Twelve Monkeys (1995) ♦Movie Reaction♦ First Time Watching! 

Yeah, got a good laugh at that one.

I chuckled a bit too hard at this point

i was just coming to make this same comment... lol

Yup, this gave me a good laugh as well.

That was hilarious😄

Watching it in the morning I knew I was late to the game but after that line I had to come to the comments...😂

He didn't want to be typecast as just the pretty boy, so he wanted to show that he could do weird interesting characters... which he can.

Yep! 💯👍🏻

The older i get the sadder Vertigo is for me.

Watch them both!

You mean the Paper aka The Hot sheets.😂

I loved the Weekly Weird News 😂

I loved how in Men in Black, the real news could be found in the middle of those tabloids.

also... the man was high af in fight club ,at least in the "punch in the ear" scene

“The Fisher King” is extremely good. It’s one of the few movies that I have seen, but no one that I’ve know has ever seen or heard of.

Very yes. More Terry Gilliam movies please

​@391 In fact, The Fisher King did get some attention when it came out (at least here in Germany), but at the time Terry Gilliam was mainly associated with Monty Python and Brazil, and later of course with Twelve Monkeys. Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams both previously starred in very popular movies, but a few years later they were primarily associated with their iconic roles in The Big Lebowsky and Good Will Hunting, respectively. This could be one of the reasons why The Fisher King has been unfairly forgotten in retrospect, even though it is a very good movie.

@@schroedingers_kotze I have tried to draw attention to it across many reaction channels, but that's not how popular decisions are made. Lots of movies are falling by the wayside because they aren't already well remembered or popular enough to be well remembered or popularized. Echo chambers don't let in much new. That movie shifted my perception of psychology from an objective science to a subjective experience. I will always hold it dear for that.

@@willcool713 I can understand that, the film made a deep impression also on me at the time and is worth watching every now and then. As with any good work of art, people will perceive it very differently at different ages.

As he said throughout the film, he's not there to stop anything, and only there to collect evidence and figure out the origin. At that point they are planning to send scientists. And sure enough, the appearance of the 'insurance' lady at the end confirmed that they would get their pure sample.

@@Mr.Ekshinyes. It didn’t click until the third time I saw it, because she was just one of multiple doctors in brief scenes.

Me too, there's so many details I kept noticing on repeated viewings. One thing I noticed was how it's implied that James ironically caused the virus to be released, by giving Jeffrey the idea when he was in the mental institution. But later you realize that it wasn't his fault, because Jeffrey was only planning to release the animals. BUT! James indirectly caused the virologist to change his security procedures (because Kathryn called the lab to warn them about Jeffrey). The virologist "took himself out of the loop" and he doesn't "have the code anymore". Maybe that's how the assistant gained access to the virus??? That would make James indirectly responsible again. Also, the pacing of the airport scene is just insane. Honestly it was way too fast for me to understand on my first viewing. There's so much happening, with the realization of who actually released the virus, the call James makes to the scientists, the scientists responding by sending Jose, and the realization that James saw his own death as a child. I was particularly confused about what Kathryn realized when she looked at the newspaper. She knows the assistant because he showed up at one of her lectures. When she saw the paper, she realized that an "apocalypse nut" worked at the lab that was the potential source of the virus. Like I said, it all happens so fast. But the frantic pace is also a lot of fun if you can keep up.

Prayers for Bruce.

Bruce Willis is living with frontotemporal dementia. He is surrounded by family taking care of him, including his ex Demi Moore.

I wonder what the official line is. It sounds to me like she said "I'm an ensurance," but in such a way that it could be mistaken as "I'm in insurance." The former makes sense to the audience-she's ensuring the future obtains a virus sample-the latter makes sense to the person she's talking to in the plane.

hear hear!

Agreed, the TV series was great. First season was okay, not brilliant, but then it really kicked into gear. Plus it's one of those rare shows that has a good proper ending.

​@@ThreadBombyeh the first season didnt grab me either

A lot of people say that multiple viewing thing. For my part, I found the film was less good each subsequent rewatching, the magic is in being utterly confused. Once you know what's happening, it seems much more straightforward.

Brazil is great!

Brazil is my favourite movie (on some days)!

love time bandits and baron munchausen

The other Terry did Erik the Viking, Terry Jones.

*The Fisher King* (1991), with Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruhl (Best Supporting Oscar), and Amanda Plumber, is one of my all-time favorite movies.

Oh man, I haven't thought about Eric the Viking in AGES. Such a grand time.

I vote for Brazil since we are living though it now.

Pretty much. Although they didn't know.

The interesting thing about that penultimate scene with the insurance line... she is personally allowing herself to become infected with the pure strain to collect the sample. It's almost certainly a death sentence.

That's clearly the right theory but i think they also wanted to make it seem she wasn't a scientist. 99% of the population dying we won't be lucky to have the brightest minds left alive. I feel like she really is just in insurance before the outbreak, and that she got lucky to get the position as one of the scientist. This makes sense to me because they're not great with the technology, they sent him back to the wrong time a few times. I just believe they wanted this to seem like a possibility. We don't know who these scientist were before the outbreak.

@Alice-xq3dn it's really good also

Yeah, the acting and special effects are pretty bad, but the rest it's very good​.

@@DevayII I kind of agree that Aaron Stanford isn't the best actor. But the supporting cast (Emily Hampshire, Kirk Acevedo, Barbara Sukuwa) balances it out.

So great it got canned .

@@logan-dy4cf Uh...no, it didn't. It got 4 seasons and has a proper conclusion that leaves no threads hanging and zero plot holes. It's one of the most perfect series I've ever seen in that regard and I would also argue that the acting and special effects are mostly pretty great.

Thank you so much! That means a lot to me! ☺️

@@Whimsory u r real whim & ppl like real, to many fakes out there tryharding for clicks

I always thought that the virus had already been released once in the airport. In that case everyone on that plane would have died, meaning that the woman on the plane was 100% a time traveler collecting a sample. Time to watch the movie again, I guess.

Yes, she was a scientist from the future, there to get a pure sample of the virus. Cole explains it at the 12:15 mark.

@@toddjones1480 She is there as a time traveler, remember she tells him she's in insurance? She's the insurance if James failed.

@@gregjobes9138 And she is not younger, obviously she came from the future.

Such a great confluence since Vertigo has themes of insanity and people from the past in the present.

I forgot about Looper. Need to watch it again now. Thanks.

Perfect! 👍

Same, lol!

Ah, the Adventures of Pete and Pete was a delightfully twisted show. I do miss it.

Tom Waits is the man. Primus asks, wanna voice a cat? Yes. Terry Gilliam asks, wanna play a pimp? Yes. The man does no wrong.

No, the science lady was just getting a sample of the virus to find a cure, but the virus will still spread, and there are no guarantees of a cure.

I remember Bat Boy was a thing in the mid 90s. There were even tshirts 😂

@@caesar349 He was the embodiment of American sensationalism and gullibility.

@@synthetic240yes very true!!

Her eyes are a bit big for her head, but I'll allow it