Tideland

Terry Gilliam (at the advance screening I attended) told the assembled crowd that to "get" the movie, you needed to abandon you preconceptions and adult knowlege, and instead view the film through the eyes of a child. It's a tall order... Full review

Run away, run far away! This movie is awful. It is tasteless, base, boring and just rotten on so many levels I can't even begin to count.... Full review

This movie is to be watched with an open mind. It displays the adaptiveness, forgiveness, fantasy, and unconditional love that is very real in children. As we get older we learn the evils of the world and unconsciously, become more assertive... Full review

Tideland is an amazingly exciting movie. It is one of the best I have ever seen. The people who dont like it should be ASHAMED of themselves... Full review

absolutely horrible--child molestation between a young girl and a retarded man, among other atrocities....glorification of the ugly and horrible...hopefully this movie will spell the end of gilliam's career... Full review

I hated this movie. It was dark, dastardly, and just... Bleh! The parents were alcoholic and tatooed, the mom doesn't stop smoking, and dies of some sort of lung collapse, and their daughter, Jeliza-Rose, is much like their slave.... Full review

me and my freind rented this movie because we liked the actress jodelle ferland. But if you want to see her in a good movie go rent silent hill or something because this movie was just strange. Maybe some kids would... Full review

I simply don't get his movies at all.Many critics over the years have praised some of his films...???????WHY??????? Watch "The Shawshank Redemption","Heat","Schindler's List","Braveheart","American Beauty","Aliens","Kramer vs Kramer","As Good as it Gets","Good Will Hunting","A Few Good Men","The Horse Whisperer","The Silence of the Lambs","Crouching... Full review

I wanted to like this movie but no matter how hard I tried, it was impossible. The film has no direction and is does not engage the viewer. Other than the visuals, this movie was un-interesting. The movie was difficult to... Full review

Terry Gilliam's Tideland is visually stunning, with a compelling story. This dark,poignant fairy tale flips childhood and fairy tales on their proverbial ears. The young star, Jodelle Ferland, has incredible talent, and I look forward to watching her future performances. She... Full review

maddening off-the-wall lead performance that's most in tune with Tideland 's acid-enhanced nightmarishness..... ... Full Review

Tideland promises to be yet another ripping great yarn from this distinctive auteur....both entrances and delves into the deeper emotions that exist at the heart of the best movies.....keep his film visions pure, and whether you love or hate Gilliam -....Gilliam is a filmmaker of rare insight and commitment to his filmic themes..... ... Full Review

Fittingly ending with a train wreck, Tideland Yet employing a tsunami of askew camera angles and fish-eye lenses that are less inspired than simply insistent, Gilliam turns his film into a phantasmagoric funhouse bereft of rhythm, basic coherence, and, finally ... Full Review

But in the case of "Tideland" it's just uncomfortable to watch. Mr. Gilliam's films have always been a bit hard to follow - that's half the fun of watching them. We tend to forgive directors their missteps, particularly cult heroes like Mr. Gilliam. ... Full Review

it keeps hanging around, looking a little more rotten with each new scene.....Terry Gilliam's dour, absurdist, gruesomely awful Tideland is of the latter, excretory variety..... ... Full Review

TIFF Day 3 was our busiest in terms of getting in movies and most of them seemed to be genre-related, either horror or fantasy, although generally different takes on them. ... Full Article

Obviously, you haven't watched "Tideland". I'm wondering if the interest generated in Heath's final performance will be a boon to Gilliam? A huge hit would do wonders for his output. ... Full Article

Little Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) lives in a chaotic, turbulent home with heroin addicts for parents. When her mother (Jennifer Tilly) dies of an overdose, her father, Noah (Jeff Bridges), takes her to her grandma's isolated house in the country. ... Full Article

Stuber/Parent must really, really like/respect Cameron Fay .His first-time feature script, Unnatural Selection , has not only been picked up by the production duo, but he will also be able to direct it. ... Full Article

In 2005, I was fortunate enough to see a crew screening of Tideland , mere hours before it went to its TIFF premiere.Terry Gilliam said a few words, and people were laughing and clapping. ... Full Article

Odds are, you haven't seen Terry Gilliam's dark tale, Tideland . The film had a brief and unfortunate festival turn peppered by audience walkouts and critical panning . ... Full Article