Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Daryl Zero (A) on October 12, 2006 at 13:24:53

In Reply to: Re: "Apocalypse Now:" a very overrated film. posted by rico on October 12, 2006 at 08:45:15:

I agree with your thoughts. Kilgore was supposed to be perhaps the ugly American trampling through the place totally unchanged and unaffected by what he sees and by what he does.

Hopper was out of place and perhaps was Coppola's voice over trying to explain the nature of the amorality stance that Kurtz took. While I didn't like the way that Hopper came across, I appreciated his dialogue to an extent.

I loved the movie starting with Sheen's weakness in the city. The scene with the officers and the table with all the gross looking meat and the "extreme prejudice" line. The boat crew and the chaos which became more and more out of control as they "go up the river." Sheen's character experiencing and becoming the same as Kurtz at the end and dispatching him because Kurtz couldn't live with what he had become.

Casualties of War is not in the same league with this movie. IMO very few movies are as good as this one.