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Twelve Monkeys
Directed by Terry Gilliam
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus… From TMDB
150 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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Twelve Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction thriller mystery film, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt.
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60 of 150 · most liked firstArt for sale! I put some more of my drawings of TVs from movies up at my store, including these Ghost World (2001) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Twelve Monkeys (1995) E. T. the Extraterrestrial (1982) marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/category/obj...
neutral · AI labelView post →This was part of Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Drawings by me of TVs from movies Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Twelve Monkeys (1995) E. T. the Extraterrestrial (1981) Lady Vengeance (2004) Gremlins (1984) Ghost World (2001) The Hidden (1987) The Angry Red Planet (1959) Videodrome (1983) x 2 marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/category/obj...
neutral · AI labelView post →Twelve Monkeys |1995 + commentary www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746 #NowWatching #filmsky #scifi #sci-fi ·in a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet·
neutral · AI labelView post →Quote this with a performance that stole a film: Brad Pitt in Twelve Monkeys.
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s: The Princess Bride 90s: Twelve Monkeys 00s: A Knight’s Tale 10s: Avengers Endgame 20s: Everything, Everywhere, All at once
neutral · AI labelView post →In the two long hours it takes to slog through Terry Gilliam's overblown 'Twelve Monkeys' you can watch Chris Marker's sublime masterpiece 'La Jetée' (on which the Gilliam film was based) four times. Which is what I plan to do if I'm ever invited to watch 'Twelve Monkeys' again.
negative · AI labelView post →Twelve Monkeys is a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →i do think that The Fisher King is a better movie in some ways and I _like_ Brazil better, but i think that Twelve Monkeys is the one which stands up as an artwork
positive · AI labelView post →You're always there for me. Edit: By the way, that actor was also in the Twelve Monkeys TV series and he's really good in it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Twelve Monkeys. What a miserable, fucked up movie (pos), lots of horror here to mine. I’m a sucker for Bruce Willis and also early Brad Pitt is kinda rad.
positive · AI labelView post →#GnomonTV "Twelve Monkeys in Tibet" Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, Bruce Willis Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud and Terry Gilliam Science fiction biographical war drama film. youtube.com/watch?v=m9a_... youtube.com/watch?v=wczt...
neutral · AI labelView post →GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE is bonkers. Twelve Monkeys directed with Mouse Hunt energy. Hope we don't have to wait so long again for the next Verbinski movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →just found out the movie Twelve Monkeys doesn't have a single monkey in it
neutral · AI labelView post →On revisit, Twelve Monkeys might just be the best film of the 90s, or at least the most 90s film of the 90s. And yes, it does hit different post-Covid.
positive · AI labelView post →My wife was trying to remember a movie and was just getting "Seven Monkeys" as a title (and starring Bruce Willis) so I thought she meant Twelve Monkeys but it turned out what she actually was thinking of was The Fifth Element.
neutral · AI labelView post →According to CMDb (Cockney Movie Database), Terry Gilliam made Twelve Monkeys for £6000.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film library (1264): - Not including Documentaries, which is a separate library 12 Angry Men (1957) 1917 (2019) 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968) 2010 (1984) 28 Days Later (2002) 28 Weeks Later (2007) 28 Years Later (2025) 28 Years Later - The Bone Temple (2026) 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) 300 (2007) A Beautiful Mind (2001) Absolutely Fabulous - The Movie (2016) Ace Ventura - Pet Detective (1994) Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls (1995) A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving…
neutral · AI labelView post →The trailer is magnificent. Most excited I’ve been in a movie starring a translucent plastic covered time traveling protagonist since Twelve Monkeys: youtu.be/Nm4WbapDzDQ?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a time travel movie that is not 'Back To The Future' 🎥📽️⏰🖤 Twelve Monkeys. The fall of civilization is a done deal, but we are still obligated to try and to mitigate the worst of the disaster.
positive · AI labelView post →Like I said, it's a history museum now, really was some fascinating stuff. (Also a film set for some scenes of the film Twelve Monkeys, and until the pandemic the site for the best goddamn haunted house in the continental USA)
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just gifs and pics. #FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥 Day 10 of 20: Twelve Monkeys.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ten movies to know me: 1. Cloud Atlas 2. Sophie’s Choice 3. In Bruges 4. Amelie 5. Lord of the Rings trilogy (think of it as one 8-hour movie) 6. The Wizard of Oz 7. Snatch 8. Twelve Monkeys 9. The Blues Brothers 10. No Country for Old Men
neutral · AI labelView post →Twelve Monkeys is based on Chris Marker's 1962 short film La Jetée.
neutral · AI labelView post →This film was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's wonderful Twelve Monkeys 👍
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself One book: The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King One movie: Twelve Monkeys One album: Bad Hair Day by Weird Al Yankovic One tv show: The X-Files
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking back it's probably Twelve Monkeys. Everyone in that movie was just incredibly at their best. Tbh the mid-90s were just a great time for Brad Pitt films. Se7en, Twelve Monkeys, Legends of the Fall, Interview with the Vampire, The Devil's Own... I did love Mr & Mrs Smith tho 🤭
positive · AI labelView post →Fave film for each year of the 1990s 1990: Misery 1991: The Silence of the Lambs 1992: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 1993: Short Cuts 1994: The Shawshank Redemption 1995: Twelve Monkeys 1996: Romeo + Juliet 1997: Contact 1998: The Truman Show 1999: The Talented Mr Ripley 🎥 #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Isn't this part of The Twelve Monkeys movie? *Rectum!? It nearly killed him!
neutral · AI labelView post →Two utter BANGERS. >___< The interesting thing about TWELVE MONKEYS, to me, is the discovery watching the extras on the ARROW Video blu-ray release where they talk about how this film is Terry Gilliams attempt to make a COMMERCIAL film, and in many ways...I guess it IS, but it's also Gilliam-WEIRD.
positive · AI labelView post →Twelve Monkeys is Bruce Willis's best xmas film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Absolutely Pulp Fiction, though The Fifth Element and Twelve Monkeys come close. The wife and I also rewatched Death Becomes Her and laughed our butts off, and I’m very partial to Looper, his last good film before his cognitive disability began.
neutral · AI labelView post →30 Day film Challenge 🎥🎞️🍿 #filmsky #30DayChallenge Day 3: A film you like with a number and the title Twelve Monkeys directed by Terry Gilliam. A solid sci-fi film with fantastic roles for Brad Pitt & Bruce Willis who both play convincing characters. boxd.it/2beQ
positive · AI labelView post →30 Unconventional Christmas Movies 1. The Holdovers (2023) 2. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 3. Trading Places (1983) 4. All That Heaven Allows (1955) 5. Die Hard (1988) 6. Gremlins (1984) 7. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) 8. Carol (2015) 9. The Apartment (1960) 10. Twelve Monkeys (1995) #filmsky #movie #film
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie should have been called 43 Monkeys and Two Unfriendly Emus. Twelve Monkeys: clearly not enough.
neutral · AI labelView post →Every time I suggest watching Twelve Monkeys (a movie I love) Em has rejected it and I just found out today that for YEARS they have thought I was talking about the movie OUTBREAK, which I can’t even be mad about because it’s the funniest movie to confuse with Twelve Monkeys with
positive · AI labelView post →I can't think of a more unexpectedly perfect classical music needle drop in film scoring than the dance of death over the opening of TWELVE MONKEYS being Astor Piazolla's Suite Punta del Este. Any others? #FilmSky #MovieSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABfT...
neutral · AI labelView post →Thought experimenter: With enough random typing, you’d be guaranteed to eventually reproduce Shakespeare. Consider some large number of typewriters… Tech company: At long last, we have exceeded the limits described by the classic Terry Gilliam film, Twelve Monkeys
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched La Jetée on Friday, covering a y12 film studies class. I'd never seen it before & didn't know it was the model for Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. I will forever now think of Twelve Monkeys as fan art (I mean that in the best way. I'm a fan of fan art). #FilmSky youtu.be/Pf4AY_DI9BE?...
positive · AI labelView post →Insert a movie into another movie: Ocean's Twelve Monkeys
neutral · AI labelView post →#GnomonTV "Twelve Monkeys in Tibet" Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, Bruce Willis Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud and Terry Gilliam Science fiction biographical war drama film. youtube.com/watch?v=m9a_... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wczt... gnomonchronicles.com/wiki/Twelve_...
neutral · AI labelView post →PSA: Die Hard is not the only Bruce Willis christmas movie. There's also Twelve Monkeys.
neutral · AI labelView post →since i have now watched at least another terry gilliam film i can say that i liked Brazil more than Twelve Monkeys
negative · AI labelView post →Reminds me of the movie Twelve Monkeys.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just rewatched Twelve Monkeys for my film group. Hoo boy, that hit much harder than I remember it doing the first time around. Pretty prescient. And horrifying.
positive · AI labelView post →Is he underrated? I think it's probably fair to say he is, never seen him put in a dud performance. I think he gives such an unsettling performance in Twelve Monkeys. Relatively little screen time but he always leaves an impression when I watch that film.
neutral · AI labelView post →No one cared but whatever. TWELVE MONKEYS is *also* a Christmas movie! (They wanted Brazil.)
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★ review of Twelve Monkeys on Letterboxd Enjoyed this movie quite a bit, excellent set design, but intrigued to see what the sets would look like with today's special effects, if it got a remake. Full Review: boxd.it/bbIafZ 🎬 #moviesky #movie #series #filmsky #tvshow #letterboxd
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieSky 30 Day Movie Challenge Day 26 The movie with the greatest plot twist Twelve Monkeys (1996)
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying The Fifth Element, fav Bruce Willis film? 🎬 🎥🖤 Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. "The future is history" "They're coming" 🐒 #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →I wholeheartedly believe that the universe sometimes reboots around me. I just found out there's a Terry Gilliam film I've never heard of. It's the second most popular of his films on Letterboxd, many of you have seen it, and yet it's completely new to me. How is that possible? (It's Twelve Monkeys)
neutral · AI labelView post →Twelve Monkeys: probably my favorite movie at some point. Still holds the FUCK up! God Willis.
positive · AI labelView post →I’m a semi-regular guest on a friend’s podcast about movies. tomorrow we’re doing an episode with a bunch of our other friends about Twelve Monkeys, so I just watched that, just now, for the first time, and I guess tomorrow I’ll spend four hours explaining all the ways I hated this film, wow
negative · AI labelView post →in the movie it's that the future people think The Army of the Twelve Monkeys released the apocalypse virus but it turns out they're an animal rights group
neutral · AI labelView post →On a more serious note, I’m not well versed in recent productions because I don’t consume a lot of French media, but historically, La Jetée inspired the 90s movie Twelve Monkeys. One of the first ever, if not the first ever « sci-fi » movie was made in France: Le Voyage dans la Lune
neutral · AI labelView post →An A180 Watches a Movie a Day Sunday, September 6, 2026 Twelve Monkeys Dir. Terry Gilliam 1995 ★★★ #A180Watches2026
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s a movie you saw 3 or more times in theaters (I saw this 12 times in theaters during its original release) #filmsky Probably Star Wars, although I did see Twelve Monkeys on successive nights in the cinema - once with mates, then the next night with a date who said she wanted to see it. 🤣
positive · AI labelView post →Movie edition: Twelve Monkeys The Final Girls (time loop, not time travel) Time After Time (with DAVID F. WARNER as Jack the Ripper) Time Bandits One segment of The Legend of Hillbilly John Your Name. Army of Darkness Happy Death Day 1 & 2 Star Trek IV Arrival
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s viewing pleasure TWELVE MONKEYS (1995) I first saw it in the movie theater when it came out. I went in blind. I knew the filmmaker and actors, but I didn’t pay attention to any of the trailers. Right in the opening, I realized that it was a remake for La Jetée (1962) and really good too
positive · AI labelView post →Movie today was Iron Lung, not a film I knew anything about before seeing it, but impressed that a genre flick this obscure and oppressive can get a multiplex release. Shades of Twelve Monkeys, BLAME! and Sunless Sea floating around in there. Might warrant a second watch.
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