Other than that, I don't have much else nice to say about this one. I just didn't get it. And I can't quite figure out why. It was a story about a group of Spanish explorers looking for El Dorado. Because of low food and rough terrain, a small group of them forge ahead to look for a place to settle and the plan is they will come back for the others. This smaller group basically falls apart when the Aguirre (from the title) orchestrates a coup (kinda sorta). So it's the story of the dismantling of this smaller group.
Werner Herzog is a prolific film maker. So I was intrigued to see this film. Maybe the reason I didn't like this film is as simple as I don't like Herzog's way of telling a story. There just seemed that there was a lot of stuff going on in the film - a lot of internal conflicts of the characters - that wasn't on the screen. Maybe it was because of the subtitles that some of this was lost. I'm not sure. I just really did not enjoy this movie.
One word to describe 'Aguirre, Wrath of God': Meh.
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