Time Bandits

Time Bandits was quite an elaborate movie, the plot itself is quite out there. I think these types of films are sometimes overlooked nowadays, but you can see them being referred to in what's considered popular these days. This seems like the kind of movie you would watch as a child, but it would scare the living hell out of you and now when you watch it you call it a classic. I was surprised with the amount of times I jumped during the movie, even right of the bat when the horse flys out of the closet. This movies outlandish the entire time and is generally I guess supposed to be more scary than funny, although I found a sense of humour that would present itself every so often. Like the Ogre, just comparing the ogre in this movie to say Shrek. Just seeing the difference between the two and the progression over time is pretty funny. This movie felt like a classic fantasy movie, just because you know, you have the normal boy who gets sucked into this fictional world and goes on these adventures and of course he rather stay there than go back to his life with his family. Which I don't blame him too much, because his parents seem very ..spacey on important things, yet very informed about everything that isn't important..I kind of felt bad for the boy, because he is so innocent and he gets thrown into this crazy situation even though he remains safe, and in the end doesn't get that particularly happy ending most little children have in these kinds of movies. Although Evil is a bad person, I thought it was funny of him to explain how he was going to advance through technology and things of that sort, just because that's completely how this has played out in real life. We just don't use it for evil n real life, instead we now have to fix the laziness-dependence issue we face with technology. Overall, it was a good, but definitely bizarre movie.