Filmmaker's First Time Watching TIME BANDITS (1981) Movie Reaction! 

A fun, pure fantasy epic! TIME BANDITS stole my heart. Timestamps below... 0:00 Thank you for watching my HOLY GRAIL reaction 2:03 Terry Gilliam from comedy to fantasy/sci-fi 5:15 Movie reaction! 26:36 Making a movie look big with a small budget 29:33 They don’t make movies like this anymore

My favorite part is the Napoleon Bonaparte (Sir Ian Holm) scene. To answer your question: Napoleon Bonaparte wasn't short. It's a myth created by his enemies after Napoleon was defeated. Despite all his faults, Napoleon Bonaparte did a lot of good for France for his time. The Napoleonic Code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws, some of which has held up to this very day. In 1812, Napoleon commissioned French scientists to invent a way to keep food good and the canning of food was created. Love or hate him, Napoleon Bonaparte has shaped our world more so than we want to admit. Fun Fact: It was Sir Sean Connery's idea for Agamemnon to do magic tricks for Kevin and suggested that he appear as one of the firefighters near the end of the movie.

The final battle was predicted at the beginning of the movie. They are fighting on a giant chess board, and all the participants were seen in Kevin's bedroom before the bandits came. Right down to the Lego made evil tower.

I would suggest Gillam’s Brazil next, though it’s not exactly a comedy.

First video of yours I’ve seen. I’ll have to check out your Holy Grail video. My four favorite directors are (for different reasons): Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, and Terry Gilliam. For your next Terry Gilliam movie, I’d recommend Brazil or The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Fidgit in this film was played by Kenny Baker, who also was R2-D2 in the Star Wars movies. He died in 2016.

I know its dark but when Benson gets blown up I laugh every time. Poor Benson..

Saw this in the theater for a 9th birthday party. Was such a fun film.

"We can make beans into peas!" LOL

Never seen your channel before but this may be my favorite movie of all time. So here I am!

The Robin Hood scene is one of my all time favourites....

I love the ending of this movie, and also the song at the end.

Gilliam always has the same theme: How does the protagonist define reality? Keep that in mind when reviewing his movies.

Thank you for reacting to this movie. It is one of my favorite. Gilliam stated it was part of his Trilogy Brazil, Time Bandits, and Baron Von Munchhausen; representing his adult, childhood, and old age. He also did Doctor Pernassus Imaginarium that has some really interesting behind the scenes story with Heath Ledger and Johnny Depp.

I'm SO glad to see this vid! Loved this film from a young age, and it's a pleasure to see you appreciate it. I don't know if Napoleon ws 5'1" IRL, but I know that he was shorter in stature compared to modern people -- but also so were most of his contemporaries. He was an average-size man for his time, it's just become a modern day historical joke.

The question is, what little person quickly transcribed the music for Me and my Shadow for their stage show for Napoleon. Which was written in 1929. 🤣

So cool to see someone react to this.

i got this film for free in a newspaper years ago and i still love it! really breaks the mould imagination wise for a kid

Want another '80s action-fantasy with Sean Connery? Try "Highlander." Even Egyptians speak with Scots accents!

In terms of the Robin Hood Story, it wasn't redistribution of wealth for the sake of it. The story goes that King Richard the Lionhearted wanted to go on a crusade (which he did), he had an enormous wool trade, but no money. He taxed the peasantry to starvation, and worked them to the bone. Children were used to make very fine chainmail. Richard left his brother in charge to collect those taxes, and monies in order to finance his crusade. Robin Hood, suspecting that Prince John was overstepping his bounds in order to usurp the throne from Richard thwarts his efforts to collect the money by taking it away from him and giving it back to the peasantry. So in effect it was under King Richard's command that the redistribution of wealth started in the first place. Only in that instance the wealth was going to the ruling class. How come it's OK for the wealth to be redistributed upwards, but never downwards? It puts me at odds with the whole Robin Hood story. Robin Hood is loyal to a fault to King Richard, who is in fact causing the peasantry to suffer.

You should check out Gilliams filmography he has done many epic films. Even though Time Bandits is one of my favorites Brazil shouldn't be missed by anyone...."Stinking Kevin!"

Have you seen The Adventures of Baron Munchausen?

Early role for Jim Broadbent (TV host).

Great commentary by the way 👌

Creativity is inversely proportional to Budget. (Necessity is the Mother of Invention)

(9:20) It's funny that you should mention the budget during that particular scene...originally, it was to feature an actor as the Supreme Being in a flying rig, but it didn't work. In a brilliant moment of last-minute inspiration, Gilliam just had someone cut out a flat piece of wood in the shape of a thin human head which was painted black and hung at the end of a long camera rig; it was filmed coming down the extended hallway with smoke and lighting and a wind machine blowing bits of paper. In post-production, an elderly actor's face was filmed reading the Supreme Being's lines and a stylized animation of his face was super-imposed onto the head shape.

Maybe do a reaction to Brazil if you haven't seen it (another Terry Gilliam movie)

the end song is great too!

Also check out, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus The Fisher King

Terry Gilliam makes amazing surreal movies. I adore his work, even the odder gems like Doctor Parnassus. Definitely check out the rest of Gilliam's thematic trilogy - Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Also worth checking out is Brothers Grimm. The CGI is a little wonky at times, but there's so many great faces and who doesn't love a Heath Ledger movie.

The Napoleon height comes from misconception. The fact is that French inches were longer than British inches. While Napoleon measured 5’2” in French inches, he would have measured 5’7” in regular inches

Animated movies. A sometimes overlooked genre of movies because everyone laughs them off as "kids" movies but most of the time they are better than live action. Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, Ice Age and Shrek are good places to start.

I love time badints with Sean Connery and John cless and Michael plaling and Kenny baker and I dream away by George Harrison

well its always been fairly hard to find people on either side of the aisle, that dont believe in the redistribution of money, and social programs of various kinds, to various degrees.. i mean as far as this robin hood scene goes, i watched this movie dozens of times as a kid, and i just found it to be interesting that he and his merry men were portrayed as the thieves they wouldv been most likely to be, rather than glorified as the standard.. of course monty python was good for doing this sort of thing none stop in all their works.. and as a thoughtful kid, i appreciated it very much.. not exactly entertainment for the stupid

Careful: Twitter just cancelled Gilliam! Prepare to get hate.

What a wonderful - and strangely inspiring - reaction! Yes! This was made on a pittance! (funded by George Harrison). Your film that I saw? It DOES look impressive! For no budget? I really liked it. And I think I told you then: Gilliam has nothing on you! Compare your film with "Fear And Loathing", yours is the more accurate representation of that "head". I can't give you higher praise than that! So many great things you said at the end. I think if they were to make "Time Bandits" today, it would be a series. In fact, it would actually make a good series, now that I think about it! Operator....get me Terry Gilliam! And Disney Plus! :P Gilliam didn't have to grovel too much to make "Time Bandits"; it was produced by George Harrison (as you noticed!). George was the HUGEST Monty Python fan, he had already put up all the money for "Life Of Brian"! He even makes a tiny cameo, see if you can spot him! (Floyd, Zeppelin and Genesis had funded "Holy Grail"! lol) I'm sure Terry had absolutely no problems with George who probably just wrote him a blank check. ("Brazil", however, had HUGE studio problems, legendary ones....but that's another story. That is THE Terry GIlliam movie I'm dying for you to see. "Brazil". That's the movie that got him out of the shadow of Python, and definitely his masterpiece. When I see there's a reaction for "Brazil" I stop what I'm doing, lol). Anyways, whenever you see the "Handmade Films" logo in the beginning of a movie....that's George! Speaking of which: "Life Of Brian" around Xmas time? Brilliant movie programming, sir! If someone asked me my favorite comedies, "Life Of Brian" would be one of the first three titles that would come out of my mouth. You just gave me something to live for, lol. At least for another month! :D Gilliam actually comes more from an animation background. He did the animations for Monty Python; once in a while he'd appear in a sketch, but other than that, he did all the animations that linked all the sketches together. And you know what those animations look like? The "Yellow Submarine" movie!!!! I love that you made that connection! Whenever I think of Gilliam's animation, I think of "Yellow Submarine"! Terry Jones is actually the Python who went from sketch comedy to directing, although even then: Python had tons of filmed bits on their TV show, it was already pretty cinematic, and Jones was the real leader in that area. All of Python were very into history, two of them actually writing books about the middle ages, or doing documentaries about them. I know "Grail" and "Brian" are considered very realistic. My bet is that love of history is what led to "Time Bandits", and my guess it was probably pretty historically accurate with some liberties obviously taken for comedic purposes. Lastly, yeah, I know what you mean about the word "socialism"; which is so funny since the USA is a mixed-economy, and all these half-wits (most of whom don't even know what the word means) don't realize they're part socialist! :P But that's not the reason "Robin Hood" bombed; it bombed because those movies were terrible! To be honest, the best Robin Hood is the original silent one with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Fantastic, fantastic movie, like all of Fairbanks' films. Awe-inspiring stuff. Great reaction, man!!!! You made me love this movie even more, AJ! I haven't seen this since it came out! I've seen bits and pieces of it, but you really made me want to watch the whole thing from start to finish. But Jesus Christ, so sorry I wrote so much again. lol. Hey, I spread your Funkadelic album reaction on a couple of other pages, hopefully you got some hits.

People get started doing what they can get, then take advantages of opportunities when they arise, so nothing is really unusual.

Always loved this movie. You probably know by now that film budget was $5M and George Harrison was an exec. producer. ♥

Napoleon was 1.69 m (5' 6'' 1/2''). This was an average height. But the Anglo-Saxons, being filled with a persistent hatred of Napoleon, continue to convey the myth that he was small.

The ending of this movie, like a few other slashers of the era, is perfect. Open ended. Wondering what the F happened and is going to happen? Was it real or a dream. etc etc.

Sub for reaction to Time Bandits, didn't think one would pop up in my recommendations.

Still looking 4ward 2 checking u out-have many saved, but little time now! Did c u do After Hours & was great-I fell n luv w/ cause as a teen n '80's had many a looong night like that trying 2 hook up w/ girls! Also, many don't know, but my GOAT, The Wizard of Oz, was actually written about politix-Wicked Witches of East & West politicians pushing 4 paper $, while Glenda, the "good" politicians, pushing 4 GOLD STANDARD-FOLLOW YELLOW BRICK RD 2 PROSPERITY/EMERALD CITY! Scarecrow=farmers-guess didn't have the brains/knowledge 2 know what was happening, Tinman=Industry-heartless $$$, Lion="nobility"/upper classes needed 2 get on board, but didn't have the courage!...Also, just fyi, that was last Cheech & Chong 2gether n film b4 split. Saw them on reunion tour & was good, but actually saw Chong when still looked like Chong n '93 & he was surprisingly better than w/ Cheech! BLEW MY MIND! If haven't watched their flix, A MUST C-STONER OR NO!!!...Saw Time Bandits @ 9 yro n theater n '81, & ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!! Greetings from Nashville Towne, friend!🎶 🎸 See ya! 😎 ✌ ❤ 🚬

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The budget was $5mil, which with inflation is about $17mil today. So pretty low, by Hollywood standards.

18:17 ROFL

What's the deal about the Robin Hood/Socialism rant??? This guy needs to check himself and just concentrate on the movie.