632: Time Bandit Titanic

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Mum, Dad, it’s evil, don’t touch it! The Summer of Time Travel reaches its end—or is it the beginning?—with 1981’s “Time Bandits,” a children’s fantasy written and directed and even featuring some Monty Pythons. Does it work for adults? Does the tone still work? We fall through a time hole and give our verdict....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 632, September 2022.
0:10.4	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.0	It's the summer of time travel and it's coming to an end or is it just beginning.
0:16.2	It's Time Bandits from 1981, directed by Terry Gilliam, co-written by Michael Palin.
0:24.8	It's a, it's not a Monty Python movie.
0:28.7	How about that?
0:30.0	It's from people who are in Monty Python, but it's not a Monty Python movie, except for the brief
0:35.7	segments where it sort of is.
0:38.4	It's half a Monty Python movie.
0:41.1	Half of them are there.
0:42.2	Joining me to talk about Time Bandits are the following wonderful people.
0:48.5	Monty Ashley is here.
0:49.6	Hi, Monty.
0:50.8	Hi, Jason.
0:51.7	This is a movie I saw a lot and I have no objectivity about it. Okay, great. I feel like that's an important role to have on this episode. My wife also agrees with you about that, by the way. We had a little spirited conversation before the podcast. David J. Laura is also here. Hello.
1:08.2	Or I am Nye, Jason, or I am nigh A.
1:11.9	Annette Weirstra has been to one of the filming locations in this movie.
1:15.9	It's true.
1:16.6	I have, and I was very excited to see it.
1:20.0	And Shelley Brisbane also joins us.
1:21.7	This is a relatively recent movie by Shelley's standards, I think.
1:26.2	I'm going to turn you inside out over a long period of time, Jason.
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