw it so many times as a kid!
@MrAjphux3 ай бұрын
@BreakfastAllDay I just bought a Blu-ray of that movie! Seen it edited on TV, glad to have this copy, always wanted one.
@keim733 ай бұрын
@@BreakfastAllDay Ditto lol! Love it. And keep up the great work. Happy Tuesday
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
@@keim73 Thank you!
@commandZee3 ай бұрын
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.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
We definitely saw new things this time!
@seanscanlan72112 ай бұрын
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
@BreakfastAllDay2 ай бұрын
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!
@michaelhein54553 ай бұрын
Just started watching, and I hope with everything in me that you agree that Time Bandits is indeed great!
@marysueechols2845Ай бұрын
"So *that's* what an Invisible Barrier looks like!"
@RH18123 ай бұрын
Ahh. The times when physical effects ruled! Imagine that knight scene today! Snow White and the Seven Dwarves but Gilliamised
@VikingMatt8793 ай бұрын
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.
@postmodernrecycler3 ай бұрын
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.
@jasoncarrick54613 ай бұрын
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"
@marysueechols2845Ай бұрын
Labyrinth
@zzorchh3 ай бұрын
Hey there ---- congrats on making it to 30K subscribers! I know you were really pushing for that!!
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
@@zzorchh Thank you! Onward!
@cjwright7911 күн бұрын
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!
@yiarkungfu3 ай бұрын
I think what disturbed me most as a kid was the fact that the good guys didn't defeat evil.
@JOHNNYRADIO3 ай бұрын
Loved this movie as a kid! Need to rewatch, but I know for sure the Robin Hood scene still holds up... "Jolly good!"
@VTiDelSol3 ай бұрын
"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.
@tonybowers4233 ай бұрын
I was 16 when I first saw it...and I still love it!!
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
That’s great!
@JROTGS3 ай бұрын
Wow! I just saw this (on HBO) so the timing of this was perfect
@MrAjphux3 ай бұрын
Time Bandits was/is great, hands down!
@FunkyVerbV23 ай бұрын
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
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
I have no idea what you're talking about :)
@romasteve72923 ай бұрын
Randall is genuinely one of the great fantasy anti-heroes.
@ChrisVCrawford3 ай бұрын
Still proud of my help in creating this segment.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
You were the catalyst!
@oneopinion68063 ай бұрын
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.
@al50683 ай бұрын
Christy looks so pretty! ❤
@grayforester3 ай бұрын
Now do The Sterile Cuckoo - I was ten and it bent me for life.
@kararemington55253 ай бұрын
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.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
Yes Kara, let us know if you do!
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
Yes Kara, let us know if you do!
@crithon3 ай бұрын
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!
@liamoconnell72373 ай бұрын
Do "Krull"!!!! It was great & we were 8.
@edfagan42513 ай бұрын
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?
@julianjessevideo3 ай бұрын
I remember wanting to watch this movie, but I never got the chance.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
Now you can!
@wolflarson713 ай бұрын
Loved this movie when I was 10. +1 ship hat.
@robaquarian3 ай бұрын
There were parts of ghostbusters that were scarey for kids
@mijmijrmАй бұрын
wow! ... it's George Lucas and Carrie Fisher talking about Time Bandits!
@sweeney603 ай бұрын
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.
@rjg7112Ай бұрын
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.
@richfictionfighter3 ай бұрын
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
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
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!
@tximinoman3 ай бұрын
I watched it ages ago when I was a kid. I barely remember anything about it except being confused by the whole thing.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
Give it another try!
@seanscanlan72112 ай бұрын
You guys should do one on the Ernest movies knowwhutimean?
@BreakfastAllDay2 ай бұрын
Ha, thankfully that's neither of our childhoods :)
@BrianOHanlon3 ай бұрын
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.
@BrianOHanlon3 ай бұрын
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.
@BrianOHanlon3 ай бұрын
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-gs9qx3 ай бұрын
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.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
Ha, that sounds terrifying seeing it on mushrooms 🍄
@MaD-gs9qx3 ай бұрын
@@BreakfastAllDay It kinda was!
@EppyGibbon3 ай бұрын
Of course it's great. Never any question.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
It was fun to go back and reaffirm that!
@romeroflores75763 ай бұрын
It was great and I was 8! 😃
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
Perfect!
@phimbalance3 ай бұрын
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.
@ed1rko173 ай бұрын
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)
@keefriff993 ай бұрын
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.
@ed1rko173 ай бұрын
@@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.
@tlovehater3 ай бұрын
Those Ninja Turtles movies are terrible and I was a big fan lol
@timothyw983 ай бұрын
What you think of Ian Holmes role as Napoleon. You think I'm small you think I'm small no no no no no 🇫🇷
@Jimvanhise24 күн бұрын
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.
@tomlewis42053 ай бұрын
I loved this movie as a kid! Unfortunately, as talented as Taika is, I have no interest in the new series.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
Oh no, how come?
@devonellesse3 ай бұрын
What is Alonsos DIET SECRET???????
@BradGaby-su5tm3 ай бұрын
Hello
@irishkcguy3 ай бұрын
Didn’t George Harrison produce this?
@TechNoir-wz5ic3 ай бұрын
Yeah he did his production company Handmade Films were behind it.
@Tim_the_Enchanter2 ай бұрын
Stinking Kevin!
@BreakfastAllDay2 ай бұрын
Ha -- have you watched the Apple TV+ show?
@richardmaurer91743 ай бұрын
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".
@vii92843 ай бұрын
produced by George Harrison iirc
@AnthonyTyson-ym5gs3 ай бұрын
Lyve 4evr Compadrez
@JohnMC613 ай бұрын
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.
@BreakfastAllDay3 ай бұрын
Oh yikes, did not know that.
@MarkArnoldMusic2 ай бұрын
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...
@BreakfastAllDay2 ай бұрын
@@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-tf8jtАй бұрын
Yeah..the new one is as usual these days utter crap and a total waste of time.