Apocalypse Now
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory. From TMDB
256 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 17, 2026 · last updated Oct 17, 2026 · How this works
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Many viewers consider Apocalypse Now a masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the film ponderous, boring, or lacking a coherent story. [4][5][6] The film is frequently referenced in discussions about politics and culture. [7][8][9]
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I think a lot of people who think this film is a classic are deranged, the only memorable scene in the film is when they drop exploding napalm and the guy in the hat says "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", the rest of the film is a completely boring bombshell and it's like the film was high on drugs as there's this one part where people are butchering a cow in the most grotesque way possible... poor cow, …
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One of the greatest films ever made The original "Apocalypse Now" is an awe-inspiring masterpiece and is my all-time favorite film. Memorable scenes abound, starting with the mind-blowing opening with Willard (Martin Sheen) having a mental breakdown in his sweltering Saigon hotel room to the tune of The Doors' "The End." Speaking of Sheen, people overlook the fact that he expertly carries the film. His haunting …
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Yeah Rocketeer Raccoon just straight wildin, certified 0 ball knowledge peanutbrain. Amazing movie of course, maybe the best I've seen.
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It wasn't just insanity and murder, there was enough of that to go around for everyone. Apocalypse Now is directed by Francis Ford Coppola who also co-adapts the screenplay with John Milius from Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad. It stars Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms and Albert Hall. Cinematography is by Vittorio …
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Since we’re apparently talking about the politics of 70s-era blockbuster auteurs, my actual controversial viewpoint is that APOCALYPSE NOW isn’t very coherently political. I spent a lot of time as an anti-Iraq War youth trying to use it as an anti-war movie, but it’s just bad for that.
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Apocalypse Now Redux originally premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The screening marked the anniversary of the original Apocalypse Now screening as a work in progress, where it won the Palme d'Or. Coppola went to the festival, accompanied by Murch, Storaro, production designer Dean Tavoularis, producer Kim Aubry and actors Bottoms and Clément. The film was given a limited release in the United States on August 3, 2001, and was also released theatrically around the world in some countries, grossing $4.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $7.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $12.5 million. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 93%…
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60 of 256 · most liked firstA giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.
neutral · AI labelView post →Trump posted an AI-generated image that looked like a poster for the film Apocalypse Now, but with Chicago’s skyline in flames, helicopters circling overhead, and himself posed as a military commander.
neutral · AI labelView post →Robert Duvall was a giant. He's known for being in blockbusters like "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now." But he was so good, period. He got an Oscar for best actor in "Tender Mercies," a terrific smaller movie. Oh, he was so good in "Network."
neutral · AI labelView post →If the "takeaway" of a film is widely misunderstood, who is to blame, the filmmakers or the audience? For instance, if Marines watch Apocalypse Now and cheer the destruction and come away thinking Kilgore and Kurtz are awesome, are they media-illiterate, or did the movie fail in some basic way?
neutral · AI labelView post →Apocalypse Now, famously a movie about how war is awesome and always turns out well
negative · AI labelView post →I love the 90s WB cartoon approach of writing material for no imaginable demographic. There's a Pinky and the Brain that's an episode-long parody of Billy Jack. Animaniacs did a simultaneous takeoff of Apocalypse Now and the suppressed Jerry Lewis Holocaust movie The Day the Clown Cried.
neutral · AI labelView post →Robert Duvall, the seven-time Oscar nominee and a winner for 'Tender Mercies,' who is also known for 'The Godfather,' 'Apocalypse Now,' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' has died, he was 95. Duvall died Sunday at home, his wife, Luciana, announced this morning. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →MANDALORIAN AND GROGU is a Saturday afternoon matinee movie if ever there was one. Favreau wears his influences on his sleeve with Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, The Muppet movies, and Flash Gordon all poking their heads out. It's a love letter to serial sci-fi. A flawed but fun, goofy summer movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... Apocalypse Now is about a man driven insane by war, a movie about how hollow war can make people. Donald Trump, unintentionally, has invoked just the right image for what is to come. @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →The first pic was secretly snapped by Chris Niedenthal in front of the “Moscow” theatre in Warsaw. Movie playing is “Czas Apokalipsy” - Apocalypse Now, appropriately. You always know it's an "anti fascist operation" when you're not allowed to film it to show how noble it is
neutral · AI labelView post →The first pic was secretly snapped by Chris Niedenthal in front of the “Moscow” theatre in Warsaw. Movie playing is “Czas Apokalipsy” - Apocalypse Now, appropriately. You always know it's an "anti fascist operation" when you're not allowed to film to show how noble it is.
neutral · AI labelView post →After doing our retrospective on this movie, I have a newfound... I don't want to say "respect," but let's go with "fascination" with this movie. As someone who loves crazy behind the scene production stories, this thing is up there with Apocalypse Now. I salute you Street Fighter the Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Trailer Editor: what was the most negative contemporary review of Apocalypse Now chatGPT: Must every woman in this film have such disgustingly enormous breasts? - Roger Ebert Editor: what publication was that in chatGPT: tragically, Roger Ebert died before ever writing a single movie review
neutral · AI labelView post →Screening APOCALYPSE NOW final cut in 4K on the big screen tonight for my Film II class. This is the end.
neutral · AI labelView post →Author Viet Thanh Nguyen responds to Donald Trump's threat to invade Chicago using the imagery of Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now" to evoke "the entire history of American troops ... cleansing the land [for] American conquest."
neutral · AI labelView post →On the set of "Apocalypse Now" with Francis Ford Coppola. Hear more about my experience on that groundbreaking film in the latest episode of #TheMartinSheenPodcast 💙
neutral · AI labelView post →Cathy Linh Che's parents, refugees from the Vietnam War, were cast as background extras in Apocalypse Now. Almost 50 years later, she made a film about their experience. But in doing so, she began to wonder, was she, too, co-opting their story? www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
neutral · AI labelView post →His most Famous line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, delivered by Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall). The line highlighting the madness and destruction of the Vietnam War.
neutral · AI labelView post →Since we’re apparently talking about the politics of 70s-era blockbuster auteurs, my actual controversial viewpoint is that APOCALYPSE NOW isn’t very coherently political. I spent a lot of time as an anti-Iraq War youth trying to use it as an anti-war movie, but it’s just bad for that.
negative · AI labelView post →Remember when Trump was meeting with Vietnam vets in 2017 and asked them if Agent Orange was "that stuff from that movie," referring to napalm in Apocalypse Now?
neutral · AI labelView post →(Trump’s broken brain 🧵) 23. He said: “They call me the president of Europe.” 24. He posted an image of himself as Lt. Col. Kilgore from the movie “Apocalypse Now” and said “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning …’ Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Robert Duvall ❤️🙏🏽🕊️ Robert Duvall, the veteran actor who had a string of roles in classic American films including Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, MASH and To Kill a Mockingbird, has died aged 95. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...?
neutral · AI labelView post →Best use of rain in a violent sequence from a movie? I'd go with the end of Apocalypse Now (the killing of Kurtz) or Mr. Joshua fighting Riggs at the end of the first Lethal Weapon
neutral · AI labelView post →Trump's image threatening war on Chicago was based on the film “Apocalypse Now.” Fun Fact: That movie was about the Vietnam War--the war evaded the draft for by lying that he had bone spurs. So this image is stolen valor and marks the closest Trump has ever coming to serving in the US military 😀
neutral · AI labelView post →FINALLY, a movie about Harry Potter in Vietnam riffing on Apocalypse Now. I hadn't liked movies until I saw Harry Potter in Vietnam riffing on Apocalypse Now.
positive · AI labelView post →Her parents, war refugees, became extras in Apocalypse Now. Decades later, she won a Sundance award for the film she made about their experience. “Was I writing about my parents out of love, or was I extracting their stories from them to make a career in art?” www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
neutral · AI labelView post →More people should do fake 1970s covers for Marvel Movie Specials, just for increasingly unlikely films I want to see a Marvel silver age covers for adaptations of films like The Last Tango in Paris, Midnight Express & Apocalypse Now
neutral · AI labelView post →It's not a gotcha to point out that Apocalypse Now isn't a pro-war movie. It just makes you look like more of a nerd.
neutral · AI labelView post →This Thursday, some of Hollywood's most iconic stars pay tribute to the legendary Francis Ford Coppola as he is honored with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. See this special event at 8pm ET followed by his films APOCALYPSE NOW and THE RAIN PEOPLE.
neutral · AI labelView post →For my Film History II class tonight, the final cut of APOCALYPSE NOW. Every time I watch this film, I'm hard-pressed to think of a better film.
positive · AI labelView post →Apocalypse Now is a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Post a 70s movie that starts with the letter A 🎥 Apocalypse Now 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Apocalypse Now (1979) By Alessandro Montalto
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyway Chicago isn’t going anywhere and Apocalypse Now is a great antifascist film and no memes can change that
positive · AI labelView post →#watched APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) This thing is pure cinema.
positive · AI labelView post →Film friends, It looks like TCM will honor Robert Duvall's life on March 10th in primetime with the following films: TENDER MERCIES (1983) THE GREAT SANTINI (1979) APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) #TCMParty ^JW
neutral · AI labelView post →Can even just *one* Republican actually watch the movie Apocalypse Now rather than just making memes and cultural references based on what they assume it must be? Like…guys, you have *clearly not seen it*.
neutral · AI labelView post →Apocalypse Now (1979) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
neutral · AI labelView post →Apocalypse Now Redux. The plantation scene breaks the flow of the movie
negative · AI labelView post →Fabulous/terrifying Japanese movie poster for 1979’s “Apocalypse Now” by designer Eiko Ishioka & artist Haruo Takino.
neutral · AI labelView post →An important thing to understand about this is that Apocalypse Now is not an "antiwar" film. Francis Ford Coppola said so himself. It's a "war is hell" narrative. The film and especially the cool surfing scene has been co-opted by the US Military and conservatives to promote imperialism for decades.
neutral · AI labelView post →That time I was on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in 1979...talking about the film "Apocalypse Now." I also talk about it in the latest episode of #TheMartinSheenPodcast 💙--out now!
neutral · AI labelView post →Ah yes the famous “war is awesome and people should do more of it movie,” Apocalypse Now.
negative · AI labelView post →Also this is kinda cheating since they cut it out of the movie originally but the French Plantation sequence in APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX
neutral · AI labelView post →I accidentally caused an internet commotion yesterday with a passing reference to Apocalypse Now, so I felt I should update and repost my review. I saw this at 14 and had to navigate school with a blown mind afterwards; this is an complete masterpiece. 5 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/08/08/a...
positive · AI labelView post →Scenes from filming "Apocalypse Now." (I talked about the film on my latest podcast.) With Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall & Francis Ford Coppola #TheMartinSheenPodcast 💙
neutral · AI labelView post →Apocalypse Now. Just go all-out on the psychedelic horror the film tried for.
positive · AI labelView post →On this day (20th February) in 1986, the Scala Cinema was showing Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) and Apocalypse Now (1979) as a double bill.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Apocalypse Now Redux (1979) Dir: Francis Ford Coppola #MovieSky #Movies
neutral · AI labelView post →My film prof requiring us to watch Heart of Darkness before watching Apocalypse Now because she worked managing post-prod for American Zoetrope in the early 90s was her way of trying to inform comm students about the film industry
neutral · AI labelView post →Apocalypse Now is a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Apocalypse Now is a movie about how war is fuckin badass and makes you a mentally healthy cool guy, right
negative · AI labelView post →So, today I learned about the existence of a film called Apocalypse Now. Is this film common knowledge?
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorcerer (1977) answers the question what if Apocalypse Now was a good movie
neutral · AI labelView post →@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social talks to film editor, sound designer and director Walter Murch about working on Apocalypse Now, the Godfather films, The Conversation, Barton Fink and Return to Oz..
neutral · AI labelView post →#52WeeksOfFavourites (37/52) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎞️📺 Film & TV Songs 📺🎞️ Iconic... Apocalypse Now: The Doors - The End
neutral · AI labelView post →“Be quiet? Excuse me but my name isn’t Melania or any of the bimbos that work for you. Stop posting memes of you that reference Apocalypse Now, a war movie, you dumbass!”
neutral · AI labelView post →I rewatched Apocalypse Now, one of my favourite films when I was a teen. I hadn't seen it for twenty-ish years and worried it might seem dated or no longer stand up... But no. Wow. It's even better through 50+ year old eyes. And it's still poignant & woefully pertinent. Astonishing film.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to actor, film & TV producer and activist Martin Sheen, born Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez on August 3, 1940, Dayton, OH! Fave film role: "Captain Benjamin L. Willard" in Apocalypse Now (1979), although I also liked his "Kit" in Badlands (1973) and other film/TV roles. More: alt text
neutral · AI labelView post →APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT is tomorrow at the @siffnews.bsky.social Cinema Downtown! “A must-see theatrical experience… Apocalypse Now is a life-altering voyage.” John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter grandillusioncinema.org/film/apocaly...
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