[agitator]

I have seen this movie over and over and I have yet to determine why people are so impressed with it.

[Skooz]

Apocalypse Now is an excellent movie, deserving of top-20 consideration. But it is in no way the best movie of the past 25 years.

[eastforker]

Hey agitator,just wondering,if you were not impressed,why did you watch it over and over?Not trying to start a fight because I have also watched it over and over and see something new each time.I never perceived it as an anti-vietnam war movie though.

[Ragin1]

I have watched this about 5 times, the most recent being the added footage cut in the original. Good movie, but I wouldn't even put it in the top 50.

[dts32041]

I have actually seen three of these movies and enjoyed them does this make me a effete snob now.

Best movie of the last 25 years, Army of Darkness.

[SBprone]

Well here's why I loved this movie: It is an interesting and compelling retelling of a GREAT story by Joseph Conrad. Contrary to what this idiot article says, it is not loosely based on Heart of Darkness, it is a retelling of the story that includes all of its essential elements, plus a lot of extraneous stuff about Vietnam that is fun to watch but is not really important to the story. Think of the Macbeth movie set in NYC starring John Turturro and Peter Boyle, I forget the name but it was a super Macbeth. Yes Macbeth works in the contemporary NY mob world and Heart of Darkness works in Vietnam, mainly because the country is full of navigable rivers and that makes the river journey plot so plausible.

This movie is NOT an anti-war movie and only the most idiotic and superficial reviewer would see it as such. Conrad wrote about human evil, personified by Colonel Kurtz, and its destructive power and a man's life-transforming journey to confront and destroy that evil.

This is a story that can be told over and over, in any number of settings. By the way, there was an even better version of Heart of Darkness that was on TV a couple of years ago starring Tim Roth as the Martin Sheen character. It used the novel's original setting on the Amazon and the whole thing was superb.

The folks who made Apocalypse Now and their suck-ups in the media give far too much credit to Coppola and no credit to Conrad who deserves as much credit for this story as Shakespeare deserves for Macbeth.

[matrix]

To understand the movie you must first know a little about Joseph Conrad's
"Heart of Darkness," and some T.S. Eliot poetry.

[MCRD]

I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY GOOD WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT 20 YEARS AGO. WE JUST WATCHED IT AGAIN AND BESIDES THE SPECIAL EFFECTS IT SUCKED. THERE WAS NOT ONE U.S. SERVICEMAN PORTRAYED IN A POSITIVE LIGHT.

[traditionalist]

I'm with you. I think it is mediocre, at best.

[SamAdams76]

Apocalypse Now...explosions...cool!

[The FRugitive]

Have you read the heart of darkeness?

Anyway, I love Apocalypse Now.

Anyone else disapointed in Redux? I thought the original was better without the extraneous cut scenes.

[lavaroise]

I have seen this movie over and over and I have yet to determine why people are so impressed with it.

It's a leftist tripe in the Dr Strangelove type evil Americans fantasies. The people who love that movie usualy hate Braveheart, The Patriot, and al the good Gibson movies

[Feiny]

I own this movie & have watched it too many times to count. It is one of my favorites. I also own & watch over & over again: Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Deer Hunter, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Blue Velvet, True Romance, Reservoir Dogs, Godfather I& II, The Apostle, Thief, SlingBlade, On the Waterfront, Gilda, The Philadelphia Story, Sunset Blvd., Braveheart, Rob Roy, Cool Hand Luke and Legends of the Fall.

[HitmanLV]

Once Upon A Time In America should top this list, followed by Raging Bull. Apocalypse Now is overrated - you could make a case for its inclusion on the list but it's not in the class of OUATIA or Raging Bull (or Goodfellas, for that matter).