RE: The Last Movie You Watched
December 13, 2014 at 10:14 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2014 at 10:19 pm by Tombochan.)
Apocalypse Now, for the umpty umpth time.
It has IMHO the best opening sequence of any movie ever made. The slow motion aerial ballet of the helicopters, the bloom of the napalm burst and Martin Sheen's descent into dementia, all set to The Doors "The End" is high art.
Most people don't recognize that this isn't a Viet Nam war movie, but a morality play and more, set in Viet Nam.
It asks the questions, what is morality, what is not. What is civilization and civilized behavior, what is not. What is sanity, what is not.
Absolutely my #1 movie ever.
PS: don't bother with the Redux version.
It has IMHO the best opening sequence of any movie ever made. The slow motion aerial ballet of the helicopters, the bloom of the napalm burst and Martin Sheen's descent into dementia, all set to The Doors "The End" is high art.
Most people don't recognize that this isn't a Viet Nam war movie, but a morality play and more, set in Viet Nam.
It asks the questions, what is morality, what is not. What is civilization and civilized behavior, what is not. What is sanity, what is not.
Absolutely my #1 movie ever.
PS: don't bother with the Redux version.