Brothers Grimm

[dalekboy]

Terry Gilliam is one of my favourite directors, even though he made the Brothers Grimm. If I had remembered that he was the director going in to this movie, I suspect I would have been even more disappointed. I found it to be a film with a reasonable script and cool ideas struggling against the might of all it's male leads playing for laughs. The women play straight and it works, but the guys... *sigh*

I suspect if the film had been played straight, I would have enjoyed it much more. As it was, I found it irritating. It's the first film where I very nearly walked out of the cinema because it was so very annoying.

I'll probably rewatch it in a few years time and see what I think. I have hated films before and found them enjoyable on a rewatch, but somehow I don't think this will be one of them. I went in expecting good, dumb fun. Well, it was dumb, anyway.

Cheers,
Danny

Comments

[mortonhall.livejournal.com]

poop. I was looking forward to that one...

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Apparently the entire production got shafted royally from development to final cut by Harvey Weinstein - or at least that's what I read.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning.

It was already dangerously low on my list of priorities given how often I get to the cinema. This way I won't be particularly disappointed if I miss it altogether.

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

we just got back from seeing it...

where it worked, it REALLY worked... but where it fell, it -REALLY- fell and that was what irritated me so much.

that and it was ridiculously too long.

[dalekboy.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought may have happened. Another Gilliam project where outside sources affected the final product. Haven't people learned yet? Leave him alone and you usually get a good film.

The Weinsteins came on board at the last minute when funding fell through.

[dalekboy.livejournal.com]

I'd totally forgotten it was a Gilliam film, as I said. So I was expecting something not much better or worse than Van Helsing - entertaining but not great. I went in expecting a silly fun Hollywood flick, so it wasn't like I had high expectations or had a negative view going in.

When Gilliam's name came up at the end, I was like "WTF?!"

[dalekboy.livejournal.com]

One of the reason's I went to it was I'm sick of missing genre films that I like the look of. There's so many films where I'd like to see it and the next thing you know it's gone.

If we'd been a few minutes later to the cinema, we would have seen Corpse Bride instead. Bugger!

[dalekboy.livejournal.com]

That sums it up. The really big problem is that so much of it just didn't work, that the genuinely good bits were swamped.