Insane amount of animal torture.

There was the scene where they grabbed the puppy really rough on the boat

The buffalo wasnt even tortured, it was decapitated and died a way quicker death than ALL animals getting slaughtered in halal-fashion every single day. Go dredge the river for some care, wierdo.

Exactly, it's not like Cannibal Holocaust where they found the animals so they could kill them and then film it. Coppola had nothing to do with the killing of the water buffalo, he simply saw the tribe doing it and decided to film it.

I don't know what Lethemeatcake means by it, but one could read it as contradictory to the idea of Apocalypse Now as a humanist film...

That is to say, if the movie raises the issue of us being concerned about the dignity of human life and makes the suffering and pain of war tangible, then it loses some of this when an animal is treated with indignity and is killed during the course of making the movie...

I can see that point, even though I wonder whether or not it applies in the context of this movie...

yes, it should be ignored, or at least always acknowledged as having destroyed nature and caused animal torture. Is that valid?? No. No amount of art is valid any kind of abuse.