I tried to watch it not long ago...And like most (not all) older films, it was ****e...I wanted it to be good.
Just watched "Apocalypse Now" for the first time in years, forgot how good that film was and how easy it is to believe that people can go so mad.
"The Horror" The thing is you can believe all that shotaway stuff was perfectly normal. The mix of a conventional army trying to get to grips with a jungle guerilla war in a drug induced hippy era and the slow but widespread decline into insanity, not just for Kurtz but to differing degrees in all ranks. I saw it a while back having not watched it for years and picked up on so much more. I'd forgotten the whole scene where he came across the French family and even just understanding the whole dialogue between Sheen and Brando so much more than the first time. So much symbolism in that film, it's an incredible film, a cinematic masterpiece I could talk about it for hours.