The Dark Horror Of The Time Bandits

Film: Time Bandits
Album: Dark Side Of The Moon (Pink Floyd)
When album ends start The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack album.

This is the opposite of the modern version of 'The Time Machine' which synchronises with the same albums but the other way around. They contain the songs 'Time' and 'Time warp'.

This was superb. I watched it on TV though, and it had advertising breaks, and I couldn't pause it between albums, so had to estimate. But I think I got it right because it synchronised so wonderfully. The second album ends a few minutes before the film does, so I'm not sure what goes at the end, but I watched it with the original soundtrack. Here are some examples of how it synchronised...

The very start of the film was excellent with the start of Dark Side Of The Moon.

"Look around" when the boy hears noise when he is in bed and looks around.

"High you'll fly" when the horse jumps.

The woman announcers voice in 'On the run' synchronises with the boy's mother talking.

The time bandits first appear when the song 'Time' begins.

"And you run and you run" when some horses run.

"half a page of scribbled lines" when a guy picks up some pages then we see the map.

"It's good to warm my bones beside the fire" when a guy who is on fire runs past and jumps into a lake.

"I'm not frightened of dying, any time will do, etc." when some guys are stood before a firing line and are killed.

The screaming synchronises with the violent Punch And Judy show.

"I never said I was frightened of dying" when a guy is about to shoot himself.

The song 'Money' synchronises with the first robbery where they steal all of Napoleon's treasure.

"It's a hit!" when he congratulates the dwarves on their show.

"Don't take a slice of my pie" when the camera rotates to show they have even taken all the food off the table.

"In the end it's only round and round and round" when the boy gets out his camera, which is round on the end, and photographs the map which is covered in circles.

"The lines on the map moved from side to side" when the dwarf rolls up the map.

"Down and out" when they are all hanging by their feet and are let down, then pulling their legs out of the loops.

The lunatic and lunatics are sung about when we first see Evil and his minions. He gets into one of the dwarves' heads ("The lunatic is in my head"), to persuade them to bring the map to him ("Every day the paperboy brings more").

"Doctor X will build a creature. See androids fighting" when the boy watches Agamemnon fighting the man with the creature head. He also has a metal head like a robot.

"There's a light burning in the fireplace" when fire burns.

"Let's do the time warp again!" when the dwarves come to 'rescue' the boy, trying to force him to come through the time warp with them.

"So you can't see me... well secluded... in another dimension" when they hide behind the sheet and disappear through the time warp. The same line repeats at the end of the album during the single version of the song when they hide from the creatures chasing them.

"How do you do, I see you've met my faithful handyman" when the dwarves crash onto the two lovers on the Titanic. Also when it says, "Satanic" it sounds like 'Titanic'.

"Don't get strung out by the way I look" when the guy's lover who could handle his deformed nose storms off after she finds out he also wears a wig.

"My head used to swim" when they are swimming in the sea.

"I really love that rock and roll" repeats during the boat scene, which rocks and rolls on the sea.

"I can make you a man" when the ogre and his wife try to cook the men.

"Shooting up junk... taking everyone for a ride" when the giant takes everyone for a ride on the boat on his head, and they inject him with sleeping potion.

"It's beyond me" when they get to the invisible barrier with their destination just beyond.

"What's this, let's see" as the dwarf examines the map.

The fanfare sounds when the barrier breaks, revealing their destination just beyond.

"I'm going home" when they escape the cage and plan to leave the place.

"We've got to get out of this trap!" when the boy shouts, "It's a trap!"

I highly recommend this one.