Unbelievably lengthy and boring piece of garbage

Rating: 1/10 (31 January 2015)

I picked this film up because of the IMDb-rating, and its status as an all time classic. I watched it in three sessions now... Why not all at once? Because i simply was not able to stand the incredibly annoying music (expecially the retarded chant-like voices, which you must suffer for tens of MINUTES for no reason at all!) and the repeating of ever the same pictures any longer than 45 minutes. The movie could have been somewhat enjoyable without 1) this abomination of a soundtrack. Yes, even the classical music which was used and is SO praised by the simple people here who call themselves intellectuals, doesn't fit the theme of the film in slightest. And 2) if it was shortened by (not to!) two hours, to leave the lengthy crap out. Mind you, there is barely any conversation for the whole two hours. This film is a total waste of time, even back then, when the visuals where still outstanding for their time, i am positively certain i would have fallen asleep in the theater.