holy shit
>>214835149Turns out, lil monkey fella
>>214835149looks good. modern movies can not even come close to these.
>>214835149Great film. Watch Apocalypse Now right after and if you haven't read picrel.
>>214835149Is it in Portuguese and can I watch it on Hotflix?
>>214835149apocalypse now is better
>>214835149The opening and final shots are pure kino. rest is forgettable
Do you watch it in English or German? German is like watching good bad ugly in italian
>>214835251It's terrible.Fitzcaraldo was infinitely better.
>>214835149Pretty boring, too bad they didn't have the budget to make a more accurate adaptation of the actual historical events. Irl his crew survived the trip down the river out to the Atlantic, "conquered" an island in his name, taking it from Spain and then Aguirre was killed by the Spanish for treason.
>>214835344The only memorable part is that guy playing the flutehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJC91C6KvYY
>>214835149So underwhelming. Even the nature shots and scenes weren't really good. Not bad, but not good either. And it's like there's no love for details, the costumes were bad, the effects were bad, it's just not a good movie that's carried to 99% by Kinski being Kinski. I think Herzog just did a great job selling the making of story. Frankly, Cannibal Holocaust is a much better Amazonian jungle movie. It's overall a massively underrated movie, i think because people unfairly reduce it to gore porn with a silly name.
>>214835304I tried reading it but it drags on for so fucking long so slowly, couldn't finish it.
>>214835805the english dub is terrible
>>214837148yes my nigger i occassionaly remember this scene and watch it
>>214835304>white man bad!not reading that shit. movie is good though
>>214837241It's an extremely short book...
I heard the BFI's new 4K release is bad
>>214837241>so fucking long so slowlythe fuck are you talking about. you can finish the book in 2 hours.
>>214838040More like white man can't change anything with the instincts of nature. Retards on this board i swear.
>>214837203I think you have really shitty taste. For atmosphere Aguirre is practically unrivalled and is a truly great cinematic achievement. Herzog wasn't trying to create 'nature shots', static frames, pretty pictures, but have the camera move freely though the forest as if you were really there in 16th century South America. Whatever flaws there are in the costumes, or some of the acting, can be completely forgotten because of the brilliant overall impression of the movie.
>>214838216>but have the camera move freely though the forest as if you were really there in 16th century South AmericaWhat a shitty excuse for doing boring, uninspired camera work.
>>214838199what? the book is literally anti-colonialism slop
>>214838261Yeah. Colonialism in africa was a fucking mistake. The true graveyard of empires
>>214838261>being anti colonialism is anti-whiteHoly retard. it is true about the horse show theory. Only white middle class communists and retard neo nazis could say this.
The intro is kino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dbBur_bSUE
>>214838310Yeah I was watching thinking they'd never allow that in modern movies for safety reasons. theyd cgi it or something
>>214838216>Herzog wasn't trying to create 'nature shots', static frames, pretty pictures, but have the camera move freely though the forest as if you were really there in 16th century South AmericaWell he failed. It felt like following a high school theatre class through a forest while they're trying to do play set in the 1500s. You're just one of those pretentious goons who can't let anything tarnish the reputation of their shitty artsy fartsy cult movie. Even the motherfucking mission was a better period piece set in the 1500s.
>>214838252Anon, you clearly have a very cliched idea of what 'good camerawork' is, because there was nothing visually boring about Aguirre. Pic related is not 'shitty camerawork' just because its movement is very free, rather in grabs your attention like very little else can. And most of the film is not filmed in such a style, it has plenty of compositional intelligence.
>>214838414insane set piece
>>214838413Sure, it's not a perfect movie, but it's undoubtedly the work of a brilliant director and Kinski does a great job as well. If you can't see anything good in the movie, if you weren't in the slightest intrigued by the atmosphere, then you're literally too retarded for art.
>>214835149You're talking about Herzogs ACTUAL genius movies Stroszek, Kaspar Hauser, and Even Dwarfs right, not mid slop like Aguirre?
>>214838489I agree with your first sentence. Aguirre is just one of his worst movies. I'm not saying it's really bad, it's just not very good either. It's massively overrated.
>>214835149The real life story of aguirre is even more bonkers
>>214838617I just think the highpoints of the movie are among the greatest achievements of Herzog's oeuvre. Those highpoints deserve admiration.
>>214837203Cannibal Holocaust isn't talked about because they tortured and killed animals and mistreated most of the cast. Ironically Herzog has done the same throughout his whole career but people ignore it because he markets himself well. I agree Aguirre isn't a great film and I never bought into it's world for a second.
>>214838304It's obviously true. 90% of anti-colonialism will inevitably turn to seek revenge on the colonizers.
Cobra Verde is even better
