"Your Information Tray Is Jammed, Man!"

An incredible accomplishment of 20th century cinema, made in 1995, that watches like it was made yesterday :



So much of it seems so very now.

Here's a classic scene of an all-encompassing conspiracy of paranoia :

"They Generated His Brain?"

I have no idea why scene after classic line from Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys never makes any of those Greatest Movie Quotes lists. It's full of Gold :

The movie never changes. It can't change; but every time you see it, it seems different because you're different. You see different things.

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

Look at them. They're just asking for it. Maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out.

You are a total nutcase, completely deranged, delusional, paranoid. Your thought process is all fucked up. Your information tray is jammed, man!

If all of these nuts could just make phone calls, they could spread insanity, oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all these poor sane people, infecting them. Wackos everywhere, plague of madness

Psychiatry. It's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not.

You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules.

I am insane. And you are my insanity.

And some fantastic rants :

In the eighteenth century....along comes this doctor....He's trying to convince people, well, other doctors mainly, that's there's these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy? Crazy? Teeny, tiny, invisible? What do you call it? Uh-uh, germs? Huh? What? Now, cut to the 20th century. Last week, as a matter of fact, before I got dragged into this hellhole. I go in to order a burger in this fast food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says, "I don't believe in germs. Germs is just a plot they made up so they can sell you disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right?

And one more solidly familiar rant from 12 Monkeys, released five years before Fight Club :

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.

More 12 Monkeys Quotes Here


Once again, Terry Gilliam was more than a decade ahead of the rest of Hollywood, which is now churning out a mad rush of apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, and new apocalypse amongst the post-apocalyptic devastation, movies.

If you haven't yet seen Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, this is your Friday night movie.


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