The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) First Time Watching Reaction & Review 

I've actually watched that movie. It's interesting, if a trifle arid. The movie was heavily supported by none other than Joseph Goebbels.

I had no idea, that sounds intriguing!

@@bfdidc6604 There's also a well-rated Czech version from circa 1962 but I've not seen that one.

Dont forget the novel that inspired this movie en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Munchausen's_Narrative_of_His_Marvellous_Travels_and_Campaigns_in_Russia

I totally didn't recognize him! I saw him in Dune a couple of times, but that was years ago.

he was also good in ‘The Bride’ (1985)

@@oaf-77And Labyrinth

the guy is hilarious....Ray D Tutto, sounds a lot like Re di Tutto ( King of everything ) LOL

Definitely! The two films really feel like the same universe.

That would have been perfect and hilarious!

HOLY JOE ! That was Ollie Reed? I've NEVER recognized him, in thirty years! He's my favorite musketeer!

@@jean-paulaudette9246 He was a GREAT Musketeer! He was much more versatile I think than people gave him credit for!

I almost visited Stratford one time, I even had a hotel reservation, but it fell through last minute. Someday! I do love the theater!

These three are among my favourite movies. They came out at a very special time in my movie appreciation development, and having been a big Monty Python fan as a teenager, I was very aware of Gilliam as a artist/director.

Thank you!

@@LordVolkov Good to know, thanks!

I am fond of that myth, it sounds like a good film!

I watch Hogfather religiously every Christmas. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

I love the Discworld series. Terry Pratchett was a gift to the world. I miss him very much. I wish they would produce a movie based on The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents or The Wee Free Men (The Tiffany Aching series). Love the Pictsies. Amazon adapted his collaboration with Neil Gaimen, Good Omens (2019) into a wonderful miniseries. If you haven't seen it, I recommend watching The Omen (1976) first as they share a similar mythos, and it adds to the fun by comparing and contrasting.

@@jackbrooks5487 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sLqzEecFEEM.html A bit dumbed down, but nice.

I'm on the fence about it. I rewatched that scene five times now, and it looks like a combination of both.

Thank you, I plan to continue exploring his films!

Oh oh, now I'm curious! You can thank the good taste of viewers on this channel, who overwhelmingly requested this film!

@@alexachipman Thanks for replying :) Good taste indeed, one of my all-time favorite movies since I was a kid! Yeah, "Brothers Grimm" is basically the ONE really bad movie (not just my opinion, most of his fans, and even he himself kinda, probably, would agree) Gilliam made (that I know of), everything else is, like I said, highly recommendable, especially the dystopian "Brazil" (1985), "Twelve Monkeys" (1995) and "The Zero Theorem" (2013), as well as "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" (2009) and "The Man who killed Don Quixote" (2018), which are more on the "Munchausen" side (i.e colorful "fantasy" films about old men and their imagination, as opposed to those dark sci-fi things he also likes making ;) ). "The Fisher King" (1991) and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1997) are also worth watching at least once (the first one not being my personal favorite, as it's untypically "realistic" for a Gilliam movie; a direct reaction to how "Munchausen" unfortunately flopped hard at the time, hence also a Hollywood script he didn't work on himself for the first time. And "Fear and Loathing" doesn't have much of a plot, it's basically one big drug trip, but visually interesting for sure). Then there's "Jabberwocky" (1977), which often gets mistaken for a Monty Python movie for a reason ;) Are you familiar with Monty Python? Because otherwise it would make sense (imo) to check them out, first (and I mean including the TV show) and probably to do that later, since you already started with Gilliam ;) Last but not least there's "Tideland" (2005), which I haven't actually watched myself, yet (it looks kinda unnessecarily disturbing / disgusting and Gilliam himself actually recorded an offcial warning video, so... I don't know...). So, yeah, that's my ranking of Gilliam movies ;) ...

And she is a very good reactor to do it. The unfortunate truth is that when a movie is so "unpopular" the few or one who do review it might be speaking another language or too tired to even give the movie a fair share. This was a well met reaction to one of my favorite films.

@@janhommer Thank you so much! I think I've seen all the Monty Python movies a few times, but there might be one that slipped past me, I will check!

There are live action 60s movies?! I have only seen the animated ones, that sounds like a lot of fun, and they are definitely going on my list. Tintin was one of the first things I read as a kid, while learning to read. I still have several of them. It is also the reason I got into opera at a young age! Bianca Castafiore was my favorite character.

@@alexachipman Yep, two of them - 'Tintin and the Golden Fleece' and 'Tintin and the Blue Oranges'. The first one is by far the better of the two, in my opinion (although if you're a Bianca fan, she does briefly appear in the second), but they're both fun. Same here - huge Tintin fan. Comics-wise, him and Donald Duck more or less defined my childhood. I now own all the books, plus a little plastic replica of the moon-rocket. Way worse things to be in this world than a Tintin nerd.

Nice!

I bought that book a few years back specifically because of this movie.

I am so sorry about your toothache, and in the middle of a movie like that, so frustrating! I plan on watching Brazil soon.

That's great! I have spent so much time in a corset myself that it annoys me, I'm afraid! Thank you for the recommendations.

Definitely!

Brazil is already on my channel, in a two parter :)

I didn't recognize Sting, I've only seen him in Dune before many years ago, but definitely Robin Williams (I met him as a kid - he was filming at my school).

@@alexachipman I don't know if you've ever bought any of Sting's albums/CD's - one thing you'll find on the album art is lots of pictures of Sting! (at least that's the case on the handful of albums I've bought.) LOL.

@@victorsixtythree I'm afraid I don't think I've heard any of his music, do you have any favorites to recommend?

@@alexachipman Hmm...as a solo artist maybe "Fields of Gold" or "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You"...as a member of The Police probably "Roxanne" or "Every Breath You Take". But that's just the tip of the iceberg really!

@@alexachipman Another song, to add to Victor's list, called We Work the Black Seam.

Wow! Thank you for the background information!

I don’t recall; it has been too long!

Oddly reading this comments triggered a similar memory of a scene like that... although there are scenes similar, such as in Krull with taking the glaive out of the Lava, theres an episode of the Story Teller where a character takes a large stone out of a boiling pot of water, then you have Bladerunner with the Repilcant taking the egg out of the boiling water... It could just be one of those twisted memories that get overlayed onto something else due to time and fading recall, it happens to us all... but im fairly sure the scene you're talking about is a real one, just no idea which movie (and ive seen a ton of movies in the last 40 years).

Thank you!

I think I’ve seen all the Monty Python films, but will double check!

There are endless other dances to choose from. Here is a brief article: socialdance.stanford.edu/Syllabi/19th_century.htm

@@alexachipman thanks!

Which gods do you work with?

Could prolly say all and none at the same time. More symbolic than literal, with a little bit of everything thrown in from around the world and throughout history, as well as the plutonic forms and even quantum mechanics.

@@joshuajackson472 Got it, that makes sense. I take a more traditional approach working with a few of them using older methods like libations, etc.