Apocalypse Redux - Book One: A LitRPG Time Regression Adventure

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There are several styles that stand out when you read LitRPGs. The majority of those I've read essentially show the evolution of a character, more rarely of his entourage too, and see the character grow in power to dominate his opponents.

A longer opening montage, the entire 10 minute song "The End" by The Doors is heard.It intercuts longer helicopters/jungle images with Willard in the hotel room in a drunken rage, as well as a scene where he is with a prostitute. There are various shots outside depicting the streets of Saigon. We follow his journey and the various events that befall him and a small group of soldiers in a patrol boat traveling deep into the jungle. On their way, really bizarre things happen. The film should essentially be anti-war, but it didn't strike me as such, but simply as a film about the fate of various people who found themselves in unusual situations. Scott, A. O. (August 3, 2001). "Aching Heart of Darkness". New York Times . Retrieved July 20, 2009.Winners & Nominees". Taurus World Stunt Awards. Archived from the original on November 2, 2022 . Retrieved November 2, 2022. A slightly longer French plantation sequence. After the French woman strips she crawls into the bed with Willard and they begin kissing. We’ve all heard possibly apocryphal stories about artists such as Cézanne sneaking up to their own paintings in the Louvre and getting down to revising them. To some artists, work is never done. In American film, two of the most insistent self-revisers are George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, friends and sometimes collaborators, often of the same mind about changing their minds about some of their signature achievements. In this version. The first time Kurtz appears is the scene where a mud caked Willard is tied up (seated) to a pole in the rain. Kurtz appears with camouflage face paint, Willard asks...."Why he is being mistreated?" and tries to bluff his way past Kurtz by telling him that he had just completed a secret mission in Cambodia, and only stopped for supplies. Kurtz says nothing to him, but plants Chef's head in his lap. (Only a portion of this scene was in the original version).

When Lance is reading his letters on the boat, he suddenly stops to machine gun a water buffalo on the shore. The Chief yells at him to stop. Again, this is a Blu-ray version of Disc Two, with both the Theatrical Cut and Redux in 1080p HD via seamless branching. It has English Dolby Atmos audio only, with English, English SDH, Spanish, and French subtitles. The only extra on this disc is: Murch’s 5.1 sound design for the 1979 release was not only a technical breakthrough, but on an artistic level, it remains at the pinnacle of surround sound. Murch’s work in enveloping the audience in war and the way sound traveled inside the theater is still a textbook example that virtually all sound designers and mixers study when honing their craft. The plot is the straightforward regressor formula: prevent the apocalypse. But this series takes the road less traveled by having the character do what they can to prepare humanity for the event. So rather than forming an elite kill squad that hoards all the special stuff, the MC joins a research team and assists/guides one of the brightest minds from his previous timeline. At the Kurtz compound, Willard is imprisoned in an oven-like box. Kurtz appears, accompanied by a group of children. He reads to Willard from Time magazine articles about the Vietnam War. This scene was removed from the 40th Anniversary Final Cut version.The story concerns a journey upriver by Capt. Willard ( Martin Sheen), who commands a patrol boat to penetrate behind enemy lines and discover the secret redoubt of the almost mythical Col. Kurtz ( Marlon Brando) -- one of the Army's most decorated soldiers, now leading his own band of tribesmen. The story is based on Conrad's Heart of Darkness, but replaces the implacable mystery of the upper reaches of the Congo with the equally unfathomable mystery of the American venture in Vietnam. When you get to the bottom of who Kurtz has become and what he is thinking, you can see how the war transformed the original American idealism. I haven't seem MC make use of any future knowledge other than general awareness of how system works and fight skills. Not using any dungeons or anything that suggests decade of experience in general ... no advanced knowlege or clever usage ... just summon one monster an hour like every other schmuk. The original timeline had a decade worth of time .. and you tell me he doesn't know shit about getting a OP build? The world building is good, maybe not top notch, but better than average for a end of the world time slip genera novel. Plots good, but also fairly consequence free at this point. There are no real stakes however despite near constant reminders that seven billion arguably untrustworthy humans have just been handed massive corrupting amounts of power. it only gets worse .. useless filler conversation, repetitive information that drags the story pace to snail speed, POVs from insignificant people from one city instead of multitude of important characters from across the world. Dily dallying MC who insists in his overly long inner monologues he's not daily dallying but making meaningful progress in saving the world. A whole arc for a serial killer who only kills irresponsible summoners which i believe is a such a minor thing in a world undergoing apocalypse it hardly needs a paragraph much less an arc...!! ...All of this just tells me that the "world" in authors mind is very very small ... He may have been one of the most well-regarded artists in his field, but Coppola was still an underdog, up against the odds from start to finish. For an audience hanging on his every word, he recalled mangling his Oscar statuettes in a fit of anguish (his mother later got the Academy to replace them), and regaling his despairing crew with a riff on a classic show tune from Damn Yankees. “I went to them, and I said, ‘A good screenplay, we haven’t got. A good movie, we haven’t got. A good director, we haven’t got. What’ve we got? We’ve got heart!’”

The book just feels empty where nothing happens. Kind of like a slice-of-life plot-wise, except even slice-of-life has character growth and thoughtful interactions. adr performer (uncredited) / stand-in/voice-over: Willard (uncredited) / stand-in: Martin Sheen (uncredited)When the film went into its wide release its format was 35mm. This version included end credits rolling over surrealistic explosions and burning jungle, showing the Kurtz compound being destroyed (included as a deleted scene on the 2011 Blu-Ray release, with optional commentary from Coppola). We’ve talked about all of this content before in our review of the Full Disclosure Edition and the previous DVD releases too. It is, in a word, tremendous. It’s also quite comprehensive. But that’s not all you get here… DISC SIX (BD) – HEARTS OF DARKNESS & NEW FEATURES Does he carefully craft the perfect build? Not really. He gives up a chance at a Legendary class by rushing to level 10, supposedly so he can better deal with some impending calamity... which is never mentioned again in the book -_- The scene where Willard is given his assignment is longer and contains much more dialogue. The general informs Willard that the mission is purely voluntary and he can decline it. The general also offers Willard a promotion to major upon completion of the mission. For some reason Colonel Kurtz is referred to in this scene as "Colonel Leevy". There are some external shots of the military base.