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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:23:01 PM EDT
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Are you 17 with ADHD? |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:25:03 PM EDT
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Just think of it as binge watching a tv show.
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:30:05 PM EDT
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Are you 17 with ADHD? Yep, Redux was fantastic. |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:30:14 PM EDT
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Saigon. . . shit; I'm still only in Saigon.
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:30:39 PM EDT
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This is the end... |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:31:02 PM EDT
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Are you 17 with ADHD? Nope, mid 30's. I just couldn't get into it. And the bored as shit look on Sheens face the whole movie didn't make it any better. "I feel like I got shot with a diamond right in the forehead".....WTF does that even mean? |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:32:16 PM EDT
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I loved you in Wall Street!
Oh wrong movie 
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:32:27 PM EDT
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Smells like. . . victory.
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:32:34 PM EDT
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The buny scene was beyond stupid.
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:33:28 PM EDT
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I loved you in Wall Street! Oh wrong movie Oh you mean Wolf of Wall Street. Yea I was a man whore in that movie ;) |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:34:06 PM EDT
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"I asked for a mission - and for my sins, they gave me one."
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:35:15 PM EDT
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If the guy does not get it he probably never will.
He grew up in the wrong generation. |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:37:01 PM EDT
[#13]
Liked the original.
Redux sux. |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:39:53 PM EDT
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Liked the original. Redux sux. I'm going with this. Redux was a little much. |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:40:45 PM EDT
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Do I need to be tripping to know what the hell is going on? The damn movie just dragged and dragged and dragged, seemed like it took 6 hours to watch. Hell even Martin Sheen looked more bored than me. Am I missing something or is it just another mediocre movie? You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill. |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:42:17 PM EDT
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The redux version sucked. Miss Playboy centerfold fucking the boat crew, Martin Sheen's side trip to some rubber plantation where the host sitting at the table erupts into some cheesy, volatile, hot tempered European in an Italian movie, the tryst with the plantation bell pretty much overloaded my WTF capacitors and I turned it off.
It became a boring movie in an otherwise good movie. Sheen should never gotten off the boat. |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:42:21 PM EDT
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Liked the original. Redux sux. This |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:44:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:45:11 PM EDT
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OP have you seen the original? It's anything but "mediocre." Redux is a "director's cut" of the original, but after watching it, it was clear to me why the cuts were made in the first place. The 1979 original is the superior film.
ETA: that being said, if you haven't seen the original, you may now be underwhelmed when you do, having already sat through Redux. |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:45:44 PM EDT
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I loved you in Wall Street! Oh wrong movie Ha! Charlie's doing his "Platoon" monologue, interrupted by his dads "Apocalypse Now" voice-over. 
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:45:46 PM EDT
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Redux feels like a complete telling of the story.
The original is a studio cut approved for all audiences. |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:46:45 PM EDT
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The redux version sucked. Miss Playboy centerfold fucking the boat crew, Martin Sheen's side trip to some rubber plantation where the host sitting at the table erupts into some cheesy, volatile, hot tempered European in an Italian movie, the tryst with the plantation bell pretty much overloaded my WTF capacitors and I turned it off. It became a boring movie in an otherwise good movie. Sheen should never gotten off the boat. I could do without the plantation scene, but Redux did add some scenes that benefited the film. |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 11:47:24 PM EDT
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"Clean, Mr. Clean, was from south Bronx shit-hole and I think the light and the space of Vietnam really put the zap on his head."
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Posted: 7/1/2015 1:11:47 AM EDT
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Nope, mid 30's. I just couldn't get into it. And the bored as shit look on Sheens face the whole movie didn't make it any better. "I feel like I got shot with a diamond right in the forehead".....WTF does that even mean? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Are you 17 with ADHD? Nope, mid 30's. I just couldn't get into it. And the bored as shit look on Sheens face the whole movie didn't make it any better. "I feel like I got shot with a diamond right in the forehead".....WTF does that even mean? I won't tell you! If you knew, life would never be the same. 
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Posted: 7/1/2015 2:17:49 AM EDT
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I loved it. Especially the directors cut. True, it didn't flow as well as the original but when I like something, more is better.
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Posted: 7/1/2015 2:29:27 AM EDT
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I'm going with this. Redux was a little much. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Liked the original. Redux sux. I'm going with this. Redux was a little much. +1 |
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Posted: 7/1/2015 2:32:17 AM EDT
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The horror.
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Posted: 7/1/2015 2:41:15 AM EDT
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I bet OP owns a selfie stick and gets hours of entertainment from it.
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Posted: 7/1/2015 2:41:39 AM EDT
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..."if" is the middle word in "life"...
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Posted: 7/1/2015 2:42:17 AM EDT
[#30]
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I loved you in Wall Street! Oh wrong movie 
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Posted: 7/1/2015 2:49:58 AM EDT
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OP gave me AIDS
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Posted: 7/1/2015 2:56:07 AM EDT
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Well, it's no Red Dawn...
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Posted: 7/1/2015 2:59:03 AM EDT
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I loved it. Especially the directors cut. True, it didn't flow as well as the original but when I like something, more is better. I liked it too, but it got tedious at times. I'll watch Redux just to see the FND in the French plantation scene. |
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Posted: 7/1/2015 3:30:59 AM EDT
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Its not a Vietnam war movie, it's a movie about insanity that just happens to be set in Vietnam
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Posted: 7/1/2015 3:35:59 AM EDT
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I thought the second half of the original movie sucked, the redux took the suckage to a higher level. I watched the original when it came out and thought the second half sucked then, I thought maybe it would have grown on me in the years since so I watched it again a year or so ago. Nope, still sucked after so far in the movie. I had also gotten redux at the same time and watched it right after. Sucked worse.
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Posted: 7/1/2015 3:40:20 AM EDT
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Liked the original. Redux sux. |
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Posted: 7/1/2015 3:46:16 AM EDT
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Does this mean Anne Margret is not coming?
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Posted: 7/1/2015 4:34:42 AM EDT
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Redux is the best version. I especially like the French Plantation scene. |
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Posted: 7/1/2015 4:35:04 AM EDT
[#39]
Redoo doo does suck. Don't fix what isn't broke.
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Posted: 7/1/2015 8:02:49 AM EDT
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Definitely no Red Dawn. Maybe that's where my expectations were and why I was so let down. I did like where they took the beach just to surf
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Posted: 7/1/2015 8:20:06 AM EDT
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Definitely no Red Dawn. Maybe that's where my expectations were and why I was so let down. I did like where they took the beach just to surf What they fuck do you know about surfing Major? You're from fucking New Jersey!" |
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Posted: 7/1/2015 8:21:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Definitely no Red Dawn. Maybe that's where my expectations were and why I was so let down. I did like where they took the beach just to surf  |
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Posted: 7/1/2015 8:21:42 AM EDT
[#43]
It's obvious why the extra scenes in Redux were deleted from the original release. Makes the movie campy.
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Posted: 7/1/2015 8:23:36 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/1/2015 8:23:56 AM EDT
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What they fuck do you know about surfing Major? You're from fucking New Jersey!" Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Definitely no Red Dawn. Maybe that's where my expectations were and why I was so let down. I did like where they took the beach just to surf What they fuck do you know about surfing Major? You're from fucking New Jersey!" NJ actually gets some decent waves and has a surfing scene. |
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Posted: 7/1/2015 8:26:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Liked the original. Redux sux. Agreed. Especially the French plantation scene. That was just pointless. |
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Posted: 7/1/2015 8:28:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Redux is the best version. I especially like the French Plantation scene. Can you throw a sarcasm smiley in there when you say something like that? |
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Posted: 7/1/2015 8:39:21 AM EDT
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Quoted: Do I need to be tripping to know what the hell is going on? The damn movie just dragged and dragged and dragged, seemed like it took 6 hours to watch. Hell even Martin Sheen looked more bored than me. Am I missing something or is it just another mediocre movie? Never get outta the boat. |
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Posted: 7/1/2015 8:44:53 AM EDT
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It's probably best to watch the original release first, the deleted scenes do derail the plot a bit. I'm still glad they released redux.
The discussion with the Frenchman at the dinner table was strong, and Kurtz reading to Willard the newspaper articles, "tell me soldier, how to things smell to you", was brilliant as well. |
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Posted: 7/1/2015 8:48:09 AM EDT
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Those who don't get the plantation scene appear to know nothing about the French involvement in Indochina.
The message in that section was "France abandoned her soldiers who fought here against the communists. America will do the same." And we did. Both versions are excellent, but tell very different stories. And go read "Heart of Darkness" and write an 11 page analysis of why that story iscawesome. |
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