A Timeless Classic - Watch it with "The Platoon"

Rating: 9/10 (23 August 2015)

2 hours + long - and yet I simply could not stop watching it once I had started.
I had seen The Platoon before watching Apocalypse now. The latter is absolutely amazing, and one touch less hard hitting than the former, yet leaves a lot to our imagination. Actually, I watched "the making of Apocalypse now" before watching the actual movie, and this made me enjoy it even more.
I think one reason is Francis Ford manages to tell this story "as it happened" rather than the way The Platoon was told, in other words getting emotional. Perhaps this is consciously done, as the "players" of the "war" (or should that be "interference?) in Vietnam seem to have gone about it all in an entirely un-emotional manner.
We can see repetitions of Apocalypse Now and its theme all around today too - whether it is Iraq, Afghanistan, or any other country in the Middle East that catches the fancy of Uncle Sam.
Keeping in mind that Josephy Conrad wrote this (US = Belgium, Vietnam = Congo) a good hundred years ago, I have a strong feeling that this movie and its theme will remain relevant for a long time to come - as long as humans behave like idiots and greedy war mongers.
I have added a few trivia based on the interviews of Francis Ford Coppola and his crew.