The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)

 Great movie iteself, Great Blu-ray
I saw this movie a long time ago and own a DVD for sometime.

I personally think this is Terry Gilliam's best film. It has everything, from being quixotic to fantastic.

Not only children but also adults will love this movie. It's sexy, strange and original.

The blu-ray transfer is decent. Except a few night shots, picture is clear and vivid.

The sound contains True-Hd sound wich is really good.

Above all, I am really glad to have this Blu-Ray disc.

Hope Terry will make a better movie some day, not like Brother's Grim. April 9, 2008

 Blu-Ray Baron
The Blu-Ray edition is here. Sure enough, this film now looks as good as when I saw it in the threater in 1989. This disc image captures all the details missing from the standard definition version. If I were to have a single complaint, it is the letterboxing. Gilliam personally supervised the Criterion laserdisc edition back in 1990 or 1991. His framing was 1.66:1, not this framing which is a true 1.85:1. As in all the other editions on home video (excepting the Criterion) the only picture loss appears on the bottom of the screen, not the sides. This may sound like nit-picking, but even Gilliam's most recent movie's release on DVD has its aspect ratio all screwed even worse than the Baron. But this is a very minor point. My highest praise is that the dialogue is now completely intelligible thanks to the new 5.1 sound. If you like this movie then you really must own this edition. The film's grain structure is all over the place to be sure. But this is still the cleanest presentation of this movie you can get. And at $20, it's a no brainer. April 8, 2008

 SONY puts in extra effort before going chapter 11...
Lets hope they dont do an ENRON before this comes out-and I hope they improve the colors-like was on their laserdisc-(which rotted, as all SONY Laserdiscs did). It they get the rich saturated period colors correct-this is a joy to behold.
The last disc was flat and dull with little in the way of color nuances or saturation. January 13, 2008

 This dude was real?!
I'd never knew this guy actually existed in real life, more over, never knew there was a syndrome named after him either, "Munchausen Syndrome". Aside from that, this movie holds some bearing to it as a cult classic. I'll bet that at one point in time in everyone's life they've seen this movie but just cannot recollect the name of the title but can remember considerable elements of this movie that made it worthwhile to remember. Such was the case for me because I remember seeing this movie on cable television back in '96 on the Showtime channel which means it would air almost every other hour but I didn't have a problem with that at all!

I loved this movie! It's a movie that plays on the simple fascination of fantasy and the innocence of the imagination in a world that's super-logical and ill-ridden with rules. Though dated, it still has one of the most memorable visuals I've ever seen which make it ever so charming in its conception. The history behind the creation of this film is a bleak one which compromises for so much of this movie's construction. To put it lightly, the movie had 100% the potential but was only given 45%... if it were given the full attention and care it demanded, this would probably be one of the greatest films of all time, however, complications occurred throughout the span of its lifetime and shares a similar fate to another movie, "The Thief and the Cobbler."

History beside, this movie is a delightful addition to your movie base and a great movie to just sit down and enjoy to when you've absolutely got nothing else better to do but forget about the world you live in and enter Baron von Munchausen on one of his zany story-adventures. The movie itself houses some interesting ideas of story-telling which I can say have inspired me in many ways but those are personal notions regarding.

Hooking back to the movie's visuals, allow me to detail one such scene which involves Uma Thurman, in probably one of her most memorable scenes filmed as an actress, and its her arrival on the scene in an illustrious, filmographic introduction to "The Birth of Venus". Really, words cannot describe how visually appealing that scene is, and with the play of music that goes on in it... augh... I'm still breathtaken by the wonderful imagery that was filmed with such intimacy and care. October 7, 2007

 THIS MOVIE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST EVER MADE!
I love this great movie in every respect of it's production! There is NO bad thing about it and I wonder why it was attacked so much by pseudo-film intellectuals!? Well, this movie is definetely NOT for kids and one has to be grown up in his mind to understand what a broad view has Terry Gilliam about visual stories! As a great cinema lover and professional musician/composer/engineer/producer I highly admire this great production. September 20, 2007

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