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Release Date: 07 November, 2000 Retail Price: $34.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (20 total) |
The Thin Red Line Reviews
What The Heck!?!
After watching this film all I could do is scratch my head and say "huh". This movie made absoultely no sense whats so ever
The Start of the movie shows potential as two deserters are picked up and the marines head to gauadualcanal. unfortunately after they land the movie becomes various images of trees, birds,snakes,and little naked kids running around.
Not My Idea of a war movie.
The acting is good but with all the voice overs it began to get difficult to figure out who was saying what. also the characters would appear then dissappear without any logic or reason.
The action scenes (what little there is) are actually quite good, they woke me up a couple of times, but they are too brief and infrequent. I honestly could not tell what the director was trying to do with this film.
if you are a fan of art house films with lots of hidden metaphors and meaning you would probably find this movie quite entertaining, I am not a fan of this type of film and the box was quite misleading to what type of film this was.
If your a fan of good WW2 films then steer clear of this mess (It makes "Pearl Harbor" look like Patton!)
Not a war movie but a visual poem
First things first: this is not a war movie. It just isn't. Though the movie has plenty of explosions and heroism, death and destruction, it's not about war, it's about humanity. Malick uses the vehicle of war - in which man is pushed to his most extreme; both in good and in bad - to explore what it means to be human.
If this sounds pretentious that's because it is. I assure you, there will be many points in The Thin Red Line's three hour running time that you will glance at your watch, impatient at the movie's slow, leisurely pace and other points when you will snort back laughter at the overblown - bordering on corny - voiceover dialogue. Yet, despite all the flaws, this movie manages to combine images and words into a true visual poem. A filmmaker's unique vision.
Malick asks questions that have been asked a thousand times before in a thousand different movies, but he does it in a way that will truly make you wonder about why things are how they are. There are a handful of moments in the film when the voiceovers and the action and the music and the cumulative narrative force of the film will overwhelm you and take you to another world, moments when you will forgive Malick for all of his faults and just sit there in reverie. And it's because of these approximately dozen transcendental moments throughout the film that The Thin Red Line is essential viewing.
I can't really recommend any of Malick's films because of how highly personal each person's reaction is; there are perfectly valid reasons to love this movie and there are also just as many reasons to loathe it. You may like it or you may not, but as one of the only truly unique cinematic auteurs operating in Hollywood today, I think Malick deserves a chance. Check it out and see what you find.
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