Movie Thoughts by Allison & Lisa

"The very end of the world, a sea the colour of lead, a sky the colout of smoke" Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness.

I first watched Apocalypse Now in high school directly after reading Heart of Darkness.  When the Redux version hit the theaters I swore I was going to see it.  But then…well basically if I don't go opening weekend I tend not to go and I didn't go opening weekend.

So here two years later I finally netflixed it.  It took two nights but I finally got through it.  That sounds bad.  But adding almost an hour to the film makes it a bit more difficult to watch in one evening.  The first evening I made it up to the point where they make it to Kurtz's camp.

The extra military base before hand with no commanding officer was an excellent add in.  The French plantation with the opium smoking…well that was just odd.  I understand why it was added in, but arg 57 extra minutes!

Let me ask people did they slaughter a cow in the original version?  I can't remember.  I remember that the puppy died, but not the cow.  It seems like it would have been–perhaps I just blocked it out.

I have to say that Apocalypse Now is the darkest movie I've ever seen.  This includes all David Lynch films and Spice World.