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11 Oct 2024 01:21:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Most incomprehensible films ever  
From: Vincent Le Chevalier
Date: 4 Jan 2008 08:29:43
Message: <477e34c7@news.povray.org>

> Warp wrote:
>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> #3 Island of the Twelve Monkeys
>>
>>   What is that? IMDB doesn't know it.
> 
> It involves Bruce Willis in a dystopian future and a team of scientists 
> who keep sending him back in time to try to avert the terrorist 
> catastrophy that overtook civilisation - apparently perpetrated by a 
> band calling themselves "the island of the twelve monkeys". As it turns 
> out, this band is actually a bunch of kids out to cause a bit of 
> trouble, and the real catastrophy was brought about by an eminent 
> biological scientist who decided to murder the world. For no defined 
> reason. Obviously nobody believes that Willis is actually from the 
> future, and he slowly goes mad, eventually believing that his time spent 
> in the future is actually a hollucination.
> 
> Basically, a very bad film that barely makes sense.
> 

I think you mean "Twelve Monkeys":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/

Actually the name of the terrorist band should be "the army of the 
twelve monkeys". It's also the French title of the movie :-)

I've seen it on the TV and found it not so bad...

-- 
Vincent


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