This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I saw this in the theater when it first came out when I was 18. My friend and I were totally stunned when we came out.

Also, I like the original rather than the "Redux". It's interesting to see the deleted scenes, but there are parts in it that made Willard seem just like an average goofball (like with the Playmates) instead of the guy that was going deeper and deeper into his own madness the more he learned about Kurtz and the further he went up-river. But that's just me.

Master, Rocky has broken his chain and vanished. Your new playmate is loose and somewhere in the ice capades. Magenta has just released the dogs.

Apocalypse Now (1979) Redux (2001)

Twenty-two years after its original release, a longer, expanded and restored version of the film - at three hours and about 20 minutes - was released and titled Apocalypse Now Redux. "Redux" means "returned," as from battle or exile. The new Apocalypse Now edit added 49 minutes to the original, which, depending on whether it was shown in 35mm or 70mm, with or without credits, has been clocked as running from 139 to 153 minutes. (According to Miramax, which released the new version, this new cut totals 197 minutes.)

The vibrant film with a remastered, fuller soundtrack used original material and reintegrated scenes excised from the 1979 version (to include greater character detail for Willard, his crew, and Colonel Kurtz (in a scene where he reads from an actual Time Magazine and shows how the American public was lied to), an expanded Playboy Playmates sequence after their helicopter is downed, and an additional French colonial plantation sequence). Consensus was mixed about the reworked version, although most critics felt that the additional material did only a little to enhance the film's themes or expand upon the plot. The best scenes of the film are still those found in the original version.