>Coppola’s final cut of his Vietnam War epic reminds adults of what real drama looks like. >Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, Francis Ford Coppola’s latest rendition of his 1979 Vietnam War epic, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival right on time to correct the media hysteria surrounding Avengers: Endgame.
>The big-screen experience of Apocalypse Now is intellectually and aesthetically incomparable to what today’s streaming technology and television considers “content.” It’s more substantial than the Marvel Comics Universe, which avoids the serious issues that occupy moviegoer consciousness.
>MCU placates contemporary political sensibilities. Every characterization panders to political cant about equality and diversity while the overall narrative actually simplifies ideological and philosophical differences, hastening conflict, division, and self-righteousness in the guise of comic-book struggle.
Our King at it again. Capeshit BTFO for a second time in a week by our man.
>want to read Apocalypse Now review >instead half the review is reminding us capeshit exists I like this trend no more than he does but can we go for one minute without someone reminding us how awful capeshit is?
Is this longer than the Redux version for instance?
William Reyes
I love him.
Cooper King
yeah, but someone has to make a stand somewhere. The retards on this very board should show you that the amount of intellectually deficient morons, who unironically see value in capeshit, is out of control.
Ayden Bell
>review is mostly contrarian virtue signalling which actually tells us nothing useful about the movie in question Fuck the grievance industry and its posturing
has it been said what the difference is between the cuts other than a full 4k restoration?
Adam Martin
This article is the only thing I know about it. Hopefully he has added more than taken away, as the redux is objectively better than the theatrical release.
Cooper Phillips
Smartest thing I've ever read from him.
Jace Martinez
wait, there is a new Apocalypse now cut?
Lucas Wright
there will be soon
Colton King
Wow, he actually liked a popular movie! Incredible
Ryder Morgan
>Apocalypse Now >popular among today's audience of zoomers and mouthbreathing retards
Colton Sullivan
>Hollywood’s infantilization is tied to Millennials’ unquestioned belief in market manipulation over patriotism — their naïve faith that commercialism is its own reward.
ETERNALLY BASED TO THE HIGH HEAVENS
Logan Barnes
>When the Tribeca Film Festival screening ended, a young female usher with a sweet smile asked me, “Did you just see that Apocalypse movie? Do you know when it’s going to open? Because I like zombie films!”
What the fuck
Adrian Ward
fucking zoomers
Adrian Lee
>a film made for art purposes is superior than a film made purely for commercial reasons
color me shocked
Benjamin Perez
Made for art's sake, don't make me laugh. It's just as much of a pandering mess as any capeshit. That movie was always garbage and so are the simpletons that rave about it.
Jonathan Hughes
Redux without half of the French scene and without the playboy scene>Theatrical>Redux
war is bad is a totally secondary and arguably tertiary theme. The two main themes is the decent into madness and thin veneer of civilization
Carter Lewis
haha yeah right on my zoomer bro, war is actually epic and cool just like my videogames am i rite haha
Anthony Phillips
I don't know if it really paints war as bad. The three most iconic characters in the film, Kurtz, Willard, Kilgore, are all realized entirely through their roles as soldiers, and immortalized by it. If anything, that's a pro-war theme.
Cameron Butler
it just uses the war to explore other themes, some themes that are joined to the theme of war but it explores themes separate from war is bad too, the entire climax and final 1/4 has nothing to do with the actual Vietnam war really.
Platoon is WAR IS BAD, apocalypse now is war is bad and multiple other theme too, that are explored more in-depth than "war is bad", which is more accurately described as a bi-product of the films setting.
Isaiah Cox
I don't think it tries to paint war one way or the other, it simply shows the constant chaos the state of war is.
>I've seen horrors, horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that, but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror! Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.
>We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
William Clark
and for the longer one
>I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile: a pile of little arms. And I remember I...I...I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized, like I was shot — like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God, the genius of that. The genius! The will to do that: perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand it. These were not monsters. These were men, trained cadres — these men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who have children, who are filled with love — but they had the strength — the strength! — to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling, without passion, without judgement. Without judgement! Because it's judgement that defeats us.
Parker Young
Which character journey signifies that war is bad? We are acquainted with the characters entirely as soldiers. Unlike a movie like Platoon, or American Sniper, they aren't dehumanized by their actions. Quite the contrary, as I said, the movie only shows them as fleshed-out characters in their roles as soldiers, while any civilian in the movie is a useless dud. If Coppola wanted to make an anti-war movie, he'd show the Vietnamese having their country destroyed by imperialist invaders, and the innocent civilians caught in the middle. The only scene that you could argue is sort of anti war is the opening shot of the forest burning, but then Coppola himself exploits that to create on the most iconic film openings of all time, which isn't exactly a put-down.
Wyatt Thomas
I am not arguing that the films main theme or focus on War Is Bad, I am saying its almost a bi-product of just making a war film, there are only a small fraction of films set in war that are pro war.
Rather than bad, you could call it a War is Insanity film, because it's main theme is madness and the breakdown of society and human morals.
Joseph Wright
That monologue is heavily inspired by the book, where it deals with themes of will to power and the way doing what it takes tears down the human soul. Sure, that was a powerful indictment of imperialism, but it's just as much an indictment of native savages. Like you said, chaos, good point.
Aiden Foster
>final cut comes out in 4k this august My fucking dick
Jace Adams
>>MCU placates contemporary political sensibilities. Every characterization panders to political cant about equality and diversity while the overall narrative actually simplifies ideological and philosophical differences, hastening conflict, division, and self-righteousness in the guise of comic-book struggle. hallelujah
Cameron Jones
I don't think most war movies are anti-war, quite the opposite. They tend to trivialize it for entertainment, and turn the participants into icons of masculinity, which is a pro-war if anything. True anti-war movies would be something like Beasts of No Nation or Grave of the Fireflies, which focus entirely on the dehumanization and innocent victims, offering no redemption to anyone but in death.
