MaikeruGo

MaikeruGo t1_je46clr wrote

I remember a friend introducing me to this back in HS (this was decades after it was released) and it, as well as several other Zeppelin albums, became our default adventure/day trip music. Of course the magic part was that if we were heading towards the coast we'd literally have to travel to "Over The Hills and Far Away" to get to "The Ocean"—and if there wasn't a lot of traffic the trip take the entire duration of the album give or take a song. You couldn't ask for a better soundtrack.

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MaikeruGo t1_j22jk25 wrote

Theatrical is a solid version to watch and probably the right one. That said I own the Redux version since it had some additional content. Of course the way that it was placed into the film disrupts the flow a bit, but does fit in with the various messages and metaphors in the film. Also, the effect of those additional scenes makes the film a bit spookier and adds to the feeling of things progressing from reality towards insanity the closer they get to Kurtz. It's by no means a bad cut, just really, really long and definitely not something to watch on a whim. I can't truly speak about the Final Cut version since I haven't personally watched it, but I've heard that it's shorter, but still a more difficult watch than the Theatrical version.

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