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The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

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User Rating: 6.1/10 (829 votes)

Overview

Director:
Werner Herzog
Writer:
Werner Herzog (writer)
Release Date:
18 November 2005 (Italy) more
Genre:
Sci-Fi more
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
An unique and fascinating sci-fi film as poetry even if it is hard work here and there more

Cast

 (Credited cast)

Brad Dourif ... The Alien
Capt. Donald Williams ... Astronaut Commander
Dr. Ellen Baker ... Astronaut physician
Franklin Chang-Diaz ... Astronaut Plasma Physicist
Shannon Lucid ... Astronaut biochemist
Michael McCulley ... Astronaut pilot
Roger Diehl ... Mathematician
Ted Sweetser ... Mathematician
Martin Lo ... Mathematician
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Wake for Galileo (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
80 min
Country:
UK | USA | France | Germany
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The Antarctica footage comes courtesy of musician Henry Kaiser. more
Quotes:
The Alien: You know, our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfathers were fine scientists, but the journey was long and boring and when we got here, hundreds of hundreds and hundreds and hundreda and hundreds of years later, those of us who arrived here just... sucked. more

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37 out of 43 people found the following comment useful:-
An unique and fascinating sci-fi film as poetry even if it is hard work here and there, 25 September 2005
Author: bob the moo from Birmingham, UK

When their planet started to die, an alien race set out to evacuate the Andromeda system to other places within the universe that were inhabitable. Several of their ships reached Earth several generations later but by then the founding fathers had died off and left behind a lesser generation. On arrival on Earth things did not go as well as they had planned – attempts to build themselves a capital city to rival Washington DC end with a crumbling, desert collection of ruins. Looking at the journey itself and the problems they encountered, a surviving alien recalls the whole thing.

It would take a real talent to do it but if you were to take all the elements in the plot here you could easily produce an effects-heavy sci-fi epic that stretches over several films or books. So how much talent does it take to do just that using one actor, some expert contributors, underwater footage from under the ice flow and lots of stock footage? I'm not sure of the answer but the second way seems harder because it does deliver the goods in this fascinating film that dances along the line between interesting and pretentious. I found the story worked really well and the overall effect was to produce a sci-fi film as poetry, full of ideas and emotions. It is hard to describe but I found it effortlessly engaging and enjoyed it a great deal.

Of course the delivery was always going to be challenging and I can understand why it has got such a low rating on this very site. It is not a Hollywood sci-fi film, in fact it is not an easy film to put into a box and sell in such a marketplace because it is so unique. The direction is very daring and mostly works because the writing is there to do it. The dialogue is the story and it is very well delivered by Dourif to the point where he is never less than fascinating due to his words but also his convincing delivery of those words. The use of stock footage and locations that are very non-sci-fi are carried by Dourif's story telling but the problems come when he is absent for longer than a few minutes. Extended footage of diving below the ice sheet is interesting but it is the same thing over and over so, without a narrator to move us on and keep us interested, I felt that the film got close to boring. Fortunately this only happens a handful of times. The musical score is again very unusual for sci-fi but it does capture a strange sort of otherworldy sombre air.

Overall then this will probably put most viewers off very quickly. It is as much a piece of poetry as it is a piece of cinema and it is certainly not what you expect from a "sci-fi epic" although that is unquestionably what the story is. At times boring, the film is generally very engaging and interesting and it is well worth checking out to experience it as much as anything else.

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