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Lebenszeichen (1968)
Signs of Life is pure cinema
Signs of Life is one of the purest cinematic experiences in the history of film. For those unused to slow moving, simple stories the movie will probably seem painfully dull. The first time I saw it I was nearly driven crazy by the pace. It was my first Herzog movie and I was unused to movies that operated outside the Hollywood formula. But that feeling of going crazy is exactly what Herzog is trying to bring you to understand. He gets inside the boredom of his principal characters so that you viscerally understand what they are going through. When one of them finally snaps -- you understand. The visual poetry of this film will live with me forever. Herzog more than any director alive understands that a picture is worth a thousand words.
Twister (1996)
Twister is an overblown piece of cynical tripe
Twister is one of the first of a huge wave of disaster movies released in the last few years that hinge on computer animated effects and obviously spent more money on crafts services than the script. Cut and paste together a series of badly acted scenes that are stolen from movies that sucked in the first place and you have Twister. This is easily one of the worst films I have ever seen.