So, Tejas takes a young man and blasts him into the hellish depths of black gloom-- wandering with an empty water bottle through the desert of life -- muttering incoherent diatribes against devil women or sitting in stunned silence as the Rio Grande flows sluggishly to perdition. You wouldn't know why that happens, would you JJ?
Wish him luck.
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Ah, Paris, Texas. A great movie, forever formed my mental image of the state (which I never visited, except for a brief stopover in Ft. Worth on the way to Red Stick.)
AA, this doesn;t count. It's not Columbia.
BTW, AA, you're writing like Herzog.
FWIW JJ, Kinski had a beef with how Herzog spoke, not wrote. Herzog wrote pretty damn well.That makes three failed thrusts with the epee of wit. Enter Roma a genius, leave Roma a Duncenello. Sad.
Down and Out in Paris, Texas.
I think Kinski and Herzog had a falling out and couldn't stand each other after in any way. If you have seen this you'll see Kinski's point.
Grizzly Man is to Herzog what Eyes Wide Shut was to Kubrick.
I've only dipped in and out of your discussion between this Herzog and Kinski, but just for my own context, are you referring to Klaus Kinski?
Grizzly Man was pretty damn bad.
MFT: Yes, Klaus Kinski. For the lovelier Kinski we'd have to be referring to "Cat People" or some flick like that.
JJ: Yes, Grizzly Man was pretty damn bad. Eyes Wide Shut was even worse [and given a movie with a chance for a lot of girlflesh to show, that doing some damn doing].
So let a guy write/film/compose/paint/mathematify long enough, then even a genius has a high chance of putting out something awful embarassing.
Unlike us. We get to that awful embarassing stage muy pronto.
Eyes Wide Shut was a lot better than Grizzly Man.
Sadly, no. It was pathetic. The only reasonable strategy in "viewing" it is to fast forward it to the too few spots were female flesh shines forth, the audio on mute, and then put it on slow play for those few minutes. Easily the worst movie Kidman has been in, and-- much more telling-- the worst Cruise has been in.
Unfortunately it cannot be fast forwarded at a movie theater. All you can do there is take your popcorn and try to sneak past the hall monitors to find another screen with some less hideous flick. Such as Debbie Does Dallas Numero 666. However, even Alien vs Predator vs Mothra (III) will do.
But, yes, Grizzly was awful. With one saving grace; watching a Planet Pepeteer learning what it means to sink your teeth into a problem.
Here's the last Klaus Kinski film I remember taking in some years ago as "Aguirre, the Wrath of God." I think some Wall Street tycoons have taken it in as well. They didn't watch it to the end, though.
A movie I recall with very few words (sometimes one can say more by not saying anything at all).
Here's Aguirre up what today is called "shit creek."
"Aguirre" is a brilliant, haunting, story.
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