Baumer's live reaction to Hard to be a God | And some other people subject themselves to it as well

[baumer]

I think I might crack open the bottle of wolf last sitting next to me. I might need it to get through this movie. Now there is some enormous fat guy sitting in the rain. He's spitting up a bunch of spew and there's chickens behind him. More chickens.

[baumer]

1 minute ago, Fancyarcher said:

This is gonna be so epic. Fun fact, this was the director's last film, and he spent a real long-time trying to get the film made. 

 

Some of you guys know way too much about film LOL.

[75Live]

1 minute ago, baumer said:

I think I might crack open the bottle of wolf last sitting next to me. I might need it to get through this movie. Now there is some enormous fat guy sitting in the rain. He's spitting up a bunch of spew and there's chickens behind him. More chickens.

 

wait until you find out that the chicken's represent life and a vegan way of living

 

 

 

[baumer]

The direction is very interesting so far. There has not been a lot of cuts so far. The camera is just moving fluidly from one scene to the next and the actors are doing a pretty good job of it.

[CJohn]

12 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

Your god is calling to you, @CJohn.

Soon

[Plain Old Tele]

Whenever you're asking "Why?!" or "What?!" or "WTF!", one good thing to know is both the original book and the movie were made as a direct response to Stalin and totalitarianism. Make of that what you will.  

[Fancyarcher]

3 minutes ago, baumer said:

 

Some of you guys know way too much about film LOL.

 

 

 

I'm also aware of the 1989 film based off the same book that features Herzog in a role. Yeah, I'm such a film geek! 

Edited January 30, 2017 by Fancyarcher

[baumer]

I think some guy just rub shit all over his face. I can't really tell if it's blood or shit or raspberry jam.

[baumer]

Please enlighten me. How did you guys even find this movie or even hear about it?

[That One Girl]

Next time @baumer should react to that movie that is 35 days long.

[Jake Gittes]

C'mon give us all unlimited likes for the next three hours

[baumer]

Im about 20 minutes in and not really sure whats going on.

[baumer]

Wait...so many of u have seen this? 

[Plain Old Tele]

1 minute ago, baumer said:

Wait...so many of u have seen this? 

 

I think only @CoolioD1 and maybe @Jake Gittes?

[baumer]

Okay now these guys are serenading a chicken. They are both whistling while one guy holds a chicken and strokes it. I'm scared now.

[Plain Old Tele]

9 minutes ago, baumer said:

Please enlighten me. How did you guys even find this movie or even hear about it?

 

I read a rave review of it and then one day noticed it was on Netflix. What did I have to lose? Only three hours.

[CoolioD1]

i once programmed an experimental short film festival. if you think this is bad i've seen hell. it's not this but it's a bunch of young filmmakers who think they're this.

[Plain Old Tele]

Just now, CoolioD1 said:

i once programmed an experimental short film festival. if you think this is bad i've seen hell. it's not this but it's a bunch of young filmmakers who think they're this.

 

Pretentious student filmmakers are the worst. And every student filmmaker is pretentious.

 

 

 

(Speaking as an ex-student filmmaker, and a pretentious one at that).

[baumer]

Ok, I'm going to go dark for about 15 minutes...going to try to get what's going on.

[Jake Gittes]

8 minutes ago, baumer said:

Please enlighten me. How did you guys even find this movie or even hear about it?

 

The novel it's based on is a sci-fi classic here and the movie was a pretty big deal even if not a commercial hit for obvious reasons. The director was also a major figure in Soviet/Russian cinema, and the movie was additionally notorious for spending about a decade in production and then post-production. And of course it was more than uncompromising and wild enough to attract attention in the West too.