Apocalypse Now [VHS]

Apocalypse Now [VHS]
by Francis Ford Coppola

Apocalypse Now [VHS]

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Actor: Frederic Forrest, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Sam Bottoms
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Eddie Romero
Producer: Fred Roos
Writer: John Milius
Writer: Joseph Conrad
Writer: Michael Herr
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; French (Original Language); Vietnamese (Original Language)
Format: PAL
Running Time: 153 minutes
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)

VHS Movie Reviews of Apocalypse Now [VHS]

Movie Review: Apocalypse Now
Summary: 5 Stars

Got the delivery in good time. Had to review this movie for a college course and it was not available throught Netflix, delayed disc, so I had to purchase. Not that it really mattered. It is a classic and probably would have ended up owning it anyway.

Movie Review: Best war movie ever
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is fabulous.It takes you from the beginning to the end without breath.
At the end you ask yourself: Why?

What is our limit in following order? See the "Milgram experiment" you will understand Apocalypse Now better.

Movie Review: Images which will never leave my mind
Summary: 4 Stars

I won't, I can't, forget this movie. I'm sure--had my draft number been higher--this movie would affect me even more, had I survived Vietnam. The horror. . .

Yet for all its power, the film is far less compelling than "Heart of Darkness". And Vietnam, for all its contemporary tragedy, is far less tragic than the "civilizing" of colonial powers. (Or is Vietnam just a recent addition to that tale of "civilization"?)

After watching "Apocalypse Now Redux" yet again and rereading "Heart of Darkness" yet again, I was bothered by this irksome detail: Nowhere, nowhere in the film or credits does Francis Ford Coppola explicitly credit Joseph Conrad. The horror. . .the horror.

Movie Review: The Best Value for Apocalypse Now Fanatics
Summary: 5 Stars

The is the best pick for all Apocalypse Now fans, whether they be new ones, old ones, or are simply rediscovering this classic historical fictional account of the Vietnam War. It's all here: the original 1979 version, the 2001 redux, commentary by Director Francis Ford Coppola, special features, scene selection, multi-languge subtitles, etc.

Interestingly, the best scene (in my opinion) was not included in the original version. This is called the "French Plantation." This scene is so good that I must have watched it a dozen times. Apparently, it was edited out of the 1979 original version, for unclear reasons, but possibly just to limit the sheer length of this film. It is indeed a long film, but every minute is well done and fascinating. The French Plantation scene reappears in the 2001 redux version. "The Complete Dossier" is a good buy just for this scene alone. It explores many of the controversial issues surrounding whether or not the US should have been involved in the Vietnam War, the role of the Viet Cong,the Russians, the North Vietnamese, the South Vietnamese, and, most importantly, the Americans.

Great quotations from the movie: "charging murder here is like giving out speeding tickets at the Indianpolis 500." "I love the smell of napalm in the morning: that gasoline smell...it smells like..........victory!" "Horror and moral terror are our friends: if they aren't, they are certainly enemies to be feared." "Charlie don't surf." "There are two of you: one that loves, and one that kills."

At times horrifying. At times funny. Always thought provoking and interesting. One cannot understand the Vietnam War is one has not seen this movie. Buy it. Watch it -- more than once. You won't be disappointed.

Movie Review: A masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars

This is my favorite "Vietnam War" film, though it is more of an anti-war film set during the war. The characters and soundtrack are all likeable and eccentric, and some humor is thrown in at times. The director's cut adds a lot of previously-unseen footage, most of which adds to the film's side stories and character backgrounds. Overall a very powerful visual depiction of the chaos and confusion of war.

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Summary of Apocalypse Now [VHS]

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

Digitally remastered with 49 minutes of previously unseen footage, Apocalypse Now Redux is the reference standard of Francis Coppola's 1979 epic. A metaphorical hallucination of the Vietnam War, the film was reconstructed by Coppola and editor Walter Murch to enrich themes and clarify the ending. On that basis Redux is a qualified success, more coherent than the original while inviting the same accusations of directorial excess. The restored "French plantation" sequence adds ghostly resonance to the war's absurdity, and Willard's theft of Colonel Kurtz's beloved surfboard adds welcomed humor to the film's nightmarish upriver journey. An encounter with Playboy Playmates seems superfluous compared to the enhanced interplay between Willard and his ill-fated boat crew, but compensation arrives in the hellish Kurtz compound, where Willard's mission--and the performances of Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando--reach even greater heights of insanity, thus validating Redux as the rightful heir to Coppola's triumphantly rampant ambition. --Jeff Shannon

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