Apocalypse Now

[Robotic Chameleon]

An old movie, among my top ten favorites to be sure. Captures the elements of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other to-the-limit phenomenons quite accurately. "The Horror" speech at the end provides an excellent philosophical debate regarding the human conditioning.

[gokufusionss1]

also features cool helicopters.


had to bring the intelectual level down, it's my job

[TheAbominatrix]

My dad fought in Vietnam, and this is one of his favorite movies about the war. It's also the first he saw after coming back. It's not very historically accurate, but it captures the 'feel' of the war very well, according to him. I've seen it many many times.

There's only one thing that pisses me off; when my dad saw the movie in theatres, there was a different ending. One where an airstrike is called and the whole place is napalmed. He loved that ending. So when I got my PS2, I went and bought a dvd of <i>Apocolypse Now: Redux</i>, the more expensive of the <i>Apocolypse Now</i> dvds and assumedly the one with all the extras. While it did have all those extras... it didnt have the ending! A few months later, a guy I was dating let me borrow the normal DVD... and it had the ending. I was quite perturbed.

There's my pointless rant.

[Chris]

It won several of Academy Awards, but it lost the Best Picture Award:

Awards:
Best Sound (win) - Richard Beggs - 1979 Academy
Best Sound (win) - Walter Murch - 1979 Academy
Best Sound (win) - Mark Berger - 1979 Acedemy
Best Cinematography (win) - Vittorio Storaro - 1979 Academy

Academy Nominations:

Best Adapted Screenplay (nom) - John Milius -1979 Academy
Best Adapted Screenplay (nom) - Francis Ford Coppola -1979 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) - George R. Nelson - 1979 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) - Angelo P. Graham - 1979 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) - Dean Tavoularis - 1979 Academy
Best Director (nom) - Francis Ford Coppola - 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Jerry Greenberg 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) - Walter Murch - 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) - Richard Marks - 1979 Academy
Best Editing (nom) - Lisa Fruchtman - 1979 Academy
Best Picture (nom)