When the kitten is slaughtered I had to turn it off. The idea that someone would find that funny (even though it is a "special effect" and not a read animal) is just mortifying. This film sickened me.
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I thought it was funny.
Just totally random and unexpected.
I love cats and I found it horrible, but I still watch and loved the movie. maybe
it's another stupid I hate the French Crap propaganda thing?
Completely unexpected. It just made me shocked to see it, but I don't hate the movie because of it. Okay, *OBVIOUSLY* that kitten wasn't harmed in real life. It's a fake animated death. I dunno - I think we should be able to handle something like this more maturely.
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I thought it was funny too :) This film really reminded me of the type we used to get back in the 80s. Very well done and somewhat nostalgic. I'm surprised this has only got 5.9 on imdb - many people just mustn't 'get it' at all.
share"I thought it was funny too :) This film really reminded me of the type we used to get back in the 80s. Very well done and somewhat nostalgic. I'm surprised this has only got 5.9 on imdb - many people just mustn't 'get it' at all."
Haha, yeah me and my family just saw this for the first time. We were ROFL'ing through most of it. I mean sure, we'd start with a "OH MY GOSH!!" like, did that really just happen?? Then it'd be immediately followed with insane laughter. Been awhile since we'd seen a movie this hilariously BIZARRE and crazy, it was no Shawshank Redemption, but c'mon people lighten up this was an entertaining flick.
The movie was FUN... Silly, outrageous, simple fun. What's wrong with that? It also reminds me of a lot of movies I saw when I was younger, just insane antics in a fantasy type setting.
I think spider-horse and mud-golem were my favorite parts. When the horse ate that kid we were all going "Spider-horse, spider-horse, does whatever a spider-horse does" haha, great stuff. After each crazy over-the-top hilarious creature scene we'd all be wondering what was coming next to try and top it. Very enjoyable movie (and to think I originally didn't want to watch it!).
You're right. I don't "get" a movie with no coherent storyline. Gee whiz, don't I feel silly...
shareit was hilarious. gilliams films are about juxtaposition. one of the cutest things you can imagine and then its slaughtered hopefully before you realize that is what is about to happen. it made me laugh hard as hell. i love gilliam. he's one of the few directors that actually uses his brain and expects his audience to as well.
shareI love how people with your kind of taste never cogently justify their opinions and always come off as vulgar ;)
shareAnother cliched, smug comment regurgitating a hackneyed opinion. Moron
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Actually, I agree with you about the kitten. I was sickened by that part. But the rest of the movie was great.
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I don't even remember that part. When did it happen again?
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When Matt and Jake (Matt Damon and Heath Ledger) are tied up and hanging after the first time they go to the enchanted forest. When they are taken back to those french people or whatever. They're about to kill Angelica and the one French guy says that he's not afraid of anything but the kitten rubs against his leg, he gets frightened and kicks the poor kitten into the blade that was going down to kill Angelica who was chained and inside of a wooden barrel thing.
shareYou should watch "The Boondock Saints" then!
shareOr maybe "Young Einstein" where the cook makes kitten pie
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Ahh, if 20 people were killed in this film, you wouldn't be saying a thing. But because they showed 1 cat dying, the film repulses you. Interesting.
shareAnimals are more innocent, but I get your point!
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What i'm thinking exactly. The point was to emphasize the danger for a human, so really fnuck the cat ;)
And never ever eat any kind of meat.
I think you are rediculous. First off(now keep in mind i love cats and have 3 of my own) its a movie. Second why does everyone seem to think that directors and writters should even care if you dont like it. STOP B*TCHING! Its a movie. Get a life.
and for the record I am a cat lover I have had 8 though out the years and I thought the part was a riot! Absolutly hilarious!
I also love cats, and also laughed - but did feel a little ashamed of it *LOL*
sharei agree i didn't understand why they would think thats funny when the captain eats the piece of kitten meat off his cheek, sick.
shareThe El Capitan is a metaphor for all of france @ that time , they were a ruthless, power-hungry people. As he states after he eats the meat"Ahh sweet!" That shows how ignorant the French leaders were of the power of the lower classes.It's funny if you think about it like that
shareIf you ever make it to the 8th Grade before dropping out, do yourself a favor and take an English course or two, and Spelling. Get a dictionary. Read a book, if you can. You will continue to embarrass yourself throughout life if you don't learn how to write better, and how to spell.
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If you ever make it to the 8th grade,* before dropping out, do yourself a favor and take an English course or two. 'While you're at it, a'* spelling* course wouldn't hurt, either.* Get a dictionary and* read a book, assuming* you can.* You will continue to embarass* yourself throughout life if you don't learn how to write* and spell better*.
lol.
Embarass: common misspelling of embarrass.
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as near as I can tell, your only legitimate correction in there was the "'While you're at it, a'* spelling* course wouldn't hurt, either." Even that is excessive though, as it could be as simple as '..., and a spelling course.' You even changed the spelling of 'embarrass' to an incorrect form.
sharenot that interesting, ikabod. people suck.
share"Ahh, if 20 people were killed in this film, you wouldn't be saying a thing. But because they showed 1 cat dying, the film repulses you. Interesting.
Into the mind of the deranged.
Ahh, if 20 people were killed in this film, you wouldn't be saying a thing.When you assume, it makes an ass out of u and me. Well... actually just you.
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Another cliched, smug comment regurgitating a hackneyed opinion. Moron
share1) I've seen more gruesomely killed cats on public streets.
2) Odd how the depiction of a cat getting accidentally killed is disgusting, but apparently the depiction of human torture gets a pass.
3) There has always been dark, grotesque elements in fairy tales. They get cleaned up for the Disney versions, but they are there. (Children pushing an old woman into an oven; a stepmother mutilating her daughters' feet in order to make them fit into glass slippers, etc)
4) It's just a movie. If you're that infantile about it, then just imagine that it was a magic kitty who turned into something else when it hit the blades. Maybe at the end when everyone else is brought back to life the kitten is too. Maybe they'll do a special edition with a new ending where the goddamn kitty gets to live happily ever after in a Disney cartoon along with the mice from Cinderella and Roger Rabbit and all the rest.
Hold on, the instrument of torture in question was about to kill an innocent human being, thats okay, but the poor little kitty is where you draw the line? What about the two guys who were about to be slowly plunged into boiling water, were you more concerned for the snails that were in the glass thingys that encased their heads.
I don't understand these arguements, I agree that if were to happen in real life it would be terrible but this was a film, and there are a lot worse things that happened in it. It's like The Godafather, there must be two dozen people get brutally murdered in that film but all any body is ever bothered about is the Horses head sequence. What's wrong with these people.
Now that is a film!
Don't remember any cats or other animals being killed though, just a lot of people.
Hehe...i found the scene funny. No, i didnt find slaughtering of cute cittens funny, whom i targeted my laugh at, was the disturbed italian. And it really bought the evilness of the french general out in the light.
By the way, did you notice they TORTURED humans in the background? You, my sir, is a blind fool, tucked into your own bubble of false safety.
so the whole film is repulsive because one kitten dies? i mean i found that sad too, but it didnt ruin the whole movie for petes sakes
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I love cats...especially kittens. Somehow I knew before I came to this board that people would be here bitching about that one scene of the movie. First off...I didn't laugh about the scene. It was gross and that's what the purpose of the scene was, to show how gross the General truly was.
No actual kittens were harmed in making this movie. Give me a break!
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