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ORIGINAL: Kana

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Watching Apocalypse Now, halfway through and I'm bored to death by it. Just seems like another 'Nam. movie and war movies are extremely boring to me. I just don't understand their purpose.

But, but "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

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... war movies ...I just don't understand their purpose.

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: Kana

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

Watching Apocalypse Now, halfway through and I'm bored to death by it. Just seems like another 'Nam. movie and war movies are extremely boring to me. I just don't understand their purpose.

But, but "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

Yes, it smells like gasoline.

A movie that I have watched, although it just did not do it for me.

Although, some of you may know that it is not Martin Sheen's voice through the movie. It is his brother's, Joe Estevez. A nice guy and all.

I am still trying to figure out the point of this thread.

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I am still trying to figure out the point of this thread.

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ORIGINAL: Tantriqu

I'll revise the title to US movies people pretend to have seen:

10. The Great Escape (yankee BS: go watch The 49th Parallel or Morning Departure)
9. The Blade Runner (Excellent, and in love with Rutger Hauer ever since; sadly the director's cut isn't)
8. Good Fellas (Started to watch, stopped)
7. Apocalypse Now (Quite good, but needs more editing and less Brando)
6. This is Spinal Tap (I'll give it an 11. Smell the glove!)
5. Reservoir Dogs (truly dreadful and unleashed the anti-human that is quentar)
4. 2001 A Space Odyssey (Boring and wankerish in a sci-fi way, unlike Eyes Wide Shut which was just wankish)
3. Taxi Driver (would only make 44 minutes on a CSI episode now)
2. Casablanca (Dated, but a touching classic, and worth watching over and over again: although imagining Ronnie Reagan as Rick gives me the heebiejeebies; if remade now, Rick and Ilsa would use the letters of transit for themselves and abandon her husband to his fate)
1. The Godfather (Hated all of them, three of the worst films ever and progressively bad, overly long, boring, and inept...even worse than the book).
So when someone says they 'loved' GFIII including Sofia Coppola, I know they haven't actually watched it.

For the International list, I would add: (first three in my top 25 of all time)

M [Truly chilling, and stands the test of time]
Metropolis [same: chilling and stands the test of time]
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 [what Private Ryan should have been]
Rashomon [never saw, always intend to]
The Bicycle Thief [have never been able to finish]
Pan's Labyrinth [vastly overrated]
Life is Beautiful [vastly overrated]
Brief Encounters [sniff: also if remade now would end with the doctor and heroine running away]
The 400 Blows/Jules et Jim, or any French new wave [so wankerish now with all the spoilt bourgeousie]
Any Fellini or Italian neorealism: SCTV did it better

The Seventh Seal [More a cheap student film, although again introduced me to a lifelong crush of Max von Sydow: I prefer Wild Strawberries]

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And hey... when he takes his shirt off, ain't NOBODY looking at nothing except that beautiful rug of chest hair. Ooo la fricking la.

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ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss

I will say that Sofia Coppola was crap in that movie, but who was looking at her? She was with Andy Garcia in dang near every scene. And hey... when he takes his shirt off, ain't NOBODY looking at nothing except that beautiful rug of chest hair. Ooo la fricking la.