Well, this has certainly been an active week, between driving my grandmother to various doctors, doing message board posts, and my continuing Battlefield Vietnam LP. And on top of all of that, now the world’s going to end tomorrow! Man, this has not been my week. I, for one, plan to go out on a high note with what might just be the last review ever for me, Apocalypse Now and Battlefield Vietnam!
Towards the end of US involvement in Vietnam, Captain Ben Willard MACV-SOG is in Saigon after an extended stay at the front, and he is not taking it well at all. Most of his day is spent drinking to excess and wrecking hotel rooms until he is recruited for a covert operation in Cambodia to terminate the command of rogue special forces Colonel William Kurtz’s command “with extreme prejudice”.
He joins up with a PBR crew who are to take him up river. But in order to get to the river, he has to deal with the commander of the 1st of the 9th Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel William “Wild Bill” Killgore. The colonel, a man with a deep love of surfing and the smell of napalm, initially refuses to take them because the Viet Cong hold the area where they can get to the river. But he agrees once he learns about the quality of the waves, at which point he orders a flight of choppers to assault the village, citing the precedent that “Charlie don’t surf!”
Game and a Movie 