The Wild Blue Yonder on DVD (2005)

Andybe from Richmond [Highly rated reviewer] , 03/11/2007

...really I did.

The summary on this site leads you to believe that this is a traditional film, however it's a Herzog creation so I should have known better.

Werner Herzog takes NASA film footage, as well as other sources, and weaves them together to tell a bizarre story of space and time travel to a distant world and back. Some of the footage is quite spectacular, but all taken together with an 'unorthodox' musical score put it out of reach for me.

I fell asleep a number of times (quite a feat in a 77 minute piece), lost the storyline, and had to go back only to find I hadn't really lost the storyline after all - it was simply 'out there'.

It takes something other than what I have to enjoy this. I'm not sure what that is, but if you're game give it a go.

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Lefty from Wakefield , 12/12/2007

This is absolute dross. While ever art farties see what isn't really there, other arty farties will make rubbish like this. The bloke has cobbled together some NASA footage seemingly from the 70s with some sub Arctic scuba diving footage (which is supposed to be liquid helium - I ask you) and produced an over long 5 minute story. Silences stretch into minutes with NOTHING happening.

Here's the spoiler - aliens came from blue planet, didn't settle well on earth, man finds new propulsion that aliens didnt have, man visits alien homeworld... viewer falls asleep cos all that took over an hour!

BORING

  6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Kentish Town , 04/11/2007

Another brilliant and beautiful Herzog movie, with stunning shots and an incredible soundtrack. This movie is clearly not for everyone: there is hardly a plot, only one actor, and a lot of stock footage of space and subarctic diving. However, for those interested in an experience, in something creative outside the usual formulas, and a film that demands more reflection than spoon feeding, then this could be for you. As with many Herzog films, the impression it left was, for me, profound.

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Melksham , 15/04/2008

This film is described as a sci fi fantasy the director and producers must have been fantasising when they thought this idea up, stock footage from olden times also footage from a space flight probably un used by nasa due to ito boredom factor and one known actor who did his trade no favours and a sound track you wouldnt want to listen to unless you had been deaf and only just got hearing the actor tells a tale as if an alien but I think I`m being kind to give it 0 stars if a minus rating had been available I`d have gone for that It malines the meaning of scifi avoid at all costs

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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Andybe from Richmond [Highly rated reviewer] , 03/11/2007

...really I did.

The summary on this site leads you to believe that this is a traditional film, however it's a Herzog creation so I should have known better.

Werner Herzog takes NASA film footage, as well as other sources, and weaves them together to tell a bizarre story of space and time travel to a distant world and back. Some of the footage is quite spectacular, but all taken together with an 'unorthodox' musical score put it out of reach for me.

I fell asleep a number of times (quite a feat in a 77 minute piece), lost the storyline, and had to go back only to find I hadn't really lost the storyline after all - it was simply 'out there'.

It takes something other than what I have to enjoy this. I'm not sure what that is, but if you're game give it a go.

  9 out of 9 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Melksham , 15/04/2008

This film is described as a sci fi fantasy the director and producers must have been fantasising when they thought this idea up, stock footage from olden times also footage from a space flight probably un used by nasa due to ito boredom factor and one known actor who did his trade no favours and a sound track you wouldnt want to listen to unless you had been deaf and only just got hearing the actor tells a tale as if an alien but I think I`m being kind to give it 0 stars if a minus rating had been available I`d have gone for that It malines the meaning of scifi avoid at all costs

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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