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Summary: Brilliant
Review: There's nothing I can say that has not already been said. Simply brillian
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Summary: Days of Hell and Heaven
Review: The Thin Red Line begins and ends with the lulling shots of nature; the film begins and ends with a question of nature's duality with man. Malick, working with John Toll, created I brilliant film that takes the guise of war as its structure only to transcend into very real questions of philosophy. It's not a matter of "getting" this film. Malick is a brilliant man (just look at his accomplishments in the world of scholars) and he created something here... Something haunting...
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Summary: Look beyond war in this movie
Review: After watching Thin Red Line, I found this movie to be about the human spirit during the insanity of war. Yes, some people will say it's not a war movie and others will say it is a war movie. Anyhow this movie is a masterpiece up there with Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Deer Hunter. All of these movies are about the human psyche and emotional distress.I found the cinematography very stunning and well thought out. The true meaning of the movie had to be closely followed and understood. Extremely strong performances from Nolte and Penn. I'll add this too my DVD library.
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Summary: What's the deal with this movie
Review: Thin red line is the most puzzling movie I've ever seen in some time. I found the movie moved at a slow pace and the meaning of the story was very confusing. Most of the movie me and my wife often asked " what is the story about??? or " do you understand this movie is about ". Later towards the end, I had to fast forward it, because I was fed up with the sloth-like pace of the movie. Only bright spots in the movie were the strong performances by Nick Nolte and Sean Penn.
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Summary: wot a long and boring slow film
Review: this film has to be seen to be slow and stoping at every chance it can there is no story line to folow and the acting is very on the ham side
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Summary: Ummm...Errrr...WHAT!?
Review: There are many critics that have called this movie one of the greatest movies of the decade. I suppose they understood the film where I did not. This movie felt like a National Geographic documentary, focusing more camera time on the local wildlife than the characters (What were their names again?) While the cinematography was indeed breathtaking, everything else was either bad or inaccessible. The movie just didn't want to stop. It a three hour experience that felt like six. The characters were crudely developed at best, and the plot was entirely haphazard, switching from person to person like a neurotic weasel. Oh, and talk about dialogue. Every one of these drafted grunts spoke as if he was a poet or philosopher. They spoke to each other in riddles. For example, someone's not having a good day (no spoilers), and when he discusses his problems with his CO, all the that they do is talk about how their flames are not burning. When was the last time you heard anyone talking about their troubles completely in metaphor? Moreover, if these guys are the people the U.S sent to fight the Japanese in WWII, it's a true miracle that the outcome came out the way it did. Then again, the Japanese soldiers are protrayed as little more than pathetic moaners that crawl on the ground at the first sight of American GI's. Maybe they're begging the Americans to stop philosophising or reciting poetry to them...
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Summary: Not for those who need to be spoonfed.
Review: The greatest aspect of The Thin Red Line is that it seperates a film audience into two different camps: Those who can't sit through a film without Steven Spielberg force feeding you drama and paper thin characters; and those who can actually watch a film patiently like reading a novel (not John Grisham), ruminating over the details in order to understand the big picture. This film was amazing and whenever I see it again, I learn something new. That is what film was meant to be, a visual extension of the written word. That's why the poetry was not only necessary but deliberate. You people with the one stars can keep your Private Ryan's with the shock value of violence. This movie is about dying emotionally before actually getting shot. And it's about a million other things. It's a great novel on film and it succeeds. After being blown away by this film, the mass public just plain angered me with their ignorance. They call it high browed, I call them ignorant. Don't you love it when someone doesn't understand something, they call it pretentious? What a great escape. Unfortunately, they don't know the grandeur of this classic film, that will never be a classic since Titanic is on their ten best list. How sad the world of film has become. Oh look, there's Leonardo Di Caprio, get your cameras!
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Summary: I really wanted to like this one
Review: After seeing this film the first time and reading some positive reviews about it, I felt well, maybe I should watch it again to really appreciate it. Well, the second go round proved no more successful than the first. In fact, both times it was a real chore just maintaining interest. True, it is magnificently photographed, but that doesn't help make the film convincing as a war drama. What's more, the characters are largely forgettable and poorly developed. And if there was a plot or message, I sure couldn't find it. The film seems to lose interest in itself regardless of what premise it is trying to portray at any given moment. Just when the battle sequences begin, the film seems to get bored with itself and wander off on philosophical tangents and the like. Forget favorable comparisons to Saving Private Ryan, because there are few. My three stars are for the photography and middle battle sequence.
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Summary: The Masterpiece Film of the 90s
Review: This film is deeply poetic and moving. Clearly the lines are divided among the reviewers. The reviews are more telling of the reviewer than the film. If I could, I'd invite the 5 Star people for an evening of conversation. I would serve a fine wine and cheese; For those One Star people, soda pop and a game of crazy eights.(If your parents let you)
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Summary: Hi!! I'm a pseudo-intellectual liberal!
Review: I thought the movie was O.K. Yes, it has flaws. I could have done without most of voice-over "thoughts", and it's about 45 minutes too long. It should have ended shortly after the taking of the Japanese position. And a little more character development wouldn't have hurt either. But the battle scenes are intense, the cinematography is great, and the music very good. You really feel the terror of men going into battle, and the tragedy of young lives lost.
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