Review of The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) by Michael M — 20 Dec 2009
Q: How can a movie be both pretty goddamned captivating and pretty goddamned boring at the same time?
A: When Herzog makes a monologue about Brad Dourif being a crazy maybe alien and uses a bunch of stock footage and fake scientists to punctuate everything.
It falls flat lots of times, but is still pretty neat to look at with a decent soundtrack.
This sort of reminds me of the kind of movie someone obsessed with Coast to Coast AM might make. It's pretty much a monologue with some random sleepy scientists talking about psuedo science. The best kind of science. It uses Farscape logic of space travel, sort of. Space time. Time space. Well actually it more follows Michael Cricton's Timeline version of time travel for space travel.
But I digress. This movie is apparently Herzog's mediation on human impermanence. No kidding! And ole wily Werner is as always obsessed with nature. This time the "under the sea." I mean alien life. Because it totally isn't underwater natonal geographic footage.
If this is the worst film he makes it's still better than whatever you could make.
Where's Popol Vuh when you need em though?
This review of The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) was written by Michael M on 20 Dec 2009.
The Wild Blue Yonder has generally received positive reviews.
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