Re: No offense or anything...

Posted by Cuyahoga Boru from braveheart.mildenhall.af.mil on March 16, 2001 at 16:31:20:

In Reply to: No offense or anything... posted by Fall Guy on March 14, 2001 at 18:50:49:

: ... but you have already made up your mind about this movie. If it's just a dumb movie, how come you are offended by it? Is it because it's not patriotic propaganda?
: It's obviously a movie critical of war, and it's more about the human condition than anything else. Maybe you should read The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. You will find themes like self-discovery, self-deception, civilization versus savagery, you will even find the quest.
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: : What is up with everybody liking Apocalypse Now. No offense or anything, but that is the dumbest movie I have ever seen. Anyone that knows anything about the Vietnam War knows that movies like Apocalypse Now, Platton, and others are offensive and derrogatory to the men and women that served their country. So what gives???

Exactly FG!! Apocalypse Now is not a "Viet Nam" movie in the sense that it is a true representation of Nam. But rather it is an updated working of Conrad's Heart of Darkness merely using the war in Nam as a setting.

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