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  • the best movie ever made!

  • makes me shed tears ..i miss being young .....great song

  • i kinda wish this was a paul mccartney song instead

  • This movie is without a doubt Gilliam's best film to date. RIP George!

  • theme to my childhood, amazing days :'0)

  • "Waking while you're still deep sleeping

    Finding you're not here

    Watching a dream appear"

    Pure Genius!

    RIP George, thanks for the music

  • ah well, terry gilliam has several good attempts at not just feel good escapist fantasy, but a kinda off beat commentary of civilization (for lack of a better term)...he kinda reminds me of a douglas adams on speed, any how i like this and most of his work (atleast parts of all his works)...

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  • I love this song -- it really embodies both the movie's tone and the camaraderie of the characters. I'm with the rest of you, I wish this is the kind of film we could find in theaters...it's a shame that Hollywood seemingly didn't get the memo about society turning to friendly escapist fantasy when things aren't going well.

  • I think the utter scorn of 'nipples for men!' is really something else.

  • bring back the old style of movies like this. tired of all the ignorant cgi crap out today.

  • I totally love this movie and I agree with most of the comments about how completely crap movies are nowadays. 

  • @iamkottikadotti idk i did it back in 2001

  • idk..i did it back in 2001

  • @iamkottikadotti i sampled part of this in a song!!

  • 6 people are stuck in the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness.

  • a film i cannot get of watching... will always be in my top 5

  • Time Bandits is definitely a unique movie. There's absolutely nothing else to compare it to. That's hard to say these days and it shows the quality that went into the film.

  • classic movie and the best

  • 6 dislike and why

  • Catchiest pop song ever written -- so catchy you need to get vaccinated after you listen!

  • same reason he made nipples for men? His ways are HIGHER?!? Everybody posts about how they, or someone they know was UPSET by the end. THE KID WAS BETTER OFF WITH DEAD PARENTS. They CLEARLY Didn't love him, They were "keeping up with the Jonses" good riddance.

  • @1Beaker2 good call totally agree

  • same reason he made nipples for men? His ways are HIGHER?!?

  • Love this song and why would GOD create slugs .

  • @joebstarsurfer

    "they can't hear, they can't speak, they can't operate machinery..."

    one of my favourite lines from this masterpiece of a film.

    that and "while even i have an enormous...."

  • have searched fr this for ages,love it makes me feel sooooo good,thanks

  • the best part of this movie was the credits, because of this song!

  • I watched this movie as a kid, and the one thing that stuck with me and haunted me was the contrast of the disturbing ending followed by this awesome song. I remember the tape ended and I sat kind of dumbstruck at what I had just witnessed, and for years after this song haunted me. It's eerily catchy.

  • @MordaciousFilms My nephew saw it years ago with his Mom, my sister and he was upset by it. I told him later that it was a fairy tale, that his parents didn't die, but were kidnapped by the "evil guys" and that Kevin would have new adventures trying to save them as the "Supreme Being had told Kevin that "he'd have to stay and carry on the fight". That made him feel alot better. We ended up having fun for the next few years making up stories about Kevin's new adventures. I love this song too.

  • i was 7 years old, love this movie, i didnt know who george harrison was, or what the beatles were, but walking out of the theater to this, i felt groovy.

  • I needed this song after the ending of the movie. I enjoy Time Bandits, but it kinda creeped me out as a kid, and I was so bummed when the dwarfs came and took him away from the guy he wanted to stay with... Of course, I'm no expert at history, but these days I know enough to suspect that in the long run they might have done him a favor (must look it up. Theseus, right?). But then the ending was and is so confusing... Thanks, George, for helping me shake off the bummer.

  • @dewhistle Always thought it was Agamemnon. I totally agree with it being creepy, but it never bothered me, I was always way more disturbed by the fact that Disney took all of the danger out of the fairy tales they turned into movies (except maybe some early films like Bambi). Fairly tales were meant to teach kids about the dangers and rewards of the real world.  I highly respect the fact that Terry Gilliam didn't whitewash the story, or soften it for kids.

  • @dewhistle

    Actually that was King Agamemnon who ruled Mycenae during the Trojan War. I think many are misled to think that he is Theseus because he is shown killing what looked to be a Minotaur. In fact, the credits list this guy as Bull-Headed Warrior so it really just a big guy in a bull mask. Besides, if it was the Minotaur, the battle would have taken place in a labyrinth, not in the middle of the desert.

  • @Cluedokid25 Hm, guess I'll have to look that one up. either way, it was a bummer when they got him because he wanted to stay. He had a good head for war by the look of things, might have made good.

  • What a joyful song

  • Oh my gosh... so many memories... I loved this movie before i could even talk. I remember begging my mom to put "the movie with the song" into the VCR for me, then hiding under a blanket on the floor, absolutely terrifed and enthralled.

    The movie with the song. Sigh. :D

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  • I can't believe this guy's been dead for almost 10 years.

  • Apparently, the chorus means: Aren't I Lucky

    Aren't I Lucky

    Lucky I Am Hurray Oh

    See me on the TV Show

  • So I keep trying to figure out what the chorus means, because, knowing Harrison, its really hard for me to believe that it's just gibberish and has no spiritual meaning, especially considering the other lyrics.

    It would make the most sense to me that this would be in Hindi, but I cannot seem to come up with any correlation.

    I keep seeing the above translated as "Aren't I lucky...", but where the hell does this translation come from?!

  • @honeychilerider

    I always thought it sounded Hawaiian or something.

  • This was one of the first movies I ever saw.

  • I'm watching the film in late '81 and trying to figure out why I liked the music so much. I see George's name in the closing credits and I think, "DUH."

  • love this song! wish i grew up in the 80's. RIP Mr.Harrison you are the best!

  • @TimeLord9811 The 80's were great. Watching this movie in the theatre and living in that era were pretty dang cool. Arcade video games were the thing, sci fi was all the rage, Dungeon and Dragons was popular, and the music rocked. The stuff produced today is so fake and just a bunch of studio created garbage. It is amazing what passes for music today.

  • I love the original, but I wonder what a remake would be like with all the effects we have today.

  • @thane99x It would be a cgi nightmare with no soul....oh yeah, and it would be in 3-D.

  • This song goes better with red-black photographs of midgets laughing in a forest.

  • I grew up watching this film and have been an avid George Harrison fan and it's been about 15 years since I've last heard this. How great it is to have finally found this. 

  • RIP George, you will always be missed.

  • I miss the old times with movies and music like this. So much of everything is such garbage now that is not intended to be adventuresome and make you feel good and be upbeat. So much now is so strange and dark and has no real value in the overall scheme of things. It is just to make money and that is it. Overhyped and overdone. This song and so many movie themes back then were so creative and soothed the soul. Thank you to Mr. Harrison for this and so many other songs of his. May you RIP.

  • I love the short intro music before the song starts. It's so 1980's.  This post takes me back to being a 7 year old kid. Great post.

  • anyone know where I can watch it on the internet? Youtube took it down I guess

  • 5 people are experiencing "The Problem" :3

  • @PsychoticSaiyan10 They must have fruit!

  • As a kid I never understood most of the lyrics... and now I know why. It's primarily nonsense. And you know what? I love it even more!

  • Time Bandits was the best movie I ever watched as a kid! Keep rocking it Terry Gilliam & George Harrison !!

  • @gallifreygrl182 George Harrison has passed away, dude.

  • @machine134 My sarcasm blocker isn't working right now. I know he passed away, I remember when it happened. It doesn't mean he can't still rock it at the pearly gates.

  • @gallifreygrl182 It also was my favorite from my childhood too.

  • pillars fell on 5 Fidgets . :P

  • 1981 was a great year !

  • Just saw Time Bandits and I had to find this song. George was so vastly underrated as a musician and a writer. Miss you much George. All Things Must Pass.

  • clever film good story line good music classic :)

  • 6 out of 7 dwarfs are not happy

  • Great memories of Time Bandits growing up and seeing it as a kid twice a day on HBO. Hearing this song triggers those memories. Took me a long time to realize it was George Harrison - who was also executive producer of the film.

  • it sounds like tron in the beginning

  • tumbling thru a thousand centuries... needs a million views and more... GH is just the best

  • I LOVE DIS SHIT CUZZ

  • THIS SONG IS COOL

  • Oh my. This song was PERFECT for the credits of this movie. It just enhanced what you had just seen. I remember staying until it stopped. it was so relaxing to just sit in the cool theater and listen to this after having just watched the film. made you almost relive the whole film over. I wish they have made a part 2 like terry wanted to.

  • I love this song. Harrison at its best.

  • terrific song. he may be my favorite beatle.

  • Time Bandits was the first movie I saw on cable in my house. Its still a better movie than 99% of the shit the Hollywood teens are pumping out. Thank god I grew up in the 80's.

  • @velveetaslingshot Wow, I totally relate, I was maybe 5 or 6 when I first saw this. I remember my family had just got cable & it was a real big deal. Time Bandits, Poltergeist & Airplane 2 were some of the first movies I remember watching on there. I didn't know for decades that George Harrison did this song, so underrated.

  • " Time Bandits " was quite an odd movie but the fact that I remember it after all these years must mean that I liked it even if just a little bit.

  • there needs a remake directed by terry again

  • @Lotariio "remake" - that's a four-letter word!

  • 5 dislikes.... what a sad world they live in :)

  • there needs to be a sequal to this movie

  • There were alot of rumours there was gonna be a sequel but then a couple of the main characters died :o( xXx

  • "love one another."

  • I remember meeting Kenny Baker at a convention. Apparently i was one of the extremely few who was more interested in his stories about Time Bandits than Star Wars. He even performed "Me and My Shadow " for me and my friends. A very gracious and funny fellow.

  • @JarottM - Kenny Baker - little legend.

  • Thanks for posting. Been looking for this for years! I love this movie. Have it on VHS. I guess I will have to the DVD,but can not find it.

  • @MrDRUID27 I found mine at amazon.com.

  • @cordawg1 Thanks!

  • Evil Genius: God is not interested in technology... He knows nothing of the potential of the micro-chip or the silicon revolution. He's obsessed with making the grass grow and getting rainbows right... Look at what he spends his time on. 43 species of parrot! Nipples... for men! Robert: Slugs. Evil Genius: Slugs! HE created slugs! They can't hear. They can't speak. They can't operate machinery. Are we not in the hands of a lunatic?

  • God, this is such a kickass song, so catchy, so very, very catchy.

  • Little known fact, George Harrison was a big fan of Monty Pythons. So much so he financed the the Life Of Brian, then later funded this for Gilliam. Harrison had a falling out with Gilliam during production, this song is a tribute to that:-

    Greedy feeling wheeling dealing

    Losing what you won

    See the dream come undone

  • 'next you'll be asking me why we have to have evil, hah ha!'

    'of course sir, we'd never think to ask tha-'

    'YES. why do we have to have evil?'

    'aah...' ...

    ...

    ...

    'I believe it has something to do with free will'.

    Love the film. Love the song.

    Love Terry. Love George.

  • Time Bandits is a brilliant movie! It just shows that fantasy films like this don't need those big fancy CGI effects to be this great. I like the appearance of actors like: Sean Connery, John Cleese, Ralph Richardson, Michael Palin and David Warner.

  • BRING IN THE POOR

  • Oh ry in eye ay, oh ry in eye ay

    Oh ry in ah key ooh lay

    Ka lay ooh lau ee, oh ry in eye ay

    Sal you te lee ay vee show

    Thank you, Mr. Harrison... R.I.P

  • @Eadrax - cheers! ; )

  • @Eadrax Should have called me. Maby could have helped. Brought up with the Beatles. If you go to Utube,  Beatles and click Beatles rock band, it's a cartoon worth watching. By the way i'm still trying to find the music to Time Machine. Believe it's called " Theres a Place". Can't get it on Utube, any sujestions?

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  • Härlig  film

  • Härlig film på det hela taget

  • this song brings back good memories definetly in my top 20!

  • Ke... what a jolly good name, jolly good

    ... what awful people.

  • You can find it easily on "Gone Troppo"

  • Pink bunkadoo?

  • don't touch it its evil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Such a catchy song :D *dances*

  • Thats what I like! Lit-tle things, hitting each other!

    Attilla the hun 5 foot 3......half.

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  • i miss you george. great song, great movie. may god bless you george. till we meet again

  • hmm the last stanza isnt in the video

  • I would love to acquire the original map prop from Time Bandits. It would be an iconic conversation piece. The closing scene where the camera zooms out from the English suburb to the Map of Time and Space, then the supreme being roles up the map is epic.

  • George Harrison. The very much under-rated Beetle. Just bought this on amazon. I've loved it since the dim and distant. Also check out 'Cheer Down' from Lethal Weapon 2 end, and 'Got my mind set on you'. Back when pop wasn't vacuous computer generated nonsense.

    Best end theme? Among the top, yes. But as "gimme2utah1" said. Holiday road is a very close second :)

  • where do you get the actual lyrics........best thing george did........

  • Gotta love this song as you gotta love Terry`s movies. :)

  • Ive been searching for this song for over 6 years!!!! its put a smile on my face wider than the pacific ocean! :-D so HAPPY!!!!! Mr Harrison you dark horse!

  • @bassichris  you can get the song on Harrison's album, Gone Tropo.

  • @bassichris The internet is great isn't it!

  • @bassichris i like your style... took me nearly 20 years but all the same made my chesire grin look big

  • @bassichris My thoughts exactly! George Harrison is one of the most underrated talents of our lifetime. I believe he could do anything! En Lak'ech Ala K'in!

  • I listen to this song before I step into a worm hole. I don't have the Worm Hole map like in Time Bandits, I have The Omni!!!

  • @irenaprude2010 LOL! the Omni!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have a Yamaha dirt bike before I jump back in time to the wild west myself.

  • They don't make films like this anymore.

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! for posting this!! i've been trying to fing uot the name of this song for years!!! i knew it was G.H. but the titled always escaped me!!

  • only a dream away....what a tune.... G.H is a legend

  • just watched time bandits today. one of the greatest films ever to give me the pleasure of entering my eyeballs and becoming a stimulus for my retina and my eardrums.

  • Who's your favorite Bandit? Mine was Fidgit, with Randall as a close second, then Strutter, Wally, Vermin and Og. Hell, how can you not like them?

  • @ExplorerDS6789 My favorite was always Randall. Best costume, best lines, and by far the best actor, imo. I just loved that this little bitty guy was also this ruthless anti-hero, all about number 1, and having a great time doin' it.

  • @theawesome

    Sadly the actor who played Randall, David Rappaport committed suicide in 1990 eight years after the release of Time Bandits. He was really good in the role and I also read on his wikipeida profile that he also starred in a lot of US Productions. Plus he was in the the process of guest starring on Star Trek: The Next Generation at the time of his death

  • @pixargod Even more sad was the fact that because David Rappaport died and Jack Purvis (Wally) ended up a quadripalegic; Terry Gilliam decided to shelve a Time Bandits sequel.

  • @ExplorerDS6789 "I LOVE THEM ALL"!!!

  • great movie

  • first movie I ever saw in theatres that I remember.... 4 years old!!!!

  • I have seen this film more times than I've ever seen any other film in the world. It was the first film I ever saw on video in 1982, and every time it makes me howl laughing and just marvel at the wonder of it all.

  • @amimillie

    Exactly the same for me.. First on video (Betamax lol!) and still a wonderful film :)

  • Like a lot of people here, I wanted this film to be a true story. The concept and completion were beautiful, whch is probably why Gorge was prepared to supply the music.

    Lovely thoughts, lovely film, lovely music.

  • A really imaginative film- my favourite scene is with the ogre, and the ship that turns out to be a giant's hat (brilliant !) The only thing I don't like is the ending. It just fell flat with me. Gilliam seems to like abruptly sad endings- I didn't like the way Brazil ended either, though it made more sense.

  • @Astrosquall I always thought that the ending wasn't punishing Kevin or anything sad, but more the statement about how his parents didn't think for themselves (in that they didn't think the chunk of Evil was dangerous because they thought they knew better) and never considered for a moment that their son might know something they didn't. Then again, I've watched the film about 3 zillion times and may just be over-analyzing it. Part of the anti-materialism slant of the whole movie.

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  • @theawesome lol thought id seen it the most times but youve beaten me by 3 lol. ill watch this everyday if i had time .. just a top flick

  • I've just rediscovered my childhood...

  • Who's the female backing vocals, such a beautifal voice

  • @residentevlidead

    There's 2 female backings on this number, Sarah Ricor and Syretta Wright.

  • @Woodlander65 - They both have voices that create 'pan handles' in dudes.

  • @Woodlander65 All these years I thought Sheen Easton was on the song. Not that I've heard it very many times in all these years...

    I should see the movie again-- I was in college then, and I was expecting it to be more like Monty Python.

  • what a classic song. and a great movie.

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  • Sometimes I wonder....yes I wonder what it would be like to be mercifully free from the ravages of intelligence....one can only imagine.....woof

  • Holy crap, I just got knocked to the floor by a HUGE blast of nostalgia!

    Always loved this song, and this movie was completely incredible.

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  • Great movie great soundtrack!

  • it's too bad there was never an actual soundtrack released.

  • @darknipple Well now that you can see what the title is you can, like I did look it up to find out that it was released in 82 on Harrison's next album. This was somehow off my radar at the time and I never could figure out what this song was or where to find it. Some 29 years later it occured to me to use youtube and look for it. The internet is awesome.

  • @darknipple No crap - when I was young I waited for it. I loved this movie and even took my super 8 camera in the theatre to film clips of it.

  • just bea utiful omg this is the topper

  • great movie!!! great song!!! great memories!!!

  • Great song. Great movie. Great memories.

  • Does anyone know if the New Blue Ray Edition of Time Bandits has the Extras that the criterion collection has??? Hows the Image, HD or not???

  • I've grown up with this film and I still love it and I plan on showing it to my kids when I eventually have them lol :o) xXx

  • @womblej70 I remember seeing this film when it first came out on VHS back when I lived in London in the mid-80s. It's absolute sheer cinematic perfection!

  • @womblej70  I wonder if i can get it on DVD at Spin Street in Memphis, I want to show it to my 7 yr old niece

  • @womblej70 I always wanted the kid to live with Sean Connery in the past or go with him in the end of the movie. I want to show this movie to my 7 yr old niece. That and The Dark Crystal

  • I was about 7 when that movie hit HBO, what a cool movie. Ian Holm was uber funny in it.

  • Great! Anybody have the meaning of the first lyrics? Is it nonsence, or some other language?

  • @VJFranzK

    It go's,

    ""Oh Ri In Eye Ay - Oh Ry In Eye Ay

    Oh Ry In Ah Key Ooh Lay

    Ka Lay Ooh Lau Ee - Oh Ry In Eye Ay

    Sal You Te Lee Ay Vee Show.""

    I've no idea what it means, but i love it.

  • Just one word.......UNDERATED!!!!

    Sincerely,

    AJC

  • love it thanks :)

  • I grew up with this film....sweet memories, so British and an all star cast (I now have the DVD!)

  • love this film and the songs by George is excellent.