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12 Monkeys (Patreon)

Published:
2025-02-08 13:00:06
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2025-10-01 02:19:59
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12 Monkeys | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

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Comments

Mike FromOz

Simone, after the Pineapple Express movie.

ShōNuff3K

I'm going to grade Simone's preamble...C...for 🐔.

ShōNuff3K

The director, Terry Gilliam, has a distinctive look to his movies. i.e. Brazil

Doug the Movie Guy

* sees 12 Moneys Reactions posted.. immediately clicks link * This is going to be one hell of a trip for these two!

UnSafeStu

I can't think of seeing it in any previous videos but have we acknowledged that Terry Gilliam is from Monty Python fame

Adam K

So - the “insurance woman” in the end - there are lots of theories around this. I think it’s pretty well understood that this is the doctor gone to the past - it’s not possible for this to be her in the present . The question of if the statement that she is in “insurance” means she is there to stop the spread, or merely to monitor it, or is going to help it happen.

Adam K

When I first watched this as a kid, I assumed it meant she was there to stop it. Now that I’m old and jaded….I sadly think she was there just to make sure it happened.

Daniel

More Terry Gilliam, Brazil is an amazing movie. I love Terry Gilliam, he has such a unique style.

mojo shivers

I love 12 Monkeys. One, because Brad Pitt plays totally unhinged here. And, two, the time travel causal loop feels very closed off to me. Every other instance where somebody has a thing happen to them as a kid and then later grows up, only to come back in time to cause the thing to happen to them feels inelegant to me. Looper, Hot Tub Time Machine, &c…—this is the only time where the incident and the reason for causing the incident feel isolated so nothing else would happen to the person to me.

jmundt33a

That bot thing is back.

evilmunky

the future styling always reminds me of "city of the lost children" that film i can see the both of you two loving

mojo shivers

You might have seen Madeline Stowe in Last of the Mohicans as Daniel Day-Lewis’ love interest, Cora Munro, one of the general’s daughters.

Random Nevermind

The whole thing was to get the clean virus sample. When she's shaking his hand she is getting it. She's gonna be returned to the future infected. She will die but humanity will be able to produce the vaccine. So she is in the past to be sure that people in the future gonna get the earliest sample possible. And she is not some random prisoner but really highly motivated, calm and sane. She also knows exactly what to do and for sure not going to do any crazy things Cole-style. I always thought that way.

Stugotz

Yeah that's how I saw it too. The whole point was to send a scientist back to get a pure virus sample, so in essence Bruce Willis did complete his mission.

Bertrand Belisle

The scientist in the end travels to the past, and as I understand it, knows who had the virus thanks, at least in part, to the call Cole makes from the airport. And she is there to get a sample of the virus to take to the future and make a vaccine, so they can go back to the surface. That was their goal all along.

Doug the Movie Guy

I think the reason she looks so unhappy is that she knows she HAS to let it happen or they risk causing a paradox and they have zero idea what that will do. She might even be deliberately getting infected with it so they have a true sample and she knows she's likely doomed.

Tom M

I like to believe Cole’s final phone call helped them zero in on the threat and the scientist herself went back to stop it so future Cole didn’t die for nothing—his mission was successful. 🤷

Mike FromOz

One of my favourite movies of all time. Absolutely brilliant, and I love your reaction to it as it progresses. Bruce Willis had to do post-production reshoots for Die Hard 3 while Terry Gilliam was making this movie. Gilliam said that when Bruce came back to the set, he was in 'Die Hard mode', and it took several days for him to get Bruce out of that hard man mindset, and back into Cole. I think the scene where he is playing in the stream was the one where he said Bruce reconnected back with how Cole was supposed to be, and then delivered a great performance splashing about in the river.

HeyHeyJK

So, now that you've seen this film, you should really react to "City of Lost Children" directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet who directed "Amelie", but where "Amelie" was colorful and breezy and lovely, "CoLC" is a dark, dystopian sci-fi film which had to have been influenced by "12 Monkeys" in terms of some of the set design, at least. Plus, with "CoLC" it was all shot on sound stages, will was super impressive (in fact, Jeunet ended up hating shooting "Amelie" on location in Paris because of how little control he had over weather, lighting, etc.). And, as many others are saying, you have to now watch Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" and I also highly recommend "The FIsher King" with Robin Williams (amazing in it) and Jeff Bridges. There was also a "12 Monkeys" TV series with Emily Hampshire from "Schitt's Creek" but I still havent' seen that.

Galactic Cannibl

Great reaction! I love you two! If you wanna see another great time traveling Bruce Willis movie you gotta see Looper with Joseph Gordon-Levitt!!

Horrible

"i am in insurance" is the tell

Happy Hanukkah

Chickan! Good! Chickan! [Snooty cinephile mode activated.] Surely you watched La Jetée (1962) immediately after this reaction! :-)

Awesome80s

If you like this Terry Gilliam movie, I also strongly recommend seeing Brazil (director's cut).

Data Cable

While others are recommending Terry Gilliam flicks, I'mma drop a shout-out for Time Bandits

Mikeo8575

Please put Time Bandits on a poll, or just watch it on your own time. It is another great Terry Gilliam film, which also deals with time travel. One my all time favorite movies. I remember walking to the local video store as a kid in the 80s and renting it on a fairly regular basis. lol

gfixler

I want to see it with them, because it's one of my college friend's favorite movies, and I still haven't seen it.

Mikeo8575

I definitely recommend it. It's a wonderfully weird and unique movie. There's definitely a nostalgia factor for me, but I feel it still holds up as a great movie regardless.

Jorge Hernandez

I love how this movie plays around with the themes of enlightenment and insanity. How one can go crazy from knowing too much. Sort of how that saying goes, the more you know, the more you realize you know nothing at all.

Rob Church

The image Simone pointed out on the guards paper is none other than BATBOY! a poorly photoshopped creation and unofficial mascot of the grocery aisle oddity, tabloid rag "Weekly World News". Basically the same magazine they read in the first Men In Black, it was full of weird manufactured images and stories about aliens abducting a piano and Walt Disney's head coming back as a ghost. As a kid I used to beg my mom to buy it for my as we were checking out.

Happy Hanukkah

If only there was someone whose mind could heal as fast as it was torn apart... :-)

Ken Schneyer

A few years back, I attended a lecture by Ted Chiang in which he outlined the metaphysical assumptions in the two basic types of time-travel story. He likened them to the two different threads in ancient and modern prophecy stories. "Twelve Monkeys" he gave as an exemplar descended from Greek myths like Oedipus, in which the flow of time is unalterable, prophecies are inevitably correct, and the attempt to escape the prophecy (or the revealed events later in the time stream) only serve to bring them about. The converse modern exemplar was "Looper", which he said was descended from Dickens's "A Christmas Carol", in which the assumption is that intervention in the time stream can, in fact, alter its course.

Kristine

This is literally one of my favorite movies. I just joined your Patreon, and this was a great one to start with.

JoeNotCharles

Every time I see this movie - even in fragments like this - I spot something new. This time it was the news report about the mutilated woman who "may be" the abducted Dr. Reilly. You immediately assumed it really was her - just like the reporters assumed it was her - and that Cole had killed her, because you were trying to piece together the fragments of information you got into a story that made sense. But it was really just a coincidence. That's exactly what Cole and the scientists did with the Army of the 12 Monkeys: tried to piece together fragments of information into a story of how the virus was released that made sense to them. But really they were being misled by coincidences.

JoeNotCharles

There was a prestige TV show based on this. It sucked - ignore it. The true spiritual sequel is the TV show Travelers, which is low budget and has a very different tone, but does very similar things with information passed back and forth to the future and questions of what the time travelers can believe.

Meggie Doodles

Terry Gilliam has made some of the most unique films I've ever seen. Hope you guys can watch The Fisher King on the channel sometime, it's another Gilliam starring Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams and it's **amazing**

Kristine

I don't think you guys understood the ending. The scientist was on the plane because she traveled back in time. So, the whole plan worked. IDK what happened next, but I guess you could assume that she manages to stop the scientist from releasing the virus. Maybe she poisons his champagne and kills him. That's why she was the same age. After they sent the "volunteers" and figured out what really happened, they sent one of the scientists to stop it, which explains why she says that she works in "insurance."

Endless_Art

I couldn't disagree more. While the show goes down a different path I genuinely thought it was fantastic. I'd strongly recommend it.

Ginger

Travelers was so great <3 At least every Stargate fan should watch it.

Crystal

yes yes yessss! what she said x1000!

David Melo

Bruce Willis' character makes a final phone call explaining the mixup to the future scientists. This allowed one of the future scientists to travel back in time and be in the airplane as "insurance" to prevent the outbreak.

Allan

It is open to interpretation since we don't definitively know what happens next. But I stick with the idea that this a single consistent timeline situation where there is no altering the past. "It already happened." And any occurences of time travel to the past "already happened" from a linear perspective of time. The purpose of going back was to gather knowledge and pinpoint the origin of the outbreak, then for that scientist to be in the right place to get a sample of the original virus so they could research a cure in their time.

Kristine

That's a fair analysis. Although, I work in medical research and I don't see how accessing the original virus would be of much use, since viruses mutate. But there are a lot of things about this movie that are "unrealistic." (To say the least.) LOL Which is fine, it's just a movie and it's one of my favorites. I still think they missed the point of the ending though. They noticed that the scientist was on the plane and George mentioned how her age was the same, but they didn't quite put all of the puzzle pieces together.

Stevtrek

Here's how I interpret the movie: I think the lady on the plane is herself from that timeline, younger than the one that sends Cole. It is meant as a coincidence that she is on the plane. The virus has already been released. He opened the vial and put it under the guys nose, infecting him. The images in his dream/recollection change because each time he travels he changes something. In one reality Pitt's character does plant the virus. In another it is the assistant. In one reality the assistant is shot. In another Cole is shot. It's not that they can't figure out how to stop it, it's that it keeps changing so they can't stop it... like a virus, reality is mutating.

BzzBzzBzzBzzBzz

If you want unique, check out La Jetee referenced as the inspiration for this movie. That 'film' presents subjective time travel along a person's timeline. Time travel as a reorientation of ones temporal relation to reality. A fascinating, albeit barely addressed, take on time travel

JoeNotCharles

I think the one vision where he sees Pitt is his memory playing tricks on him - these dreams are him remembering and even he witnessed when he was very young, and when he convinced himself that Pitt was responsible for the virus, his memory wrote Pitt into the dream. In reality he never saw the man's face close enough to remember it.

JoeNotCharles

I used to disagree with this analysis because I thought it was too tidy. I thought that the movie had a downer ending and the woman on the plane was a coincidence, to show the irony that she'd met the virus spreader and didn't even know it. But this time through I realized that they sent a bunch of agents back to meet Willis at the airport, which proves they knew that was where the outbreak started, so it does make sense they'd send back the scientist too. She might even have been sent back later, after one of the other agents saw exactly which plane the man got on.

Peter Dillard

The doctor that made the funny sound with his mouth is Frank Gorshin. He was an amazing mimic and played the Joker in the Batman TV series from the '60s

Jon Nelson

He played The Riddler

Ashton Lewis

Looks like your reaction is a bit out of sync on the link where we don't need our own copy by the way. Just a few seconds I guess, as you are reacting to things just before they happen in the accompanying video

Angela D. Mitchell

Huh? The show was absolutely terrific. Different in style from the movie, but very smart and well done. I agree with Endless Art.

Ray Ward

They didn’t stop anything. The plan was to get a clean sample of the virus “before it mutated”, to allow future humans to return to the surface. 5bn people still died; have a Merry Christmas! (Yes, it’s a Christmas movie).