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Just watched Apocalypse Now (1979) for the first time

I didn’t like when Willard killed the Viet woman with ...
contagious startling crackhouse
  02/14/25
get out of there chef. Bang. I told you not to stop.
amber cocky den
  02/14/25
Brando was literally too obese to do much of anything in the...
mischievous aromatic library toilet seat
  02/14/25
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OYT Magnus
  12/13/25
He was blackout drunk the whole time and eating massive amou...
Claret Temple Internal Respiration
  02/14/25
he was like 400 lbs thats why they had to shoot him in the d...
Arousing Trailer Park
  02/14/25
they just let him ramble and then picked a few lines that th...
Provocative piazza alpha
  02/14/25
nice gig if you can get it
Arousing Trailer Park
  02/14/25
the documentary about making the movie is really interesting
Provocative piazza alpha
  02/14/25
The Brando parts were the best. He wasn't supposed to be coh...
boyish garrison
  02/14/25
the whole movie is completely incredible in a way that almos...
Provocative piazza alpha
  02/14/25
It makes complete sense. It’s about a god king losing ...
Spruce orchestra pit french chef
  02/14/25
that's not really what it is about imo. it is a retelling of...
nudist knife
  02/14/25
The Golden Bough is literally on Kurtz’s bookshelf at ...
Spruce orchestra pit french chef
  02/14/25
I liked the longer ("redux") version a lot better,...
Provocative piazza alpha
  02/14/25
the whole thing at the french dood's house is wild and reall...
odious pit headpube
  02/14/25
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Claret Temple Internal Respiration
  02/14/25
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Doobsian irradiated office hominid
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nude butt cheeks
  12/13/25
You smell that? You smell that? Blank bumps, son. Nothing ...
carmine glittery nibblets stage
  02/14/25
Never get off the boat... absolutely goddamn right. Unless y...
boyish garrison
  02/14/25
We train young tow truck drivers to drop fraudlies on people...
carmine glittery nibblets stage
  02/14/25
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boyish garrison
  02/14/25
Obviously a great movie but I've never met a Vietnam vet tha...
Bateful honey-headed set puppy
  02/14/25
I don't think apocalypse now was ever supposed to be an accu...
boyish garrison
  02/14/25
I've always found the grenade launcher scene to be 180. ...
mischievous aromatic library toilet seat
  02/14/25
that entire sequence is 180, I always thought the lighting w...
odious pit headpube
  02/14/25
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Bespoke trip organic girlfriend station
  02/14/25
I think it might be the actual scariest scene in a movie per...
odious pit headpube
  02/14/25
Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.
L.Q. Jones
  12/13/25


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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: contagious startling crackhouse

I didn’t like when Willard killed the Viet woman with the puppy for no reason

The surfing siege scene was nuts

Also Brando doesn’t even do anything. Every shot is him sitting around in the dark babbling or reading poetry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48659480)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:32 PM
Author: amber cocky den

get out of there chef.

Bang.

I told you not to stop.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48660205)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:35 PM
Author: mischievous aromatic library toilet seat

Brando was literally too obese to do much of anything in the filming.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48661778)



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: OYT Magnus ( )



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: Claret Temple Internal Respiration

He was blackout drunk the whole time and eating massive amounts of dessert foods between shots. They had to prop him up and use body doubles because he couldn’t stand at times.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48659757)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:58 PM
Author: Arousing Trailer Park

he was like 400 lbs thats why they had to shoot him in the dark

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48659769)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 12:59 PM
Author: Provocative piazza alpha

they just let him ramble and then picked a few lines that they could plausibly splice into some kind of dialogue and let do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48659776)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: Arousing Trailer Park

nice gig if you can get it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48659780)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:01 PM
Author: Provocative piazza alpha

the documentary about making the movie is really interesting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48659786)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: boyish garrison

The Brando parts were the best. He wasn't supposed to be coherent, he was supposed to be psychotic and emotionally scarred. He pulls it off masterfully imo. A triumph

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48659792)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:04 PM
Author: Provocative piazza alpha

the whole movie is completely incredible in a way that almost makes no sense and has no business succeeding the way it did, but it did

I love it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48659800)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 7:44 PM
Author: Spruce orchestra pit french chef

It makes complete sense. It’s about a god king losing his vitality and therefore he must be sacrificed and replaced by a new king.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48661397)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:39 PM
Author: nudist knife

that's not really what it is about imo. it is a retelling of Heart of Darkness.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48661794)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:50 PM
Author: Spruce orchestra pit french chef

The Golden Bough is literally on Kurtz’s bookshelf at the end hth. Heart of Darkness…isn’t.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48661826)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: Provocative piazza alpha

I liked the longer ("redux") version a lot better, the extra parts were good for the narrative cohesion

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48659783)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:34 PM
Author: odious pit headpube

the whole thing at the french dood's house is wild and really good addition

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48660211)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 3:40 PM
Author: Claret Temple Internal Respiration



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Date: February 14th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: Doobsian irradiated office hominid



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:25 PM
Author: nude butt cheeks (✅🍑)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 3:49 PM
Author: carmine glittery nibblets stage

You smell that? You smell that?

Blank bumps, son.

Nothing else in the world smells like that.

I love the smell of blank bumps in the morning.

One time we had a Johnsmeyer thread bumped for 12 hours.

When it was done, I scrolled up. Not one text bump.

That 180 smell, the whole thread.

Smells like... victory.

Some day this board is gonna end.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48660561)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 6:09 PM
Author: boyish garrison

Never get off the boat... absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Boooomm got off the boat... he split from the whole fuckin' program.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48661009)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:45 PM
Author: carmine glittery nibblets stage

We train young tow truck drivers to drop fraudlies on people, but their commander$ won't allow them to write "diaper" on the chatbort because it's obscene!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48661810)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:27 PM
Author: boyish garrison



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Date: February 14th, 2025 7:46 PM
Author: Bateful honey-headed set puppy

Obviously a great movie but I've never met a Vietnam vet that likes it. It's basically fanfic to them. One guy told me Hamburger Hill was the closest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48661402)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:34 PM
Author: boyish garrison

I don't think apocalypse now was ever supposed to be an accurate depiction. It was inspired by Heart of Darkness, and was kind of a surrealist/absurdist interpretation of Vietnam. Like Kilgore introduced like the stereotypical hardass, but then he starts talking about surfing, and wants them to surf while bombs are falling. His famous monologue about napalm and how he ends it wistfully with "some day this wars gonna end."

Imo it was an exaggeration of the causes of war and horrors of war. It was never "this is how it actually went down, man."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48661776)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: mischievous aromatic library toilet seat

I've always found the grenade launcher scene to be 180.

https://youtu.be/f96p-IhcZhQ?si=B4SMymFKqWBbLGV8

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48661797)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 10:32 PM
Author: odious pit headpube

that entire sequence is 180, I always thought the lighting was really great

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48661950)



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:29 PM
Author: Bespoke trip organic girlfriend station



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Date: February 14th, 2025 11:40 PM
Author: odious pit headpube

I think it might be the actual scariest scene in a movie period, it just perfectly makes it seem like they are right out there all of the time and you can't quite see them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#48662069)



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Date: December 13th, 2025 1:34 PM
Author: L.Q. Jones

Wow. Really appreciate the autists perspective here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5680726&forum_id=2Elisa#49506895)