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Re: Apocalypse Now!

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Having served in Viet Nam, I (and many vets) would say that it best embodies the insanity and absurdity of the situation better than any other movie made about Viet Nam. Things WERE really pretty crazy. I guess you would had to been there in order to understand. Killgore was there. Willard was there. It was "better than Disneyland" because almost anything went. I can see a J.D. Spradling worming around enough to let an underling say: "terminate with extreme predjudice". From a technical standpoint, it may be flawed--but perhaps Francis accidently made an "insiders" movie. I remember in '79, most people coming out of the theatre were puzzled--I wasn't.

BTW, don't even think about renting Redux. There is a reason all that was on the cutting room floor the first time . . .


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