![]() ![]() ![]() I seem to be a small minority in my opinion of this film, I do realize, but I just want to make my voice heard so new viewers don't think that this movie's supposed "universal acclaim" is actually universal. I couldn't find much to actually enjoy or appreciate in Apocalypse Now. There were also lots of fireworks posing as rockets and gunfire, and there was a good deal of cheesy synthesizer music that didn't help the movie. Every character seemed to act so strangely with no given explanation as to why, and while this would make sense if the movie was indeed shown through the eyes of a madman (or if everyone was a madman), it was still be frustrating to watch. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. With Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest. ![]() The spectacularly ambitious grafting of Joseph Conrad ’s Heart of Darkness to the historical quagmire of America’s disastrous military campaign in Vietnam was always a spectacular sprawl, a maximalist spectacle. The entire thing, though, was confusing to me. Apocalypse Now: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Apocalypse Now is a movie that drove Coppola to the brink of both financial ruin and actual madness. It was slow, weird, and boring at parts, and at others it was too fast and saturated with ridiculous action shots. I got the feeling that it was supposed to be the skewed memories of a mentally ill soldier's experiences in the Vietnam War, and it was somewhat interesting in that light, but that aspect didn't keep me interested for the entire two-and-a-half-hour running time. I first saw APOCALYPSE NOW in 1985 when it was broadcast on British television for the first time. Apocalypse Now was bizarre, and I didn't understand it or enjoy it. During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe. ![]()
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