I love the smell of napalm in the morning ...

[andrew Ivimey]

When was the last time you watched 'Apocalypse Now'?

Astonishing, brilliant, appalling and utterly horrific.

One of the best films ever? one of the most terrible.

[floppybootstomp]

You have time on your hands?

Last time? Hmm, 'bout five years ago, the extended version with, to my surprise, some nudity in it.

As films go I think Apocalpse now equates with world icons like Tower Bridge, Statue of Liberty, Taj Mahal - it was a landmark.

Tortured, twisted, evil, dark, an observation of America still having twinges from McCarthyism and being paranoid about reds under the bed.

The real thing was probably more horrific.

A snapshot of an era.

Marlon Brando superb.

Lasting memory, the black guy on the riverboat on being impaled by a spear in his dying moments noting the irony of the method of his death before croaking it.

Charlie don't surf.

[andrew Ivimey]

Yep, that's the one. But every frame is iconic - Martin sheen at his best. Harrison Ford at his first. The jungle is always the horror but is a beautiful backdrop compared to what the people were doing.

I've been to Vietnam and Cambodia. How forgiving the people are. What does it all mean?

[Dave the bass]

I've been to Cleethorpes.

DTB

[pre65]

I've been to Cleethorpes.

DTB

They still talk about that in hushed whispers whilst huddled in seafront shelters.

[Wieslaw Lipowski]

I've been to Cleethorpes.

DTB

Have you found (or lost) your foot?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/aug/1 ... foot-found

Greetings

[floppybootstomp]

I've been to Vietnam and Cambodia. How forgiving the people are. What does it all mean?

Are they?

I'd love to visit those places.

What does it all mean?

I dunno, maybe, that after all these years of evolution we're still, basically, just savages still.

In the last twenty years, supposedly civilised white populations have attempted genocide and created mass graves in the spirit of ethnic cleansing.

Bosnia, Chechyna, it goes on and on and on and I despair.

And then there's Africa, seemingly designed to be one ever-lasting civil war in just about every area.

The veneer between shopping at Sainsburys, paying the mortgage and smiling at people in the high street isn't very far from burying a machete in your neighbour's neck cos his dog crapped on your lawn.

Scary.

I wonder, before the time this planet eventually implodes/ceases to be, will mankind eventually have worked it out just to cohabit peacefully? I wonder.

[Mike H]

I suspect the robots will have taken over before then.


 

[IslandPink]

I really like the briefing he gets at the start -

Colonel Lucas: Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River in a Navy patrol boat. Pick up Colonel Kurtz's path at Nu Mung Ba, follow it and learn what you can along the way. When you find the Colonel, infiltrate his team by whatever means available and terminate the Colonel's command.
Willard: Terminate?..... the Colonel?
General Corman: He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding troops.
Jerry (CIA Civilian): Terminate..... with extreme prejudice.
Colonel Lucas: You understand, Captain, that this mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist.

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[Dave the bass]

I don't like the sound of this filumn at all. It's not Disney is it?

DTB