Taxi Driver or Apocalypse Now Redux?
06-18-06, 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by hardercore
Thanks for raping my first experience of the movie.
06-19-06, 10:31 PM
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If you smoke weed buy Ap. Now, it's the perfect movie for that.
And if they are able to get a good dvd with sound ,because this movie does have excellent sound at lest it did on laserdisc and I think it won an Oscar for sound.
And if they are able to get a good dvd with sound ,because this movie does have excellent sound at lest it did on laserdisc and I think it won an Oscar for sound.
06-20-06, 12:29 AM
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I just ordered Apocalypse Now Redux, but only because recommendations were pretty much even, I couldn't find the theatrical version, and Apocalypse Now Redux cost half the price of Taxi Driver Collector's Edition so I was also able to pick up Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World as well
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06-20-06, 03:06 AM
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Redux is a step down from the original, the pacing is wiped out in the unecessary cut from Kilgore's iconic napalm speech to comical surf board stealing, and then the French plantation seemed like a different movie all together.
06-20-06, 05:29 AM
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Only now, after I've made the order, do any people speak out who'd not recommend it. I guess I'll just take a look and decide for myself, Redux got a score of 90 at metacritic.
06-20-06, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by hardercore
Only now, after I've made the order, do any people speak out who'd not recommend it.
Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
Get Apocalypse Now non-reduxed.
06-20-06, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
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06-21-06, 11:16 PM
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Well not that it matters anymore (and I haven't seen the Redux) but Taxi Driver is a great film. Apocalypse Now is an experience. It's my second favorite film behind The Godfather. Hopefully your enjoyment of the movie will be the same.
06-22-06, 11:37 AM
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I would not make the "Redux" version of AN your first experience with the movie. It is a step-down, overlong, and the pacing is thrown off. The extra scenes are interesting for the viewer already familiar with the movie, but they would've been better in a "deleted scenes" part of a DVD. Not spliced back into the original with no option for seeing the first cut. There's a double-dip coming of the original. You've gone your whole life without seeing AN -- what's a few more months.
TD looks to be the best choice for you -- it currently has a good relatively cheap DVD edition. If you have access (or know someone with access) to Mark Cuban's HDNet family of channels, it's been getting airtime in beautiful HD transfer.
TD looks to be the best choice for you -- it currently has a good relatively cheap DVD edition. If you have access (or know someone with access) to Mark Cuban's HDNet family of channels, it's been getting airtime in beautiful HD transfer.
06-22-06, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by brainee
I would not make the "Redux" version of AN your first experience with the movie. It is a step-down, overlong, and the pacing is thrown off. The extra scenes are interesting for the viewer already familiar with the movie, but they would've been better in a "deleted scenes" part of a DVD. Not spliced back into the original with no option for seeing the first cut. There's a double-dip coming of the original. You've gone your whole life without seeing AN -- what's a few more months.
TD looks to be the best choice for you -- it currently has a good relatively cheap DVD edition. If you have access (or know someone with access) to Mark Cuban's HDNet family of channels, it's been getting airtime in beautiful HD transfer.
TD looks to be the best choice for you -- it currently has a good relatively cheap DVD edition. If you have access (or know someone with access) to Mark Cuban's HDNet family of channels, it's been getting airtime in beautiful HD transfer.
06-22-06, 04:18 PM
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Let's be fair--if he hates AN: Redux, chances are pretty good he wouldn't have cared for the theatrrical version much either.
06-22-06, 05:40 PM
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There's only one "1st time experience" and with a movie like Apocalypse Now you do not want to ruin it, just like from one of those redux scenes "it's gonna ruin it! the waves!" hold off that cheapo redux dvd, at least rent the original if you really can't wait to watch it, and then buy the release a few months from now.
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I just sat through my first 194 minute viewing of Apocalypse Now Redux and I absolutely loved it. I had never seen the theatrical cut so Redux was my first experience of the picture. It was funny (Lt. Kilgore, and the american photographer in the end, Chef, etc) and terrifying at once. Absolutely beautiful cinematography too -- one of the best video transfers from a film of around that time (mid-late 70's) I've seen.
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Originally Posted by hardercore
I just sat through my first 194 minute viewing of Apocalypse Now Redux and I absolutely loved it. I had never seen the theatrical cut so Redux was my first experience of the picture. It was funny (Lt. Kilgore, and the american photographer in the end, Chef, etc) and terrifying at once. Absolutely beautiful cinematography too -- one of the best video transfers from a film of around that time (mid-late 70's) I've seen.
