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Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097360706840
Format: Color
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-08-15
Running Time: 153
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1979-08-15
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Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, this classic and compelling Vietnam War epic stars Martin Sheen as Captain Willard, who is sent on a dangerous and mesmerizing odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade American Colonel named Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has succumbed to the horrors of war and barricaded himself in a remote outpost. Also stars Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper and Harrison Ford.
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Summary: The Only Way To Watch It On DVD
Comment: This is a very creative box cover and with the included two discs you get Apocalypse Now which looks great on the DVD, you also get Apocalypse Now Redux a 2001 version of the movie with Remastered video quality and over one hour of additional scenes added into the movie itself that were cut from the original, and many other features including interviews and watching the movie with commentaries from director as the movie plays. All in all i'd say this is a perfect product. However it must be noted that since the movie is very lengthy especially the Redux version, the movie is split with the first half on disc 1 then the second half switching to disc 2. Not a real annoyance or problem its just something you should know.
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Summary: Great to see these movies again!
Comment: I was pleased with my purchase of the two-disc special collectors edition. Still great after all these years.
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Summary: My new favorite.
Comment: WOW! What an improvement. When I first saw the original, I thought:here's finally a movie for Vietnam vets. The cinematography and acting were great, but it looked like it had been edited with a hacksaw. Why is Lance water-skiing with Air CAv shorts before they run into the 1/9? And where did he get 'em? Where does he get that compact when he's putting on the camo face paint? Is that standard issue on a PBR? What's Kilgore's surfboard doing on the boat? How did it get there?Why is Clean so trigger-happy when they stop the sampan? And what happens to him after he's killed? They just throw his body overboard? That seems unlikely given the elaborate send-off Lance gives the Chief after he's wasted.
These questions and more are answered in this greatly expanded version of what's now my favorite movie. Alot has been made of how much the French Plantation Scene slows down the action. But I find it analogous to the Night Music in Stavinsky's Rite of Spring: after all the violence and discord you get a few minutes of breathing space before the insanity starts again. I speak French so maybe it's easier for me to relate to what's going
Unfortunately, not much can be done with the bizarre and incoherent last 20 minutes( the included deleted scenes at least show us what happended to the Photo-journalist and Colby and even give us the very interesting Monkey Sampan). But getting there has been maded so much more enjoyhable.
Anyway, this is a considerable improvement on an already great movie. Now, if they'd just bring it out in Blu-ray.
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Summary: Quite possibly one of the most important films of all time...
Comment: The films title alone, `Apocalypse Now', is synonymous with classic; even to those who have never seen it. All the praise and admiration that has been heaped upon this film over the years has embedded in us the very idea that it must be `that' great. I personally had never seen this movie until this past holiday weekend when I was sick with the flu and in bed for three days (I watched like 30 movies, so I'm cool with it). All I have to say is that `classic' doesn't even begin to explain just how amazing this movie really is.
I want to be clear about one thing. War movies have never really been my thing. I love the whole `swords-and-sandals' epics; sure. `Ben'Hur' and `Gladiator', two of my favorite movies, but the Vietnam, guns and bullets, hiding in trenches, bombing buildings bit; never truly been that interested. My perspective on the genre changed a bit when I witnessed Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece `Full Metal Jacket', a film that is truly astonishing, but understandably very `love it or hate it'. With my interest pricked I decided to explore the genre a little more. There were some that turned me off a bit (not a huge fan of `The Thin Red Line') and there were some that really impressed me (actually floored by my adoration of Oliver Stone's `Platoon') and then there was this little ditty that just left me spellbound.
Yes, let it be said' `Apocalypse Now' may very well be the definitive `war movie'.
The film follows Captain Benjamin L. Willard, dispatched the find rogue Colonel Walter E. Kurtz who has drifted into savagery. The film basically moves along with Willard as he travels upriver towards his eventual destination. One is brought into the mentality of one ravaged by war, and the mental and emotional deterioration is overwhelming; especially once Willard comes face to face with Kurtz.
The film, to me, is shot much like a wartime film noir, with Martin Sheen narrating the film, filling in the complete story for the audience. Frances Ford Coppola is a fantastic director who savagely moves from location to location, painting a horrific picture (`the horror') that stimulates our senses and engages our minds. I remember thinking just how crisp this movie feels, its richness spilling over every sequence. The script is brilliantly crafted in a way that engages you from start to finish, never bogging us down and boring us in any way but always keeping our interest.
And then there are the performances.
Martin Sheen does a fine job here, but much like his son Charlie in `Platoon', he becomes more of an afterthought when you consider the cast of characters he shares the screen with. Robert Duvall (who was nominated for an Oscar) is extremely memorable as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore. His `napalm in the morning' phrase is probably one of the most quoted movie phrases of all time, but his one liners are not the reason his performance is so flawless. He truly captures the man that was Kilgore and emulates a human passion on the screen. Duvall is not the best performance here though; for that belongs to Marlon Brando. There are many reports about the issues Coppola had working with Brando (his excessive weight gain, his drinking problems, his apathetic attitude and his not knowing of his lines) but when all is said and done Brando pulled out a passionate and devastatingly haunting performance as the renegade Kurtz. His semi-religious almost prophetic approach to his characters revelations paint the picture that is `Apocalypse Now' and quite honestly, his character is what makes this movie so important.
This film is a very dark and treacherous journey through the mind of a man pushed to brink of his sanity due to actions that make no sense. What is so imperative about films like `Full Metal Jacket', `Platoon' and `Apocalypse Now' is that, instead of paying homage to the men in uniform (I'm not saying they don't deserve respect so don't read this wrong) they portray war as a facet of our lives better left alone, a part of our culture that does nothing but harm; physically, emotionally and mentally. Coppola's masterpiece is a film not to be missed for it relays a message that is all to real.
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Summary: Masterpiece
Comment: Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece that every civilized person must see. In that respect it is just like Citizen Kane, Taxi Drive, Chinatown and Casablanca. There are scenes from the movie, and phrases spoken in the movie, that have entered our popular language. If you do not know (i) "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"; (ii) how to hum the first few bars of The Ride Of The Valkyrie; and (iii) "the horror, the horror," then you are not a member of our civilized society (plus you'll fail at any game of Trivial Pursuit). This is a move that must be seen again after a few years as it grows better with time, like a fine madeira.
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