Will people who see Apocalypse Now Redux before seeing the original be disappointed?  I think there’s a good chance of that.  I loved seeing the stuff that we thought was long lost.  But it’s a different movie… not, in my opinion, a better movie.  This film may be the greatest teaching tool in the history of cinema about the genius of seeing your film clearly and cutting away the fat…. even if that fat is as spectacular as the “French Dinner” sequence.  You may not see a better sequence in a new film this year… but it didn’t belong in Apocalypse Now.