[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Showed my four year old grandson the helicopter assault scene from Apocalypse Now during yesterday's snow storm, before the kick off of the Pats game. He picked up his plastic toy soldiers and huddled them in an inverted toy parachute that came with his Apache model as the loud speakers blared the Flight of the Valkyrie. Colonel Kilgore would have cried for joy.

When my grandson is twenty no one will be watching Avatar and Apocalypse Now will still be compelling.

[kaboom]

It's funny that you use the Apocalypse Now example, because when it was made it was panned as an overbudget spinoff of someone else's story Heart of Darkness.

I haven't seen Avatar yet but I'll probably see it once just to check out the visual effects. The big question will be whether people want to see it again and again, and how it plays on DVD.

[03A3]

The only war flick worse than Apocalypse Now was the Deerhunter.

[org.whodat]

When my grandson is twenty no one will be watching Avatar and Apocalypse Now will still be compelling.

I remember someone say the same thing about that silly film "Star Wars".

[printhead]

“Why do you guys sit on your hats?” “Un-ass that shi*. It’s only a flare.” My all-time favorite flick.