Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Currently on ITV4 and now perhaps the best ever movie scene as the helicoptors approach and attack the village.
Awesome scene IMHO.
Awesome scene IMHO.
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Apocalypse Now
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Zesh Rehman
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ITV4 not working 
not as needy as
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I WANNA PISS NOW
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
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Beach Hut said:
agree. Although the Godfather with the christening and the murders comes to mind.
As does the Good, the bad and the ugly at the end with the stand off.
Those are all great great films.
The redux version of Apocalypse kind of fills in a few story lines too. wonderful, wonderful films and all with soundtracks that stand by themselves too on their own merits.
withdeanwombat
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Joseph Conrad is always a good read,too.
medicine man
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Heart of Darkness is a good read. End of Carlitos Way is good too- I think that's Grand Central Station. (could be wrong though! Up The Albion!!!)
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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phenominal film
and...with THE DOORS as the soundtrack. f***ing ACE
and...with THE DOORS as the soundtrack. f***ing ACE
Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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Apocalypse Now has some great scenes and the original concept of the film/book is sound with many interesting ideas but taken as a whole Apocalypse Now is a rambling, incoherant, lost movie. Most of the original ideas were swallowed up in a massive ego trip and convoluted perceptions.
While I can appreciate the achievemnet of actually completing the movie many involved in the production admit that the finished product (even the re-dux version) carries none of the weight of the original concept and is further bogged down by the fact that many of the principal cast were so high during the filming that trying to coax a performance that moved the story along was nigh on impossible.
This shows especially in what so many people falsely hail as a magnificent performance from Brando but was in fact a mumbling, off script, bloated, ego driven mess far from the idea the film makers had of Kurtz.
All in all, IMHO, an overrated mess.
While I can appreciate the achievemnet of actually completing the movie many involved in the production admit that the finished product (even the re-dux version) carries none of the weight of the original concept and is further bogged down by the fact that many of the principal cast were so high during the filming that trying to coax a performance that moved the story along was nigh on impossible.
This shows especially in what so many people falsely hail as a magnificent performance from Brando but was in fact a mumbling, off script, bloated, ego driven mess far from the idea the film makers had of Kurtz.
All in all, IMHO, an overrated mess.
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Man of Harveys
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What Nibble said. Honestly don't rate it.
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
Got to go wth nibble on this. I've only seen the redux version, but I thought the whole storyline was just far too muddled, I didn't even bother watching the end. It's no Platoon.
Stinky Kat
Tripping
Beach Hut said:
I liked that too. Have you been to GCS - its not as big as it looks in the film
Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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Billy the Fish said:
A great book, if you are interested in true accounts of Vietnam, is "If I die in a combat Zone" by Tim O' Brian. Just finished reading it. Not overly dramatic or boys' own. In fact, you can see that many of the scenes in A.N and Platoon are sourced from this book, to better effect in Platoon.