Apocalypse Now is one of my favorite movies and recently I saw the Director's Cut. These were the new scenes: After they go surfing during the helicopter attack, they steal one of the surfboards. Didn't feel it contributed anything. After they see the USO show with the Playboy playmates, they come to a medevac station where the playmates are spending the night and they trade some canisters of diesel fuel in exchange for a few hours of fucking the playmates. Playboy playmates prostituting themselves for diesel fuel?! Seemed highly unlikely, and this scene got pretty weird but at least there was some nice T&A. They come upon a plantation on the river run by French colonists who never left Vietnam after the French forces were defeated in 1954. They stay for dinner and the conversation, when I could understand it, is largely about how the French fought for land they had acquired in Vietnam, but the Americans were fighting for nothing. This scene went on much too long. Finally, Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) reads to Martin Sheen a couple of Time Magazine articles stating that the US is winning the war in Vietnam. He does this to point out the lies the American public is being subjected to, and it is these lies that drove Kurtz over the edge. I felt that this was the only new scene that definitely shouldn't have been cut from the movie. And I'm wondering how anyone else feels about it.
I found the latter two scenes interesting and worthwhile, and all sorta contributed to the mind fuck sheen's character was experiencing. The surfboard one was pointless, and the playmate one, well, maybe along the lines of the latter two but not really needed.
Has anyone caught these movies: Firebase Gloria w/ R. Lee Emrey Hamburger Hill The Killing Fields Deer Hunter Platoon
