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Did anyone else apart from me laugh their ass off all the way through?


Thought this film was feckin' hilarious!

Klaus Kinski walking around slanted with hunchback

The way he throws that monkey away at the end

Claims that he will conquer then marry his own daughter even though she is dead by that point

Says that all deserters will be chopped into 157(?) pieces and trampled on until they can be used to paint walls

The way the monk patronises the mistress when she protests her lover's innocence "don't worry my dear, we can see why you are confused"

When Kinski goes mental at the horse (unscripted?)

Kinski chops potential deserter's head off while he is counting up to ten and then shot cuts to severed head that says "ten"

At end of film voiceover says that one of the men drank ink thinking it was medicine

The elected king states that they have conquered everything to their left and right even though they are on a plank of wood drifting down the middle of the river

Oh and Kinski is just mesmerising and I cannot believe Werner Herzog was just 28 when he directed this.

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I was expecting a serious adventure but it turned into a comedy. Some of it unintentional. The horrible dubbing did not help. It was like watching a Monty Python film now and then.



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"Some of it unintentional".

O yea? How would you know?



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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The dubbing alone does it for me.

I'm not sure was the crab-like walking of Kinski supposed to be funny but I found it so. An his helmet.



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personally i cracked up at the first time you see playing the panpipes. It's the most awkward scene ive ever seen lol
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I ate my twin in the womb. :<

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you're not the only one, i was LMFAO with this movie

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XD, definitely, I have no idea what I just watched. But it was hilarious.

*Duke

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That hallucination scene with the priest was also pretty out there!

nobody lives forever...

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NO

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Totally agree lol - the crazy and absurd elements of the primary characters /story really makes this feel like The Office if it were set in the 16th century. A lot of Aguirre's lines and antics really seems like shit that Dwight Schrute would say and do lol.
All that it is missing here are the interview moments.

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