Friday Night Update (cont'd)

Just finished watching "Apocalypse Now Redux" for strictly scholarly purposes. What a tiresome load of dreck. Coppola succeeded in making the wretched original even more wretched. The dime-store philosophy, the stoner sensibility, the trite gibberish passed off as profundity -- wotta mess. It even fails as propaganda; the only rational conclusion is that if opponents of the war were this dizzy, there must be something to be said for the other side.

I'd like to find a copy of "Hearts of Darkness," the "making-of" movie; I saw most of it on TV about ten years ago and it goes a long way in exploring the pathology of this sort of tripe.