> Hypnotic

[Clip on Herzog commenting on how easy it is to hypnotize a chicken] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhMo4WlBmGM)

https://youtu.be/QhMo4WlBmGM

“The harmony of overwhelming and collective murder” is an all time classic Herzog quote.

So damn German. I love it.

Actually seems reasonable considering he got hit by an air rifle pellet. Still dangerous and potentially deadly but nowhere near the stopping power of a bullet.

I figured it must be something like that. Thank you I'll definitely check that doc out

I think it's because they wanted the oil to burn up instead of pool up everywhere for clean up purposes but I can't remember. "Fires of Kuwait" is a documentary about the cleanup that goes into all the nuts and bolts of it.

Herzog calls it 'ecstatic truth', and it is an artistic device, if you will. He wrote a whole manifesto on the concept, it is worth checking out. I personally love him for this - don't see him as a documentarian, looking for facts, but a composer who bends reality to serve a larger narrative. This is how I understand Herzog's storytelling method.

Seen in this light, various creation myths in many ways hold more meaning than our modern notion of the Big Bang. There is little drama in the Big Bang, no narrative, and thus it becomes a cold, dead concept we are unable to grasp with our feelings and senses. A giant had a fight and died, thus creating mountains? That makes total sense to me, if you see what I mean. Herzog doesn't deny the Big Bang, and neither do I, meaning is merely to be found beyond the looking glass.

This was absolutely gorgeous and tragic, I'm glad that I watched it but why did they reignite the flames? Actual madness?

Tubi is terrific! Great catalogue and the best selection of old classics, serials, B movies, weird tv specials and documentaries and it's free. Even if you don't like 90% of what's on offer, it's still free - and the ads aren't obnoxious, surprisingly.

Use the Youtube link, that works for everybody. Youtube

I see everyone leaves out the crucial part… it was an air rifle.

Well, it seems like you enjoy telling people they're sub-optimal and appear to lack compassion & disregard what other people write about their own experiences.

I took this course in about 1991 before the internet was much of a thing and even word processing was a clunky f-key driven mess. GUIs didn't exist in the consumer market. My university had only recently rolled out email. The course description didn't include any programming prerequisite. The course was described as a PSYCHOLOGY class without mention of the requirement to code. Sure, today, it would be reasonable to encounter & produce code in a graduate cognitive psych course. But in 1991, what i experienced was akin to showing up for a literature course and getting a calculus class instead. The phrases "AI" and "machine learning" weren't in popular circulation at that time. "Social media" and it's assorted algorithms weren't in existence. I assure you, i gave it a shot because i was interested but the instructor failed to teach HOW to do what he was requiring us to do. I suspect he didn't know what he was doing and was hoping to luck into a student project he could plagiarize or, at a minimum, lift code from. I got the distinct impression he wanted to do research in what became AI but didn't have the chops to get a grant and fund a lab. It was so egregiously off the mark from what the class was supposed to be (as described by the university's own published description) that i received a full refund despite having dropped the class outside the window to receive one. I wasn't the only student who dropped the course and filed a complaint.

And as, well, a nurse, i'm trained to save lives. I'm not sure if there's a profession which is called upon with more frequency to serve their communities. Good job being condescending! A+

Have a lovely day.

“Little Dieter Learns to Fly” was good too. One thing that bothers me about Herzog is his practice of (I think this is how he put it in an interview), “Lying to tell a bigger truth.” For example, in “Little Dieter,” he shows Dieter checking doors by opening and shutting them multiple times. In the commentary track, he said Dieter didn’t really do that in real life, but he added it to show how he had to remind himself that he was not captive. I think that was not necessary; any intelligent person could see that he was affected in many ways without this made-up detail. Another documentary (I think he one about blind people) starts with a fake quote from Pascal (made up by Herzog). Again, I don’t think that was necessary.

The last time I saw it I appreciated much more how meritorious were some smooth helicopter travellings on this film before the drone era.

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I saw this on the big screen when it was first released. It is utterly mind blowing.

Or the one where he recounts rescuing Joaquin Phoenix from a car crash. https://youtu.be/nDcnLfLaFiY

'Julianes Sturz in den dschungel'

Completely agree with you! xD I also enjoyed a lot 'Little Dieter Needs to Fly' (not so much the movie).

Not from Herzog I will recommend Deep Water (2006)

So, you went on to get a masters in a whole other discipline that had nothing to do with the course you were taking? And in, well, nursing. What does that have to do with the price of beef? If you had told me you went to get a masters in AI/machine learning/data science that would give your opinion a little more credence.

You curiously haven't said anything about the teacher's shortcoming as an educator, only that you were out of your depth in the class.

I have degrees (plural) from elite institutions. Guess I was the only one who learned to rise to a challenge from them.

I saw this on IMAX at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum way back when. Phenomenal

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It's the absolute best place for really old B-movies (including Japanese monster films) and christian propaganda films.

I'm not knocking it, I freaking love shitty old scifi movies.

It works in Australia, if that helps

Coming in clutch with the link !