What is your favorite movie?

The story is great, the acting is superb, you have Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in the cast, what more do you want?

Brando & Pacino - case closed!!

Outperforms all vietnam era movies as you are actually travelling along with Martin Sheen on his “Assignment”. You visually experience vietnam
firsthand and become mesmerized and feel as if you are the one going down the river. I have watched this movie once per year for past 5 or 6 years and find something new and different each time. Should have won for best picture, but we cant have everything. Redux version adds even more detail, like 45 more minutes. Even though Brando has a minimal role, he still steals the show with his presence. For those who have never seen Martin Sheen in action, this role couldnt have been played by anyone else which is a great compliment to him.

The most arrogant son of a gun, but one of our greatest actors.

Once has been possible that cinema make a film which is better than a classic book

Script, cinematography, score, sound effects, visual effects, casting, acting, star power - great in every aspect of what makes a great film. The most complete movie ever made.

To me, a great movie must mesmerize an audience. When I saw this movie, it was the only time I’ve ever experience complete silence in a movie theater. A full theater with about 500-600 people (yes, the old days of big screens) and no one said a word. This film kept you fixated on the screen. You couldn’t keep your eyes off the action, and when Marlo Brando appears, you just are taken to another place. Creepy, challenging, entertaining, this one did it all.

The greatest actor of all time, hands down. Mutiny on the Bounty, Guys and Dolls, A Streetcar Named Desire, Apocalypse Now, On the Waterfront, and let’s not forget his forever powerful role in the magnificent Godfather. Movies will never be the same because of him.

I guess a 95:1 shooting ratio does pay off, simply the most stunning film achievement of all time. Perfectly paced and completely devastating.

Not a conventional movie in the classic sense yet not a full on drama. It is a movie that plunges a viewer deep into the psychological depths of warfare and insanity in a plethora of color/sound and impressive cinematography. The beginning of this movie is completely discernible from the end and makes us feel like we have truly gone on a journey. The way that the encounter between Kurtz and Willard is set up is reminiscent of A Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (the original work on which the movie is based.) The characters are so real and well crafted, whether it be from Duvalle as Kilgore or Brando as Kurtz, we can see flawless directing at its best. Both the beginning scene with the “ghost helicopter” and the beautifully presented version of the “End Song” by The Doors, and the end scene also with music by The Doors; Serve to set the tone for a movie that truly throws us into the depths of the Apocalypse both physically and emtionally. A true modern masterpiece that cannot be categorized into one genre Apocalypse Now shows us Coppolla at his best (apart from The Godfather.)

A troubled American Captain travels into the remote jungles of Vietnam to kill a American Colonel who has gone AWOL.

This movie although disturbing at first, is a masterpiece of American cinema! Robert Duvall’s “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” remains one of the best movie quotes ever. I could watch this over and over and never get bored.
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The epic and often surrealistic chronicle of one U.S. Army Captain’s mission to head up a river during the Vietnam War and kill what lies at its end, be it a man…or something else.

When I first saw Francis Coppolla’s “Apocalypse Now,” it completely blew me away! Never before had I seen such a chaotic vision of war as was shown through the eyes of Captain Benjamin Willard. Having previously seen many other excellent war movies, from Saving Private Ryan to The Deer Hunter to Big Red One, and while these movies are all excellent and worthy contenders, Apocalypse Now seemed to take the conventions set for what war was like and said, “Fuck it.” Their was nothing conventional about Apocalypse Now, just as their was nothing conventional about the Vietnam War. To me, Willard’s journey to find Colonel Kurtz was a parrallel to our own struggle, going up our own rivers to find the darkness at the end. We may get their at the end, but what we find may not allow us to return unchanged, if we return at all. Martin Sheen’s performance was outstanding, to say nothing of Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and the many other amazing actors who contributed to this film. It stands the test of time. People still stare with jaws dropped in disbelief and incomprehension as Willard practices some strange martial art in a drunken haze. The audience still hums and cheers along to “Flight of the Valkyries” as Col. Kilgore and his airmobile helicopters launch an assault on the waterfront village. The room grows silent with fear as in the recess of the slaughter of the cow, we see a bloody and dying Kurtz mutter his final, haunting words, “The horror. The horror,” ending the movie on a note of pure, open terror. And we shudder with cold fear. This film will still be talked about when we are dead and gone, because it is a film that redifined the way we looked at the Vietnam War, looked at movies themselves, and looked at ourselves.
By: Edward Brown

Epic film with a great story.

Epic film with a great story, and fantastic music
By: Nicholas Falconer

A timeless achievement.

The ambition, the scale, the wild vision, the truth telling, the raw commitment–add an uncompromising dedication to story and character, and the result is a timeless achievement.
By: Marc Fisher

The plot, the music, the characters, everything.

The plot, the music, the characters, everything.
By: Aaron Liebman

Increasingly entertaining with each viewing.

Great performances, very reflective of the time it came about in, excellently crafted, and increasingly entertaining with each viewing.
By: Neal Perryman

Visually arresting and stunningly poetic war film.

Apocalypse Now is a film that has touched me every time I have watched it. Coppola’s direction, the cinematography, editing, acting and musical score are all absolutely perfect.

By: Alex Kvasnicka