They say that the Apocalypse is now.

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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.

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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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Ahmadinejad believes that his faith alone will rule after the any-day-now apocalypse.

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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.

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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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And how can we afford these expenditures now at a time of that looming financial sequestration apocalypse the president has been incessantly lamenting?

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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.

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" 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.

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