Hoping to add some older dates to the film archive, I decided to pick a movie I've never seen before that was considered a classic. I wound up choosing this Francis Ford Coppola treasure. Little did I know, 'Redux' is usually considered by fans and critics, as well as director himself a completely new movie altogether (It even sports a separate Rotten Tomatoes page). Therefore, looks like I'll just be adding another 21st film to the list.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
The Positives:
- Rarely does sound editing ever make a significant difference to the point that I actually notice it, but that is anything put the case when those helicopters slowly roar past as the film opens.
- Actually, the whole damn opening scene was magnificent
- Setting it to 'The End' by The Doors didn't hurt either.
- Beautifully shot. Beautifully scripted. Beautifully acted.
- Harrison Ford!
- Gotta love Francis Ford Coppola's cameo.
- I'm still a bit flabbergasted that I just watched two men drop everything and begin to surf in the middle of a battle.
- It's kind of crazy to see just how much Martin Sheen resembles his son charlie. Not really a posit, not really a negative. Just an observation.
- Sheen's narration gave the film a kind of noir tone. War noir.
- I think the key too making a good war film is not making every character a hard-ass war monger or a soldier who is just learning who he is while witnessing the troubles of the world, but instead making the characters charismatic, funny, and fearless.
- Playboy playmates. Good stuff.
- The music, especially in the battle scenes, is haunting yet perfect.
- Sheen's narration gave the film a kind of noir tone. War noir.
- I think the key too making a good war film is not making every character a hard-ass war monger or a soldier who is just learning who he is while witnessing the troubles of the world, but instead making the characters charismatic, funny, and fearless.
- Playboy playmates. Good stuff.
- The music, especially in the battle scenes, is haunting yet perfect.
- Damn. I just can't get over how gorgeous this film is. The color is so vivid and the picture is so sharp. And I'm not even watching a Blu Ray.
- I've read the Joseph Conrad novel form which this film was based. It funny how the film-makers could completely change the events of Heart of Darkness, yet keep the spirit and story completely genuine to its original source.
The Negatives:
- I've read the Joseph Conrad novel form which this film was based. It funny how the film-makers could completely change the events of Heart of Darkness, yet keep the spirit and story completely genuine to its original source.
The Negatives:
- Some of the dialogue in scenes where soldiers are yelling is inaudible, which is especially distracting.
- It is 203 minutes long. Though, one can't really complain about running time on a film as excellent as this, considering nothing could or should be cut out. It also doesn't help that I deliberately chose the extended cut of the film.
Grade: A
- It is 203 minutes long. Though, one can't really complain about running time on a film as excellent as this, considering nothing could or should be cut out. It also doesn't help that I deliberately chose the extended cut of the film.
Grade: A
The second 'A' grade flick in a row. Coppola proves that just because something isn't broke doesn't mean it can't be fixed.
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