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Just watched Apocalypse Now (1979) for the first time

I didn’t like when Willard killed the Viet woman with ...
know-it-all beta preventive strike milk
  02/14/25
get out of there chef. Bang. I told you not to stop.
hilarious red theater
  02/14/25
Brando was literally too obese to do much of anything in the...
irate avocado foreskin gunner
  02/14/25
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Concupiscible Area
  12/13/25
He was blackout drunk the whole time and eating massive amou...
Gaped spectacular house
  02/14/25
he was like 400 lbs thats why they had to shoot him in the d...
pink market dingle berry
  02/14/25
they just let him ramble and then picked a few lines that th...
Talented fishy becky base
  02/14/25
nice gig if you can get it
pink market dingle berry
  02/14/25
the documentary about making the movie is really interesting
Talented fishy becky base
  02/14/25
The Brando parts were the best. He wasn't supposed to be coh...
Tripping Set
  02/14/25
the whole movie is completely incredible in a way that almos...
Talented fishy becky base
  02/14/25
It makes complete sense. It’s about a god king losing ...
Comical Property
  02/14/25
that's not really what it is about imo. it is a retelling of...
Concupiscible Area
  02/14/25
The Golden Bough is literally on Kurtz’s bookshelf at ...
Comical Property
  02/14/25
I liked the longer ("redux") version a lot better,...
Talented fishy becky base
  02/14/25
the whole thing at the french dood's house is wild and reall...
Painfully honest stead kitty cat
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Gaped spectacular house
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Startled iridescent black woman associate
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Talented fishy becky base
  12/13/25
You smell that? You smell that? Blank bumps, son. Nothing ...
Idiotic Parlor People Who Are Hurt
  02/14/25
Never get off the boat... absolutely goddamn right. Unless y...
Tripping Set
  02/14/25
We train young tow truck drivers to drop fraudlies on people...
Idiotic Parlor People Who Are Hurt
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Tripping Set
  02/14/25
Obviously a great movie but I've never met a Vietnam vet tha...
Cerise out-of-control keepsake machete
  02/14/25
I don't think apocalypse now was ever supposed to be an accu...
Tripping Set
  02/14/25
I've always found the grenade launcher scene to be 180. ...
irate avocado foreskin gunner
  02/14/25
that entire sequence is 180, I always thought the lighting w...
Painfully honest stead kitty cat
  02/14/25
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Glassy Overrated Ticket Booth Fortuitous Meteor
  02/14/25
I think it might be the actual scariest scene in a movie per...
Painfully honest stead kitty cat
  02/14/25
Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.
bespoke unholy stag film
  12/13/25


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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: know-it-all beta preventive strike milk

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



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#48659480)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:32 PM
Author: hilarious red theater

get out of there chef.

Bang.

I told you not to stop.

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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:35 PM
Author: irate avocado foreskin gunner

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#48661778)



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: Concupiscible Area



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: Gaped spectacular house

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#48659757)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:58 PM
Author: pink market dingle berry

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: Talented fishy becky base

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: pink market dingle berry

nice gig if you can get it

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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:01 PM
Author: Talented fishy becky base

the documentary about making the movie is really interesting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#48659786)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Tripping Set

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#48659792)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:04 PM
Author: Talented fishy becky base

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#48659800)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 7:44 PM
Author: Comical Property

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#48661397)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:39 PM
Author: Concupiscible Area

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=5310861#48661794)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:50 PM
Author: Comical Property

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=5310861#48661826)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: Talented fishy becky base

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=5310861#48659783)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:34 PM
Author: Painfully honest stead kitty cat

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: Gaped spectacular house



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: Startled iridescent black woman associate



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:25 PM
Author: Talented fishy becky base



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Date: February 14th, 2025 3:49 PM
Author: Idiotic Parlor People Who Are Hurt

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=5310861#48660561)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 6:09 PM
Author: Tripping Set

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=5310861#48661009)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:45 PM
Author: Idiotic Parlor People Who Are Hurt

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!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#48661810)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:27 PM
Author: Tripping Set



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Date: February 14th, 2025 7:46 PM
Author: Cerise out-of-control keepsake machete

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=5310861#48661402)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:34 PM
Author: Tripping Set

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=5310861#48661776)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: irate avocado foreskin gunner

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

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#48661797)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 10:32 PM
Author: Painfully honest stead kitty cat

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#48661950)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:29 PM
Author: Glassy Overrated Ticket Booth Fortuitous Meteor



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:40 PM
Author: Painfully honest stead kitty cat

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#48662069)



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:34 PM
Author: bespoke unholy stag film

Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310861#49506895)