Apocalypse Now- Final Cut

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Aquaman ain't your thing? :p

What I like about Aquaman (Jason Momoa) is that he's not doing 'Aquaman 2' ... he's fighting for a real life cause instead ... bravo to him. CGI is all plastic fake, no value, no essence, no vision, just Mickey mouse Froot Loops cardboard cereals. It's fun though through the onscreen luminous OLED colors and Atomas sound. ....Non-sense movie entertainment.
 

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Ked, get serious
G3>>>>>>>>>>>>G2>G1.
As my Ra said about Sofia Coppola
"Didn't she die well".

Only one reason she should have stayed an "actor". To spare us the industrial scale crap that was directing The Virgin Suicides.
 

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I think Deniro hasn't done a good movie since good fellas but he continues to act fine. Pacino on the other hand kept repeating his angry man style after G1, dog day afternoon, and G2.

 

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Yep Ked, De Niro's Bob Mueller is REALLY fine acting.

He was THE man in the mid/late 70s. Just a hack now.

Go see Dirty Grandpa.

Al Pacino? How can he ever live up to his roles in Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico?
 

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So much for Marlon Brando from Apocalypse Now ...
Was he On the Waterfront with other stars ... Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb?
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- The Wild One
- The Godfather
- The Freshman
- Guys and Dolls
- Julius Caesar
- Last Tango in Paris
- The Young Lions
- The Score

Amazing filmography, amazing actor, he nailed Colonel Kurtz perfectly.
Children? Eleven of them: Christian Brando, Cheyenne Brando, Simon Teihotu Brando, Myles Jonathan Brando, Miko Castaneda Brando, Timothy Gahan Brando, Ninna Priscilla Brando, Raiatua Brando, Maimiti Brando, more
 

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Coppola's best movie was by far godfather 1. Then G2



I like Nolan much more than QT. He is seriously good, consistent yet different. QT has been trying the same tired trick of those ham burger type conversations. I could have written all the dialogues for once upon a time faster than I write a WBF post.

You are the king of armchair quarterbacks Ked.....
 
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Yep Ked, De Niro's Bob Mueller is REALLY fine acting.

He was THE man in the mid/late 70s. Just a hack now.

Go see Dirty Grandpa.

Al Pacino? How can he ever live up to his roles in Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico?

HEAT is my favorite movie - 1995. Michael Mann's masterpiece.

Had both De Niro and Pacino in a diner scene from Beverly Hills at Kate Mantilinis - one of the best of all time.

and Val Kilmer, Natalie Portman as a teenager, Danny Trejo, Tom Sizemore, yada yada yada. Off the charts good movie.
 

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I like Nolan much more than QT. He is seriously good, consistent yet different. QT has been trying the same tired trick of those ham burger type conversations. I could have written all the dialogues for once upon a time faster than I write a WBF post.

They are quite different, but Nolan is probably more talented. QT's schtick has become so old, though I still have hope for the Hollywood movie.

Although I still find Memento so overrated too.
 

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They are quite different, but Nolan is probably more talented. QT's schtick has become so old, though I still have hope for the Hollywood movie.

Although I still find Memento so overrated too.

Memento was quite early on.. Batman begins, dark Knight rises (requires re watching with subtitles, and I think Bane is more understandable now maybe they changed couldn't get him in the cinema on day 1 at all), Prestige, inception (again, requires re watching). Dunkirk was disappointing
 

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HEAT is my favorite movie - 1995. Michael Mann's masterpiece.

Had both De Niro and Pacino in a diner scene from Beverly Hills at Kate Mantilinis - one of the best of all time.

and Val Kilmer, Natalie Portman as a teenager, Danny Trejo, Tom Sizemore, yada yada yada. Off the charts good movie.

Michael Mann is probably a lesser director than even most in Bollywood. I thought Heat was like a Bollywood multi starrer where famous names were paid a lot to do nothing. How long was Val Kilmer in that movie, 5 mins? What a waste of talks. At least in Bollywood he would have a dance and a song.

His best trick was to keep fans waiting to see when the two names meet in one of the most anti climactic scene. It reminded me of when Jimmy page often joined some big names like Eric Clapton or Jeff Beck on stage during a live show for a one off song but hardly ever played the guitar.
 

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Jim (OP) must be thinking..."What a bunch of off-topic nuts."

Bringing the train back on the rails,
I have never seen AN any version all the way through. I think I have seen it all in bits and pieces but could never get into/appreciate the movie. Its been decades since the last attempt, maybe time to try one more time. Deerhunter was another one.
 

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Michael Mann is probably a lesser director than even most in Bollywood. I thought Heat was like a Bollywood multi starrer where famous names were paid a lot to do nothing. How long was Val Kilmer in that movie, 5 mins? What a waste of talks. At least in Bollywood he would have a dance and a song.

Um, ok. Last of the Mohicans, Heat, and the Insider (in a row, no less) is subpar stuff for a director that couldn't even direct in Bollywood apparently. LOL.

Mann was a pioneer in the 80s with the first two seasons of Miami Vice as well (which was a terrible movie in the 00s, unfortunately). Rewatch the pilot if you don't believe me.
 
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Michael Mann is probably a lesser director than even most in Bollywood. I thought Heat was like a Bollywood multi starrer where famous names were paid a lot to do nothing. How long was Val Kilmer in that movie, 5 mins? What a waste of talks. At least in Bollywood he would have a dance and a song.

His best trick was to keep fans waiting to see when the two names meet in one of the most anti climactic scene. It reminded me of when Jimmy page often joined some big names like Eric Clapton or Jeff Beck on stage during a live show for a one off song but hardly ever played the guitar.

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M Mann's Thief is maybe his best film.

Manhunter totally rocks as the perfect distillation of 80s surface sheen and brass balls psychotic double act.

Brian Cox's H Lecter rules.
 

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Um, ok. Last of the Mohicans, Heat, and the Insider (in a row, no less) is subpar stuff for a director that couldn't even direct in Bollywood apparently. LOL.

Mann was a pioneer in the 80s with the first two seasons of Miami Vice as well (which was a terrible movie in the 00s, unfortunately). Rewatch the pilot if you don't believe me.
Keith, directors need to make poor movies so we can value the good ones more.
 

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