The Wild Blue Yonder

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William H @RT44607844 12/03/2023 Much better episode than the week before. Still had a dumb beginning but once if got going it was a great story, quite creepy in places, and good performances from Tennant and Tate. Also made a change from the usual earthbound stories that RTD seems to revel in. See more John A @ExcessMale 11/15/2023 Bizarre and a bit tepid but also fascinating and cosmically profound. See more 10/03/2017 Herzog's pessimistic, bewildering observation of humanity at its climax is more-so a mood piece than an entertainment. It creates an environment with minimalist technique. See more 04/13/2015 Bold and hypnotic. Hertzog blends real footage of a NASA shuttle mission, exploration underneath the ice shelf in Antarctica, and mathematicians explaining the gravity tunnels between planets and weaves a fictional narrative around it all with Brad Dourif playing an alien from Alpha Centari. The music is incredibly alien and often nearly overpowers the imagery onscreen, which says something as some of the footage is pretty incredible. The underwater sequences is repeated in Hertzog's later documentary about the Antarctica, Encounters at the End of the World, but here is used convincingly as an alien landscape. Its just amazing to see how well he weaves footage of things as mundane as a satellite being built and astronauts exercising on the shuttle into a movie about a mission to another planet. Its really quite inventive. See more 11/16/2012 Un capolavoro. Il più grande finto documentario che abbia mai visto. Il più originale film di fantascienza che abbia mai visto. Uno dei montaggi più geniali che abbia mai visto. Le immagini più belle della Terra che abbia mai visto...come se fosse un altro splendido pianeta... Geniale anche la scelta delle musiche sarde. Werner Herzog è uno dei registi più sottovalutati come questo film. Ma in realtà dietro tutto vi è genio e follia visionaria. See more 09/25/2012 Werner Herzog takes found footage from Nasa (space shuttle voyages as shot by astronauts) and Antarctica (underwater shots from Henry Kaiser) and fashions a story of sorts around it. Brad Dourif plays an alien (without changing how he looks) who has left the Andromeda galaxy to start another colony on Earth but also discusses our own attempts to investigate the solar system and beyond. Some beautiful imagery floats by but the whole is somewhat less than the sum of its parts. See more Read all reviews

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