The Wild Blue Yonder

Name: The Wild Blue Yonder
Genre: Sci-Fi
Released: 2007-06-15
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker

20052005
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1h 20m

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6.1/10

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An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visits to Earth and Earth's man-made demise, while human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for surviving hu... Read allAn alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visits to Earth and Earth's man-made demise, while human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visits to Earth and Earth's man-made demise, while human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

3.7K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

29,214

279

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Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations

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Brad Dourif in The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

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Trivia
Multiple formats were used throughout the film. Footage shot in space was on standard 16mm, the underwater nature footage was on a consumer grade SD digital camera and interview footage with the scientists as well as the scenes with the Alien were on digital HD. The final edit was composed into an unspecified digital format and transferred to 35mm.

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.

Connections
Featured in Was ich bin sind meine Filme - Teil 2... nach 30 Jahren (2010)

Soundtracks
Bad News from Outer Space
Performed by Ernst Reijseger

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5/10

Sort of a Documentary

I respect Herzog and like how he goes in strange directions, but with that sometimes he wanders down the wrong path, or maybe wrong isn't the word. He sometimes wanders down a boring path. Somehow Herzog got his hands on some space footage and some antarctic underwater footage and thought he could compose that into a sci fi movie.

This is of course a visually distinctive journey and a must for all die hard Herzog fans, but I felt it was a bit too strange and far out. Brad Dourif plays an alien on earth who says he sucks at what he does or something along those lines, which is kind of funny.

Maybe you have to be in the right atmosphere to enjoy this journey, but if you are only going to see one Herzog film, don't make it this one.

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