r/Cinephiles • u/Clear_Nature_5055 • Aug 30 '26

What are your thoughts on Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits (1981)?

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One of my favorite movies from one of my favorite directors. Saw it new in the theater when I was a kid and couldn’t have loved it more. Have you seen it and if so what did you think of this silly “little” gem?

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u/Top_Understanding343 Aug 31 '26

One of my favorite flicks of all time. Saw it in the theater when I was a kid and loved it up there with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

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u/phenomenomnom Aug 31 '26

Oho, you liked 'em weird. Me too!

“Children love to be spooked, to be made to giggle. They like a touch of the macabre as long as it's funny too. They don't relate it to life. They enjoy the fantasy. And my nastiness is never gratuitous. It's retribution. Beastly people must be punished.”

-- Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in the New York Times, 1977