riddler_von_stueban

Love the film... so much better than Jaws. They have an actual intelligent creature then in a simple eating machine that is a shark.. It has lots of 1970's cheese with Bo and other elements. It however has a touch of intelligence that is missing from other other movies then and now. The fact that the protagonist, draws the said "monster" to a location for the climax is believable. The early scene with the live abortion of the Oecas child is gruesome and horrifing from early in the film. You never once cheer for Richard Chamberlain...it's all about him trying to get the respect of the ocean back. He was once a give and put back man of the ocean and commercialism made him corrupt ...

I was a James woods fan since Videodrome.

My best friend and I went to our local movie theatre and saw this movie. As a kid but a fan of film at a really young age. My mother and I would watch movies that are now only on TMC now.

That's how I started learning film instead of watching movies.

Now I go from so bad it's good stuff to seeing techniques that were poorly reviewed to the same shots in other films to be "oh my goodness that is great". I'm paraphrasing obviously. 🙄 Anyway to rewatch this film is a conundrum ... Do I look at it as the new me sees the art or do I not and use the memory as a way to assess film now ?

This movie drew me in on one level only but made me look at Allen Arkin as another actor to follow.

So that's my dilemma.

The film to me was so out of my depth as I watched it. Then there was a sad strange feeling that I knew this story. I had seen it in standard TV series at the time but only ever touched on.

I was 17 and finally found that the joy of film is the most satisfying thing that became my escape to let my mind wander and reason to dig deep and realize that art is art and to judge a piece for its time.

Ok I think I've ranted enough.

Too limited if I could start with that. It barely touches the true depth of his body of work. This could have been a series 4,6 or 8 one hour episodes. I was so looking forward to this film and I didn't learn anything I didn't know before. It might be ok for someone who discovered Werner as a character on a Star Wars show and they wanted to know more.

His humbleness is seen here, his work ethic as well.

It just doesn't seem to get a full story. It doesn't show the grit and determination that is his passion and defiance to get the film made.

I wish Terry Gilliam could have been as successful as Werner has been.

Finally it is really no better a documentary than an average YouTube video and this man deserves a better movie about him.