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Summary: Mallick Creates Miracles
Review: This film exemplifies all the spectacular and beautiful things that can be achieved through the use of a camera. Unlike the blatently obvious and artificial Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line delivers insight into human existance through its visuals and steam of consciousness dialogue. The characters, such as Nolte and Caviezel, give a true feeling of what it's like to go through the trials of war. Their constant questioning of nature and there right to invade a foreign world go hand in hand with the contradictions of war and the question of whether or not we as humans have the right to kill, even in war time. Mallick delivers one of the most asthetically pleasing films I've ever seen. The visuals are gorgeous in their picture of a place untouched by the quest for power presented in war. On the flip side they are also hideously ugly in their depiction of a land being envaded by Americans, who treat their enemies as if they were nothing more than animals. This movie is definetly not for the moviegoer who is enticed by invincible and superficial heros, but rather for one who desires to understand the truth about war and decide for themself what to do with the information Mallick so beautifully presents.
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Summary: Still my favorite.
Review: I don't think I have ever seen a movie where there are only two ratings: 1 star, and 5 stars. If your looking for crushing brutality in a movie, you may as well look elsewhere. The Thin Red Line has found another way to bring the point across. Of all the WWII movies that I have seen, I like this one the best. Das Boot was good. Stalingrad was good. Saving Private Ryan was excellent. But for me, this is the best. At first I didn't even want to see it. "It's boring...a waste of time." Every time I watch it though, the time just goes by faster and faster. What this film is going for is not to show just the carnage of war. To me, it shows that in war, people finally begin to realize the beauty of the world. Little things that are normally taken for granted are recognized and appreciated. Although it doesn't have as many battle scenes as Private Ryan, the action is superb. The score sticks with you. Above all, it is a complete story. It reminds me of an old documentary I watched called "Our Time in Hell". This is the story of these men at Guadalcanal. The psycological insight is wonderful. For those of you who need to see flying innerds for entertainment, try not to ruin the movie for those of us who want more creative insight. If every war movie was the same, what would be the point.
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Summary: Warning, This Film is not Saving Private Ryan!
Review: This film is nothing like Saving Private Ryan, which is an exceptional film in its own right, but makes attempts at other things. While Saving Private Ryan is primarily concerned with combat situations and tactics in detail, as well as a fair amount of emotions bonds and personal aspects. The Thin Red Line is primarily concerned with the relationship between man and nature. The opening scene says it all, with Witt in an untouched paradise, unencumbered by the haunts of war. Absolutely brilliant performances all around, particularly by Nick Nolte. The personal side, the absolute true emotions sparked by war are portrayed in this film. I am not saying this film is better than Saving Private Ryan, because SPR is just as good at what it attempts to do. I just think that TTRL is being unfairly criticized because of the comparisons to SPR. TTRL can be fully appreciated upon multiple viewings.
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Summary: i hate this movie but then again i like it...
Review: some say its not for the dim minded or people who have to be spoonfed everything in movies. well this movie spoonfeeds you everything. ok, i got what was being said in this movie, SO MOVE ON! endless hours upon hours of playing the same message over and over and over in different ways. now what i like is the silences at very loud moments and the distant way of telling the story of soilders while being more focused on say a butterfly or a blade of grass while playing that so called "deep" message that i got in the first 5 minutes. the pacing is not for me, way way way too slow. Nick Nolte steals the show in this movie cause he was the only character i could idenify with and his performance was superb. saving private ryan was more realistic(the movie was based on a actual mission too) while this movie is more stylistic. while saying to be deep and poetic it looked a little shallow and hippy ish to me. check it out, but let all expectations of a cool war movie down and be ready for a distant vague look at war and more focus on looking intelligent. if you like this or hated it and looking for something better check out Bullet In The Head, thats a real masterpiece.
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Summary: Too many stars,Too little acting
Review: After viewing "SAVING PRIVATE RYAN" and then veiwing this film, it made me wonder Why? Why did I spend my hard earned money on a movie that I could have slept through. The films' only redeeming quality is that there were a lot of stars, although they did not seem well connected. One of the reasons I go to a film is to see something with at least a little entertaining content. This film left me wanting to slit my wrists in depresion and the realization that I just spent 10 bucks and 2 hours that could have been better spent washing my car. In my opinion this is a definate pass!
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Summary: Too unrealistic to be taken seriously
Review: I wanted to like this film but, the characters were just too unrealistic for me to appreciate anything else. Some of the scenes were just too mellodramatic for me. I appreciate GOOD anti-war movies. This is not one of them. My military career gave me nothing I could relate to this movie.
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Summary: A Poetic Meditation on Men in War
Review: The Thin Red Line has sparked some heated critical controversy since it was released theatrically. There's no need to belabor comparisons with Saving Pvt Ryan. They are two vastly different kinds of films that happened to come out in succession. For me TRL, is a far more rewarding picture. Like all great works, it requires multiple viewings and close attention to be fully appreciated. This is not an action picture in any sense of the term. Yes, there are battle scenes (one spectacular battle in particular, for the taking of a hill) The director, Terence Malick, uses the wartime setting to make points about the human condition (especially, humans as PART of the NATURAL WORLD), because war intensifies and foregrounds the most fundamental emotions. A major aspect of the film, often neglected in reviews, is the theme of the dualities of existence and how they may never be reconciled in the human mind: war/peace; nature/civilization; life/death; individual/group.The film (derived loosely from the James Jones novel) is Whitmanesque in seeing mankind as a part of nature--to the basic state of which he must return someday--and in a need for each individual to see himself in others and as part of a greater whole. A magnificently photographed and well-acted, haunting film, TRL demands close attention and more than one viewing. For some, it will be well worth the effort. The DVD issue is technically very impressive, with room-shaking low frequencies and stunning nature imagery. More bonus material than the Melanesian folk songs would have been good, but there's no real complaint here.
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Summary: TRL: A study of humanity...
Review: The biggest problem people have with this movie is that it isn't Saving Private Ryan. It isn't meant to be. This movie was meant to show us humanity and our relationship to nature. TRL achieves this masterfully with lush cinematography and masterful performances. The dvd version of this film helps to bring out the beauty of the scenery. Also the Malanesian Songs provided are quite a treat. I would have liked a trailer and some "making of" info. Overall thought I rate this dvd (and the film itself) exceptionally high.
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Summary: The Thin Red Line
Review: The film opens not with a flash of lights or torrent of gunfire as you might expect from a film whose subject is war. Instead it is serene, beautiful shots of nature, a veritable paradise on a small island. What ensues is not so peaceful, however director Terrence Malick never fails at keeping the film beautiful. It plays like eloquent prose, or a piece of art, which is all the more astounding when considering the subject. The lead character played by Jim Caviezel is perhaps one of the most aesthetic, not to say, most overwhelmingly magnificent characters i've ever seen on-screen. I strongly desire not to say too much. Words really cannot express the beauty of this film. From director Terrence Malick, to actors Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Elia Kostas, Ben Chaplin, the aforementioned Jim Caviezel, etc., it is and shall ever remain, a piece of art.
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Summary: Great, Great...and wait for it....Great!
Review: Thank God some people out there still remember that a movie should be meaningful and insightful, especially when it is about war, about experiences and intense emotions that the majority of us will never have to be subjected to. Some will think this movie long and tedious. Some would prefer to see flying limbs and bloodshed and be sparred the philosophical interludes. Well if you are in it for the violence then Saving Private Ryan is the movie for you...if you are in it for the insight, if you want to see a war movie that is beautiful but which at the same time doesn't glorify war, if you want to see a movie that has a point to put across, then the Thin Red Line was made for you.
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