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Just watched Apocalypse Now (1979) for the first time

I didn’t like when Willard killed the Viet woman with ...
slap-happy jap hell
  02/14/25
get out of there chef. Bang. I told you not to stop.
180 Chrome Scourge Upon The Earth
  02/14/25
Brando was literally too obese to do much of anything in the...
emerald disturbing business firm
  02/14/25
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Fuchsia potus laser beams
  12/13/25
He was blackout drunk the whole time and eating massive amou...
wild slimy sneaky criminal
  02/14/25
he was like 400 lbs thats why they had to shoot him in the d...
slate rehab
  02/14/25
they just let him ramble and then picked a few lines that th...
cerebral theater
  02/14/25
nice gig if you can get it
slate rehab
  02/14/25
the documentary about making the movie is really interesting
cerebral theater
  02/14/25
The Brando parts were the best. He wasn't supposed to be coh...
exciting khaki hall internal respiration
  02/14/25
the whole movie is completely incredible in a way that almos...
cerebral theater
  02/14/25
It makes complete sense. It’s about a god king losing ...
Glittery at-the-ready filthpig boiling water
  02/14/25
that's not really what it is about imo. it is a retelling of...
Fuchsia potus laser beams
  02/14/25
The Golden Bough is literally on Kurtz’s bookshelf at ...
Glittery at-the-ready filthpig boiling water
  02/14/25
I liked the longer ("redux") version a lot better,...
cerebral theater
  02/14/25
the whole thing at the french dood's house is wild and reall...
Poppy Infuriating School Cafeteria Hairy Legs
  02/14/25
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wild slimy sneaky criminal
  02/14/25
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Sick Yellow Site Sweet Tailpipe
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cerebral theater
  12/13/25
You smell that? You smell that? Blank bumps, son. Nothing ...
Purple bawdyhouse
  02/14/25
Never get off the boat... absolutely goddamn right. Unless y...
exciting khaki hall internal respiration
  02/14/25
We train young tow truck drivers to drop fraudlies on people...
Purple bawdyhouse
  02/14/25
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exciting khaki hall internal respiration
  02/14/25
Obviously a great movie but I've never met a Vietnam vet tha...
Crawly market gaping
  02/14/25
I don't think apocalypse now was ever supposed to be an accu...
exciting khaki hall internal respiration
  02/14/25
I've always found the grenade launcher scene to be 180. ...
emerald disturbing business firm
  02/14/25
that entire sequence is 180, I always thought the lighting w...
Poppy Infuriating School Cafeteria Hairy Legs
  02/14/25
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claret french chef
  02/14/25
I think it might be the actual scariest scene in a movie per...
Poppy Infuriating School Cafeteria Hairy Legs
  02/14/25
Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.
Wonderful rambunctious mediation garrison
  12/13/25


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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: slap-happy jap hell

I didn’t like when Willard killed the Viet woman with the puppy for no reason

The surfing siege scene was nuts

Also Brando doesn’t even do anything. Every shot is him sitting around in the dark babbling or reading poetry



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:32 PM
Author: 180 Chrome Scourge Upon The Earth

get out of there chef.

Bang.

I told you not to stop.

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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:35 PM
Author: emerald disturbing business firm

Brando was literally too obese to do much of anything in the filming.

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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: Fuchsia potus laser beams



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: wild slimy sneaky criminal

He was blackout drunk the whole time and eating massive amounts of dessert foods between shots. They had to prop him up and use body doubles because he couldn’t stand at times.

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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:58 PM
Author: slate rehab

he was like 400 lbs thats why they had to shoot him in the dark

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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:59 PM
Author: cerebral theater

they just let him ramble and then picked a few lines that they could plausibly splice into some kind of dialogue and let do

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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: slate rehab

nice gig if you can get it

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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:01 PM
Author: cerebral theater

the documentary about making the movie is really interesting

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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: exciting khaki hall internal respiration

The Brando parts were the best. He wasn't supposed to be coherent, he was supposed to be psychotic and emotionally scarred. He pulls it off masterfully imo. A triumph

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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:04 PM
Author: cerebral theater

the whole movie is completely incredible in a way that almost makes no sense and has no business succeeding the way it did, but it did

I love it

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Date: February 14th, 2025 7:44 PM
Author: Glittery at-the-ready filthpig boiling water

It makes complete sense. It’s about a god king losing his vitality and therefore he must be sacrificed and replaced by a new king.

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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:39 PM
Author: Fuchsia potus laser beams

that's not really what it is about imo. it is a retelling of Heart of Darkness.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#48661794)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:50 PM
Author: Glittery at-the-ready filthpig boiling water

The Golden Bough is literally on Kurtz’s bookshelf at the end hth. Heart of Darkness…isn’t.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#48661826)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: cerebral theater

I liked the longer ("redux") version a lot better, the extra parts were good for the narrative cohesion

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#48659783)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:34 PM
Author: Poppy Infuriating School Cafeteria Hairy Legs

the whole thing at the french dood's house is wild and really good addition

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Date: February 14th, 2025 3:40 PM
Author: wild slimy sneaky criminal



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: Sick Yellow Site Sweet Tailpipe



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:25 PM
Author: cerebral theater



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Date: February 14th, 2025 3:49 PM
Author: Purple bawdyhouse

You smell that? You smell that?

Blank bumps, son.

Nothing else in the world smells like that.

I love the smell of blank bumps in the morning.

One time we had a Johnsmeyer thread bumped for 12 hours.

When it was done, I scrolled up. Not one text bump.

That 180 smell, the whole thread.

Smells like... victory.

Some day this board is gonna end.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#48660561)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 6:09 PM
Author: exciting khaki hall internal respiration

Never get off the boat... absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Boooomm got off the boat... he split from the whole fuckin' program.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#48661009)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:45 PM
Author: Purple bawdyhouse

We train young tow truck drivers to drop fraudlies on people, but their commander$ won't allow them to write "diaper" on the chatbort because it's obscene!

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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:27 PM
Author: exciting khaki hall internal respiration



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Date: February 14th, 2025 7:46 PM
Author: Crawly market gaping

Obviously a great movie but I've never met a Vietnam vet that likes it. It's basically fanfic to them. One guy told me Hamburger Hill was the closest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#48661402)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:34 PM
Author: exciting khaki hall internal respiration

I don't think apocalypse now was ever supposed to be an accurate depiction. It was inspired by Heart of Darkness, and was kind of a surrealist/absurdist interpretation of Vietnam. Like Kilgore introduced like the stereotypical hardass, but then he starts talking about surfing, and wants them to surf while bombs are falling. His famous monologue about napalm and how he ends it wistfully with "some day this wars gonna end."

Imo it was an exaggeration of the causes of war and horrors of war. It was never "this is how it actually went down, man."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#48661776)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: emerald disturbing business firm

I've always found the grenade launcher scene to be 180.

https://youtu.be/f96p-IhcZhQ?si=B4SMymFKqWBbLGV8

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Date: February 14th, 2025 10:32 PM
Author: Poppy Infuriating School Cafeteria Hairy Legs

that entire sequence is 180, I always thought the lighting was really great

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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:29 PM
Author: claret french chef



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:40 PM
Author: Poppy Infuriating School Cafeteria Hairy Legs

I think it might be the actual scariest scene in a movie period, it just perfectly makes it seem like they are right out there all of the time and you can't quite see them

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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:34 PM
Author: Wonderful rambunctious mediation garrison

Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#49506895)