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Just watched Apocalypse Now (1979) for the first time

I didn’t like when Willard killed the Viet woman with ...
Costumed alcoholic dysfunction
  02/14/25
get out of there chef. Bang. I told you not to stop.
magenta dashing jew
  02/14/25
Brando was literally too obese to do much of anything in the...
flushed swashbuckling native
  02/14/25
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aquamarine sticky hospital halford
  12/13/25
He was blackout drunk the whole time and eating massive amou...
titillating coffee pot volcanic crater
  02/14/25
he was like 400 lbs thats why they had to shoot him in the d...
Trip box office personal credit line
  02/14/25
they just let him ramble and then picked a few lines that th...
Curious chapel sandwich
  02/14/25
nice gig if you can get it
Trip box office personal credit line
  02/14/25
the documentary about making the movie is really interesting
Curious chapel sandwich
  02/14/25
The Brando parts were the best. He wasn't supposed to be coh...
Irate bawdyhouse half-breed
  02/14/25
the whole movie is completely incredible in a way that almos...
Curious chapel sandwich
  02/14/25
It makes complete sense. It’s about a god king losing ...
Garnet Marvelous Codepig
  02/14/25
that's not really what it is about imo. it is a retelling of...
aquamarine sticky hospital halford
  02/14/25
The Golden Bough is literally on Kurtz’s bookshelf at ...
Garnet Marvelous Codepig
  02/14/25
I liked the longer ("redux") version a lot better,...
Curious chapel sandwich
  02/14/25
the whole thing at the french dood's house is wild and reall...
bull headed trailer park hissy fit
  02/14/25
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titillating coffee pot volcanic crater
  02/14/25
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duck-like honey-headed therapy
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Curious chapel sandwich
  12/13/25
You smell that? You smell that? Blank bumps, son. Nothing ...
Violent Histrionic Mad Cow Disease
  02/14/25
Never get off the boat... absolutely goddamn right. Unless y...
Irate bawdyhouse half-breed
  02/14/25
We train young tow truck drivers to drop fraudlies on people...
Violent Histrionic Mad Cow Disease
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Irate bawdyhouse half-breed
  02/14/25
Obviously a great movie but I've never met a Vietnam vet tha...
crystalline selfie rigor
  02/14/25
I don't think apocalypse now was ever supposed to be an accu...
Irate bawdyhouse half-breed
  02/14/25
I've always found the grenade launcher scene to be 180. ...
flushed swashbuckling native
  02/14/25
that entire sequence is 180, I always thought the lighting w...
bull headed trailer park hissy fit
  02/14/25
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swollen underhanded locale
  02/14/25
I think it might be the actual scariest scene in a movie per...
bull headed trailer park hissy fit
  02/14/25
Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.
Magical geriatric trust fund
  12/13/25


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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: Costumed alcoholic dysfunction

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\u0026show=6hr#48659480)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:32 PM
Author: magenta dashing jew

get out of there chef.

Bang.

I told you not to stop.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#48660205)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:35 PM
Author: flushed swashbuckling native

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\u0026show=6hr#48661778)



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: aquamarine sticky hospital halford



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: titillating coffee pot volcanic crater

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\u0026show=6hr#48659757)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:58 PM
Author: Trip box office personal credit line

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#48659769)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:59 PM
Author: Curious chapel sandwich

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#48659776)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: Trip box office personal credit line

nice gig if you can get it

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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:01 PM
Author: Curious chapel sandwich

the documentary about making the movie is really interesting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#48659786)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Irate bawdyhouse half-breed

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\u0026show=6hr#48659792)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:04 PM
Author: Curious chapel sandwich

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\u0026show=6hr#48659800)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 7:44 PM
Author: Garnet Marvelous Codepig

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\u0026show=6hr#48661397)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:39 PM
Author: aquamarine sticky hospital halford

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\u0026show=6hr#48661794)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:50 PM
Author: Garnet Marvelous Codepig

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\u0026show=6hr#48661826)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: Curious chapel sandwich

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\u0026show=6hr#48659783)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:34 PM
Author: bull headed trailer park hissy fit

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#48660211)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 3:40 PM
Author: titillating coffee pot volcanic crater



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: duck-like honey-headed therapy



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:25 PM
Author: Curious chapel sandwich



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Date: February 14th, 2025 3:49 PM
Author: Violent Histrionic Mad Cow Disease

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\u0026show=6hr#48660561)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 6:09 PM
Author: Irate bawdyhouse half-breed

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\u0026show=6hr#48661009)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:45 PM
Author: Violent Histrionic Mad Cow Disease

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\u0026show=6hr#48661810)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:27 PM
Author: Irate bawdyhouse half-breed



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Date: February 14th, 2025 7:46 PM
Author: crystalline selfie rigor

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\u0026show=6hr#48661402)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:34 PM
Author: Irate bawdyhouse half-breed

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\u0026show=6hr#48661776)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: flushed swashbuckling native

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\u0026show=6hr#48661797)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 10:32 PM
Author: bull headed trailer park hissy fit

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\u0026show=6hr#48661950)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:29 PM
Author: swollen underhanded locale



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:40 PM
Author: bull headed trailer park hissy fit

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\u0026show=6hr#48662069)



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:34 PM
Author: Magical geriatric trust fund

Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2\u0026show=6hr#49506895)