#2023 werner herzog watch through

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Into The Inferno

Werner Herzog: Here I met a fascinating tribe of volcanologists...

*camera pans over a group of unconscious people in colourful anoraks*

Werner Herzog: ...some of them overcome by altitude sickness.

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Into the Abyss

There's not much for me to say given I think the death penalty is completely foul and Werner Herzog agrees. A real struggle to get through this one.

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Lessons in Darkness

I'm not sure if I came up with this, or if I read it somewhere, but a line kept going through my head while I was watching this. 'Every generation thinks theirs is the apocalypse'. For Werner, it was the Gulf War. It's tempting to point and laugh given our position thirty years later, but his portrayal is spectacular.

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The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

For such a short movie, it does exactly what it needs to. Rather than a man defying nature, this is the story of a man who respects his limits, while the rest of the world demands he defy them, at the cost of his own life and safety. It's a bookend to Grizzly Man, and you can feel Herzog's admiration for Steiner's determination to respect the laws of physics in every moment of that movie. Sublime.

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The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

A great many of these 'people do awesome thing and die as a result' movies has Herzog torn between awe and Picard facepalming.

In this he is solidly on the awe side due to the people in question actually doing their best to stay safe- as much as people studying volcanos can be- and were absolute experts in their field.

They respected nature in the way the guy in Grizzly Man didn't- but that didn't matter in the end. Volcanos don't care about your respect or precautions.

And holy crap but their footage was unreal.

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How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck?

Werner doesn't even try and talk in this one, his one attempt at German stymied by whatever passes for German in the Deep South of the US. Half the fun of watching this is putting on closed captions and watching the ai want to die trying to translate auctioneer speech.

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Little Deiter Needs to Fly

Werner Herzog doing an MSTK 3000 for an American War Informercial is something I never knew I needed.

Also Dieter, Refusing to condemn the Vietnam War doesn't make you like your granddad refusing to vote for Hitler. It just makes you a turd.

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Land of Silence and Darkness

Bitch, why are the blind deaf people being taken to a fucking cactus garden? Can't we have them touch, idk, a nice orchid or something?

Thay being said, you imagine what all these people have lived through, it was shot in 1971, and all of them at 70+ years old.

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Encounters at the End of the World

I image this would be his favourite movie, since it appears to be people entirely by different versions of himself. Antarctica is an continent of Werner Herzogs.

I am finally starting to feel inspirer to return to my Mythos story. Would people be interested in a story about a blind reporter who's grandmother was a Cthulhu cultist, falling in love with a Deep One, against the backdrop of the (possible) end of the world? Maybe include; radioactive shoggoths, grand theft auto-ing in an authomatic wheelchair, and cops getting eaten.

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Grizzly Man

1 hour 44 minutes of Werner Herzog doing this:

What a complete moron.