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Just watched Apocalypse Now (1979) for the first time

I didn’t like when Willard killed the Viet woman with ...
Plum seedy corner
  02/14/25
get out of there chef. Bang. I told you not to stop.
exhilarant bronze doctorate
  02/14/25
Brando was literally too obese to do much of anything in the...
contagious mentally impaired property volcanic crater
  02/14/25
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Appetizing Boltzmann Business Firm
  12/13/25
He was blackout drunk the whole time and eating massive amou...
Puce police squad
  02/14/25
he was like 400 lbs thats why they had to shoot him in the d...
Histrionic electric furnace
  02/14/25
they just let him ramble and then picked a few lines that th...
Hateful galvanic son of senegal sex offender
  02/14/25
nice gig if you can get it
Histrionic electric furnace
  02/14/25
the documentary about making the movie is really interesting
Hateful galvanic son of senegal sex offender
  02/14/25
The Brando parts were the best. He wasn't supposed to be coh...
geriatric amber newt
  02/14/25
the whole movie is completely incredible in a way that almos...
Hateful galvanic son of senegal sex offender
  02/14/25
It makes complete sense. It’s about a god king losing ...
transparent friendly grandma den
  02/14/25
that's not really what it is about imo. it is a retelling of...
Appetizing Boltzmann Business Firm
  02/14/25
The Golden Bough is literally on Kurtz’s bookshelf at ...
transparent friendly grandma den
  02/14/25
I liked the longer ("redux") version a lot better,...
Hateful galvanic son of senegal sex offender
  02/14/25
the whole thing at the french dood's house is wild and reall...
Underhanded bearded stead toilet seat
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Puce police squad
  02/14/25
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Chestnut soggy pistol ladyboy
  02/14/25
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Hateful galvanic son of senegal sex offender
  12/13/25
You smell that? You smell that? Blank bumps, son. Nothing ...
Chest-beating orange hissy fit half-breed
  02/14/25
Never get off the boat... absolutely goddamn right. Unless y...
geriatric amber newt
  02/14/25
We train young tow truck drivers to drop fraudlies on people...
Chest-beating orange hissy fit half-breed
  02/14/25
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geriatric amber newt
  02/14/25
Obviously a great movie but I've never met a Vietnam vet tha...
turquoise drunken round eye market
  02/14/25
I don't think apocalypse now was ever supposed to be an accu...
geriatric amber newt
  02/14/25
I've always found the grenade launcher scene to be 180. ...
contagious mentally impaired property volcanic crater
  02/14/25
that entire sequence is 180, I always thought the lighting w...
Underhanded bearded stead toilet seat
  02/14/25
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comical yellow codepig international law enforcement agency
  02/14/25
I think it might be the actual scariest scene in a movie per...
Underhanded bearded stead toilet seat
  02/14/25
Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.
Mewling Indirect Expression
  12/13/25


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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: Plum seedy corner

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: exhilarant bronze doctorate

get out of there chef.

Bang.

I told you not to stop.

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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:35 PM
Author: contagious mentally impaired property volcanic crater

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: Appetizing Boltzmann Business Firm



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: Puce police squad

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: Histrionic electric furnace

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: Hateful galvanic son of senegal sex offender

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: Histrionic electric furnace

nice gig if you can get it

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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:01 PM
Author: Hateful galvanic son of senegal sex offender

the documentary about making the movie is really interesting

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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: geriatric amber newt

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: Hateful galvanic son of senegal sex offender

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: transparent friendly grandma den

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: Appetizing Boltzmann Business Firm

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

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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:50 PM
Author: transparent friendly grandma den

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

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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: Hateful galvanic son of senegal sex offender

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

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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:34 PM
Author: Underhanded bearded stead toilet seat

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: Puce police squad



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: Chestnut soggy pistol ladyboy



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:25 PM
Author: Hateful galvanic son of senegal sex offender



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Date: February 14th, 2025 3:49 PM
Author: Chest-beating orange hissy fit half-breed

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.

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Date: February 14th, 2025 6:09 PM
Author: geriatric amber newt

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.

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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:45 PM
Author: Chest-beating orange hissy fit half-breed

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: geriatric amber newt



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Date: February 14th, 2025 7:46 PM
Author: turquoise drunken round eye market

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.

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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:34 PM
Author: geriatric amber newt

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."

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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: contagious mentally impaired property volcanic crater

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: Underhanded bearded stead toilet seat

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: comical yellow codepig international law enforcement agency



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:40 PM
Author: Underhanded bearded stead toilet seat

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: Mewling Indirect Expression

Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.

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