FIRST TIME WATCHING: 12 Monkeys (1995)
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yeah i second this the 12 monkeys series is amazing 4 seasons and a closed ending i think rob and trin will like that show
Stefan
2024-11-13 01:37:14 +0000 UTCI've never seen this movie but ive watched the show 12 monkeys! one of the best scifi shows ever along with the expanse
Mo
2024-10-28 13:38:31 +0000 UTCInterestingly if you watched Contact before Donnie Darko, each of your picks this month would have increased in use of time travel. Contact used it once, Donnie Darko used it more, Days of Future Past used it to advance the plot, and in 12 Monkeys, it WAS that plot.
Edward Martin
2024-10-01 04:48:39 +0000 UTCThe "12 Monkeys" tv series based on this is one of my favorite Sci-fi series of all-time. 4 Seasons, wrapped up, really well done.
Octavia
2024-09-30 00:21:07 +0000 UTCHaven't seen it but looks intriguing. Unfortunately, I have no desire to get Netflix.
Michael Celia
2024-09-28 02:30:15 +0000 UTCYeah, it's become something of a cliche now, but back in 1995 I remember this movie being mind-blowing.
Michael Celia
2024-09-28 02:29:17 +0000 UTCHave you seen the Netflix show "Bodies"? You should watch it, it's amazing!
Emmy
2024-09-27 20:56:17 +0000 UTCRecently I’ve seen so much time travel content use “whatever happened happened and it cannot be changed” it’s become to overdone and cliche in my opinion. Like for once just make time travel content interesting by allowing stuff to be altered and changed not just using that cheap cop out
James
2024-09-27 18:57:29 +0000 UTCThis was a great movie and I am so glad you picked it for one of your choices. Super acting performances and story line that uses your brain to follow and not just simple clues or heavy gore to thrill. One of my favs and Terry Gilliam is a stand out director. Hopefully one day we can see The Fisher King! Another Gilliam and great film.
kimburley
2024-09-27 16:02:54 +0000 UTCThat would make sense! Thank you, it was driving me crazy 😂
Take a Ticket
2024-09-27 15:32:35 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite time travel movies (I tend to prefer the deterministic, "whatever happened, happened" narrative) and it is classic Terry Gilliam - quirky and somewhat left open to interpretation. The series based on this movie is pretty good (though without most of the quirkiness) and I recommend it because it's well made.
Michael Celia
2024-09-27 13:53:34 +0000 UTCBrad Pitt actually did win the Golden Globe and yeah it was the first of his Oscar nominations.
Michael Celia
2024-09-27 13:48:26 +0000 UTCBruce Willis, say no more 👌
TheGrouch74
2024-09-27 10:26:25 +0000 UTCP.S.: if not for Keyser Söse, this should have been an easy win for Brad Pitt at the Oscars, at the time a surprise because everyone was starting to think of him as more than just a pretty face with 12 monkeys and seven both released in '95. Yes, I'm that old, yes, I had plenty of posters of pretty Brad Pitt scotch taped to my room walls 😁
Marisol Ferreira Simões
2024-09-27 10:13:11 +0000 UTCThe use of contact lences was intentional, to focus on the only blue eyes of the kid on the airport in relation to Bruce Willis and to make Brad Pitt less attractive, the fact that one is slightly darker than the other help him looked even more loopy.
Marisol Ferreira Simões
2024-09-27 10:02:42 +0000 UTCYay! I would loooove if they also gave the tv show a shot
FedeM
2024-09-27 09:51:41 +0000 UTCI think her core remembrance of him is that WWI picture and everything else is just the romantic sauce they wanted for the movie. That is some peak Bruce Willis though so understandable. Not for nothing, Madeline Stowe is so beautiful in this, I just want them to be together even though she is basically victimized for like 2/3 of the film. I like her flip to his side, she almost starts to sound like Goines when she and James in seedy hotel room when the pimp jumps them. I like your interpretation "Time is flat circle". This has all happened before, and it will happen again.
James W.
2024-09-27 09:46:23 +0000 UTCTerry Gilliam was one of the founding members of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" so I think that is where Rob knows him from; he was in many sketches but more than anything he is the one who made all of the crazy animations between the sketches. He went on to make a bunch of movies but most famous are probably Time Bandits, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys and The Fisher King. I really dig his movie Baron Munchausen but I feel like that one didn't land right for a lot of people. When I was a kid I loved it; it felt like a Jim Henson film where all the Muppets were just replaced with real actors if that makes any sense. 12 Monkeys is one my favorite handling of the predestination paradox sort of time loop story. I am still not 100% on the ending with 'Jones from Insurance', because she could be there to stop the spread of the virus or ensuring it, since if it doesn't happen then her and the other overseer types in the future don't get to run things. If they actually have good intentions then maybe James' last call actually helped mitigate the spread. However, like you guys said, the crazy Doomer guy exposed himself and the TSA agent to raw virus at the terminal so there has to be some repercussions from that. Maybe it truly was inevitable. It is a very Terry Gilliam ending in that it leaves room for interpretation based on the viewer. I would say it is underrated because I don't feel like enough people have seen it nowadays but it actually did really well critically and financially at the time. I feel like the new Planet of the Apes movies definitely riff on the nature and means of dispersal of the virus from this movie but it is fairly superficial. This movie is still relatively early in Brad Pitt's career and was a cool departure from him just being the pretty boy/hero. I like him as a bad guy or an oddball.
James W.
2024-09-27 09:34:53 +0000 UTCPitt was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his work in this film. He was definitely a highlight of this movie. I love the show!
CheshireKat528
2024-09-27 06:38:19 +0000 UTCI really enjoy and prefer the idea of tethered time travel, it makes more sense to me. Having a time machine that stays in your reality and acts as an anchor, while you carry, wear, or in this case, have a tracker implanted in your tooth. That way you can always get back to your reality, so long as your tracker/tether, or as Tony Stark calls it, a “time space GPS” is not damaged or ripped out of your mouth. We saw a similar method of time travel in Days of Future Past. Except in that case the time machine and anchor were Kitty’s mutant abilities and Logan’s body. His consciousness acted as the tether/tracker to his reality. I have always chalked up Kathryn recognizing Cole as deja vu. It lends credence to the idea of time being a flat circle. That past, present, and future are all happening at the same time, we just can’t see clearly around the curve, no matter if we are trying to look forward or backwards. However, every once in awhile we catch a glimpse, sometimes in the form of a dream, or a past/alternate life experience. Sometimes it’s a random encounter with someone who seems so familiar, or just a quick pause in our day, where we feel as if we have been here and done this before. Perhaps deja vu is just our consciousness taking quick trips to the future or past, while our body’s act as anchors to keep us tethered to our reality.
CheshireKat528
2024-09-27 06:14:36 +0000 UTCI’m so happy you guys decided to give this movie a watch. So much time travel this month, I LOVE IT! I particularly enjoy this type of time travel story, where the goal isn’t prevention or alteration, but education, and/or object collection, it’s not as common of a storyline in cases of time travel. My interpretation of the ending on the plane, is that the scientist named “Jones” was there to “insure” they got a sample of the pure form of the virus to take back to their reality/timeline and use it to create a cure, like they said earlier in the film. The virus had already been released at the airport in Philadelphia. At one point either Cole or the scientists say the first reported case of the virus was in Philadelphia.
CheshireKat528
2024-09-27 06:09:23 +0000 UTCI’m a little biased when it comes to this movie. Not only is it a fantastic, trippy, time travel story, that unfolds in a visually compelling and unique manner, it’s also the movie my husband and I watched on our first date. This was one of his favorite movies and I hadn’t seen it, so after dinner we went back to his place and watched 12 Monkeys. 24 years later, every now and then, he will look over at me and ask “Are you also divergent, Friend?”
CheshireKat528
2024-09-27 06:05:42 +0000 UTCI think she recognized him because of the WWI photos.
DustmanNorochj
2024-09-27 04:29:47 +0000 UTCI love Brad Pitt's performance in this movie. I am also a huge fan of the tv show ❤️ (same name, ran for 4 seasons).
Emmy
2024-09-27 02:53:42 +0000 UTC
