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 enlarge | Actor: Apocalyspe Now
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  693 reviews
Sales Rank: 544
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Vietnamese (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 355
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: 097360706840
UPC: 097360706840
EAN: 0097360706840
ASIN: B000FSME1A
Theatrical Release Date: August 15, 1979
Release Date: August 15, 2006
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 MMMMMM...this movie smells like victory November 26, 2007
Excellent movie. The added scenes were very cool. Highly recommend for those who loved this classic.
Perfectly fine. November 23, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The fact that "Hearts of Darkness" was not included here does not matter. The documentary is a huge disappointment. If you've heard about what's in the it, there is genuinely no need to see it. It is one of the most over-hyped films I've encountered. It is slightly irritating that it hasn't been included here, but, in the final analysis, it's no real loss.
Releasing the documentary separately, and at a price more expensive than that of "The Complete Dossier," tells me that Coppola is desperate to make some quick money. Coppola is relying on the fact that "Hearts of Darkness" got good initial reviews and and has ever since remained relatively unseen and sought after (which means that most of us will only have second hand knowledge of it) and hence that we will not anticipate how much of a non-event it really is.
Not Complete...But Incredible October 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This may not be the Complete collection but it is an incredible movie that I can't discourage you to have. For those looking to see as much of Apocalypse Now that you can, definitely pick this up. It's worth the price of Coppola's commentary alone.
The two disc set includes Coppola's commentary, a video introduction, plenty of deleted scenes, and a few other featurettes that are tottally worth it.
The Hearts of Darkness documentary isn't included, and that's bad, but this set has everything else you'd want.
Definitely recommended.
Good in content, silly in form September 24, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not going to sit here and write a review of Apocalypse Now, nor the Redux (which I have yet to see).
I will however, provide a review of the DVD itself.
First of all, the packaging is creative. Simply put, it's a nice box. When you open it is when the problems arise.
My main problem with this DVD release is that for some reason, rather than put one version of the film on one disc and the other version on another disc, the two films are split, half of each film on each disc. This cannot be a space issue, because the films are split at about the halfway mark, and in any case we all know that lengthy films can be fit on a single DVD (see Lord of the Rings). So what happens is about halfway through the film it asks you to switch discs, which serves to take you out of the film pretty abruptly.
Also, the way the discs are arranged makes it impossible to get to the second disc while the first is in place.
I can't comment on the special features as I have not watched them yet.
Overall, this is a great film that deserves to be watched all the way through continuously. Unfortunately this DVD does not allow that to happen.
 Viet Nam was never like this September 11, 2007
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I know that critics liked this movie about Viet Nam, but I have to disagree. This movie is nothing, I repeat nothing, like Viet Nam. I would not recommend this movie to anyone. If they wanted to know what Viet Nam was like, I would recommend Oliver Stone's 'Platoon,' because that was as close to my experience of Viet Nam that I have seen. Stay away from 'Apocalypse Now,' it is so unrealistic it borders on fantasy, and is very disrespectful to the American soldier. If I could rate this lower, I would rate this "ZERO."
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