The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

Sadly Over-hyped

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

If you can recall the worst movie you've ever seen and multiply that by a large number, you will a get a sense of how bad this is. What made this movie tolerable was reading the comments by the people, who like myself hated it. Some of them were so funny and entertaining I ended up reading all the negative reviews while the "movie" was playing in the background as a split screen window. I could feel my brain cells dying about 10 mins into this movie, before I realised that I HAD to do something else while watching this movie to avoid possible long term brain damage.So dear friends and critics, I thought Id make this review a little different and compile a list of my favourite negative reviews for this movie, which are certainly far more entertaining than the movie itself. Enjoy ! "the story had no consistency, plausibility, character, insight, or intelligence of any sort. It was like someone farting in your face and expecting you to think it was life-enhancing." LOL"Add to that, an utterly annoying soundtrack of Nazi-era German soprano/opera, and some tribal folk music - all mixed at levels that make you cringe - and you have a recipe for agony." OUCH"So to summarize; Take about bunch of stock footage off the internet, edit it together in no particular order, add some exerts of interviews with some NASA eggheads that you found on Discovery, slap on the most annoying music you can find, and then hire an actor to narrate a "space story", which has nothing to do with the images or footage that you are seeing - and then you'll have this movie." SPOT ON !"I struggled to restrain myself from laughing at how absurdly bad it was. My companion and I then joined the steady stream of escapees about 40minutes in." LOL" But I'm sorry to say I don't do drugs of drink copious amounts of alcohol. So I must obviously be unable to hallucinate in seeing any merit in this film " HEAR HEAR" I technically wouldn't even call it a movie. It also isn't a documentary. It is one of a kind, a very very bad kind." LOL , YES INDEED A VERY VERY VERY BAD KINDWhy should we be required to exert effort in critiquing that which involved NO EFFORT? GOOD POINThis is a desperately poor, indulgent, cheap, empty, irritating, unwatchable concoction of clips tied together with an infantile plot and dressed up with some ethnic chanting intended to make it seem meaningful and spiritual or something. APT and TO THE POINTThese entertaining reviews helped preserved my sanity while watching. ( sorry I meant enduring) this movie and I hope they will help preserve yours too.

This is the only film I've been unable sit through at the cinema. It was so hammy, cheap and amateurish that I struggled to restrain myself from laughing at how absurdly bad it was. My companion and I then joined the steady stream of escapees about 40minutes in. It is still a longstanding joke between us that he chose the worst film either of us have ever seen. Of course, there is a chance the film got significantly better after that point, but the ground it would have had to make up is so substantial as to make that inconceivable.Shame to be so harsh, I've enjoyed Herzog films in the past. I did however join this site with the specific purpose of reviewing this terrible film.

Ranging from boring to excruciating, this film combines an hour of stock footage, a bizarre & often unpleasant soundtrack, grating narration, overacting by the only actor, and an uncompelling and often incomprehensible story to create a near utter waste of an hour and a quarter.Brad Dourif is unlikeable in the only significant role, and his enunciation during the narration is often strange and unpleasant. Sadly, this narration is the only respite the viewer receives from otherwise interminable scenes of stock footage of astronauts and scuba divers floating about. I suppose these sequences are meant to be profound; I found them exceptionally tedious. They are not helped by the accompanying music. I also failed to suspend my disbelief when, presented with footage of Arctic divers, I was told that this was astronauts exploring a planet with a "sky made of ice" above a liquid hydrogen environment. Points are for a mildly intriguing initial ten minutes and a somewhat interesting scientific discussion of wormhole travel.3/10

I made the mistake of thinking I was about to watch the Herzog documentary Rescue Dawn was based on, but i soon found out I was wrong...very wrong. Instead, I spent 81 minutes watching "a science fiction fantasy" titled Wild Blue Yonder. In WBY Brad Dourif play an alien who narrates his way through NASA and arctic diving footage that Herzog interestingly uses completely out of context. The context is entrusted to Dourif's character who spins an elaborate yarn of human space exploration to his former home, the exploration of this distant planet and the astronaut's return to a future, pre-historic earth almost 200 years later.WBY is essentially a found footage film, albeit an imaginative and interesting one. The highlight is the diving footage which truly feels like exploration of a alien world. The footage is hypnotic, perfectly accompanied by the equally hypnotic score by composer Ernst Reijsiger along with a song thrown indy rock genius Jim O'Rourke.Herzog sandwiches interviews with real-life mathematicians between the found footage segments, adding credibility to Dourif's yarn. Yet overall there is a sense of tongue-in-cheek behind WBY -- Herzog obviously doesn't want us to take things too seriously. But if he doesn't, then what does he want? By taking these images out of context he forces us to shift our perspective and see them with new eyes. He succeeds and by doing so, he begs the question: why don't we always change our perspective when looking at the world around us? If we did there's a good chance we would be less likely to take things for granted and instead we would see the world with the amazement of a child's eyes.http://eattheblinds.blogspot.com/