Bluemoon's Official Top 100 Films

JULES said:
I thought it was 200,000 in silver ? just sayin
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Wow, have I missed that after all the times I seen it!!! the music "extacy of gold" must have thrown me at some point.....or dementia is setting in. Either way, 200,000 dollars in value is probably the most important thing about it ;)
 
Pablo1 said:
Corny as fuck but what an enjoyable romp of a movie. Deserves a place in the top 100.
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One of a handful of times in my life when I was truly engrossed in a film.

Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting and probably Joker and the Descent - although my concentration was broken during the Descent by being attacked by a daddy long legs.
 
Blue_eyes said:
Wow, have I missed that after all the times I seen it!!! the music "extacy of gold" must have thrown me at some point.....or dementia is setting in. Either way, 200,000 dollars in value is probably the most important thing about it ;)
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I`m not going to watch the film to make sure but if I remember the coins were silver when tuco hit one of the sack with a spade....yes I remember....arch stanton !
 
9. Apocalypse Now 10/120

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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, and Dennis Hopper. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola and John Milius and narration written by Michael Herr, was loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The setting was changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Brando), a renegade Army Special Forces officer accused of murder and who is presumed insane.

Milius became interested in adapting Heart of Darkness for a Vietnam War setting, and initially began developing the film with Coppola as producer and George Lucas as director. After Lucas became unavailable, Coppola took over directorial control, and was influenced by Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) in his approach to the material. Initially set to be a five-month shoot, the film became noted for the problems encountered while making it for over a year, as chronicled in the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991). These problems included expensive sets being destroyed by severe weather, Brando showing up on set overweight and completely unprepared, and Sheen having a breakdown and suffering a near-fatal heart attack while on location. Problems continued after production as the release was postponed several times while Coppola edited over a million feet of film.

Apocalypse Now was honored with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered unfinished before it was finally released on August 15, 1979, by United Artists. The film performed well at the box office, grossing $78 million domestically and going on to gross over $150 million worldwide. Initial reviews were mixed; while Vittorio Storaro's cinematography was widely acclaimed, several critics found Coppola's handling of the story's major themes to be anticlimactic and intellectually disappointing. Apocalypse Now is today considered to be one of the greatest films ever made. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards at the 52nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and Best Supporting Actor for Duvall, and went on to win for Best Cinematography and Best Sound. It ranked No. 14 in Sight & Sound's greatest films poll in 2012, and No. 6 in the Director's Poll of greatest films of all time. Roger Ebert also included it in his top 10 list of greatest films ever in 2012. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".


 
Double R said:
One of my top 10. One of those casualy paced, psychodelic films with mind bending visuals and soundtrack that I love to drift into on late evenings when feeling mellow. Similar to The Shining and The Thin Red Line.
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Didn't have it in my 20 but I love "Apocalypse Now" - also like "The Thin Red Line" as well.

Guessed 9 and 10 in exact positions - this can't go on can it?
(Although being honest, before the Top 20 was announced, I would have guessed that Life of Brian, TGTB&TU, The Empire Strikes Back and Aliens would have been surefire top 10s).
 
BlueHammer85 said:
9. Apocalypse Now 10/120

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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, and Dennis Hopper. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola and John Milius and narration written by Michael Herr, was loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The setting was changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Brando), a renegade Army Special Forces officer accused of murder and who is presumed insane.

Milius became interested in adapting Heart of Darkness for a Vietnam War setting, and initially began developing the film with Coppola as producer and George Lucas as director. After Lucas became unavailable, Coppola took over directorial control, and was influenced by Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) in his approach to the material. Initially set to be a five-month shoot, the film became noted for the problems encountered while making it for over a year, as chronicled in the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991). These problems included expensive sets being destroyed by severe weather, Brando showing up on set overweight and completely unprepared, and Sheen having a breakdown and suffering a near-fatal heart attack while on location. Problems continued after production as the release was postponed several times while Coppola edited over a million feet of film.

Apocalypse Now was honored with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered unfinished before it was finally released on August 15, 1979, by United Artists. The film performed well at the box office, grossing $78 million domestically and going on to gross over $150 million worldwide. Initial reviews were mixed; while Vittorio Storaro's cinematography was widely acclaimed, several critics found Coppola's handling of the story's major themes to be anticlimactic and intellectually disappointing. Apocalypse Now is today considered to be one of the greatest films ever made. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards at the 52nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and Best Supporting Actor for Duvall, and went on to win for Best Cinematography and Best Sound. It ranked No. 14 in Sight & Sound's greatest films poll in 2012, and No. 6 in the Director's Poll of greatest films of all time. Roger Ebert also included it in his top 10 list of greatest films ever in 2012. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".


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The video clip is one of my favourite movie scenes and the quote is up there with bigger boat.

I had this at #8 on my list.

One of three incredible epic movies that Coppola produced and could never subsequently match but what a glorious legacy.

Having not seen it for awhile, I watched most of it again recently and it still has much the same impact. Almost came out of the movie first time around shell shocked. A very powerful film.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
another one i've not seen... @Boo or Boo-urns go through the TV guide will ya !
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Dug through my collection of older, not-used-for-a-while DVDs at the back of the wardrobe last night - Gladiator and Apocalypse Now both present and correct.

Once you've see AN, I strongly recommend you see the "Hearts of Darkness" documentary about the making of the film. This is not your typical fluffy promo - Coppola's wife shot a lot of the footage on location, so we get classic moments like his dismay when the Phiilipino army want their choppers back to fight in a real war.
 
My third from the top 20 (so far) that I haven’t seen.

Whilst my number one has a three hour runtime, I’m usually deterred by films with a long duration because of severe ADHD. But I should really get around to seeing Once Upon a Time in the West, Saving Private Ryan and Apocalypse Now.
 
Dr Jacoby said:
My third from the top 20 (so far) that I haven’t seen.

Whilst my number one has a three hour runtime, I’m usually deterred by films with a long duration because of severe ADHD. But I should really get around to seeing Once Upon a Time in the West, Saving Private Ryan and Apocalypse Now.
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Two consecutive weeknights, half a film a night. Job done.
 
I watched this film in high school as part of a project while also reading Heart of Darkness and wrote a piece comparing and contrasting the two. I found myself at age 16 shocked that I actually enjoyed the book more than the film, so much so that I ended up taking a course on Conrad in college. A pretty incredible piece of filmmaking but not in my top 20. As war films go my favorite is Patton, which isn't really a war film.
 
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