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Just watched Apocalypse Now (1979) for the first time

I didn’t like when Willard killed the Viet woman with ...
tan lettuce
  02/14/25
get out of there chef. Bang. I told you not to stop.
mint boistinker
  02/14/25
Brando was literally too obese to do much of anything in the...
electric crystalline forum boiling water
  02/14/25
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copper mewling halford
  12/13/25
He was blackout drunk the whole time and eating massive amou...
Dashing Lilac Property Boltzmann
  02/14/25
he was like 400 lbs thats why they had to shoot him in the d...
judgmental den
  02/14/25
they just let him ramble and then picked a few lines that th...
Garnet Area Dog Poop
  02/14/25
nice gig if you can get it
judgmental den
  02/14/25
the documentary about making the movie is really interesting
Garnet Area Dog Poop
  02/14/25
The Brando parts were the best. He wasn't supposed to be coh...
Greedy liquid oxygen
  02/14/25
the whole movie is completely incredible in a way that almos...
Garnet Area Dog Poop
  02/14/25
It makes complete sense. It’s about a god king losing ...
Exciting Community Account
  02/14/25
that's not really what it is about imo. it is a retelling of...
copper mewling halford
  02/14/25
The Golden Bough is literally on Kurtz’s bookshelf at ...
Exciting Community Account
  02/14/25
I liked the longer ("redux") version a lot better,...
Garnet Area Dog Poop
  02/14/25
the whole thing at the french dood's house is wild and reall...
Supple harsh theatre
  02/14/25
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Dashing Lilac Property Boltzmann
  02/14/25
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Appetizing bearded feces turdskin
  02/14/25
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Garnet Area Dog Poop
  12/13/25
You smell that? You smell that? Blank bumps, son. Nothing ...
galvanic piazza candlestick maker
  02/14/25
Never get off the boat... absolutely goddamn right. Unless y...
Greedy liquid oxygen
  02/14/25
We train young tow truck drivers to drop fraudlies on people...
galvanic piazza candlestick maker
  02/14/25
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Greedy liquid oxygen
  02/14/25
Obviously a great movie but I've never met a Vietnam vet tha...
bateful violet voyeur
  02/14/25
I don't think apocalypse now was ever supposed to be an accu...
Greedy liquid oxygen
  02/14/25
I've always found the grenade launcher scene to be 180. ...
electric crystalline forum boiling water
  02/14/25
that entire sequence is 180, I always thought the lighting w...
Supple harsh theatre
  02/14/25
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translucent pocket flask market
  02/14/25
I think it might be the actual scariest scene in a movie per...
Supple harsh theatre
  02/14/25
Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.
Mauve pit gaping
  12/13/25


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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: tan lettuce

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/#48659480)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:32 PM
Author: mint boistinker

get out of there chef.

Bang.

I told you not to stop.

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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:35 PM
Author: electric crystalline forum boiling water

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: copper mewling halford



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: Dashing Lilac Property Boltzmann

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/#48659757)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:58 PM
Author: judgmental den

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: Garnet Area Dog Poop

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: judgmental den

nice gig if you can get it

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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:01 PM
Author: Garnet Area Dog Poop

the documentary about making the movie is really interesting

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



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Greedy liquid oxygen

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/#48659792)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:04 PM
Author: Garnet Area Dog Poop

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/#48659800)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 7:44 PM
Author: Exciting Community Account

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: copper mewling 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/#48661794)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:50 PM
Author: Exciting Community Account

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: Garnet Area Dog Poop

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/#48659783)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:34 PM
Author: Supple harsh theatre

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/#48660211)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 3:40 PM
Author: Dashing Lilac Property Boltzmann



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: Appetizing bearded feces turdskin



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:25 PM
Author: Garnet Area Dog Poop



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Date: February 14th, 2025 3:49 PM
Author: galvanic piazza candlestick maker

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/#48660561)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 6:09 PM
Author: Greedy liquid oxygen

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/#48661009)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:45 PM
Author: galvanic piazza candlestick maker

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/#48661810)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:27 PM
Author: Greedy liquid oxygen



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Date: February 14th, 2025 7:46 PM
Author: bateful violet voyeur

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/#48661402)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:34 PM
Author: Greedy liquid oxygen

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/#48661776)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: electric crystalline forum boiling water

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/#48661797)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 10:32 PM
Author: Supple harsh theatre

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/#48661950)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:29 PM
Author: translucent pocket flask market



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:40 PM
Author: Supple harsh theatre

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/#48662069)



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:34 PM
Author: Mauve pit gaping

Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.

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