Stranded: I Have Come From
A Plane That Crashed
On The Mountains
It's Plane To See
Trailers & Mo
Did you see that 1993 movie
Alive, where
Ethan Hawke and a bunch of other non-Latin lookin actors pretended their hearts out trying to dramatize the hardships that them
Uruguayan rugby players endured back in 1972 when their plane crashed in the Andes mountains, and ultimately forced them to eat their deceased friends and family in order to stay... ALIVE? If your answer is yes, for the love of
Gob, forget that Hollywood nonsense and join the rest of us uninitiated by (yeah, we can't believe we never saw that movie either, but had to after...) seeing
Stranded: I Have Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains, a brand new unbelievable (seriously, it's truly not believable what happened to these peoples) and beyond captivating doc that tells this ultimate tale of survival from the actual survivors themselves. It isn't the first doc made on the subject, nor probably the last... there's actually a Martin Sheen narrated one entitled
Alive: 20 Years Later on the
Alive DVD, but with a runtime of 50ish minutes they barely scratch the emotional and harrowing surface of what went on.
Stranded is necessarily longer, clocking in at almost 2 hours, and covers more bases than the Yankees' infield in an entire season. A lot of these last men standing haven't spoken publicly about the tragic events in ages, so this rare recounting and reflection is to be watched and marveled at in udder awe. If the doc doesn't make it to yo town, be sure to add this, along with
Touching The Void and
Little Dieter Needs to Fly, two other equally HAMazin modern day survival doc tales, to your Netflix queue pronto tonto!
Alive and Wellness : be sure to czech out this
official website about the accident, set up by the survivors
Verdictgo:
Breast In ShowFear(s) of the Dark
(Peur(s) du noir)Have No
Fear(s)Trailers & Mo
Six highly touted comic and graphic artists (
Blutch,
Charles Burns,
Marie Caillou,
Pierre Di Sciullo,
Lorenzo Mattotti, and
Richard McGuire) have come together to make a really cool looking collection of scary stories (the bestest being the one about the creepy dude and his attack dogs) that overall turn out to be not very cool or all that scary. The mos frightening thing is having to read English subtitles for the French audio, which constantly averts our eyes away from feasting on the stark, yet beautiful black and white cartoons. It was eggscusable for
Persepolis, which was rich in story and dialog, but
Fear(s)' yarns are such yawns that subtitles or no subtitles, you're better off staying home and reading
Scary Stories to Tell in the DarkIchabod Cranium: in the house of Thighs, there's only one toon that's required viewing for Halloween,
Disney's The Legend of Sleepy HollowVerdictgo:
Sum Merit But No Stinkin Badgesboth films open in NYC today
until next thyme the balcony is clothed...
