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32927, It is.
Posted by Professor Calculus, Sun Jun-26-05 03:04 PM
>b) Brando is great.

Brando is wasted.

>c) It's not about Vietnam, it isn't Vietnam, Vietnam merely
>takes the place of Africa as the darkest place in the world.
>It is about going into oneself.

But that doesn't translate into a great movie for me.

>d) Yes, there is lots of narration, and it does seem very
>prose like, but if you have ever read "Heart of Darkness" you
>know that Apocalypse Now has much much much less narration and
>annoying prose.

I. 97/100 times I hate narration.

II. I'm watching the movie, not reading the book. So saying the former cleans up the latter's mistakes is kinda irrelavant to me.

>Basically I disagree with you.

Understood.