Apocalypse Now - smell of napalm

Am I the only one that prefers Apocalypse Now Redux to the original release?

I like both versions but having seen the orig so many times before Redux, I'm more used to it. Redux is growing on me.

Which explains how you ever get laid I'm sure!

haha nah, it's not something that I experience on a personal level. I see people get thumbs down for good comments so I tried the opposite. It didn't work, oh well.

Have a good day.

this came up on my email but i'm not entirely sure whom you are talking to? would you be referring to something i said?

The people downrating this must not have understood the movie too much...it's not entirely or strictly a war movie, per se.

I don't understand why people would downrate my comment either. The Thin Red Line is a thinking person's war film full of poetry and insight into the human condition during war.

so the others are not "thinking person's war films"? There are LOTS of good war movies. Das Boot is pretty high up there.

Isn't it saying life itself is like a war? There's always struggles, fighting, picking sides. I'd say it was more about life & death and it happens to be set during a war. A war setting allows exploration of the topics of life & death.When I stop and think about it, one of the main characters (Caviezel?? Muscular guy--character's name escapes me) he had what appears to be a calm center at peace with the world even as he walks around dying soldiers...he's calm. Amazing.

Yes I agree. I suspect it's because Caviezel's character (Witt) had a developed a profound understanding of death and didn't seem to fear it. As a result he was able to calmly accept his fate.