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Summary: brilliant
Review: this movie is one of the best ever. it's about traveling time,being insane, and star-crossed love. the way Terry Gilliam portraysthe future shows that he is one of the best directors ever. the amount of love you have for this movie, though, depends on you, and the movies you like. if you like movies that question reality and show lots of creativity, you'll love it. if you had a hard day of work, and just want to relax and watch some dime-a-dozen shoot 'em up, or a light comedy, then stay away.
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Summary: One Of The Greatest Films Ever Made
Review: This film is by far one of the most attention grabbbing mind twisting and brain slamming movies ever made. You are confused for the entire film and when it all comes together at the end you can do nothing more but gape at the screen. I reccommend this movie to EVERYONE, but especially people who have enjoyed films such as "Contact" -"Silence of The Lambs", and anything done by Stanley Kubrick. WARNING: this is not a movie for the weak of mind, and you better be prepared to pay full attention when you sit down to watch - ENJOY!
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Summary: Really good
Review: This movie is really good. Pitt plays one of his best roles and Bruce Willis is actually good! The scenario of this movie is excellent some will find it complicated but most will find it easy to follow. The reason I did NOT give this movie 5 stars is because Madeline Stow get in love with Willis way too quickly. It is a really good movie though after 2-3 times you've watched it it becomes boring.
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Summary: Gilliam's Masterwork
Review: This movie is excellent! The story is convoluted, the ending leaves you wondering what's real and what's not: and that's what makes it a classic. You're not going to find the typical Hollywood trash here. (Thank goodness) Great film, great DVD, great buy.
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Summary: Twelve Monkeys rates a 12 on a scale of 1 to 10
Review: If you want a great objective review, visit the Amazon.com site and get their editorial review.If you want a quick, strictly subjective opinion about this movie, here it is: Twelve Monkeys is an entrancing movie that keeps you guessing throughout. It's way out there on the very edge of believability. It WILL make you think about time and reality in ways you probably have never thought before. It's definitely one of the ten best movies of all time. Bruce Willis, Madelline Stowe, and Brad Pitt are at their very best, and probably all deserved Oscars for their performances (Pitt was nominated). Buy it or rent it! Watch it! Love it!
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Summary: 12 monkeys is a great movie
Review: Bruce Willis's acting performance is outstanding. The DTS audio is superior. It's a movie that you will never forget.
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Summary: 12 Really Dumb Monkeys
Review: What a disappointment! It sounded like a good story. Man comes back from the future to save his world and almost goes mad. But in this movie it seemed that everyone had gone mad, or just dumb! The longer the movie ran, the more I wondered where everyone's sense had gone. Bruce Willis moves forward and back through time in a plot that seems so illogical that it becomes painful to follow. The threatening scientists from the future who force convicts into "volunteering" for certain death assignments to the past start singing "I found my thrill on blueberry hill" to Willis when he comes back for yet another time trek. Has he gone mad? No, I think its just the plot. Brad Pitt plays a spaced out manic mental patient with moves (and even lines) stolen from Dennis Hopper in Apocolype Now. Watch the two movies and you'll know exactly what I mean. Or don't watch 12 Monkeys and save yourself the frustration of this flick!
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Summary: Another excellent Gilliam DVD with plenty of extras!
Review: [This is a review of the DVD version] I'm a sucker for a Gilliam film (he's one of the few people who gets me into a theater to see a film because of the *director*), and if you are too, this is the best way to own this film (at least until an even more complete Criterion version comes out). Although it's not especially clear on the DVD case itself, excellent use is made of the DVD version with an extensive added documentary on the making of the film and a running commentary by director Terry Gilliam and producer Chuck Roven. Commentary by Gilliam is, as always, almost better than taking a full film course: you learn not only about the making of the film itself but of his battles with the Hollywood system which led to the bastardized studio recut of 'Brazil' and Gilliam's insistence that he got final cut on '12 Monkeys.' (Let's see you do *that* on a VHS version!) Amazing to learn that a special effects sequence of time travel cost $5 to film, but they actually spent huge amounts of money filling each outdoor scene with fake snow to match the first day of filming...the only day it snowed! If I have one quibble at *all*, it's a minor one: the subtitling gives away a plot point by identifying the character speaking on an audiotape, a character I don't think Gilliam intended us (or Willis's character) to identify until much later in the film. But that's a minor quibble. If you must see one of the most brilliant films of the past ten years (and in my view, Willis's best after the original 'Die Hard' and 'Pulp Fiction'), you *must* get the DVD version. It's not as overwhelmingly complete as the three-disc DVD set of Gilliam's 'Brazil', but then, what is?
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Summary: The way I see it...
Review: Any movie Bruce Willis is in, and he doesn't save the world, deserves 5 stars in my book.
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Summary: Great movie, great DVD!
Review: When I saw "12 Monkeys" in the theaters, I thought to myself, "This is one of the greatest films of the past ten years." Despite working with a script written by others and under some stringent studio restrictions, Terry Gilliam more than managed to infuse the story with his trademark approach to movie-making. I had some reservations going in about the choice of Brad Pitt to play the role of a mentally unbalanced eco-terroist, but Pitt did a marvelous job and really made the character his own. (Viewers who like Pitt in "12 Monkeys" would probably do well to check out his performance in "Fight Club". Tyler Durden is what Jeffery Goins could be if he were less manic.) Bruce Willis and Madeline Stowe also turn in terrific performances, especially Willis for whom this was one of his first non-action films. Fans of the old "Batman" TV show will be amused to see Frank Gorshin (the Riddler) as the chief psychiatrist at the mental institution were much of the early part of the film takes place. Christopher Plummer is not given much screen time, but he does an excellent job with what little he has. As for the story itself, even though many people try to claim that it is about the line between sanity and madness(in the vein of Gilliam's "The Fisher King"), I just do not see it as such. I never doubted Cole's sanity, the future world was too real to make me think that it was a figment of Cole's imagination. And if one did have that impression at first, there was too much revealed early in the film to sustain that belief. I prefer to view the story as an extremely intricate "whodunit", where the viewer actually receives most of the information relevant to the conclusion by about half-way through the film, but in such a jumbled and contradictory manner that the true outcome remains obscure until the last 15 minutes. But of course, this being a Gilliam picture, even after the conclusion is revealed, a final twist is thrown to the viewer. (Note: to appreciate the twist, pay attention to the future scientists. I've known some people who didn't watch closely and they didn't understand the twist as a result.) Setting aside the film, and considering the DVD, Universal did an excellent job with this release. The documentary "The Hamster Factor" offers some great insights into both "12 Monkeys" and the movie industry in general. And the commentary track with Gilliam and the producer is very good for understanding the process of movie-making, as well as how specific scenes were set up. My only disappointment came with the "Production Notes" feature. If you watch the documentary and listen to the commentary track, the production notes really just repeat what you've previously learned.
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