DT
14Aug11
The Playboy bunnies are in the theatrical cut as well, if I'm not mistaken.
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Douglas Reese
26Apr12
A nightmarish and surrealistic take on how the mind processes both violence before and after it has been inflicted. It's not a finger-wagging film or social piece, but a journey through hell. Dark, vicious, and alluring. It's easy to be seduced into Coppola's world.
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Howard Orr
27Dec11
A film so intrinsically about the self-referentiality of the contemporary world and the insatiable human desire for both mystery and self-immolation that I always give this the nod over The Godfather films.
Christopher A. Cook
23Dec11
Coppola took all his madness, all the horror, all the death he witnessed in the war into the jungle and made a movie. It shows, even if you don't like the film you can't call bullshit on it, it IS a war film. You can just see there is truth ingrained in the film. I think Coppola left alot of himself behind in the jungle when he was finished with this film, and I would like to think that he was the btter for it.
Joe DiCastro
10Oct11
The recent Bluray version of Apocalypse Now is the most beautiful version of the film I've ever seen. Storaro's images literally explode off the screen. The sound quality is also the best I've ever heard. Murch, et al's work is astonishing and if you've never really listened to the film it's hard to say you've ever really seen it then.
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Gonzalo Caride
7Oct11
Love "Apocalypse Now" and "Apocalypse Now Redux". but this last version they premiere a few months ago... Way less wild, mad, engaging. It seems that years went by and Walter Murch's interpretation of hell became soft and sweet. By the way, have you ever seen a movie with so many characters looking at you directly in the eye? Another brilliant touch by Coppola, one of many.
Jack Lehtonen
3Oct11
This is one of the great Mad Films. Many have commented on its journey into the dark reaches of the human soul, so I wont go there. But its haunting invocation of death, from the sampan to Chief's spear, sends shivers up my spine every single time (and I've seen it many times). There is no other film I can think of in which the hellish production actually fed the brilliance of the work.
Llawrence
13Sep11
Brilliantly filmed and casted movie. Everything is in it's place and seems right to me, although I have an empty feeling. What does this film wants to tell us? I know anti-war messages and all obvious things but when Kurtz's monologue shows how empty this film is. It's a classic though.
Electrorules
8Sep11
My favourite film of all time. Its sums up war (and especially the vietnam war) brilliantly. Stellar performances from all..total insanity.
ShortRaver
3Sep11
What gets me hooked with this film is that through all that madness and chaos of war, a little sense of eeriness just pushes through. I guess it's those moments of peace between battle sequences that hits home, where there is a false sense of security with the characters. And I still can't get over the battles! The wide shots are all breathtaking and you really feel the scope of the scene. Best war film to date!
FailedImitator
27Jul11
I'm embarrassed to say how long it actually took me to finishing watching Redux. In my defense, I always watch at night -- just as I'm about to go to bed. I haven't seen the original, but from all I've read, it seems I'm going to enjoy it more. I didn't care for the French plantation or the Playboy bunnies either. That being said, this film is epic and the lighting alone is worth 4 stars.
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FailedImitator
14Aug11
There are two scenes with the playboy bunnies on Redux whereas there's only one in the Theatrical cut. At least that's what I read.
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Tom Barnard
24Jul11
It's everything a film should be: chaos on the inside and out, delusional, beautiful, and utterly mesmerising.
asuraf
12Jul11
Coppola goes into the jungle, comes out with one of the most hallucinatory war films ever shot, and never makes a great film again. What a way to end the decade.
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Garry Eunson
1Jul11
I found this film uneven, with some great cinematic moments leading up the climax, which I was a big let down. John Houston & Orson Welles would have made a better film, in half the time, on a sound stage. Though I think Coppola tips a hat at there films, by setting the ending in jungle temple. For all that the film looks great on the big screen, & witty critique of late 1960's politics.
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Garry Eunson
2Jul11
Did any one notice the opening of somewhere is very similar to Apocalypse Now? With a racing car standing in for a chopper.
Erwin Figueroa
21Jun11
An orgasmic experience. This is the epitome of film editing, both visual and sound. Cinematography immaculate. The direction superb. Not everyone's cup of tea, but for people that like surreal, psychological and intense movies, there's non better.
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