** - German filmmaker Werner Herzog has always reminded me a little bit of John Banner’s portrayal of Sergeant Schultz in “Hogan’s Heroes” (which also starred deviant sex practitioner Bob Crane, by the way). Kind of a big, jolly, genial, lovable Bavarian type of guy, who seems like he might at any moment throw his huge head backwards in a loud, guttural belly laugh and wrap his enormous arms around you in a beer-fueled outburst of pure friendship and brotherhood. The reason I mention this is because that quality about him makes it very difficult for me to trash one of his movies, such as his 2005 fake documentary stinkburger “The Wild Blue Yonder”. However, I feel that I must overcome my hesitance and move forward with the insulting critique, even though it could potentially cause Herzog to drop his doughy head to his chest and slump sadly into a large, well-worn recliner. This movie attempts to tell some sort of goofy narrative about aliens living on Earth and a human voyage to an ice planet in the Andromeda Galaxy through a series of randomly strung together shots taken from NASA archival footage and an Antarctic deep sea expedition. These dull scenes are connected by a number of faux-interviews with Brad Dourif (playing an alien, which is certainly not a stretch for him) set in what appears to be a junkyard. The movie is crap, but the score – which is a collaboration of Dutch cellist Ernst Reijeseger, Senegalese singer Mola Sylla, and a Sardinian choir – is phenomenal.
The Wild Blue Yonder
** - German filmmaker Werner Herzog has always reminded me a little bit of John Banner’s portrayal of Sergeant Schultz in “Hogan’s Heroes” (which also starred deviant sex practitioner Bob Crane, by the way). Kind of a big, jolly, genial, lovable Bavarian type of guy, who seems like he might at any moment throw his huge head backwards in a loud, guttural belly laugh and wrap his enormous arms around you in a beer-fueled outburst of pure friendship and brotherhood. The reason I mention this is because that quality about him makes it very difficult for me to trash one of his movies, such as his 2005 fake documentary stinkburger “The Wild Blue Yonder”. However, I feel that I must overcome my hesitance and move forward with the insulting critique, even though it could potentially cause Herzog to drop his doughy head to his chest and slump sadly into a large, well-worn recliner. This movie attempts to tell some sort of goofy narrative about aliens living on Earth and a human voyage to an ice planet in the Andromeda Galaxy through a series of randomly strung together shots taken from NASA archival footage and an Antarctic deep sea expedition. These dull scenes are connected by a number of faux-interviews with Brad Dourif (playing an alien, which is certainly not a stretch for him) set in what appears to be a junkyard. The movie is crap, but the score – which is a collaboration of Dutch cellist Ernst Reijeseger, Senegalese singer Mola Sylla, and a Sardinian choir – is phenomenal.
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