Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus

manveruppd · 25 Oct 2009 at 01:32

Anyone else thought that casting Tom Waits as the Devil was an absolutely INSPIRED choice for this?

matt0r · 25 Oct 2009 at 03:58

I wanna see this as soon as i get back to the uk ... Gilliam's films are usually great and with the bonus of Mr. Waits.

benneh · 25 Oct 2009 at 06:58

I enjoyed it

, Waits hasn't acted this well before, imo, and I'm a big fan.

Overall I enjoyed it, but it just felt like a small story in a big wrapping, if that makes any sense. I liked it either way.

Shamikebab · 25 Oct 2009 at 13:04

I loved it, really, really entertaining and the cast was quality.

Spent the whole film trying to work out where I'd seen the guy that played Anton before, turns out I went to school with him!

Nanoman · 25 Oct 2009 at 14:15

Shamikebab said:
I loved it, really, really entertaining and the cast was quality.

Spent the whole film trying to work out where I'd seen the guy that played Anton before, turns out I went to school with him!

Watch Boy A, he's an amazing actor.

Greenlizard0 · 26 Oct 2009 at 04:21

Might see this tomorrow. It looks good.

Chimerical · 26 Oct 2009 at 17:30

This film looks amazing. This and Avatar will be my two of my favourite films of the year I reckon.

Sirrel Squirrel · 26 Oct 2009 at 18:09

Can't say I really enjoyed it, bits were good but I found a lot of it boring to be honest.

Marky · 26 Oct 2009 at 18:18

Haven't seen it yet - but I want to

Frame352 · 26 Oct 2009 at 19:47

I really wanted to like this, but I just didn't. Visually, it's great, and very imaginative, but I found it very disjointed - which is only to be expected I suppose given the events surrounding the production.

Madkjb · 26 Oct 2009 at 22:12

Frame352 said:
I really wanted to like this, but I just didn't. Visually, it's great, and very imaginative, but I found it very disjointed - which is only to be expected I suppose given the events surrounding the production.

Same for me, i found the start really good and interesting then it just got abit disjointed with all the new tonys and the story went abit too Gilliam. Overall the casting was spot on i felt, such a shame about heath was a great actor.

Also Lily Cole was so amazingly beautiful in this film, I've never liked much of her modelling stuff and her weird shaped face but I just found her stunning in this film.

Greenlizard0 · 28 Oct 2009 at 15:17

Frame352 said:
I really wanted to like this, but I just didn't. Visually, it's great, and very imaginative, but I found it very disjointed - which is only to be expected I suppose given the events surrounding the production.

Aye, I don't disagree with that having just returned from the cinema.

The visuals of "his" imagination are fantastic, the casting's pretty good and it was surprising to see the orange stick insect act.

But, there's just...not much in it, nothing that will really make me recommend it. I can't quite describe it any more than that without spoiling it but it was disappointing.

ps3ud0 · 28 Oct 2009 at 17:44

I found this very difficult to get into and eventually had to walk out as I started getting a headache trying to follow it all - disappointed as I was looking forward to this but it did seem over-elaborate for what it was...

ps3ud0 :cool:

manveruppd · 28 Oct 2009 at 18:31

I don't know what you're all talking about. It was a very simple story: monk dude makes a bet with the devil on who gets 5 souls first, with the dude's daughter as the prize. That's it.

Spoiler below:
Who else really really expected Anton to be the final sacrifice in this? Or would that have been too predictable? Hard not to associate how he ends up and how they find him with Ledger's death, so I've got the sneaking suspicion that maybe he was originally intended to be the 5th soul and they changed it when production resumed - perhaps so as not to offend, or to be seen as cashing in on his death or something?

PS. anyone have the colour code for the darker-blue background colour within the quotation/code boxes?