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Twelve Monkeys

DVD • December 8, 1995 • 2h 9m • R • Budget $29M • Box Office $168,841,459

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In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested ... More

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Other Titles:	12モンキーズ
Sub Genres:	eating spider, psychiatric hospital, child's point of view, volunteer, watching a movie, medical research, tied to a bed, drug use, disease, cockroach, dystopia, paradox, jail, philadelphia pennsylvania, reference to houdini, tooth, remake, cassandra syndrome, cassandra complex, escaped animal, reflective, future noir, lethal virus, alternate history... more
Release Date:	Theatre 12/08/1995, Theatre US 12/29/1995, DVD 11/01/1996, Digital 10/14/2019
Language:	English (EN)
Box Office:	$168,841,459 (Foreign)
Age Rating:	R
Director:	Terry Gilliam
Type:	Movie
Links:	Movies Countdown, TVDB, IMDB, Letterboxd, TMDB, WIKIEN

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Aegon

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3 years ago

A mental health patient with strong delusions make others question their own reality. Or alternatively: a time traveller questions his sanity while he tries to save humankind.
Great idea but very poor execution... and acting too. This movie is in desperate need of a remake.
It feels like the movie throws cheap tricks so it can pull that time travel innuendo of its (eg: the crazy looking committee from the future, the fact no object is brought from the future). And there are multiple small flaws that keep the movie quality low (eg: removing own teeth in a snap with a knife). As it progresses it just keeps getting worse and cheesier. Deus ex machine constructs didn't help either.
As far as time travel and delusion movie go, I remember K-Pax being a lot better (but need to re-watch to confirm that).

Title Card: ...5 billion people will die from a deadly virus in 1997... /... The survivors will abandon the surface of he planet... /... Once again the animals will rule the world... / - Excerpts from interview with clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990 - Baltimore County Hospital.

Jeffrey Goines: There's the television. It's all right there - all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore. It's all automated. What are we *for* then? We're consumers, Jim. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you then, I ask you? What? Mentally *ill*. Fact, Jim, fact - if you don't buy things - toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-operated sexual devices, stereo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers...

L.J. Washington: Don't mock me my friend. It's a condition of mental divergence. I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities that plague my life here. When I stop going there, I will be well. Are you also divergent, friend?

Jeffrey Goines: You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules.

Jeffrey Goines: There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion.

Dr. Owen Fletcher: Kathryn, you're a rational person. You're a trained psychiatrist. You know the difference between what's real and what's not.
Dr. Kathryn Railly: And what we say is the truth is what everybody accepts. Right, Owen? I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.

Jeffrey Goines: When I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively in the guise of mental health. I was interrogated, I was x-rayed, I was examined *thoroughly*. Then, they took everything about me and put it into a computer where they created this model of my mind. Yes! Using that model they managed to generate every thought I could possibly have in the next, say, 10 years. Which they then filtered through a probability matrix of some kind to - to determine everything I was gonna do in that period. So you see, she knew I was gonna lead the Army of the Twelve Monkeys into the pages of history before it ever even occurred to me. She knows everything I'm ever gonna do before I know it myself. How's that?

Charlie the Hotel Clerk: One hour, honey babe. Number sixty four. Up the stairs, end of the hall. Elevator's busted.
James Cole: She's not honey babe, she's a doctor. My psychiatrist. Understand?
Charlie the Hotel Clerk: Whatever gets it up for you, Jack.

James Cole: I want the future to be unknown. I want to become a whole person again. I want this to be the present. I want to stay here, this time, with you.

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