This is called Herostratus (1967). It’s just awful and Helen is terrible in it, but to be fair to her, nobody could be good with this “script.”
But she is wearing a skimpy outfit. So there’s that.
And I had never seen it before. So there’s that as well.
I just hope I never see it again.
I like Terry Gilliam movies, but it’s fair to say that every one of them would have benefitted from tighter editing. His ideas are interesting and rarely derivative. Indulgent perhaps but I don’t find him as obnoxiously annoying as some others (*cough*Tarentino*cough*).
George Noory, the host of Coast to Coast AM, who says ‘there are no coincidences’ coincidentally (or maybe not coincidentally, maybe Scoopy listens to Coast to Coast AM and was inspired by that program to post this) had a guest, Phil Hall, on tonight’s show who was on to discuss his book “The Weirdest Movie Ever Made: The Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film” but who had previously written a book called “The Greatest Bad Movies of All Time.”
They discussed that book and Noory offered that the worst movie he had ever seen was the Terry Gilliam movie “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.” I’ve written previously that I think Gilliam’s movie “Brazil” gets increasingly indulgent, but I’m surprised that essentially anybody could regard a Terry Gilliam film as the worst film they’d ever seen.
So, I thought the almost certain coincidence was interesting, and I wondered if anybody else here doesn’t like Terry Gilliam movies.
Mixed feelings.
Among his first two decades, I LOVE every one except Jabberwocky and Munchausen. (And I enjoy Munchausen. Jabberwocky is the only one I really dislike.) Twelve Monkeys and The Fisher King are movies that I re-watch occasionally.
The ones in this millennium? Not so much.
Has anyone seen the long-delayed Quijote movie?
A film named after a guy famous because the city of Ephesus didn’t know about the Streisand Effect, who committed a crime to become famous? Somehow I think being forgettably terrible is right somehow…