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Ok before you try and have a go at me for my chosen title of my post you will have to read on as to see why I chose that for a title, but first I also have a question!
WHAT THE HELL WAS TERRY GILLIAM SMOKING IN 1995? I mean brother! Once I drank 100% pure toilet duck and even though I was seeing white tunnels and floating oompa loompa's for a week or two. Still never in my entire life have I been able to envision anything as depressive and weird as the twelve monkeys!
Ok it was a good movie with a lot of twists and turns but even the best movies have flaws and I'd like to hilight some of the flaws of this movie.
However I's also like to answer Mr Cranky's question with regards to where the hell were the monkeys in the movie? You get to see some monkeys near the end of the movie you get to see three of them running around on a building site. Which leads me to another question of my own. WHERE THE HELL ARE THE 12 MONKEYS? I only saw three! Oh man what a rip off! I went to see a movie about 12 monkeys that's exactly what I expect to see in the movie 12 monkeys! Not 3! I mean why the hell would they even call themselves the army of the 12 monkeys when there aren't even 12 people in the army?
God damn it that title is damn false advertising and I HATE false advertising titles! I remember when I was a 7 yr old kid and wanting to learn a bit about the birds and the bees. You know how women do it and that. Damn was I a curious 7 Yr old. And since my parents didn't seem to know, I thought I might get a movie that contains a little hanky panky so that I might be able to learn. So I went down to the local video store and one title of a movie caught my eye and from the title I thought well that would definitely teach me a thing or two AND DID IT EVER! I went out and hired " Kiss of the spider women! " I was forever asking where's the bloody woman? Thanks to some film director I was 7 yrs old and now traumatised for the rest of my life!
Another thing which I think was silly in the movie is how the story was set for 1996. Ok maybe it was novel watching it in 1995 and having it broadcasted on cinema that the end was in 1996, but that novelty was short. It would of been better if they had just written the subtitle ' In one month! ' That way when ever you saw the movie you would still have that novelty. By the way one of these days while you read this post you are suddenly going to catch leprosy and your left arm is going to fall off and you will look at your left arm on the floor and say, " Well I'll be darned! " Today could be that day! [ You see, that's what I mean by the novelty would not wear off. It wouldn't matter when you read this post. That warning is always valid! ] [ Also if your left arm just happened to fall off while you read this well not only would that be freaky, but I would be hailed as some type of Nostradamus! ]
Anyway the whole movie is just about one big vicious time loop and no matter what we can't get out of it. According to the movie THE PAST CANNOT BE CHANGED ONCE IT IS WRITTEN EVEN IF YOU GO BACK IN TIME! This idea is stupid and is contradicted many times by the movie itself. Cole changes little things in the past that does change the future though not in the dramatic sense of the virus being stopped. For instance Cole makes a phone call which later makes some one hand him a gun!
The movie is characterised with its smorgasboard of freaky events, backdrops and people. There's the strange voice that comes out of no where and talks to Cole in riddles. There's homeless people that come up to Cole and tell him to pull out his teeth for something to do and then there is Brad Pitts Character who's acting involves a character that has paranormal arms that are addicted to gesturing all over the place. ( This disease is also known as over acting! )
Even with these flaws though it is a good movie!
The KYZ! :)
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