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Old 04-28-2003, 04:36 PM   #11
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Excalibur comes close to the top position as my favourite fantasy film. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Ah, how could I have forgotten Excalibur. I agree, Meela. that definately comes pretty close to the top spot for me. It was beautifully visualised <B>and</B> well acted. Nigel Terry, Miranda Richardson and (especially) Nicol Wiliamson were all excellent in it. <P>But the Monty Python version was still better. <P>Talking of Monty Python, has anyone seen Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky (about the Lewis Carroll creature of the same name), which had in it Terry Jones and Michael Palin of the Python team, as well as Neil Innes and Gilliam himself. Not as good as The Holy Grail, but enjoyable nonetheless.<P>And two more fantasy(ish) films by Terry Gilliam which I greatly enjoyed were Time Bandits, about the time-travelling adventures of a young boy and a group of dwarves(with wonderful cameos by the likes of John Cleese as Robin Hood and Sean Connery as Aganemnon), and the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, based upon the extravagant stories of the eponymous Baron, who claimed to have met the likes of the Man of the Moon (Robin Williams) and Vulcan and Venus (Oliver Reed and Uma Thurman).<P>I guess that I'm a real sucker for Terry Gilliam's films.
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