Apocalypse Now
July 12th 2011 21:21
(1979) Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishborne, Albert Brooks, Sam Bottoms, Frederick Forrest, Marlon Brando. Dir: Francis Ford Coppola.
A stir crazy Captain is sent down river in Vietnam to terminate an insane rogue Colonel. An epic journey into hell; the insanity, hypocrisy and corruption of war played out through sometimes funny, but usually nightmarish vignettes. With some of cinema’s most incredible images, it’s a manic, almost mythical masterpiece.
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A stir crazy Captain is sent down river in Vietnam to terminate an insane rogue Colonel. An epic journey into hell; the insanity, hypocrisy and corruption of war played out through sometimes funny, but usually nightmarish vignettes. With some of cinema’s most incredible images, it’s a manic, almost mythical masterpiece.
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Apocalypse is really a one off, a rare nightmarish vision that sprung from production chaos almost equal to the madness seen on screen. It maybe be the best film about the inevitable madness of war. And probably the best film about Nam.
It scores high because there’s really nothing else like it. I don't think anyone would finance something so ambitious today. Well, not unless it was 3D and had giant robots in it.