What Movies Have You Watched Recently?

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The Day After Tomorrow : IMDB : 2004 :
I've actually was avoiding watching this movie from it's release. Just no desire to see it. Now that I've seen it, I have to admit, I was wrong. A lot better than I thought it would be. The special effects are probably the best I've seen in a movie in a long time. The attention to detail is fantastic. Either the tornadoes or the water rushing into New York City and reacting to everything it touches, like real water. There are some standard movie parts/kinda cliche moments but its still done well. I'm glad now that I did actually see it. (and Emily Rossum)

Plot: When global warming causes world wide disasters and leads to an ice age, a climatologist named Jack Hall tries to rescue his son Sam who is trapped in New York. Jack must go from Washington D.C. to New York, but on the way some things happen. Can Jack rescue his son?

[diebitter]

I found a bit more about it. I remembered it all completely wrong. It was actually a shot to the abdomen, and it was an air rifle - but it drew blood. Herzog's comments when shrugging it off were 'it wasn't a significant bullet'.


Here's a link to the incident, though it's not working for me:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/u...rm_4681050.stm

If it works for you, anyone, let us know what really happened.

[Blarg]

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blarg, yes, but did you like incident at loch ness? though, that's maybe not the best example to use, as he wrote but didn't direct it. invincible is really the one that i was referring to. it's still fiction.

carter, ok, i'm convinced. i have to watch aguirre, today.

edit: i kind of suspect i'll come back and tell you i didn't like it. we'll see.

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He did direct it. You got levelled.

[rothko]

carter, ok, that's way more believable. your "memory" didn't seem quite plausible.

anyway, in the clip herzog gets shot and reacts immediately. they leave the area and herzog just says it's not a big deal, which it wasn't.

i like your account better.

[diebitter]

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carter, ok, that's way more believable. your "memory" didn't seem quite plausible.

anyway, in the clip herzog gets shot and reacts immediately. they leave the area and herzog just says it's not a big deal, which it wasn't.

i like your account better.

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oh, I still haven't seen it. My account is based on Kermode's rendition of what happened, not first-hand viewing of it by me.

[rothko]

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blarg, yes, but did you like incident at loch ness? though, that's maybe not the best example to use, as he wrote but didn't direct it. invincible is really the one that i was referring to. it's still fiction.

carter, ok, i'm convinced. i have to watch aguirre, today.

edit: i kind of suspect i'll come back and tell you i didn't like it. we'll see.

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He did direct it. You got levelled.

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um, no, i just checked imdb and i was right, so not sure what you're talking about.

also, you still didn't answer my question.

[rothko]

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oh, I still haven't seen it. My account is based on Kermode's rendition of what happened, not first-hand viewing of it by me.

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yes, i got that.

also, from imdb:

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The interview was resumed indoors and at the end Herzog was encouraged to check his wound. Though there was "a bruise the size of a snooker ball, with a hole in it." Herzog declared "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."

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[Blarg]

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blarg, yes, but did you like incident at loch ness? though, that's maybe not the best example to use, as he wrote but didn't direct it. invincible is really the one that i was referring to. it's still fiction.

carter, ok, i'm convinced. i have to watch aguirre, today.

edit: i kind of suspect i'll come back and tell you i didn't like it. we'll see.

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He did direct it. You got levelled.

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um, no, i just checked imdb and i was right, so not sure what you're talking about.

also, you still didn't answer my question.

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I know that it's not his name on the directing credit, but I find it hard not to believe he's almost entirely responsible for it.

I liked Loch Ness, but it was not one of my favorites of his. I do think he's going in an interesting direction with this kind of thing, though.

From Roger Ebert:

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Rather than say exactly what I think about the veracity of "Incident at Loch Ness," let me tell you a story. A few years ago at the Telluride Film Festival, Herzog invited me to his hotel room to see videos of two of his new documentaries. One was about the Jesus figures of Russia, men who dress, act and speak like Jesus and walk through the land being supported by their disciples. The other was about a town whose citizens believe that a city of angels exists on the bottom of a deep lake and can be seen through the ice at the beginning of winter. Wait too long, and the ice is too thick to see through. Crawl onto the ice too soon, and you fall in.

Herzog has made many great documentaries in his career, and I was enthralled by both of these. He's a master of the cinema, with an instinct for the bizarre and unexpected. After I saw the films, he said he only had one more thing to tell me: Both of the documentaries were complete fiction.

To what degree "Incident at Loch Ness" is truthful is something you will have to decide. Indeed, that's part of the fun, since some scenes are either clearly real, or exactly the same as if they were. Watching the movie is an entertaining exercise in forensic viewing, and the insidious thing is, even if it is a con, who is the conner and who is the connee?

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[rothko]

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I know that it's not his name on the directing credit, but I find it hard not to believe he's almost entirely responsible for it.

I liked Loch Ness, but it was not one of my favorites of his. I do think he's going in an interesting direction with this kind of thing, though.

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blarg, oh ok, i see what you meant. you're referring to how the whole movie is a mockumentary and the viewer is "supposed" to think it's real, but it's not. you're arguing that herzog not being listed as the director is just part of the joke. correct? suppose that possible, but zak penn is a director/writer/producer and is listed as co-writer of incident. herzog likely helped to direct, but whether or not it's almost entirely his picture or not, as you suggest, is up for debate, i guess and doesn't really matter.

also, i haven't seen any of his new documentaries, but i suspect they are all very good and look forward to watching them. my losing his edge comment referred to his later fictional films, ie. invincible.

[Blarg]

Ah, haven't seen that one.

I've seen Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, Even Dwarves Started Small, Nosferatu, Burden of Dreams, Grizzly Man, Loch Ness, Werner Herzog Eats his Shoe, My Best Fiend, and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. I've got Little Dieter Needs to Fly around here somewhere, but haven't seen it yet.