Most serious war films that have arrived in the last quarter-century, and probably any to come in the next twenty-five years, find themselves judged in relation to Francis Ford Coppola's classic Apocalypse Now (1979). Certainly any movies that plunge into the psychic anguish of war risk the comparison. Some, like Jarhead (2005), acknowledge this debt upfront...though that technique hardly rescues them from harsh correlative appraisals.Despite the fact that most new films are deemed unworthy to breathe the canonized air of Apocalypse Now, I doubt that the film would receive the same shower of affection were it released today...
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