Could anyone explain why people gush over this film? It's a nice study of descent into madness. The picture is nice and painterly. Kinski is too perfect for the roles of madmen. But one of the best films of all time? Are you kidding me? It doesn't provoke any particularly strong emotions. The entire plot becomes 100% clear in the first 10 minutes. In spite of its short running time, it's often boring. Was there something about the time when it was released that made people overreact? I want to understand why people call this nice, but ordinary movie a masterpiece, because I'm not seeing it.
Could anyone explain why people gush over this film? It's a nice study of descent into madness...
Benjamin Torres
Juan Hill
What? No way!?
Easton Fisher
people praise the effort they went through to make the film. To even get it done entailed a level of dedication to kino that you wont ever see these days. And on top off that its a pretty good film.
Matthew Barnes
because it was on Martin Scorcese's essential films list and giant brain man must be aped by big brains
Tyler Russell
I hate the godfather. Stupid melodrama about criminal scum
Adrian James
I liked Fitzcarraldo better.
Eli Moore
I liked Nosferatu much better than both.
Hunter Myers
shitty soundtrack doesn't fit at all
Ayden King
Basically this was made during a time when the most ambitious film of the time was 2001 and it was all made on a set with computer. This german nigger came and reminded everyone of the true passionate ways of making cinema. I think Tarkovsky was close but had almost no recognition in the west. Aguirre also influenced countless other directors with the whole "descent into madness" now-meme, Coppola among them.
Carter Robinson
I agree. It's rubbish.