I don’t know why but, I am fascinated with Antarctica.
I can’t remember the last time I went to a movie. But, I may have to get past my hermit like tendency and go to see this new Werner Herzog documentary, “Encounters at the End of the World”. From Variety.
Herzog begins at the populated research center McMurdo Station, with its yoga studios and ATMs, and journeys deeper into the vast landscape of the South Pole.
Like I say, I don’t go to a lot of movies so, I couldn’t sit and discuss the nuances of style particular to different filmmakers. But, I have seen some of Herzog’s work, well one film, “Grizzly Man”.
Have you seen “Grizzly Man”? This was a movie I saw on some cable network and I went around for weeks saying; “You got to see this crazy ass movie”, to everyone I encountered. I never do that. “Grizzly Man” is about this guy, Timothy Treadwell, who went to live with the grizzly bears; be their friend and protect them. He seemed to see himself as some kind of noble warrior instead of a nut. In the end, he was eaten by a bear-go figure. Along the way, he filmed his experience and Herzog took all that footage, and his own after the fact stuff and made a great, unsettling movie.
Here is the “Grizzly Man” trailer if you have never seen it.
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Tags: antarctica, Encounters at the End of the World, grizzly bears, Grizzly Man, timothy treadwell, werner herzog
Kenski wrote,
Dammit, I *was* going to watch Grizzly Man, but now I know how it ends!
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Link | March 12th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Pribek wrote,
Oh Crap! I’m sorry Kenski. I hate that when somebody does that to me; gives away the ending. I had the same thing happen with “Passion Of The Christ”.
Link | March 12th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Pat wrote,
YOU guys were both watching the theatre release copy — Check out the director’s uncut, no-rating, grindhouse special Grizz’ Man version, yes the bear eats Treadwell, sure… there is much, much more
..you see, the eatup grizzly in a few days meets up with a Monstrous Python that does battle with the bear who ate Tim Treadwell. And it was caught on camera, although while being filmed with a less than perfect camera; so it winds up at the end like a home movie.
Well, you guessed it, the event attracts a crowd that was just watching the seventeenth hole at the adjacent golf course featuring Billy Cannon, and Larry Czonka playing the Godzilla Old-timers Scramble best-ball blood-match. Both men had been over-shooting the greens all day; repeatedly getting 300 yards with their sand wedges.
It turns out, the python had been released by a family who had to move from their lovely golfcourse-side house. Mr Python had little competition, and plenty of illegal alien turf tenders to munch over the years, so he grew, and grew, and grew.
At 25 feet long plus change, the snake has a substantial girth, unknown weightiness… a super heavy weight. I’ve heard when one this size is hungry, it goes for pretty much what it considers apettizing; you know the old joke “What does a 25 foot python eat?” Whatever it wants to…
And so the 25 foot long python has the bear… [who by the way is no slouch himself after just eating the mas-y-minos two-hundred pound Treadwell]… firmly by the neck in a strangle hold, as the full tummied bear falls head first to the stoney golf cart trail, unable to bear the weight of the monster reptile. But this ultimate fighter champion Grizz does take many clawed peices of snake flesh with him… as the Python starts to put its huge, fanged, displaced mouth, out-of-joint and looking surreal, around the grizz’s head, and I have to turn away at this point. Everyone knows the future, having watched the animal channel.
The crowd recoils in disgust, and start to run away. All that gulping, ans salivating — It is a terrible sight to watch a snake ingest a big hairy beast whole. The process could take months: grotesque!! And the camera stops at this point with the film going flapiddy flapiddy. I always thereafter have thought “How great is that ending?”
I suppose it is a trip two old “‘the Fibson Gendercaster’” players can indulge for their art’s sake.
Yeah, I took the bait this morning!! So what? :pd
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Link | March 12th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Pribek wrote,
“best-ball blood-match”, heh….
Link | March 12th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Kenski (Fillmore Five Project) wrote,
“it winds up at the end like a home movie”
I think you’re confusing this film with the “Which Bear?” project…
Hey, look, as long as you don’t tell me how “Titanic” ends… I don’t care.
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Link | March 12th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Pribek wrote,
For me, Titanic ended with a long winter’s nap about 15 minutes in.
Link | March 12th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Pat wrote,
Sorry good friends, Kenski & Pribek, I can’t resist– the boat sinks, the tight and tan chick survives.. and Bruce Willis isn’t in it.
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Link | March 12th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Kenski wrote,
Well, if it doesn’t have Bruce in it then thanks, you’ve saved me the cost of a rental :-)
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Link | March 13th, 2008 at 9:12 am