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gwydionmisha:
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Taika Waititi: Now, for my next trick, after depicting Adolf Hitler as a native new Zealander, I will tackle the true source of horror in the modern world.
Taika Waititi: What the fuck happened to that kid at the end of Time Bandits?
Just… is this wise? Do you know the power you are about the wield? This risks exposing a new generation to Time Bandits. This may just break us all.
If you don’t know Time Bandits… I have no idea where to start. Take Return to Oz. It’s scarier. Take Dark Crystal. It’s weirder. Take Watership Down. It’s more traumatic. It’s the absolute pinnacle of the 1980′s ‘It’s for kids!’ brainscar that had us crying behind the sofa in a fetal position.
The only thing that saved us is that it was so niche and so fucking out there that it’s exposure to the general population was minimum. To illustrate what the hell we’re dealing with here, to illustrate:
This is god:
This is the devil:
This is… I have legitimately blanked out what the fuck was going on here:
I’m not going to spoil the ending but WTF WTF WTF.
Oh yeah and because this makes it sound like a bad idea, watch Time Bandits. There is absolutely nothing like it anywhere. Terry Gilliam mastered something so eldritch and arcane here that it makes my brain hurt. Watch it.
What the hell is Taika going to do with this?
My school routinely showed this (or journey to the sea, or that thing where the kid loses the balon) when they needed to store us all in the auditorium because a thing was going on requiring most of the teachers. Plus my family watched it o TV when it was randomly on like anything Monty Python or Python adjacent.
I’m pretty sure I watched this 3-5 times a year, year after year after year during a formative period of my life.
Which likely explains some things.
Next you’ll be telling kids to figure out what the hell Brazil was even about!
…wait
you’re telling me this shit was real and not some fever dream I had when I was 6 with the chickenpox, double ear infection and a case of poison oak all while being severely dehydrated from throwing up?
……………………….
I legitimately though I’d imagined that movie becuase I had NO idea what the name of it was and could never describe it well enough to anyone to pin down what it was outside of some fucked up shit my mind had concocted while fighting the plague.
what the actual fuck
I LOVED IT- to this day I’m always on the lookout for a black doorway to slice open through the air before me. I’d jump through that thing in a heartbeat. I’m fuckin serious y’all!
I’d say y’all need Jesus but I’m pretty sure he’d refused to go anywhere near this.
lostdollbaby:
mirrorada:
robotsandfrippary:
gwydionmisha:
skull-bearer:
Taika Waititi: Now, for my next trick, after depicting Adolf Hitler as a native new Zealander, I will tackle the true source of horror in the modern world.
Taika Waititi: What the fuck happened to that kid at the end of Time Bandits?
Just… is this wise? Do you know the power you are about the wield? This risks exposing a new generation to Time Bandits. This may just break us all.
If you don’t know Time Bandits… I have no idea where to start. Take Return to Oz. It’s scarier. Take Dark Crystal. It’s weirder. Take Watership Down. It’s more traumatic. It’s the absolute pinnacle of the 1980′s ‘It’s for kids!’ brainscar that had us crying behind the sofa in a fetal position.
The only thing that saved us is that it was so niche and so fucking out there that it’s exposure to the general population was minimum. To illustrate what the hell we’re dealing with here, to illustrate:
This is god:
This is the devil:
This is… I have legitimately blanked out what the fuck was going on here:
I’m not going to spoil the ending but WTF WTF WTF.
Oh yeah and because this makes it sound like a bad idea, watch Time Bandits. There is absolutely nothing like it anywhere. Terry Gilliam mastered something so eldritch and arcane here that it makes my brain hurt. Watch it.
What the hell is Taika going to do with this?
My school routinely showed this (or journey to the sea, or that thing where the kid loses the balon) when they needed to store us all in the auditorium because a thing was going on requiring most of the teachers. Plus my family watched it o TV when it was randomly on like anything Monty Python or Python adjacent.
I’m pretty sure I watched this 3-5 times a year, year after year after year during a formative period of my life.
Which likely explains some things.
Next you’ll be telling kids to figure out what the hell Brazil was even about!
…wait
you’re telling me this shit was real and not some fever dream I had when I was 6 with the chickenpox, double ear infection and a case of poison oak all while being severely dehydrated from throwing up?
……………………….
I legitimately though I’d imagined that movie becuase I had NO idea what the name of it was and could never describe it well enough to anyone to pin down what it was outside of some fucked up shit my mind had concocted while fighting the plague.
what the actual fuck
I LOVED IT- to this day I’m always on the lookout for a black doorway to slice open through the air before me. I’d jump through that thing in a heartbeat. I’m fuckin serious y’all!
I’d say y’all need Jesus but I’m pretty sure he’d refused to go anywhere near this.