From "Cleopatra" to "Apocalypse Now, " these infamous productions have all been struck by extreme weather, tragedy, illness and sometimes death.
He may dress like Colonel Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now, " but he counsels them to psych out their nemesis by seeking common ground.
"'Apocalypse Now' almost broke me because it was so expensive, " Coppola remembers.
Lucas got a similar lesson when Coppola, who had been acting as his producer, assumed control of a project Lucas had been developing, Apocalypse Now.
" These films are consistent with my family's past viewings at Christmas: "Apocalypse Now, " "Raging Bull, " "Schindler's List, " the DVD of "Scarface" and "Bad Santa.
They fight and clash and sometimes you still get a great movie ( consider Apocalypse Now) but often you get an embarrassing mess on the screen.
In 1979, perhaps his most infamous film, "Apocalypse Now, " followed.
Although Vietnam themes have been a mainstay for Hollywood movies over the decades, all the flicks, from Green Berets and Apocalypse Now to the Rambo series, were shot elsewhere, usually the Philippines or Thailand.
Conversely, a game like Spec Ops: The Line hit me so hard because it was at once a new level of storytelling in video games and a throwback to films like Apocalypse Now and the Joseph Conrad novella, Heart of Darkness.
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Another Cairo daily ran banner headlines warning that if either of the Islamist candidates wins it would be "Apocalypse Now" -- A Mosaic plague of catastrophic proportions will descend upon Egypt, with a breakdown in security, violence, kidnapping, thuggery and theft, massive capital flight, political isolation, unemployment, poverty, and illness.
Ahmadinejad believes that his faith alone will rule after the any-day-now apocalypse.
Recovery will be a struggle, but apocalypse looks less likely now.
And how can we afford these expenditures now at a time of that looming financial sequestration apocalypse the president has been incessantly lamenting?
It may also be the only machine that keeps you alive when the Robot Apocalypse goes down, but we'll try to stuff that to the rear of our minds for now.
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