Marlon Brando,
Martin Sheen,
Robert Duvall,
Laurence Fishburne,
Dennis Hopper
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During the Vietnam War, the young American Captain Willard is given the assignment to hunt down and kill one of his own: Colonel Kurtz, who has apparently gone insane, murdered hundreds of innocent pe...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 20, 2001
Stats: 17,517 reviews
The most mind-blowing film of the 1970s. It is not quite the best war epic I have ever seen, but it comes pretty close. In my mind, it solidifies Francis Ford Coppola's place in cinematic history at least as much as The Godfather did, and the same for Marlon Brando as an actor.
One of the greatest films ever made. Historically one of the trickiest films to shoot, it?s amazing it ever got made! Thank fuck it did though, you know a film is good when after 3 hours you still want more! Credit due to Warner Herzog though, it was his idea and his film was har...( read more)
Great casting and plot, one of those movies that bring you in and mess with your head.
I don't know I gave this film 5 stars when I haven't even seen the whole movie. If the first half is as good as the second half, 5 stars is staying.
I may not like Brando's character and his long-winded, pseudo intellectual bullshit. But I love the rest of this harrowing and dazing war epic, starring an excellent, tired and stupefied Martin Sheen.
The attack to the vietnamese village with Wagner's die walküre itself is iconic...( read more)
No denying it. So much passion went into the making of this film it drips off the screen.
Coppola directed it, Sheen and Brando acting made this movie worth watching it.
I'm pretty sure that the first 20 or 30 times I watched this movie, I rated it much higher.
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The opening, with the whirling sound of choppers intercut with Willard sweating angst in his Saigon hotel bed, a jungle burning with napalm...remains a visual and aural wonder. full review
The film has one of the most haunting endings in cinema, a poetic evocation of what Kurtz has discovered, and what we hope not to discover for ourselves. full review
For any actor to be able to transform a role into one that becomes one of those rare cinematic icons of American culture, is almost always a good indication of the strength of the performance behind it.
Take Robert Duvall.
One of my favorite scenes is of Lt. Colonel Kilgore walking blithely around in the middle of blazing warzone as the shells, grenades & bullets exploding around him, while everyone else is shooting or running for cover. You can really tell the sincerty in his comment of liking the morning smell of napalm.
Which, BTW, is a view that I find myself not sharing.
And even though I've never actually experienced the smell of napalm in the morning,
I have been awakened on several occasions by the burning hot & almost equally as dangerous fragrance of my own farts.
Which, I can imagine, can't be all that much of a difference in experience.
Especially when the night before, I might've indulged in a midnight snack consisting of a huge steak sandwich with a layer of bacon on it.
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well i wasnt even around when this tragic war was happening but i have relatives who were in it and vietnam and korea were both losing wars for us, political wars is all they were that killed alot of people, oh well this is just my opinion so who cares lol.
Quiz I made on 'Apocalypse Now';
http://www.flixster.com/user/droogenleader/quiz/heart-of-darkness?invitorId=210110980
This film is fucking ace. My favourite movie ever, and I'm still ashamed to have not seen 'Redux'. Soon I will have the money...
Saigon... shit; I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer; every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter.
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