Incident at Loch Ness

[ER]

Unwatchable. Tedious. Just awful.

"We're out to explore the difference between truth and fact." Yeah, right.

Werner Herzog is usually involved in something worth watching, but I tried to sit through this mockumentary today when it was on IFC and it was incredibly icky. I know the joke that was trying to be pulled, the nature of what this movie was trying to be, but even so, it was simply irritating. A straightforward documentary about the search for Nessie, or barring that a documentary about those people assembled in the nominal search for Nessie, would have been better than this contrived exercise in annoyance.

As Elvira used to say: What a waste of perfectly good film!

[indianasmith]

About the only part I liked was when Nessie bumped their boat.  This confirms my oft-stated view that IFC does not believe in showing movies that real people actually enjoy watching.

[Jack]

I thought the first half was fairly amusing.  A fun mockumentary of low budget film making.  Unfortunately, when Nessie actually started appearing, well...it just did not work at all considering the whole tone that had been established up to that point.

[Raffine]

As a Herzog fan I found one bit hilarious. Werner is blasting the documetary maker about his methods and the director mutters "At least I didn't try to drag a boat over a mountain!"

[Allhallowsday]

About the only part I liked was when Nessie bumped their boat.

That's just about the only part I saw, and it was cool. 

This confirms my oft-stated view that IFC does not believe in showing movies that real people actually enjoy watching.

Totally disagree.  I'm real and I've in the last few months enjoyed watching:
COFFY (1973) FOXY BROWN (1974) TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975) A MEIA-NOITE LEVAREI SUA ALMA (aka AT MIDNIGHT I WILL TAKE YOUR SOUL ~ 1963) HALLOWEEN (1978) CIDADE DE DEUS (aka CITY OF GOD 2002) BEFORE NIGHT FALLS (2000) BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE (2002)... I can't remember them all, some I'd seen, others were new.  I sometimes watch HENRY ROLLINS (only for the music guests, frankly) plus "The Media Project" is a wonderful, intelligent program, there's also the documentary about the record producer who's name escapes me... I check out IFC every few hours. 

[indianasmith]

Further confirming my theory that you and I have some widely disparate tastes . . . 


Actually, I do enjoy when they show classic horror and when they replay O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU.  But so many independent films are stuffy, longwinded, pretentious stories about truly repulsive people.  But, to each his own.

Might I add, if they were truly an INDEPENDENT film channel, shouldn't they be airing a little TROMA goodness every now and then?