Apocalypse Now? Redux?

[malmsteen]

Hi all,

I haven't seen Apocalypse now yet (WHAT!?!).....ok...I know...I heard that it's the greatest movie of all time but I just never got the chance to watch it.

Anyway, it seems like there are 2 versions, the original Apocalypse Now, and the longer edited director's cut version "Redux".

I'm planning on buying a DVD, but I don't know which one to buy.

Input Input!!

[macintosh]

Why don't you just buy the new special editon deal? That way you can watch both, and some special features when your done.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FSME1A/sr=8-1/qid=1156212161/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-8423636-2843868?ie=UTF8

[J.R. Hudson]

Go with this

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FSME1A/002-0488300-6101615?v=glance&n=130

It has both version's (and yes, the film is one of the best ever's)

Edit

Thanks MAc

[macintosh]

Don't you just love those same time posts? haha

[Blaine]

If I could ONLY WATCH ONE, it would be Apocalypse Now. While the Redux version was very good, I didn't really feel the added scenes really made the movie any better...just longer. The original is still a tight masterpiece. :thumbsup:

[J.R. Hudson]

I agree Blaine

Although I did enjoy the re-up with the bunnies

[CallaghanFilms]

If I could ONLY WATCH ONE, it would be Apocalypse Now. While the Redux version was very good, I didn't really feel the added scenes really made the movie any better...just longer...
...really, really longer.



I'm talkin...
http://www.forumup.it/images/smiles/oregonian_lotsocoffee.gif -or- http://www.forumup.it/images/smiles/oregonian_snooze3.gif

longer

[Blaine]

Although I did enjoy the re-up with the bunnies
Sizzlin'!!!!!!:violent5:

[Shaun Patrick]

I don't know. I love both versions and, as of this moment, I prefer the Redux version. The original is tight but I think the Plantation scene provides a nice breather before they arrive at Kurtz's compound. While, maybe, not the strongest/tightest scene, I do like the historical context that it lends to the film.

It's a masterpiece either way.

[J.R. Hudson]

Yes !

The historical part alone is great (The French involvement); jeez ...

I gotta agree with Shaun officialy

[krestofre]

I have yet to see Redux. I'm a little cautious of "newly added footage" ever since the great Special Edition Fiasco of '97.

I did just rewatch Apocalypse Now again a couple of days ago. It must have been 12ish years since I saw it last. It is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of cinema. It blows my mind that Copolla could be so disjointed during the filming and produce a film that is so specific and brilliant in its execution. In fact that might sum up the very thing that I love so much about filmmaking.

I saw an interview with Walter Murch once about the editing of the film. He said that if you take the number of cuts in the film and divide it by the number of days the editing team worked on the film is came out to 1.5 cuts per day. He said that if they knew what kind of film they were making they could have come in of a morning, made a cut, thought about the next cut, and called it a day. :)

[Filmjunkie677]

I prefer the original, but I do love the redux.

Either way, you can't go wrong. It's one of my favorites of all time.

[MojoTrancer]

I bought this bad boy Sunday. I especially love the commentary. Coppola does his best not to sully the memory of great actor, but you can tell how he was at his wits end with Brando. Just the fact that he was able to deal with the situation speaks volumes about how great a director he is.

[malmsteen]

Man....this film must be so hot...already 12 replies after a day!
I'm getting the set that Hudson recommended...sounds like a deal!

Thanks guys! I will post review after watching it!!

[Yas Kassana]

One of the greatest movies ever made. Easily. Whether it's pro-war or anti-war..let's not get into that.

[The Machinist]

Can someone please explain why Heart of Darkness has never been released on DVD? And why i can only find really crappy VHS copies in basement stores in Manhattan that are charging like 40 bucks for the movie?


Its such a great documentary i find it enfuriating that it isn't available for mainstream DVD consumption. Even if it wasn't packaged with apocalypse I'd by it separately.

[Yas Kassana]

When Coppola is running outta money, he'll probably release Apocalypse Now Redux Redux Titanium Directors Cut Ultra Extended Special edition - oh and it will have heart of darkness on Disk 10. but you have to look for it really hard because it's an easter egg.

[J.R. Hudson]

They totally should have put the DOC on this new release

Bitches

(I just found out Talia Shire was Coppola's siter. I never knew this.)

[Cryogenic Filmworks]

Apocalypse anything is great. Have the original on vhs, have Redoux on DVD.

[MojoTrancer]

They totally should have put the DOC on this new release

Bitches

(I just found out Talia Shire was Coppola's siter. I never knew this.)

You didn't know that? Well I'm sure you knew about Nicholas Cage. What I didn't know until recently that Sophia Coppola was in all three godfather films. She was the baby at the christening in #1. A girl on the boat when Vito comes to America in #2, and then of course her dreadful turn as the daughter in #3.

To be a Coppola means to have job security :)

[Yas Kassana]

They totally should have put the DOC on this new release

Bitches

(I just found out Talia Shire was Coppola's siter. I never knew this.)


Guys we should all rip into John right now! This might be the only chance we get.

YOU NEVER KNEW THAT! SHAME ON YOU SIR!

If I were at a party and you said that, I'd spit out my glass of scotch and rather ferrero roche.

[The Machinist]

glass of scotch and rather ferrero roche

That sounds like a classy party right there.

Fancy man.

[J.R. Hudson]

lmAO!!!

[Blaine]

(I just found out Talia Shire was Coppola's siter. I never knew this.)
I don't believe what I just saw!!!!

[accidental anarchist]

i never understood what the re-up with the bunnies was all about. AWESOME - Yes, but i cant put my head around it. that was one crazy scene with the hurricane and the dead body and the crazy bare boobied girl and the nuts around her. i guess my question is how did they get there? help my brain.

[J.R. Hudson]

Their Helo ran out of gas.

That's why Willard made a deal with them: 2 Cans of diesel for time with the bunnies

[accidental anarchist]

ah...and the bunnies were flying with them...i see...thanks

[Blaine]

Think USO

[accidental anarchist]

Another thing that makes Apocalypse Now one of the best movies of all time is all the Marlon Brando stories that go along with it. That guy was a genius and crazy. And what he pulled on Coppola and the whole production only he could do.
- for months he wrote to Coppola that he needed to change the script to fit the character Kurtz better from the book Heart of Darkness and gave recommendations but never actually read the book and finally confessed it to Coppola by saying "i just wanted to see how long you would let me get away with it"
- he said he wouldnt do the flick unless he got a trailer in the middle of the jungle -which was nearly impossible and no one else had - and they finally helicoptered one in for him. as soon as he got on set he grabbed a tent and told the production staff to let the natives sleep in the trailer.
-he was supposed to show up fit and buff, but he showed up fat and bald and improved half his lines like "the horror, the horror"

and many other brilliant stories - poor Coppola -

[The Machinist]

"the horror, the horror"

I'm not sure if that's an improv.

It's been almost a decade since i read heart of darkness but i believe those were Kurtz's last words in the book also.

[ReneH]

The redux re arranges some of the scenes and it really pissess me off! But the French scenes do add some historical contet to the movie.