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Summary: A visually stunning film that is worth anyones time.
Review: A visually stunning film that seems to break new ground, but is really just chopping up other ideas and merging them to form a new mental image.
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Summary: Full-fledged genius
Review: A chilling apiffany oh a future gone wrong.This by my homle opinion is the jewel in Gilliam's crown. An ode to 1984 and Farenheit 451.
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Summary: The Secret Life of Terry Gilliam
Review: This is Gilliam's masterpiece, and easily one of my favorite films of all time. It's 1984 meets The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. A visual marvel, brimming with brilliant performances, and funny as hell.
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Summary: A Masterpiece!
Review: This movie, which is comedy at its extreme, is dazzling, disturbing, and demanding of the viewer. It shows a world in which little thought is given to the state of mankind. It shows the world at its nightmarish bureaucratic best. It offers little hope in the end, although this ironic comedy seems to suggest that the only way to defeat society is to mentally check out at the end. This movie is disturbing to some, but in many ways is prophetic. A Must See!!
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Summary: A triumph for pseudo-intellectuals everywhere
Review: Bleak, disjointed, full of throw-away performances and embarrassingly bad attempts at humor and romance. Gilliam flipped off the Hollywood Power Machine and won, thereby forever culling favor with critics and the art crowd. It's too bad the rallying cry was this miserable, depressing, migraine-inducing exercise in cinematic vomit. Brazil is a misguided and pretentious joke, a crude, gas-passing Emperor with no clothes. I'd rather watch 100 hours of "Mama's Family" than sit through the damn thing again.
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Summary: A must see for anyone who cares about film.
Review: Needless to say, Brazil is a film unlike any other, thanks to its extremely unique creator, Terry Gilliam. Although, not for all tastes, Brazil is an obsolute must for everyone who loves films, and for those of you who prefer films that challenge the standards of Hollywood filmaking by being unique, creative and outspoken. Also, those of you who find social commentary intriging, will find Mr.Gilliams viewpoing especially interesting. As for this special edition, I, having purchased the laser disc edition some time ago, will have to say that it is one of the best packages I have had the pleasure of owning. If you've never seen this film, see it now! And if you've been waiting for the director's cut, and the extras that the regular edition fails to offer, the wait is over. Enjoy!
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Summary: A Surrealistic Masterpiece
Review: "Brazil" isn't one of those movies that you understand in one viewing. It isn't simple and dumbed down so that you see it once, go "I understand!" and forget about it. Terry Gilliam has crafted a wonderfully intricate and surreal film that is a joy to see every time you watch it. As stated before, you have to pay very close attention to this, or else you'll miss a very important part. You don't blank out and jus watch the pretty moving pictures (although they are incredablly stunning, especially Sam's dreams). The part that most threw people off was the end, and already ruined by most reviewers, where *spoiler* Sam escapes the Torture Chamber through his fantasy. In other words, he escapes by going insane. "Brazil" can be interpeted in many ways. I think it could be intepeted as Sam Lowery's rise and fall (though Gilliam has said "Brazil" was more about the beurocratic goverment where you sacrifice personal individuality for security and how it goes about squashing Sam's quest for his freedom). Sam loses his innocence when he transferrs to Information Retrieval and recklessly goes about finding his dream girl. His recklessness, however, shows how free he is, not caring about consequences. Anyway, "Brazil" is a beautiful, surreal, and certaintly complex film.
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Summary: its really weard
Review: i loved the werdness on this movie its was really cool and well done icant whait to see reamaster and back in the theaters
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Summary: Wait for the Criterion Edition
Review: Brazil is an amazing movie, but for the real fans, the Creiterion Edition comes out on June 29th. It is three discs. The first is Terry Gilliam's cut of the movie (142 mins)with his commentary track as well. The second disc includes interviews, storyboards, featurette, and the famous "Battle for Brazil" documentary, etc. The third disc is the "Love Conquers All" (97 min) version of the film. It has a commentary by a newspaper reporter, comparing the cuts of the film. So while owning this movie is essential for any serious fan, if you want the real Brazil, as well as Gilliam's own thoughts and the history of the film (the controversy, etc.), wait for the Criterion Edition. 3 Discs, June 29, 1999.
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Summary: The DVD has extra scenes to my all-time favorite movie
Review: Brazil is my all-time favorite movie. I have seen it a number of times, and was quite pleased to see the two added scenes that I had not seen before. They don't add a whole lot to an already incredible story, but they do make the entire rescue/escape scene more interesting. I watched the movie with a friend who had never seen it before, and we discussed it afterwards. He thought the ending was fairly dark, and in some ways I agree. But, for Sam, it's a happy ending, because he's in Brazil.
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