I watched part of it with at a friends fathers house who was in Vietnam and he saw them flying the helicopters with the red marker lights on. He laughed how that was one hell of a way to get shot down. lol RIP Mr. Stoneberg. He was shot 5 times in Vietnam.
It gave Martin Sheen a near fatal heart attack during production at the age of 36. They found him crawling up a road. He tried to pass it off as heat stroke for fear investors would pull out.
I am retired American veteran bow living in Phillipines...I live near where they filmed the helicopter attack... all the helo pilots were Philippine Air Force hired by Coppola.
Arguably the best movie in cinematic history. The music, acting, the eyes of the actors, the scenery, the cinematography, the pace, the honesty of war, the brutality of war, the madness of war, the absurd humor because the entire situation is absurd, the dialogue, the monologue - which ends as Kurtz' voice in Willard's head. "The horror.... The horror".... Starting out with The Doors "The End" and ending with nothing but the sound of the rain. It is cinematic poetry.
One of the greatest in film History. The lighting, cinematography, set design, plot, characters, acting, soundtrack, direction ( did you miss Francis's cameo appearance?). Heart Of Darkess is the award winning documentary about the making of this movie filmed mostly by Coppola's wife. Fascinating. The Deer Hunter is a must - Academy Award winner.
Also a quick note regarding the scene in which the water buffalo is slaughtered: while it is indeed shocking, it was not staged as part of the movie's production. Rather the water buffalo was killed as part of a real sacrifice ritual performed by the indigenous Ifugao tribespeople whose land was used for filming. Coppola obtained the tribe's permission to record the ritual for use in the movie.
@@dennisgerner2416 That's why I prefer the original cut of movies instead of the "Director's Cut" versions that add in the deleted scenes. Usually they were deleted for good reason, and putting them back makes them slower and less powerful.
Thank you for reacting to this movie which indeed is "very intense." I'm not sure you realize that you didn't watch the original 1979 theatrical release but rather one of the longer re-edits that were subsequently released by Francis Ford Coppola in 2001 ("Apocalypse Now Redux") and 2019 ("Apocalypse Now Final Cut"). Opinions vary but many fans and critics feel the scenes added to these versions slow the pacing and are too lengthy while adding nothing overall to the film's impact. I much prefer the original and think you would have had a better experience reacting to that version. Also you may be interested to know that "Apocalypse Now" was inspired by Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" which tells the story of a Belgian steamer captain's journey up the Congo River to find a dying ivory trader named Kurtz. Both the movie and book examine the duality of human nature and the thin line between civilization and savagery. Vietnam is the perfect setting for Coppola to retell Conrad's story since the distinction between good and evil was more blurred in that war than in any previous conflict involving the U.S. It's hard to understand if you weren't alive at the time but when Coppola was making this movie the entire country was grappling with the deep psychic wounds inflicted by the realization that we'd fought the war for morally questionable reasons and ultimately we'd lost. Many Americans still believed that our mistake was failing to use every means at our disposal to win, but most felt shame for the atrocities the U.S. had committed and were relieved we'd put an end to the killing and walked away. Kurtz and Willard embody the poles of that great cultural divide. Kurtz had embraced the philosophy that "it's judgment that defeats us" and "you must make a friend of horror" to prevail, but in the end Kurtz can no longer bear the horror he's created around himself and implores Willard to end his suffering. Willard is a killer and does Kurtz's bidding. But in the movie's climactic scene, when Willard finds himself on the literal precipice of accepting Kurtz's mantle and continuing in Kurtz's footsteps, he instead chooses to drop his weapon, take Lance (who symbolizes innocence) by the hand, and walk away. He is scarred for life but the core of his humanity survives, and so while the movie is "dark and gruesome" its message is really about finding the moral courage to face and then emerge from the heart of darkness.
The 'better angels' of Willard's nature triumph in the end, and he leaves taking the hand of innocence, as you said, Lance, and not giving in to take Kurtz place there. The film is a docu-fable of sorts, not meant to be strictly realistic, but a blend of surrealist and factual story telling. Those who have complained, vets I'm speaking of, who have said I never saw this or that happen, are missing the point. Somebody else may have experienced something that was similar to the film's events, or felt like what happened in the film. I can attest myself to having heard from a Vietnam vet, who was a gunner on a hunter killer helicopter team, a horrifying story of his pilot being shot in the head, his brains splattered on the man who told the story, the copter crashing in the jungle trees, and him hanging upside down by straps in the branches with huge spiders, while waiting to be rescued. He came back to the states a total mental wreck, a heroin addict, surviving a terrible car crash, and living on the streets. One story out of 1000's of other equally insane experiences. That's what that war did to people.
Yes, I did realize a little after 2 and a half hours that I must be watching an extended version. It was pretty brutal to sit through.Though I feel it was well worth it to see that incredible performance by Marlon Brando. He was truly gifted. I think having some historical knowledge of the war and that time period probably helps going into this movie!
@SheilaReactz You watched a proper version. The theatrical is ok for people with short attention spans. But its less substantive and, of course, less Brando. When it comes to movies, it's always more rewarding to trust the filmmaker, not UA-cam commentators. (No offense intended) One of my fave Brando films is Mutiny on the Bounty. Epic film in the grand tradition, filmed on location...biggest in scope until Apocalypse. Also stars Richard Harris, decades before he was Dumbledore in Harry Potter 1 and 2. Then there's One Eyed Jacks, the only film he directed, after fighting with & taking over from original director Stanley Kubrick!
My entire tour in Iraq was spent at front lines. No USO, no showers, no indoor plumbing. The only items from care packages we got after they had been "inspected," by soldiers far in the rear was lip balm and suntan lotion.
@@SheilaReactz Thanks for that. For me it was so long ago, and I was so young that I sometimes in my dotage can't believe I was actually there and did those things. Yet I have seared in my memory constant mini movies of those times. The nice thing is that I was very fit and trim back then. You might have checked me out. Though I always thought I was hideous.
My brother-in-law was an Afghanistan vet. He came back ok physically, but mentally he's got so many scars. He hasn't ever talked about what he saw or did and we never ask him. He, my sister, and their kids moved in with the rest of us for about a year when he got back. He doesn't really have family and we wanted to help him readjust as best we could. He was a beautiful soul before he left. He came back as someone else. He stopped being openly affectionate with all of us, my sister and their kids included. He became withdrawn and sometimes when the shower was on and he was in the bathroom, i could hear him crying. Sobbing would probably be more accurate but it was always quite, broken sobs. Noises that still haunt me 20 years later. I can only imagine what made him weep so deeply. Over these last two decades, he's somewhat returned to who he was before the war, he's fine with hugs and as far as I know, his nightmares have stopped. He still cries though. Always by himself, and always quietly. I hate war.
First year of college in the mid 80's our student apartment got only 2 local tv stations so we had a VCR and my only 2 VHS films, this film and Caddyshack. We played them non stop all day whether anyone was watching or not. We had the films memorized. Btw, those are 2 of the most quoted films for decades and still often quoted.
Growing up in the 60s, the helicopter shots were on the evening news quite often. This was the helicopter war. Coincidentally, today the first replacement for the Huey, the helicopters you see here, was delivered to the U.S. Air Force. The last holdout of Huey's in all forces.
I am retired American veteran now living in Phillipines...I live near where they filmed the helicopter attack... all the helo pilots were Philippine Air Force hired by Coppola.
You’re correct, miss. It was a human life that helicopter crew snuffed out. It was also the life that just seconds earlier approached their fellow soldiers helicopter as a civilian and threw a grenade inside it, subsequently killing its crew, men they knew personally. How else could one expect those in the air calvary to perform their duties unless they were able to compartmentalize the traumas they were witnessing almost daily?
@@PapaEli-pz8ff Technically, yes, I suppose she was, regardless of how cowardly she performed it. But that isn’t really germane to the discussion at hand.
@@K1600-l7f”Cowardly”?! On the contrary, she was defending her village from the ravages of a foreign invader. I suppose, then, that you must agree with Kilgore, who after launching a predawn assault mostly to secure a beachhead for primo surfing looks down from his sky high vantage point and mutters “effing savages.”
@@michaelhall2709 The communists were the invaders of Vietnam at this time. She was not fighting for “her homeland,” but rather for the advancement of the scourge of communism. But again, this is not pertinent to the original discussion.
@@K1600-l7f The North Vietnamese were “invading” their own country, then? That’s truly cute! (And funny, since in the film those villagers aren’t portrayed as invading anything besides their own schoolrooms and rice paddies.) We were told then that the Commies were on the march, and that if we didn’t fight them over there we’d be fighting them here. Well, I don’t know how old you are, Sparky, but here’s how it went down: after year after year of dropping more ordinance on an impoverished Asian country than the Allies did on the Axis powers in all of World War II - and turning said country into a dioxin-tainted ash heap - America lost the war, and almost sixty thousand names went up on the Wall. Forty years later an American delegation led by General Colin Powell, who had fought in that war, signed a major trade deal with the communist government of Vietnam under the statue of Uncle Ho himself, a detail that would surely have given Orwell a chuckle. Powell then celebrated his commercial coup by dancing the night away wearing a grass hula skirt and fake coconut breasts. I actually don’t begrudge the general his good time, and only wish that the thousands of American, and millions of Vietnamese dead - along with all of their bereaved friends and relatives - had been there to party with him.
I would be interested to know what you took away from this viewing. During Willard's briefing you couldn't understand why Kurtz wasn't simply arrested. What were your thoughts on that after watching the movie? At Kurtz's basecamp you called the photographer "the ultimate fanboy", and then proceeded to gush over Brando for the rest of the video like the ultimate fangirl. Were you aware of the irony, assuming you gained any insights into human behaviour? You say that you didn't need to see the buffalo being slaughtered. What did that scene, and your response to it, tell you about the duality of man and your own experience of it? Do you think you needed to watch any of the movie? Do you think that all war movies should be made as light-hearted fairy-tales and that "the horror" of the human condition is taboo and never to be admitted, let alone confronted? Did the movie show you ANYTHING about yourself?
I'm 66 years old. I scanned the comments and saw only one reference to, Heart of Darkness. He said it was the documentary about the making of the film. The movie was taken from the novel, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad in 1899. At the time I had to read the book in High School. Had to read it again in college which is when this movie came out. As I was in the theatre I'm realizing, Coppola, was making a modern film of the book. I was happy that my High School was forward enough to have us read the book.
Yes, we all know about the source novel this movie story is based on: Heart of Darkness by Conrad, of course... ...But believe it or not there IS an absolutely BRILLIANT documentary about the making of this movie, mostly put together by Coppola's wife, titled 'Hearts of Darkness'. So, yes, that aspect is equally true and definitely worth mentioning as well. Full title is : Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. Released in 1991. You should check it out, it's totally amazing... (It scores 100% on Rotten Tomatoes by the way)
Martin Sheen actually did cut his hand in the opening scenes . He was going through a difficult divorce .. During filming he suffered a heart attack . The director Francis Ford Coppola suffered a breakdown . The helicopters were really being used in a civil conflict . It took months to film in grueling jungle conditions, Coppola , realizing the journey up the river was getting more and more insane so came the puppy scene to anchor .. it was symbolic ( innocence). the killing of the cow was a native ceremonial event .
At the time this movie was released in theaters i knew very few of these actors. But Laurence Fishburne, i caught, immediately as he grew up not far from me, and already had an up and coming acting career. The others, i knew but did not really know. Fishburne's aunt Hattie became a volunteer at an agency i worked for, 25+ years ago.
Brando refused Oscars he received for his greatest roles due to the way Hollywood treated Native American actors. Addendum: Apocalypse Now was released in a shorter form, with very little to do with the French, when first in theaters. It was re-released for the Director's cut, 25 years later.
From what i understand Marlon Brando scenes were filmed for three days at 2 million a day. No script. All of his lines were ad lib. Thats the only way he would do the movie. Amazing actor
Hi Sheila. On your Godfather reaction we talked a bit about your love of "Streetcar" (your high school project) and Brando's performance in that film. For me, "Apocalypse Now" is the Brando film that I come back to again and again. I've watched many of his scenes, and other scenes in the film, probably hundreds of times. The movie hits me on a visceral level as well because I've had some military experience where I allowed myself to fall under the spell of being a soldier for our government, willing to sacrifice myself and others, for "objectives", feeling the adrenaline rush of having a firearm pointed at you from a few feet away, and training/pushing your mind and body through ordeals that stretch thin your insanity. I've also had severe PTSD. So like Willard, I've experienced the strange sensation of not feeling comfortable with peace, like Willard's uneasiness at home and the need to return to the war, so I identify with his character somewhat. I also used to believe a lot of what Kurtz had to say, especially about 'judgement defeating us', until I realized that how we do something, even war, is just as important as what we do. Eventually of course I came to the simple conclusion that all war is evil and need's to be avoided at all cost. I went to a lot of therapy, and prayed and talked to God a lot, which thankfully helped me break out of those old beliefs. Now I'm in my last semester of my masters in counseling program, so I've come a long way. But no doubt, this is a powerful film, one of my all-time favorites and I'm so happy I was able to watch you experience it for the first time. Personally, I like the theatrical cut better, but this one is great too. Looking forward to more of your reactions!
They were very unhappy with Brando as the film took about two years to shoot. In that time he gained over 100 pounds. They shot the later scenes in the dark so to hide his weight gain. he was supposed to be someone who just went thorough green bray training a few years before is it makes no sense he would be that overweight. So it was really not meant to be that way but people never knew that. This movie holds records for being so far over budget and took so long to film it still holds some of those records. The critics loved it but it was not a blockbuster at the time. It became well know after it was released on VHS in the early 1980s. There is a directors cut that is some 5 hours long with endless scenes from the French rubber tree colonists you see having dinner in this shorter version that was still almost two hours long.
A great fictional war movie. My favorite of fictional war movies. I watch it as much as my favorite non-fictional war movie, The Longest Day. And the underlaying music in the forests was made by The Grateful Dead's drummers and bassist. There is an album of their selections in this movie. Bill Graham, who was the Playboy Bunnies caretaker was the most prolific promoter in the world of music from the late 60s through till his death in 91. I went to his eulogy.
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Always excited to see new content folks. Some notes (I’m obviously not an expert): 1) there’s quite a few moments where the movie isn’t playing (understood) and you’re not commenting. So in other words… dead air. You’ll likely want to maximize total runtime in your vids so tweaking that may make sense. 2) there’s quite a few hard cuts in the action. A director is going to have (what some call) “excessive shoe leather” which is scenes that are illustrative but don’t necessarily move the core plot along. My advice is… know the core scenes that move plot and linger on them longer so you can shelve the shoe leather (you know, for eyeballs). I think you’re doing great. Hang in there. Work hard. Money comes in the end.
When it comes to the narration, it can be done well or poorly, (like anything.) My favorite war film, The Thin Red Line (1998) also uses narration, and well. But, when films use narration poorly, it's usually when the studio underestimates its audience and uses the narration to tell the audience exactly what the audience is seeing, (à la Blade Runner--It's why there are so many debates over which is the best cut.) Less a reality of war and more of invasion and occupation of a country and region that attempted to rip itself away from its capitalist, colonial occupiers. I also feel like this film is a great adaptation of Joseph Conrad's book because it goes beyond the book, furthering the conversation the book started--The through-line: Colonialism, cruelty, & what even is sanity.
Once again, I admire your reaction and the respect you show the production. At the start of this post, you mentioned how Apocalypse Now is not talked about a lot.......in my opinion, this movie is such a "deep dive" into the subject matter (Vietnam) and the human condition that it's not a quick discussion if it's going to have any purpose. I'm 69, and growing up during the war years, it certainly made USA a tad schizophrenic......love your country, but everything else was just so wrong. ......Look forward to your next post.........thanks for sharing.
Now that you've watched it I think you can appreciate people don't describe it other than it's a great film. How can you relate what you see in this film. It's mind numbing in many ways. For example there is much in the narration. Narration is pictured in the mind of the listener!! Great reaction / review. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
I was kind of a fanboy of this movie in college. Once I graduated college I enlisted in the US Army as a medic and was stationed in Germany with the 3ID. Our battalion was sent to Iraq in 1990. I was in combat and got the CMB.
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” That line HAS to be in every reaction! lol. It’s one of the core, necessary lines in the movie. Another one: “you’re neither. You’re an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.” Love ya, kid 😊
Great reaction, if you think the movie was crazy you should look up how things went off screen, it's pretty nuts. One criticism is that you missed Col. Kurtz's most iconic quotes for the edit which was "Charlie don't surf!" and the "Napalm in the morning". If you do you own editing that is understandable but if you hire someone, you should be looking for a new one.
10:10 It is a good question. War is not exactly sane as people die violently. When I was younger, I was more inclined to believe that Colonel Kurtz was correct because he won battles and scared the enemy. Odd as it sounds, war does have rules. A soldier can't do want he wants even if, in the end, it is successful.
12:23 Combat is very surreal and though you are present in it you experience it in the third person. Actions are automatic like blinking your eyes. It's only when you are out of it do you think to yourself, "What am I fing doing here." You can't cower because men are counting on you. I am an old man now and it's hard to believe that I was there and performed as I did.
I always loved that french plantation scene, they're like ghosts of the past. The old ones, blind both figuratively and literally, to the horrors of colonialism. The adults are pessimistic and politically divided about the situation. And the young are desperate and impotent about their future, begging the Americans to not make the same mistakes than them
Marlon Brando’s line: Kurtz : I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies! I remember when I was with Special Forces... seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out; I didn't know what I wanted to do! And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it... I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God... the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters, these were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment! Because it's judgment that defeats us.
Apocalypse Now has accurate depictions of men in combat, although I would not classify it as a war movie. To me Apocalypse Now is a character study (or multiple character studies) in which a war is occurring in the background. When this was released, the movie was not a hit, and generally got panned by critics. It was re-evaluated as Top 100 great movie right around the time that PBS aired Ken Burns Documentary on the Vietnam War. The story of the production of Apocalypse Now is as interesting and strange as the movie itself. Coppola's next movie "One from the Heart," 1982 bankrupted his production company Zoetrope.
If you like Brando, I would recommend something, a little lighter weight than Apocalypse Now. It’s a movie he made with Matthew Broderick called, The Freshman. I don’t know if it’s reaction channel worthy (perhaps it could be canned for future purposes), but it’s entertaining, I think, nonetheless.
The behind the scenes were wild...Martin Sheen had a drinking problem and in fact,he did scenes when he was drunk and theres footage of him drunk and theres outtakes with him drunk.Brando was vastly overweight and the director had to shoot scenes with close ups so that the audience couldn't see how fat Brando was.The ox getting slaughtered was real.Dennis Hooper was high as a kite when he filmed his scenes.Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to get the part and hes talked about over the years.There's more scenes with Martin Sheena character talking to the French people and factual history,the French fought in Vietnam years before the Americans got involved.
"The Phoenix Program was a counterinsurgency program run by the South Vietnamese government and the CIA." Phoenix was the only unit that the N Vietnamese feared. This movie is a fiction about behind-the-lines gone rogue. Psychological terror. Col. Kurz isn't the only psycho. The real story of another Phoenix man, Sgt Roy Benevidez, seems fictional but is true.
Yes, "Show, don't tell." I know exactly what you mean, but that's the least of my problems with this film. I don't like the way the denouement sticks out like a sore thumb. There's something that doesn't work in this film. A shame since this could have been a true masterpiece. Now, it's a Mona Lisa with a nose 3 times too big.
Your subdued reaction is apropos. Narration IS a story. Narratives are stories and the stories we tell tell us. The Vietnam story is one of the US punishing the Vietnamese for stepping out of the globalist world order and attempting to go their own way. Vietnam was a French colony and they fought their own war of independence. The French finally left in 1954 and the country was partitioned into north and south. The US got involved because the CIA/Wall Street wanted a war. War is a money maker. More bombs were dropped on Vietnam by the US than were dropped in all of WWII. They are still filling in the bomb craters so they can farm the land. Most guys who fought there had no idea why they were there, all they knew was The Horror. Many came back emotionally mangled. Killing innocent peasants for no reason will do that. This movie captured well the horror and psychosis of war
This is Vietnam exaggerated by about 1,000%. My father was a front line medic who served 6-7 tours of Nam and treated it like just a job. I doubt Vietnam was the "hell on earth" every single Vietnam War film wants to portray it to be.
are you alive or a corpse thats been reanimated --- nothing alive could be this dull ---ps apocalaypse now is very popular --- most women dont watch war movies --- innumerable movies have copied it.
Believe it or not, there are many people who enjoy a realistic understated reaction to a movie. If it doesn’t appeal to you there are many other channels where people will grace you with the “Home Alone” pose every five seconds. No reason to make a hateful comment about it, but it really is just a reflection of your character, which I’m sure will serve you well in life.
They're all real explosions. This is not a joke like modern movies are. Everyone in this movie was risking his life.
I watched part of it with at a friends fathers house who was in Vietnam and he saw them flying the helicopters with the red marker lights on. He laughed how that was one hell of a way to get shot down. lol
RIP Mr. Stoneberg. He was shot 5 times in Vietnam.
It gave Martin Sheen a near fatal heart attack during production at the age of 36. They found him crawling up a road. He tried to pass it off as heat stroke for fear investors would pull out.
I am retired American veteran bow living in Phillipines...I live near where they filmed the helicopter attack... all the helo pilots were Philippine Air Force hired by Coppola.
Arguably the best movie in cinematic history. The music, acting, the eyes of the actors, the scenery, the cinematography, the pace, the honesty of war, the brutality of war, the madness of war, the absurd humor because the entire situation is absurd, the dialogue, the monologue - which ends as Kurtz' voice in Willard's head. "The horror.... The horror".... Starting out with The Doors "The End" and ending with nothing but the sound of the rain. It is cinematic poetry.
One of the greatest in film History. The lighting, cinematography, set design, plot, characters, acting, soundtrack, direction ( did you miss Francis's cameo appearance?). Heart Of Darkess is the award winning documentary about the making of this movie filmed mostly by Coppola's wife. Fascinating.
The Deer Hunter is a must - Academy Award winner.
Also a quick note regarding the scene in which the water buffalo is slaughtered: while it is indeed shocking, it was not staged as part of the movie's production. Rather the water buffalo was killed as part of a real sacrifice ritual performed by the indigenous Ifugao tribespeople whose land was used for filming. Coppola obtained the tribe's permission to record the ritual for use in the movie.
Oh, it 100 percent looked real! That was traumatizing, not gonna lie. 😣
@@SheilaReactz You need to get out more.
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Yep. Lawrence Fishburne's first film role. He was actually younger than the character he was playing at the time.
In the original had the B-52 airstrike (Almighty) napalming the hell out of the Kurtz area.
@@dennisgerner2416 That's why I prefer the original cut of movies instead of the "Director's Cut" versions that add in the deleted scenes. Usually they were deleted for good reason, and putting them back makes them slower and less powerful.
Lawrence Fishburne first film was actually 1975's Cornbread, Earl and Me at age 13.
Thank you for reacting to this movie which indeed is "very intense." I'm not sure you realize that you didn't watch the original 1979 theatrical release but rather one of the longer re-edits that were subsequently released by Francis Ford Coppola in 2001 ("Apocalypse Now Redux") and 2019 ("Apocalypse Now Final Cut"). Opinions vary but many fans and critics feel the scenes added to these versions slow the pacing and are too lengthy while adding nothing overall to the film's impact. I much prefer the original and think you would have had a better experience reacting to that version.
Also you may be interested to know that "Apocalypse Now" was inspired by Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" which tells the story of a Belgian steamer captain's journey up the Congo River to find a dying ivory trader named Kurtz. Both the movie and book examine the duality of human nature and the thin line between civilization and savagery.
Vietnam is the perfect setting for Coppola to retell Conrad's story since the distinction between good and evil was more blurred in that war than in any previous conflict involving the U.S. It's hard to understand if you weren't alive at the time but when Coppola was making this movie the entire country was grappling with the deep psychic wounds inflicted by the realization that we'd fought the war for morally questionable reasons and ultimately we'd lost. Many Americans still believed that our mistake was failing to use every means at our disposal to win, but most felt shame for the atrocities the U.S. had committed and were relieved we'd put an end to the killing and walked away.
Kurtz and Willard embody the poles of that great cultural divide. Kurtz had embraced the philosophy that "it's judgment that defeats us" and "you must make a friend of horror" to prevail, but in the end Kurtz can no longer bear the horror he's created around himself and implores Willard to end his suffering. Willard is a killer and does Kurtz's bidding. But in the movie's climactic scene, when Willard finds himself on the literal precipice of accepting Kurtz's mantle and continuing in Kurtz's footsteps, he instead chooses to drop his weapon, take Lance (who symbolizes innocence) by the hand, and walk away. He is scarred for life but the core of his humanity survives, and so while the movie is "dark and gruesome" its message is really about finding the moral courage to face and then emerge from the heart of darkness.
The 'better angels' of Willard's nature triumph in the end, and he leaves taking the hand of innocence, as you said, Lance, and not giving in to take Kurtz place there. The film is a docu-fable of sorts, not meant to be strictly realistic, but a blend of surrealist and factual story telling. Those who have complained, vets I'm speaking of, who have said I never saw this or that happen, are missing the point. Somebody else may have experienced something that was similar to the film's events, or felt like what happened in the film. I can attest myself to having heard from a Vietnam vet, who was a gunner on a hunter killer helicopter team, a horrifying story of his pilot being shot in the head, his brains splattered on the man who told the story, the copter crashing in the jungle trees, and him hanging upside down by straps in the branches with huge spiders, while waiting to be rescued. He came back to the states a total mental wreck, a heroin addict, surviving a terrible car crash, and living on the streets. One story out of 1000's of other equally insane experiences. That's what that war did to people.
Yes, I did realize a little after 2 and a half hours that I must be watching an extended version. It was pretty brutal to sit through.Though I feel it was well worth it to see that incredible performance by Marlon Brando. He was truly gifted. I think having some historical knowledge of the war and that time period probably helps going into this movie!
@SheilaReactz You watched a proper version. The theatrical is ok for people with short attention spans. But its less substantive and, of course, less Brando. When it comes to movies, it's always more rewarding to trust the filmmaker, not UA-cam commentators. (No offense intended)
One of my fave Brando films is Mutiny on the Bounty. Epic film in the grand tradition, filmed on location...biggest in scope until Apocalypse. Also stars Richard Harris, decades before he was Dumbledore in Harry Potter 1 and 2.
Then there's One Eyed Jacks, the only film he directed, after fighting with & taking over from original director Stanley Kubrick!
@@SheilaReactzYour an Aspey aren't you? Aspergers autistic. ME TOO, just subscribed.
Lt Col Bill Kilgore is Robert Duvall who also played Tom Hagen in The Godfather 1 and 2. One of the all time great actors.
Thanks! Deer Hunter (1978) DeNiro, Walken, Streep
Thanks! Added to the watchlist!
My entire tour in Iraq was spent at front lines. No USO, no showers, no indoor plumbing. The only items from care packages we got after they had been "inspected," by soldiers far in the rear was lip balm and suntan lotion.
Fuck them. I woulda sent steaks and cakes to my homies up front.
Thank you for your service!
@@SheilaReactz Thanks for that. For me it was so long ago, and I was so young that I sometimes in my dotage can't believe I was actually there and did those things. Yet I have seared in my memory constant mini movies of those times.
The nice thing is that I was very fit and trim back then. You might have checked me out. Though I always thought I was hideous.
“Hey, buddy, you wanna shut the door?!”😂 cracks me up every time! The best ANTI war movie ever made!
@@raulguadalupe3489 I don't classify this as a war movie. It's a character study and war is occurring in the background.
My brother-in-law was an Afghanistan vet. He came back ok physically, but mentally he's got so many scars. He hasn't ever talked about what he saw or did and we never ask him. He, my sister, and their kids moved in with the rest of us for about a year when he got back. He doesn't really have family and we wanted to help him readjust as best we could. He was a beautiful soul before he left. He came back as someone else. He stopped being openly affectionate with all of us, my sister and their kids included. He became withdrawn and sometimes when the shower was on and he was in the bathroom, i could hear him crying. Sobbing would probably be more accurate but it was always quite, broken sobs. Noises that still haunt me 20 years later. I can only imagine what made him weep so deeply. Over these last two decades, he's somewhat returned to who he was before the war, he's fine with hugs and as far as I know, his nightmares have stopped. He still cries though. Always by himself, and always quietly. I hate war.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing. Veteran's stories are definitely not talked about enough. I hope for deep healing and all the best for him.
The key line is ‘Terminate. With extreme prejudice.’
No, there is no key line. There are many important lines, but the all-encompassing one is, "The horror, the horror".
You want to watch a great , true & sad at the same time what went on ? Try the movie : The Killing Fields
First year of college in the mid 80's our student apartment got only 2 local tv stations so we had a VCR and my only 2 VHS films, this film and Caddyshack. We played them non stop all day whether anyone was watching or not. We had the films memorized. Btw, those are 2 of the most quoted films for decades and still often quoted.
"I wanted a mission, and for my sins they gave me one" That line haunted me the firs time I watched it
Growing up in the 60s, the helicopter shots were on the evening news quite often. This was the helicopter war.
Coincidentally, today the first replacement for the Huey, the helicopters you see here, was delivered to the U.S. Air Force. The last holdout of Huey's in all forces.
I am retired American veteran now living in Phillipines...I live near where they filmed the helicopter attack... all the helo pilots were Philippine Air Force hired by Coppola.
I had the privilege of flying over those areas as a USAF helicopter crewman. What an amazing country!
You’re correct, miss. It was a human life that helicopter crew snuffed out. It was also the life that just seconds earlier approached their fellow soldiers helicopter as a civilian and threw a grenade inside it, subsequently killing its crew, men they knew personally. How else could one expect those in the air calvary to perform their duties unless they were able to compartmentalize the traumas they were witnessing almost daily?
That young woman was also preforming her duty..
@@PapaEli-pz8ff Technically, yes, I suppose she was, regardless of how cowardly she performed it. But that isn’t really germane to the discussion at hand.
@@K1600-l7f”Cowardly”?! On the contrary, she was defending her village from the ravages of a foreign invader. I suppose, then, that you must agree with Kilgore, who after launching a predawn assault mostly to secure a beachhead for primo surfing looks down from his sky high vantage point and mutters “effing savages.”
@@michaelhall2709 The communists were the invaders of Vietnam at this time. She was not fighting for “her homeland,” but rather for the advancement of the scourge of communism. But again, this is not pertinent to the original discussion.
@@K1600-l7f The North Vietnamese were “invading” their own country, then? That’s truly cute! (And funny, since in the film those villagers aren’t portrayed as invading anything besides their own schoolrooms and rice paddies.)
We were told then that the Commies were on the march, and that if we didn’t fight them over there we’d be fighting them here. Well, I don’t know how old you are, Sparky, but here’s how it went down: after year after year of dropping more ordinance on an impoverished Asian country than the Allies did on the Axis powers in all of World War II - and turning said country into a dioxin-tainted ash heap - America lost the war, and almost sixty thousand names went up on the Wall. Forty years later an American delegation led by General Colin Powell, who had fought in that war, signed a major trade deal with the communist government of Vietnam under the statue of Uncle Ho himself, a detail that would surely have given Orwell a chuckle. Powell then celebrated his commercial coup by dancing the night away wearing a grass hula skirt and fake coconut breasts. I actually don’t begrudge the general his good time, and only wish that the thousands of American, and millions of Vietnamese dead - along with all of their bereaved friends and relatives - had been there to party with him.
I would be interested to know what you took away from this viewing.
During Willard's briefing you couldn't understand why Kurtz wasn't simply arrested. What were your thoughts on that after watching the movie?
At Kurtz's basecamp you called the photographer "the ultimate fanboy", and then proceeded to gush over Brando for the rest of the video like the ultimate fangirl. Were you aware of the irony, assuming you gained any insights into human behaviour?
You say that you didn't need to see the buffalo being slaughtered. What did that scene, and your response to it, tell you about the duality of man and your own experience of it? Do you think you needed to watch any of the movie? Do you think that all war movies should be made as light-hearted fairy-tales and that "the horror" of the human condition is taboo and never to be admitted, let alone confronted?
Did the movie show you ANYTHING about yourself?
I'm 66 years old. I scanned the comments and saw only one reference to, Heart of Darkness. He said it was the documentary about the making of the film. The movie was taken from the novel, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad in 1899. At the time I had to read the book in High School. Had to read it again in college which is when this movie came out. As I was in the theatre I'm realizing, Coppola, was making a modern film of the book. I was happy that my High School was forward enough to have us read the book.
That is correct. Conrad also wrote the short novel The Duelists which was the basis of the Ridley Scott film by the same name
Yes, we all know about the source novel this movie story is based on: Heart of Darkness by Conrad, of course...
...But believe it or not there IS an absolutely BRILLIANT documentary about the making of this movie, mostly put together by Coppola's wife, titled 'Hearts of Darkness'. So, yes, that aspect is equally true and definitely worth mentioning as well.
Full title is : Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. Released in 1991. You should check it out, it's totally amazing...
(It scores 100% on Rotten Tomatoes by the way)
Yep, 16-year old Laurence Fishburn.
I kept thinking.. I know this face!
He was 14 at the time of shooting this film, he lied about his age to get the role.
Martin Sheen actually did cut his hand in the opening scenes . He was going through a difficult divorce .. During filming he suffered a heart attack . The director Francis Ford Coppola suffered a breakdown . The helicopters were really being used in a civil conflict . It took months to film in grueling jungle conditions, Coppola , realizing the journey up the river was getting more and more insane so came the puppy scene to anchor .. it was symbolic ( innocence). the killing of the cow was a native ceremonial event .
Apocalypse Now is another Copppla/Brando classic and Lawrence Fishburne's film debut. Hoping you'll react to Tokyo Vice soon!👍🏽🏴
Greetings from the Dominican Republic, excellent video
At the time this movie was released in theaters i knew very few of these actors. But Laurence Fishburne, i caught, immediately as he grew up not far from me, and already had an up and coming acting career. The others, i knew but did not really know. Fishburne's aunt Hattie became a volunteer at an agency i worked for, 25+ years ago.
Brando refused Oscars he received for his greatest roles due to the way Hollywood treated Native American actors. Addendum: Apocalypse Now was released in a shorter form, with very little to do with the French, when first in theaters. It was re-released for the Director's cut, 25 years later.
From what i understand Marlon Brando scenes were filmed for three days at 2 million a day. No script. All of his lines were ad lib. Thats the only way he would do the movie. Amazing actor
Well worth watching a good video essay to understand this movie completely. Lots of metaphor and layers.
Hi Sheila. On your Godfather reaction we talked a bit about your love of "Streetcar" (your high school project) and Brando's performance in that film. For me, "Apocalypse Now" is the Brando film that I come back to again and again. I've watched many of his scenes, and other scenes in the film, probably hundreds of times. The movie hits me on a visceral level as well because I've had some military experience where I allowed myself to fall under the spell of being a soldier for our government, willing to sacrifice myself and others, for "objectives", feeling the adrenaline rush of having a firearm pointed at you from a few feet away, and training/pushing your mind and body through ordeals that stretch thin your insanity. I've also had severe PTSD. So like Willard, I've experienced the strange sensation of not feeling comfortable with peace, like Willard's uneasiness at home and the need to return to the war, so I identify with his character somewhat. I also used to believe a lot of what Kurtz had to say, especially about 'judgement defeating us', until I realized that how we do something, even war, is just as important as what we do. Eventually of course I came to the simple conclusion that all war is evil and need's to be avoided at all cost. I went to a lot of therapy, and prayed and talked to God a lot, which thankfully helped me break out of those old beliefs. Now I'm in my last semester of my masters in counseling program, so I've come a long way. But no doubt, this is a powerful film, one of my all-time favorites and I'm so happy I was able to watch you experience it for the first time. Personally, I like the theatrical cut better, but this one is great too. Looking forward to more of your reactions!
Brando's performance here truly is masterful. I was blown away. I might just do a Marlon Brando movie reaction playlist!
@@SheilaReactz that would be awesome, Sheila!
Always nice to find someone who doesn't feel the urge to run his/her mouth throughout the movie.
They were very unhappy with Brando as the film took about two years to shoot. In that time he gained over 100 pounds. They shot the later scenes in the dark so to hide his weight gain. he was supposed to be someone who just went thorough green bray training a few years before is it makes no sense he would be that overweight. So it was really not meant to be that way but people never knew that. This movie holds records for being so far over budget and took so long to film it still holds some of those records. The critics loved it but it was not a blockbuster at the time. It became well know after it was released on VHS in the early 1980s. There is a directors cut that is some 5 hours long with endless scenes from the French rubber tree colonists you see having dinner in this shorter version that was still almost two hours long.
A great fictional war movie. My favorite of fictional war movies. I watch it as much as my favorite non-fictional war movie, The Longest Day. And the underlaying music in the forests was made by The Grateful Dead's drummers and bassist. There is an album of their selections in this movie. Bill Graham, who was the Playboy Bunnies caretaker was the most prolific promoter in the world of music from the late 60s through till his death in 91. I went to his eulogy.
It is almost criminal that this movie lost out to Kramer vs. Kramer for Best Picture, and Martin Sheen wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar.
How can someone so young be into the Cult Classic Movies??? You can’t pay a young person to watch these Movies! From my point of view, yet you spin right into them!!!,😊, thanks for sharing 👏👏👏👍✌️😊🇺🇸
A great Brando film you should also catch is "One-Eyed Jacks", in which Brando also did a great job directing
Brando never blinked during dialogue.
Always excited to see new content folks. Some notes (I’m obviously not an expert): 1) there’s quite a few moments where the movie isn’t playing (understood) and you’re not commenting. So in other words… dead air. You’ll likely want to maximize total runtime in your vids so tweaking that may make sense. 2) there’s quite a few hard cuts in the action. A director is going to have (what some call) “excessive shoe leather” which is scenes that are illustrative but don’t necessarily move the core plot along. My advice is… know the core scenes that move plot and linger on them longer so you can shelve the shoe leather (you know, for eyeballs). I think you’re doing great. Hang in there. Work hard. Money comes in the end.
When it comes to the narration, it can be done well or poorly, (like anything.) My favorite war film, The Thin Red Line (1998) also uses narration, and well. But, when films use narration poorly, it's usually when the studio underestimates its audience and uses the narration to tell the audience exactly what the audience is seeing, (à la Blade Runner--It's why there are so many debates over which is the best cut.)
Less a reality of war and more of invasion and occupation of a country and region that attempted to rip itself away from its capitalist, colonial occupiers.
I also feel like this film is a great adaptation of Joseph Conrad's book because it goes beyond the book, furthering the conversation the book started--The through-line: Colonialism, cruelty, & what even is sanity.
Awesome reaction Shelia, it's my fav movie. Thanks for posting ❤
Thanks so much for watching!
Once again, I admire your reaction and the respect you show the production. At the start of this post, you mentioned how Apocalypse Now is not talked about a lot.......in my opinion, this movie is such a "deep dive" into the subject matter (Vietnam) and the human condition that it's not a quick discussion if it's going to have any purpose. I'm 69, and growing up during the war years, it certainly made USA a tad schizophrenic......love your country, but everything else was just so wrong. ......Look forward to your next post.........thanks for sharing.
Great Movie and Reaction !!! Thank You Sheila
Thanks for watching!
Yes, that's Laurence Fishburne in his first credited movie role (credited as Larry Fishburne), he was 14 when filming started.
Now that you've watched it I think you can appreciate people don't describe it other than it's a great film. How can you relate what you see in this film. It's mind numbing in many ways. For example there is much in the narration. Narration is pictured in the mind of the listener!!
Great reaction / review.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Thanks for watching!
@@SheilaReactz Thanks for presenting.
I was kind of a fanboy of this movie in college. Once I graduated college I enlisted in the US Army as a medic and was stationed in Germany with the 3ID. Our battalion was sent to Iraq in 1990. I was in combat and got the CMB.
Your age and age group is probably why you never heard about it . This is a true classic
So nice reaction!!
Thank you Sheila!
Thanks for watching!
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz was become a god! Winning the war singlehanded!😮
A movie with Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen 😃😲🥳
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” That line HAS to be in every reaction! lol. It’s one of the core, necessary lines in the movie. Another one: “you’re neither. You’re an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.” Love ya, kid 😊
This is in my top 3 films ever. I had it on all day one time on a hot summer day years ago. I could just throw it on. I embrace horror….horror
Great reaction, if you think the movie was crazy you should look up how things went off screen, it's pretty nuts. One criticism is that you missed Col. Kurtz's most iconic quotes for the edit which was "Charlie don't surf!" and the "Napalm in the morning". If you do you own editing that is understandable but if you hire someone, you should be looking for a new one.
10:10 It is a good question. War is not exactly sane as people die violently. When I was younger, I was more inclined to believe that Colonel Kurtz was correct because he won battles and scared the enemy. Odd as it sounds, war does have rules. A soldier can't do want he wants even if, in the end, it is successful.
This movie is deep !!
Those six foot swells!
Apocalypse Now shouldn't be taken too seriously; it's a fever dream of the Vietnam War.
12:23 Combat is very surreal and though you are present in it you experience it in the third person. Actions are automatic like blinking your eyes. It's only when you are out of it do you think to yourself, "What am I fing doing here." You can't cower because men are counting on you. I am an old man now and it's hard to believe that I was there and performed as I did.
I always loved that french plantation scene, they're like ghosts of the past. The old ones, blind both figuratively and literally, to the horrors of colonialism. The adults are pessimistic and politically divided about the situation. And the young are desperate and impotent about their future, begging the Americans to not make the same mistakes than them
Well stated. 🙏
He doesn't go back, his gunboat is going up the river
Marlon Brando’s line:
Kurtz : I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies! I remember when I was with Special Forces... seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out; I didn't know what I wanted to do! And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it... I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God... the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters, these were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment! Because it's judgment that defeats us.
Apocalypse Now has accurate depictions of men in combat, although I would not classify it as a war movie. To me Apocalypse Now is a character study (or multiple character studies) in which a war is occurring in the background. When this was released, the movie was not a hit, and generally got panned by critics. It was re-evaluated as Top 100 great movie right around the time that PBS aired Ken Burns Documentary on the Vietnam War.
The story of the production of Apocalypse Now is as interesting and strange as the movie itself. Coppola's next movie "One from the Heart," 1982 bankrupted his production company Zoetrope.
If you like Brando, I would recommend something, a little lighter weight than Apocalypse Now. It’s a movie he made with Matthew Broderick called, The Freshman. I don’t know if it’s reaction channel worthy (perhaps it could be canned for future purposes), but it’s entertaining, I think, nonetheless.
The behind the scenes were wild...Martin Sheen had a drinking problem and in fact,he did scenes when he was drunk and theres footage of him drunk and theres outtakes with him drunk.Brando was vastly overweight and the director had to shoot scenes with close ups so that the audience couldn't see how fat Brando was.The ox getting slaughtered was real.Dennis Hooper was high as a kite when he filmed his scenes.Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to get the part and hes talked about over the years.There's more scenes with Martin Sheena character talking to the French people and factual history,the French fought in Vietnam years before the Americans got involved.
"The Phoenix Program was a counterinsurgency program run by the South Vietnamese government and the CIA." Phoenix was the only unit that the N Vietnamese feared. This movie is a fiction about behind-the-lines gone rogue. Psychological terror. Col. Kurz isn't the only psycho. The real story of another Phoenix man, Sgt Roy Benevidez, seems fictional but is true.
A trip into the heart of darkness of man.
Oh. and this is Laurence Fishburne's first roll.
6:06 Most people today, don't know who Marlon Brando was.
I've always known Brando was a great actor but now I'm fully convinced he is the greatest actor of all time!
@@SheilaReactz Don't agree with that, but he was intense. I like character actors more than stars.
10:02 technically yes, but they are in authority.
Nobody wants to talk about going beyond the relm of sanity in war, its so seductive, its love hate love.😮😢
Did you recognise Tom Hagen from The Godfather movies in this? I mean the actor who played him?
Extended cut. I don't care for it. This is the one time when the Theatrical cut is better.
Thanks!
Perfect .❤
Much appreciated!!
Is this a reaction video or just a video of you watching the movie,?
Yes, "Show, don't tell." I know exactly what you mean, but that's the least of my problems with this film. I don't like the way the denouement sticks out like a sore thumb. There's something that doesn't work in this film. A shame since this could have been a true masterpiece. Now, it's a Mona Lisa with a nose 3 times too big.
19:56 There is foul language used in combat.
Your subdued reaction is apropos. Narration IS a story. Narratives are stories and the stories we tell tell us. The Vietnam story is one of the US punishing the Vietnamese for stepping out of the globalist world order and attempting to go their own way. Vietnam was a French colony and they fought their own war of independence. The French finally left in 1954 and the country was partitioned into north and south. The US got involved because the CIA/Wall Street wanted a war. War is a money maker. More bombs were dropped on Vietnam by the US than were dropped in all of WWII. They are still filling in the bomb craters so they can farm the land. Most guys who fought there had no idea why they were there, all they knew was The Horror. Many came back emotionally mangled. Killing innocent peasants for no reason will do that. This movie captured well the horror and psychosis of war
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Hello Sheila
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he it on a trip
acid or mushshrooms
This is Vietnam exaggerated by about 1,000%. My father was a front line medic who served 6-7 tours of Nam and treated it like just a job. I doubt Vietnam was the "hell on earth" every single Vietnam War film wants to portray it to be.
Tell that to the Marines at the siege of Khe Sanh...
"Platoon" is probably a little more realistic than this movie though. This is very Hollywood.
Not their master...their god.
Gave up half way through, your editing leaves out some great dialogue and the sound isn't very good.
FWIW: in my opinion, this s the longest, worst cut of his film.
It was a bit brutal to sit through, Marlon Brando’s performance made it worth it though.
You're so cute
are you alive or a corpse thats been reanimated --- nothing alive could be this dull ---ps apocalaypse now is very popular --- most women dont watch war movies --- innumerable movies have copied it.
Believe it or not, there are many people who enjoy a realistic understated reaction to a movie. If it doesn’t appeal to you there are many other channels where people will grace you with the “Home Alone” pose every five seconds. No reason to make a hateful comment about it, but it really is just a reflection of your character, which I’m sure will serve you well in life.