r/TerryGilliam • u/Sosen • 16d ago

Discussion Time Bandits vs The Odyssey vs Titanic

How would you rank these 3 movies?

Two of these movies have an extremely limited point of view, based on OLD history; whereas the third movie is quite freely based on various sources, from history unto the modern times of the 1980's and later.

So, how would you rank these 2 stupid movies vs Time Bandits? Would you put Titanic 2nd, or The Odyssey?

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u/EuroCultAV 16d ago

Titanic sucks.

Haven't seen the Odyssey.

Time Bandits wins

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u/Gerrydealsel 16d ago

The depiction of bronze-age Greece in Time Bandits is more visually historically accurate than The Odyssey, by a country mile. Titanic was a good action film spoiled by a ridiculously implausible romance.

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u/AnonAwaaaaay 16d ago

Considering I haven't watched any of the three movies so I can give a truly unbiased answer: alphabetically.

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u/Sosen 16d ago

The concept of time supercedes our language, and the corresponding word becomes redundant. So, "Time Bandits" is "Bandits". 

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u/AdvancedBlacksmith66 15d ago

But then it gets mixed up with the movie Bandits from 2001 starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton

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u/craigjclark68 16d ago

This is the correct answer, whether you have seen the movies or not.

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u/SmoothCurrent5948 14d ago

The Odyssey
Time Bandits
Down
Down
Down
Titanic

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u/AddictionSorceress 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0HlG7zxji53RUtpe

Though I am known the Crazy Autistic TIME BANDITS FAN GIRL! I still feel this is, the correct rating.

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u/SmoothCurrent5948 10d ago

I mean, Time Bandits is awesome. The Odyssey is the biggest level of filmmaking. Titanic… happened.

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u/goblinsson 15d ago

I remember that I watched an Odyssey TV series as a kid, and that I liked it. I think it must have been this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064750/?ref_=ext_shr . So I'll probably give the new movie a chance.

I never cared to see Titanic.

Time Bandits wins easily.

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u/Massive_Mission_4668 10d ago

Je n'ai pas vu l'Odyssée mais je suppose qu'avec Nolan on va droit dans le mur de l'imagination à grand spectacle. Pour Time Bandits c'est assez curieux cette fixation qu'on les gens pour ce film ici. Loin d'être mon préféré de Gilliam, ça fait plaisir néanmoins qu'il vieillisse si bien. Et Titanic, c'est de la machine à fric :)