Required Viewing

Rating: 10/10 (15 May 2011)

My God this is a film. It's an adventure. It's an epic. It's a mind trip. It's a film people will be watching 150 years from now.
Naturally, only a classic like this has to have a disaster story behind it. The making of this film is one of the notorious failures. Millions over budget, star suffering a heart attack at 35, and Marlon Brando showing up on set overweight. The funniest part about it, the movie was released in 1979, two years after the first (I guess fourth, technically) Star Wars. Harrison Ford is in both movies, both looks older in Star Wars, released prior, then he does in Apocalypse. That's how long it took to film this movie.
What else do I say to say? Watch this movie, see what a classic really is. The fact that it didn't win the Best Picture Oscar, or Director, to that silly and forgotten movie 'Kramer v. Kramer' completely blows my mind. I tried watching that movie, I swear I turned it off after about 15 minutes it was that bad. But, then again, I guess time has shown who the real winner is.