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Summary: Pretenious, boring, basically Full of itself
Review: This is one of those movies that people are afraid to just admit that it isn't good because it was directed by a world famous director, has plenty of stars, and tried to portray itself as art instead of a story. This is a poorly made film. There is no story movement (pretty much no story), and the characters have almost no depth, (being on the screen for only a few minutes), and it's just plain slow. In a word very pretenious.
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Summary: Visually and intectually stunning
Review: I found this movie to be better than Saving Private Ryan although I suppose it is unfair to compare the too as they are both different looks at WWII. Why I found this movie better than Saving Private Ryan was the lack of cheesiness which was evident throughout Saving Private Ryan and especially prevalent at the end of the movie. I also enjoyed the fact that Terence Malick did not choose to pack the movie full of action sequences and choose to show more character development. I would also like to point out to the reviewer that said this movie should have portrayed more courageous soldiers and better commanding officers as tribute to those who fought in the war but that was not the point of this movie at all. This movie is not meant to be a tribute, it is simply a story of the horror and futility of war. Lastly James Caviezel as Pvt. Witt deserved the Oscar nod not Sean Penn.
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Summary: Weak and Inaccurate
Review: This movie is slow, boring, and if our soldiers truly behaved as portrayed, the end should involve Hitler and Japan winning WWII.Hey, all you coffee house liberals that love this movie, pretending that our fathers who fought in WWII act like you do when you fight with your 90's girlfriends...it's called PROJECTION. If it weren't for them, you wouldn't have anywhere to whine....
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Summary: A unique war movie masterpiece
Review: This unconventional film about the multiple facets of war strikes gold. Based on the novel by J. Jones (from here to eternity) the film actually surpasses the book version in its almost poetic vision through the addition of a philosophical antiwar character. The acting is superb with an impressive performance by Nolte. The cinematography is excelent as well. In short this is a movie not to be missed.
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Summary: A cinematic Requiem
Review: After so many war films concentrating on action and battle sequences it is refreshing to see one which allows a deeper reflection on the futility of war and each soldier's role in it. A long film, but it is impossible to think of any one moment which could be taken out without subtracting from the entire experience. I came out of the cinema from my first viewing emotionally drained and exhausted, and the second time I saw it repeated the process at a new level. Completed with a brilliant score and wonderful native chants, you'll excuse my getting carried away if I say that it almost took on the feel of a Requiem! The cinematography is right up there with 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'The Man Who Would Be King', so this one is definitely widescreen or not at all.
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Summary: Not one redeeming characteristic to be found... pathetic!
Review: I felt like I had been mugged after watching this film. My money was gone, and I got nothing but irritation and angst in return. It was far too long, the editing was awful, and it was like watching a bad PBS documentary with foul language thrown in. The attempts at artistic expression were laughable. This movie was just not entertaining at all. Save your money.
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Summary: One of the first times I had nothing to say afterwards....
Review: Usually after leaving the theatre, I've got something to say about a movie. This time, I had no idea what to say or think. It was great, it was deep, it was strange, it was compelling, magical, and very very long. Yet I wasn't bored. Or entertained. I've got no idea what I was, but I liked it. And no, I wasn't stoned....
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Summary: A less than shining portrayal of American soldiers.
Review: First let me state that even though I really didn't care for this film, I have to say that some of the visuals in this film are quite stunning and will stick in your head for days. My main problem with the film is its protrayal of the American soldiers on the island of Guadalcanal: if this is your introduction to WWII, you would think that every soldier was a sniveling coward who would wet his pants at the first sight of the enemy, and that every officer was totally confused with no concern for their men. The soldiers who fought and died in WWII should have a more fitting tribute given to them than this film.---- PS: The person from California below me who said that the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan was so "overly sentimental" that it nearly made him sick, maybe he should go to Normandy and watch real men in their 70's and 80's break down in front of the graves over and over again and maybe he wouldn't think it so "overly sentimental".
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Summary: A Masterpiece...
Review: A truly breathtaking movie. What a great miracle that this movie came out in the same year as SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Both were excellent movies, but, to paraphrase William Faulkner, if THE THIN RED LINE was a movie of the heart, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was a movie of the glands. Clearly, the poetic THIN RED LINE won't win any popularity contests, but there's a reason John Grisham sells more books in this country than Robert Browning. It's easier to enjoy a movie that attacks physically and gruesomely with a simple plot than it is to enjoy a movie that asks the viewer to examine critical judgments and empathize with conflicted characters. Enjoy the complexity, enjoy the almost serrated rawness, and enjoy a movie that you can truly love.
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Summary: Still don't know if WAR is HELL?!?!?
Review: If you're a veteran, like me, you will hate this movie. If your a self-defined intellectual, who believes you can figure out the very nature of mankind, no matter what time period he is from, or where he was raised, this is for you. If you really want to know what went through a soldier's mind during WWII, ask a WWII vet, before they have all passed on and you have to learn our history through Hollywood's eyes.
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