Definitely not crap. Did anyone read that interview where he got shot by someone when meeting up with the interviewing journalist? It was just a wing with a pellet gun/.22 at-long-range, but he just shrugged it off to 'those troubled kids' and started up the interview...

Steve V. wrote:Not crap, if only for the fact that Stroszek was the last thing Ian Curtis watched before he did the rope around the throat deal.

His films are incredible.

I've got to see what the fuss is about.

I'm a huge fan. Not Crap, without a doubt...

That said, I often find it hard to watch a Herzog film with other people in the room. I have to watch them when I'm alone, otherwise I just get really edgy...

The scenes of Stroszek that were shot in Wisconsin kind of connect two parts of my brain together...

just saw a very interesting documentary called Burden of Dreams, which deals with herzog a lot. its sort of a "making of" documentary about his film Fitzcarraldo with Klaus Kinski.

NEWSFLASH: ian curtis killed himself because he wanted to die...it had nothing to do with herzogs movie....get over it already.

rayj wrote:Did anyone read that interview where he got shot by someone when meeting up with the interviewing journalist? It was just a wing with a pellet gun/.22 at-long-range, but he just shrugged it off to 'those troubled kids' and started up the interview...

Yeah, I remember hearing about that and thinking it was literally the funniest thing that ever happened. I think Herzog is a legend among legends among legends. He's the real deal.

rayj wrote:Did anyone read that interview where he got shot by someone when meeting up with the interviewing journalist? It was just a wing with a pellet gun/.22 at-long-range, but he just shrugged it off to 'those troubled kids' and started up the interview...

"It's not a significant bullet."

Wim Wender's Kings of the Road blows away any of his movies.

Herzog's Aguirre is my favorite film, or if it isn't it is certainly up there, but he cannot make a good movie without another person. Be it Kinski (the best), Bruno S., or Deiter Dengler, Herzog isn't self sufficient like, let's say, Fassbinder, who I think is the most talented of the German new Wave directors.

As for Wim Wenders? Maybe if all of his movies were cut in half. He has Bruno Ganz and Nick Cave going for him, but the rest? zzzzzzzzzzz...

Ace wrote:Herzog's Aguirre is my favorite film, or if it isn't it is certainly up there, but he cannot make a good movie without another person. Be it Kinski (the best), Bruno S., or Deiter Dengler, Herzog isn't self sufficient like, let's say, Fassbinder, who I think is the most talented of the German new Wave directors.

As for Wim Wenders? Maybe if all of his movies were cut in half. He has Bruno Ganz and Nick Cave going for him, but the rest? zzzzzzzzzzz...

Obviously you haven't seen Kings of the Road. It is still better than any Herzog combined.