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I do really love it except for the surfing and the scene with the models/dancers or whatever you want to call them. 9/10
I think platoon is a better vietnam war film 10/10
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Dennis Hopper died? I feel like I remember, but I'm not sure.
shareYes, Hopper sadly passed away in 2010 at the age of 74 following a struggle with terminal illness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper#Illness_and_death
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Oh yes, even did a very good job as a director on films like "Out of the Blue" (1980) and "The Hot Spot" (1990), and of course, he was a legend, particularly memorable in "Blue Velvet" (1986) and "Easy Rider" (1969) among many others, and was even very good as a pure action villain in 1994's "Speed" or just a criminal villain in the great "Red Rock West" (1993) by John Dahl.
share"The Hot Spot" (1990)
I didn't know he directed that. I'll be damned. That is a sturdy flick. Catches Connelly smack dab twixt girl & woman & Madsen before she turned a leaf and went main line.
& it's easily re-watchable.
Fine strike, TM!
Great film, 9/10.
share& little things:::
"Charley don't surf!"
The death cards scene. The way Kilgore breaks the seal on the deck box.
"It's just a flare, just a flare!" -Kilgore with a New York accent.
Duvall, in prime physical condition. He's majestic.
The courtyard scene,,,one moment their leading the school children away in an orderly manner. The next the woman sets a grenade into the chopper. It's a flawless scene---A Francis Ford Coppola direct hit.
"The First of the Ninth was a old calvary division that traded in their horses for helicopters and went tear-assing around 'Nam looking for the shit..."
So much more.
The expression on Martin Sheen's face as he refuses the plate offered with the line, "Captain, I don't know how you feel about this shrimp, but if you'll eat it, you never have
to prove your courage in any other way."
Absolutely, ducky,,,& the way he drags the supply sergeant over the counter before the strip show scene. An out of nowhere idea by Coppola.
share9.5/10
If you don't like this movie, chances are I won't like you.
The making of Apocalypse now , Heart of Darkness, is worth watching too.
Hey Man😃
You ask the toughies!
I stink at rating stuff but i think you are about right
I loved Apocalypse Now and couldnt tell you how many times ive watched it
I think its more about the insanity of the war in general and so we get lots of scenes that are completely crazy like the spear-killing, the mango and tiger episode, the Playboy Barge Bunnies, the drunken freak out at the start and the nutso poetry at the end...
Amazing movie
I think i would 'rate' it at around the level of the first two Godfathers...i still quote this movie to this day with the guys at work and they all get it
Until recently I actually didn't know that Harvey Keitel filmed several weeks until he was fired and replaced with Martin Sheen. I wonder what the movie would've been like with him in the role.
shareSooo many issues making this film. Brando showed up weighing 300 lbs not knowing his lines, Hopper was constantly coked up and Sheen was in a bad way with alcohol and had a heart attack at age 36. That scene where he was wasted and punched the mirror was real and unscripted. Sheens brother, Joe was then flowed in the act as a stand in while he recovered.
Al Pacino was also asked to play Willard and refused because he didn't want to be stuck in the jungle for 5 months. Filming ended up taking 18.
Yep, Coppola stipulated, not verbatim:::"Too much time, too much drugs, too much money."