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Dec. 27th, 2005 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauralhugh, my head hurts.
So we watched Incident at Loch Ness the other day, and I have to say it's probably one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. The best comparison I can give is that it's a parody of "Lost in La Mancha", except that the film it's covering the making-of is a documentary about the Loch Ness monster, and also, the film isn't real anyway. So it's a mockumentary of a mockumentary. Not only that, but there are only a few actual actors. Everyone else is a real director or DP or sound guy or screenwriter. It's somewhat convoluted, and I imagine anyone going to see it with no advance knowledge would be having a few Blair Witch moments. Basically, two guys are making a documentary about this German B-movie director's life, and they splice together the weeks that he is making the documentary about Nessie. But the producer of that documentary has a different idea of where the film should go, and doesn't let on to the director.
"Funnier than Waiting for Guffman" is my ringing endorsement.
So we watched Incident at Loch Ness the other day, and I have to say it's probably one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. The best comparison I can give is that it's a parody of "Lost in La Mancha", except that the film it's covering the making-of is a documentary about the Loch Ness monster, and also, the film isn't real anyway. So it's a mockumentary of a mockumentary. Not only that, but there are only a few actual actors. Everyone else is a real director or DP or sound guy or screenwriter. It's somewhat convoluted, and I imagine anyone going to see it with no advance knowledge would be having a few Blair Witch moments. Basically, two guys are making a documentary about this German B-movie director's life, and they splice together the weeks that he is making the documentary about Nessie. But the producer of that documentary has a different idea of where the film should go, and doesn't let on to the director.
"Funnier than Waiting for Guffman" is my ringing endorsement.
