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Epicurus.com - Apocalypse Now
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List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $2.35
Your Save: $ 12.60 ( 84% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Sam Bottoms, Marlon Brando, Bo Byers, Colleen Camp, Robert Duvall
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300214828
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6300214826
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: 1992-12-07
Running Time: 153
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1979-08-15
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Editorial Reviews:
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In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair, but from this insanity came one of the greatest films ever made. It began as a John Milius screenplay, transposing Joseph Conrad's classic story "Heart of Darkness" into the horrors of the Vietnam War, following a battle-weary Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on a secret upriver mission to find and execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has reverted to a state of murderous and mystical insanity. The journey is fraught with danger involving wartime action on epic and intimate scales. One measure of the film's awesome visceral impact is the number of sequences, images, and lines of dialogue that have literally burned themselves into our cinematic consciousness, from the Wagnerian strike of helicopter gunships on a Vietnamese village to the brutal murder of stowaways on a peasant sampan and the unflinching fearlessness of the surfing warrior Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), who speaks lovingly of "the smell of napalm in the morning." Like Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God, this film is the product of genius cast into a pit of hell and emerging, phoenix-like, in triumph. Coppola's obsession (effectively detailed in the riveting documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed by Coppola's wife, Eleanor) informs every scene and every frame, and the result is a film for the ages. --Jeff Shannon
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Give Me A Break !!! :-(
Comment: Sorry, but how can this be "complete" when it does not include "Hearts of Darkness" ??? Get a life. Coppola's wife directed it, and he produced it (as far as I know), so where are the rights problems ??? One thing that really annoys me about these 60s-70s directors, who went on about "changing the world", when they were younger, but who are now more money-grabbing than the worst studio system. Hey, I've bought two DVD versions of Apocalypse Now already, how many more do you want me to buy??? Maybe I'll just transfer my "Hearts Of Darkness" VHS to video, as I'm not so well-of I can afford it all. Thanks, Coppola. ps, your wine stinks too.
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Summary: If God and Wagner had teamed up to make a film about Vietnam, starring a 400-pound bald Marlon Brando, this is what you'd get
Comment: Holy smokes. Where to begin. This film is epic. This film is amazing. This film is wild. Nobody makes films like this anymore. Powerful, mind bending, insane. Coppola famously said that this wasn't a film about the Vietnam war, this is the Vietnam war. If you haven't seen this yet, see it. So many classic scenes, so many classic lines, and such a powerful film. Great stuff.
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Summary: Great Movie
Comment: Its great it has both versions, the only problem is that the extended version is a little bit long. But its Great.
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Summary: NOT FOR CHILDREN.
Comment: GREAT MOVIE. BE FORWARNED IT IS BRUTAL AND VIOLENT. THERE ARE THREE PORNOGRAPHIC SCENES. SO, BE QUICK WITH THE REMOTE IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO WATCH GRAPHIC PORNOGRAPHY. IF YOU FAST FORWARD PAST THE PORN IT IS AN AWESOME MOVIE. NON BETTER!
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Summary: Remember why Redux was released?
Comment: As a kid I remember hearing about Apocalypse Now and thinking that it was some sort of dark and forbidden territory for a war movie. That was much the way Vietnam was presented to me in general growing up. Since then I've written a college thesis on the war...
I watched the original a number of times and it was entertaining as compact, action packed and surreal. I preferred Platoon. But I always heard stories about "The French Plantation Scene" and "The Bunny Scene". So what did Coppola do? He gave us what we wanted to see. And now we have his whole vision. I can see the merit in saying that Redux is too long and rambling - that it lacks the pyschedelic punch of the original. But the humor makes it all the more surreal. The GI's in the medical unit cared less about Willard, helicopters or Playmates. Kilgore wasn't that different than some commanders I knew in Iraq whose priorities were just...out of this world.
I'll have to say that as long as it is, I prefer Redux because it was what Coppola wanted us to see all along. It gives his vision much more majesty and breathing room. It was also what most of the viewers wanted to see all along with the long rumored "forbidden" scenes.
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