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Summary: What a waste of talent!
Review: I would be ashamed to list this on my resume of thespian achievements, and I predict that most of the "marquee" actors engaged will omit this film. This was a film weakly attempting to be deep, thoughtful and profound. Instead, it was long, redundant, predicatble, obtuse and very lost. It was almost a reflection of the director's personal dysfunction and confusion. If you think about it, where, but in Hollywood, can someone get paid so much to spew such debris onto the screen. The eager minions of art see this dribble as culture and chew on the bone of stupidity in seeing this movie as art. It is simply a long boring movie trying to make money by luring the Saving Private Ryan crowd. Dont be fooled, it is a waste!
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Summary: The Greatest HUMAN War Story Ever Put On Film
Review: Most people in the US never liked Terrence Malick's "Thin Red Line," but maybe that's because they didn't see the true essence of what Malick was trying to portray. Using James Jones' 1962 novel as a basis for the film, Malick created a masterpiece that shows not the brutal carnage of war like Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan," but the human soldiers and their thoughts. Malick's narrative voice-overs, which made his previous films ("Badlands" and "Days of Heaven") popular, are excellent and show what the GIs are feeling as they fight a brutal enemy. Even though most of the actors in TRL have not yet achieved nationwide-popularity, they surely deserve it. I read Jones' novel, and all the actors perfectly fit their respective characters, both visually and through their acting. Sean Penn (Sgt. Welsh) is wonderful as the perennial leader, and so is Nick Nolte (Col. Tall). Jim Caviezel (Pvt. Witt) and Ben Chaplin (Pfc. Bell) are definately my favorites in the film, since they play their characters flawlessly. The Thin Red Line's most under-rated actor is surely Dash Mihok, who played Pfc. Doll. He previously appeared in "Romeo and Juliet," in which he played Benvolio. His character's insane scene on the hill and his reactions to situations are extremely believable. Elias Koteas makes the perfect Capt. Staros, as he shows a father-like figure who cares for his mean. Woody Harrelson made a memorable appearance as Sgt. Keck, but unfortunatly Keck died fairly early in the film. Adrien Brody makes a nice big-production debut as Cpl. Fife, even though he was cut down from being a main character. Besides these men, John C Reilly (Sgt. Storm), from "Days of Thunder" and "Boogie Nights," appeared briefly on camera, even though Storm is a bigger character in the book. Lastly, George Clooney made a strong, but short on-screen presence as Capt. Bosche. All-in-all, Terrence Malick's Thin Red Line is a wonderful story of the invasion of Guadalcanal, told through the eyes of the men that fought there. A definate "must-see," as well as an "instant war-film classic."
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Summary: A religious experience . . .
Review: In my 25 years of dehumanizing service in the military, I've never seen anything that captures the humanity of all soldiers as well as this work of art. It is a masterpiece of ethics. It is a masterpiece of film as art.
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Summary: A great Movie
Review: This Movie is a great Movie How could any one give this one star. The acting is great the action scenes are great everything about this movie is great so I highly reccomend this movie to any one.
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Summary: GO SEE ARMIGEDON OR GODZILA INSTEAD!
Review: This movie is so bad the acting mad me want too laugh. If you want too see a good movie then rent Armigedon Godzila or Spawn. Martin Shen and Jon Legizmo where so good in SPawn, but for some reason evryone thinks this is good. Im no dummy, I know a good movie when I see it and this isnt it. Friday with Ice Cube and Cris Tucker was good, and so was Rush Hour. The directr of this movie has no talent, and Shawn Penn is a bad acter. Nuff sed
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Summary: A Necessity
Review: Anyone who has seen and loved this film needs to read Being and Time by Heidegger if they want to fully understand the greatness of this film and to understand where Malick is coming from and what this film is trying to do.
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Summary: the best movie ever made?
Review: The Thin red Line is the best evidence I have ever seen that foks looking fro meaning in ANYTHing can find meaning anywhere. The grand nature of this movie is that it is really a collage of random thoughts, and about 10 minutes of war scenes made to ride on the tail of Saving Private Ryan to attract an audience.This movie will never stand by itself, and absent the crowd that loved Saving Private Ryan and were duped into thinking this would be like it, it would have recieved snooring reviews on the opening weekend.
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Summary: One of the greatest war movie ever made in the U.S.
Review: First, sorry for my lack of fluency in this review. My English is not good enough yet. I love this film. I love it's breath-taking south pacific battle scenes, characters, plot and everything, none the less for it's faults. I was surprized to find some reviews saying that TRL lacks reality (than SPR). SPR has the most shocking battle scene of W.W.2. ever made in history. I agree. But, suppose that you're a grunt during the great war. I bet you'll meet characters, an officer just like Nick Nolte, sergents just like Penn and Heraldson, privates like ones shown in this film. I bet you will never have a chance to fight along with captain like Hanks or with guys shown in SPR, nor have a chance to fight a heroic battle shown in SPR. Well,I agree that this film seems to be released incomplete, needs to be modified in some aspects(for concentration), and, evidently, some famous actors didn't do their best(Or Marlick failed to extract best results from them). But after all, TRL is one of my favorate(I can also recommend you another compelling film - "Galipoli" starring Mel Gibson, without hesitation) and I think it's worth buying and deserves 5 stars even in most conservative and skeptic evaluation.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. It suprises me that some people would totaly rip on this movie. One thing you must understand before you see this is that this movie shows the human side to war. People die and people kill, this takes a toll on your soul, if you dont understand this then you fit into the statistics of why America is falling behind school. I defend this country and I understand the thoughts that go on. Saving Private Ryan was great but it didnt touch the human factor of war.
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Summary: Made me wish I had never seen Private Ryan
Review: I don't know what some of the reviewers listed here missed but "The Thin Red Line" made me ashamed that anyone would consider "Ryan" a good movie. TRL had characters that where more then the cardboard cutouts of "sniper" "father figure" and "guy from the Bronx" that was the only thing that held "SPR" after that climactic opening scene. It might have looked at Thin Red line's and see that some people want to think about what is going on the screen. I loved the montages and the cinematography blew me away. Funny how it took SPR a half an hour special effects bonanza to impress me, but a man's shadow in falling on a woman on a swing blew me away in TRL.
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