tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post112589074812207620..comments2024-02-23T05:17:08.682-05:00Comments on The Film Freak Central Blog: Delicate Sound of ChunderBill Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126231299767103882005-09-08T22:01:00.000-04:002005-09-08T22:01:00.000-04:00It's Herzog's nature not to include the "highlight...It's Herzog's nature not to include the "highlight" of the film, if you may, in the film. He's always been what is around the big event instead of the event itself. the north american audience wanting to see the clip just elucidates their desensitization towards sensationalism caused by everything from gossip rags to reality T.V.Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126224873103335852005-09-08T20:14:00.000-04:002005-09-08T20:14:00.000-04:00Man, have you seen the vitriolic on IMDB? It is te...Man, have you seen the vitriolic on IMDB? It is terrifying. People actually wanted Herzog to play the six-minute recording of Treadwell's final moments on this Earth. Scary isn't it? Then again, I wonder what merit there would be in having shared (if sharing is really the correct word) the tape with the audience?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126131099795500592005-09-07T18:11:00.000-04:002005-09-07T18:11:00.000-04:00i do think treadwell is a desperately lonely idiot...i do think treadwell is a desperately lonely idiot, but i disagree that herzog wasted his time on him. there are many more desperately lonely idiots then you would imagine, most of them are doing jobs they hate and are buying ferraris when they hit their stereotypical mid-life crisis. well.. atleast the rich ones are. what makes treadwell different is how far he is willing to go to not be a Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126128664855602932005-09-07T17:31:00.000-04:002005-09-07T17:31:00.000-04:00I find myself agreeing with Hollow man. Treadwell ...I find myself agreeing with Hollow man. Treadwell seems like a guy I'd like to try and figure out - making a desperately lonely idiot look like a desperately lonely idiot seems a little bit of a waste of time for Herzog. But then again, I think it's my own superficial view of the film.<BR/><BR/>I am, after all, a native of the country that gave the world Gunga Din and the Carry On films.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126123197100209422005-09-07T15:59:00.000-04:002005-09-07T15:59:00.000-04:00Oh... and we do like your head so kindly don't sti...Oh... and we do like your head so kindly don't stick it in the oven.Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126123080601130032005-09-07T15:58:00.000-04:002005-09-07T15:58:00.000-04:00I always get this feeling when I see Herzog films ...I always get this feeling when I see Herzog films that I wanna hang out with people in them. Kinski, Bruno S, Clemens Scheitz and now Treadwell. Maybe it's my fascination with bizarre obsessive personalities. I always seem to see more in them then most people do. People become obsessed with things when they are trying to fill up other vacancies and slowly they just snap. To me what's interesting Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126116091280410712005-09-07T14:01:00.000-04:002005-09-07T14:01:00.000-04:00"Team America" offered little of the satiric friss..."Team America" offered little of the satiric frisson available in many episodes of South Park. The "Rent" parody was funny--but, ultimately toothless (not to mention dated) in the midst of the casual homophobia and juvenille, obvious celebrity bashing (Micheal Moore is FAT!, Alec Baldwin is PRETENTIOUS!) I can get for free by reading the sub-literate postings on the Imdb. boards. Puppets screwingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126113215195221732005-09-07T13:13:00.000-04:002005-09-07T13:13:00.000-04:00Well yeah, intentional or not, when taken as a sat...Well yeah, intentional or not, when taken as a satire Bad Boys 2 has far far more venom than something like Team America: World Police which is neutralized to some extent with sheer goofiness and mealy mouthed moralizing. I'd place Bad Boys 2 up there with <A HREF="http://www.whitehouse.org" REL="nofollow">White House.org</A> in terms of sheer ruthelessness. <BR/><BR/>The film has a sort of moralAlex Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13028946403342782184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126110577633336602005-09-07T12:29:00.000-04:002005-09-07T12:29:00.000-04:00I have nothing to add except that your Sound of Th...I have nothing to add except that your Sound of Thunder review was great, and:<BR/><BR/><I>It's the kind of film that creationists and other retarded people will like</I><BR/><BR/>made me laugh, a lot. Looking forward to eventually catching this atrocity when it eventually gets down under.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126109777310026762005-09-07T12:16:00.000-04:002005-09-07T12:16:00.000-04:00I think my antipathy for Treadwell is a carefully-...I think my antipathy for Treadwell is a carefully-calculated by-product of Herzog's technique in his picture of only allowing certain information in while manipulating all other information so that the only conclusion left to draw by the close of <I>Grizzly Man</I> is that this dude was a serious fruit and, more, dangerous to the things he projected upon the most. Personally, however he's been Walter_Chawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14314737706201691225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126103999240446912005-09-07T10:39:00.000-04:002005-09-07T10:39:00.000-04:00The only thing BB2 was satire of was itself. A bad...The only thing BB2 was satire of was itself. A bad mouth, ugly, obese baby called hollywood action film . Now that I think of it, it might work as a satire on "war on terror" given the fact that there is no moral center in there. even the good guy is a bad guy. who cares if we have to drive a hummer through the slum to get the bad guy, as long as we get him. The funny thing is, it is completely Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126066727513879772005-09-07T00:18:00.000-04:002005-09-07T00:18:00.000-04:00That link didn't work. Maybe this one. And actuall...That link didn't work. Maybe <A HREF="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3587/780/1600/Mallard_Fillmore.gif" REL="nofollow">this</A> one. <BR/><BR/>And actually, I thought that Bad Boys II was a considerably better satire of the "war on terror" than Team America. Or at least a more honest one, the only defense of Team America that I have heard was that it was against "extremism". But that doesn'tAlex Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13028946403342782184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126065216868379802005-09-06T23:53:00.000-04:002005-09-06T23:53:00.000-04:00p.s. team america was retarded. funny at times but...p.s. team america was retarded. funny at times but it was too dramatic and real to be a spoof. i wonder what they were actually trying to do. they certainly know what funny is, i mean saddam fucking satan, what could be funnier (a manage-a-trois with bush, maybe... oh no... wait a minuite, my bad, we already have satan in there). puppet-fucking was hillarious. MPAA actually wanted to cut some Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126064428823693222005-09-06T23:40:00.000-04:002005-09-06T23:40:00.000-04:00i'm not much into comic strips but everytime i see...i'm not much into comic strips but everytime i see them at the back of the newspaper and think it would be a good time-pass, it isn't. most of them are retarded with nothing to say. although ever sincei saw "crumb", i've wanted to read his comics.Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126062087063150362005-09-06T23:01:00.000-04:002005-09-06T23:01:00.000-04:00Bruce Tinsley's depiction of anything makes me sad...Bruce Tinsley's depiction of anything makes me sad -- have you ever seen his depiction of Jon Stewart? It was part of a <A HREF="http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard070505.asp" REL="nofollow">week attacking <I>America: The Book</I></A> for featuring a parody of a <I>Mallard Fillmore</I> strip, which, he claimed, was misrepresented as a real one. Besides proving himself Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126060006383931072005-09-06T22:26:00.000-04:002005-09-06T22:26:00.000-04:00This is in reference to hmsm's review of Grizzly M...This is in reference to hmsm's review of <I>Grizzly Man</I>, bee tee double ewe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126059948817496502005-09-06T22:25:00.000-04:002005-09-06T22:25:00.000-04:00Interesting analysis. Makes a lot of sense.Interesting analysis. Makes a lot of sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126059611326667072005-09-06T22:20:00.000-04:002005-09-06T22:20:00.000-04:00Just a quick aside- Walter, have you seen Bruce Ti...Just a quick aside- <BR/><BR/>Walter, have you seen Bruce Tinsley's <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp?date=20050829" REL="nofollow">depiction</A> of Hu Jintao? Ho-lee shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126048552519231332005-09-06T19:15:00.000-04:002005-09-06T19:15:00.000-04:00feel free to comment.feel free to comment.Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126048359035382452005-09-06T19:12:00.000-04:002005-09-06T19:12:00.000-04:00I did see grizzly man, in april i think, at HotDoc...I did see grizzly man, in april i think, at HotDocs film festival in toronto. spectacular film. i was reminded of herzog's quote in "burden of dreams" when he talks about true nature of jungle being cruelty and murder. what was fascinating for me was the fact that timothy treadwell has absolutely opposite beliefs from that of herzog, yet herzog still finds his eccentricities so fascinating. <BR/>Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126042501531540282005-09-06T17:35:00.000-04:002005-09-06T17:35:00.000-04:00Hmm. . will chew on the Herzog question. First th...Hmm. . will chew on the Herzog question. First thoughts are that I find him to be remarkably fluid as a director but I may be buffaloed by the throughlines rather than the editing. <BR/><BR/><I>Heart of Glass</I> is a tough one, in any case.<BR/><BR/>Go see <I>Grizzly Man</I> - one of the best movies of the year and almost a shoo-in for this year's best of.<BR/><BR/>Want to ditto, too, Dave's Walter_Chawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14314737706201691225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126040909628477232005-09-06T17:08:00.000-04:002005-09-06T17:08:00.000-04:00Changing the topis... I rented herzog's "heart of ...Changing the topis... I rented herzog's "heart of glass" last night. tried to watch it but after half-an-hour i just had absolutely no fucking clue what the film was about. so i turned it off. i might try it out one more time before returning. i'm a big fan of herzog, more in spirit than in content. but i love "aguire", "fitzcaraldo" and <BR/>"stroszek". don't care much for the rest. one thing Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126032087991320452005-09-06T14:41:00.000-04:002005-09-06T14:41:00.000-04:00Yikes. Only on the web, would the use of proper pu...Yikes. Only on the web, would the use of proper punctuation be interpreted as an act of spite--and I can't speak for everyone, including: "Hollow Stuffed Man"--but I'm very calmly, deliberately disagreeing with some of your points--nothing else. I think this blog is a great idea, and I love the debate--so, unless someone is being deliberately rude or inconsiderate--can we just assume that no one Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126030574506276422005-09-06T14:16:00.000-04:002005-09-06T14:16:00.000-04:00Touche? But calm down. You're assuming that's all ...Touche? But calm down. You're assuming that's all I think film critics are good for. Why would I give a damn if he was occassionally "insightful" if all I needed to know was whether he gave the film a thumbs up or a thumbs down? And, moreoever, why would I be reading a film blog? My response, while confrontational, was not so much universal as it was addressed to people who think Ebert can't Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1126027277540956882005-09-06T13:21:00.000-04:002005-09-06T13:21:00.000-04:00That's exactly the thing... i can see through the ...That's exactly the thing... i can see through the BS he dishes out, in the name of *** reviews, that he gives. "million dollar baby" was so fucking overhyped. hollywood was just goin' gaga over that one. i've seen it twice and i have no flucking clue about what makes it a masterpeice. to me, last year, the best film was "3-Iron" by kim ki-duk which i saw in Toronto IFF and best american film wasHollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.com