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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:31:56 PM EDT
[#1]
It was shit. Looked good, but the film itself was just pretentious navel gazing.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:33:05 PM EDT
[#2]
I liked it, but most people cannot deal with Terrence Malick films.
If you hated that, you'll also hate Tree of Life! 
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:33:20 PM EDT
[#3]
Bullshit anti-war film.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:34:16 PM EDT
[#4]
Quoted: Overall quality of the movie. Realism. Story line. Accuracy of uniforms, equipment and "culture". Haven't seen it yet but have heard some good about it. What says the hive? Only movie I ever walked out of! 
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:35:15 PM EDT
[#5]
Malick films should be skipped over. Very frustrating to watch them.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:36:22 PM EDT
[#6]
It fucking sucks
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:37:37 PM EDT
[#7]
LOVED IT!
Not sure how it's anti war. The main character is a protagonist, and he's anti war. The combat scenes with the grassy hills were some of the best I've seen on film. When Woody blows himself up it sucks though. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:37:47 PM EDT
[#8]
It blew
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:37:47 PM EDT
[#9]
Quoted: Overall quality of the movie. Realism. Story line. Accuracy of uniforms, equipment and "culture". Haven't seen it yet but have heard some good about it. What says the hive? I went with a Guadalcanal US Army vet, my Dad. He hated the movie, and I think we even left early. But he did say it was very familiar and looked very much like he rememberd. One comment he had on equipment was of all things on the grenades. At first he said they weren't painted yellow, then kinda came to the realization that the ones he had were probably rusted through the paint. that's all I got. It was so weird, I just couldn't get into it. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:38:11 PM EDT
[#10]
Consensus!!!!
Thanks guys. Saved me a couple hours. 
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:38:14 PM EDT
[#11]
I liked The New World, but if you offered to pay me to sit through The Thin Red Line again I would turn you down.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:38:58 PM EDT
[#12]
horrible
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:40:02 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: horrible I was going so say awful but horrible works. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:40:08 PM EDT
[#14]
I noticed a Birch HG on one of the M1 Garands, which pretty much ruined it for me.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:40:56 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I liked The New World, but if you offered to pay me to sit through The Thin Red Line again I would turn you down. LOL, now that is a movie you couldn't pay to watch. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:44:01 PM EDT
[#16]
If you can get past Sean Penn and other liberal twats that are in it, it's one of the best philosophical war movies ever made.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:44:19 PM EDT
[#17]
I've tried to watch it twice. I didn't make it to the end either time. There won't be a third try.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:45:36 PM EDT
[#18]
If you're looking for Saving Pvt Ryan in the Pacific this ain't it, Read James Jones book.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:48:43 PM EDT
[#19]
Yes, the Thin Red Line. What a wonderful piece of crap.
Right in the middle of battle sequence.....  Yeah, in the middle of a battle with bullets flying, it's time for me to have a daydream...... of ...... home!  Daydreaming of a girl on a swing ...... in the middle of a firefight while other soldiers are fighting and dying around me .....  Now day dreaming that her swing is upside down! That's mind blowing, especially right in the middle of a big firefight! Oh, and the most dramatic part, besides being upside down that is, is she is swinging in slow motion!!   |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:49:16 PM EDT
[#20]
I have the book sitting next to me. It was written by the same guy that wrote From Here To Eternity, which I happen to be watching right now.
I haven’t seen the movie yet but From Here To Eternity is fantastic. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:50:37 PM EDT
[#21]
I remember being impressed by Hawley helmet liners and the yellow HE paint on hand grenades but that's it.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:50:37 PM EDT
[#22]
It's like the Criterion Collection in here!
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:54:48 PM EDT
[#23]
6/10, and that errs on the generous side.
It's been a long time since I've seen it, so I'm just going off of what I can recall at the moment. For all the effort they put into it, the film is hobbled by fits and bouts of poor decision making. If they swept up the cutting room floor, pulled all of the source film, re-approached the film, I think they could have almost had an excellent film. But, without reshooting some key scenes, there might not have been any way to save it. The cameos were glaring and distracting. Penn's performance, at least I think it was Penn, was over the top, without any thought of subtlety or nuance, and simply not believable at any level - and that's on the director. And I'm sure there's other stuff, but that's what quickly comes to mind. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:55:26 PM EDT
[#24]
The book sucks as well just not nearly as much as the film.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:56:32 PM EDT
[#25]
I saw it in theaters when it came out. I liked it.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:59:12 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes, the Thin Red Line. What a wonderful piece of crap. Right in the middle of battle sequence..... https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/sm/upload/ee/da/3c/9u/the-thin-red-line-1200-1200-675-675-crop-000000.jpg?k=1c8685cd4b Yeah, in the middle of a battle with bullets flying, it's time for me to have a daydream...... of ...... home! https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ejm0XvT3rB8/maxresdefault.jpg Daydreaming of a girl on a swing ...... in the middle of a firefight while other soldiers are fighting and dying around me ..... https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s40YpEsVkxk/maxresdefault.jpg Now day dreaming that her swing is upside down! That's mind blowing, especially right in the middle of a big firefight! Oh, and the most dramatic part, besides being upside down that is, is she is swinging in slow motion!! https://lifesbrilliance.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/swinging-wife.png |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 10:59:26 PM EDT
[#27]
James Jones wrote From here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and an essay book on WWII. All are excellent books. He was a corporal in the 25th ID who was at Pearl Harbor and fought on Guadalcanal.
FHTE is a pretty good representation of the book. Great movie. TRL is a complete mess. An extremely realistic depiction of a rifle company on Guadalcanal as depicted by a regular army corporal is screwed up by an artsy fartsy hippie director and friends who couldn’t be bothered. The idea that Sean Penn, 1SG Welsh,is supposed to be playing the same character as Burt Lancaster’s 1SG Warden is funny/ horrible. It was basically a true story. John Cusack is playing Medal of Honor winner Charles Davis of 2/27 in Jan 1943 on Guadalcanal. The book was really about the battle of Mt Austen and the pursuit to secure Guadalcanal. The five minutes when they low crawled up and assaulted a bunker was realistic, and true to what happened, as it was about the only part of the movie where they were too lazy to take that portion of the book and screw it up. The book is one of the most realistic depictions in fiction of a rifle company, because Jones wanted to be extremely realistic for the 1950s audience and hated the sanitized BS. (He is played by the Adrian Brody character) The movie is a disappointment. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:04:01 PM EDT
[#28]
3 out of 10.
Pretty shit movie that was an attempt at awards. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:05:38 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It was shit. Looked good, but the film itself was just pretentious navel gazing. FPNI. Sooooooo slooooow. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:06:02 PM EDT
[#30]
The only war movie I ever walked out of. Mostly out of boredom.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:08:15 PM EDT
[#31]
I hated it.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:08:33 PM EDT
[#32]
My wife and I walked out of the theater. What a steaming pile of shit.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:08:51 PM EDT
[#33]
Terence Malik isn’t for everybody. He majored in philosophy at Harvard. I like The Thin Red Line, but it isn’t the same kind of movie as most war movies like Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:09:06 PM EDT
[#34]
It would have been much better if the Japs shooting at Sean Penn would have aimed just a little bit higher.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:10:23 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It was shit. Looked good, but the film itself was just pretentious navel gazing. FPNI. It sucked when I saw it in the theater. It sucks now. Lousy movie that should have been good. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:11:22 PM EDT
[#36]
I truly enjoyed watching the lizard on the tree for ten minutes
The half hour or so (don't know because I dozed off) of Polynesian kids playing was awesome |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:17:17 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It was shit. Looked good, but the film itself was just pretentious navel gazing. First post fucking nails it. Easily one of the worst films I've ever seen. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:19:03 PM EDT
[#38]
It sucked, all I remember is wondering when it would get interesting , then I fell asleep.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:20:21 PM EDT
[#39]
I think they need to make a real war movie that features Marines drawing dicks on everything, and lewd behavior on the mid-deck abord Navy ships.
Then it would be realistic. Maybe throw in a few scenes of troops stopping to puke, or dropping trou to drop a deuce in the middle of a road march. And lots of shooting with no inspection of whether there was actually any effect downrange. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:20:51 PM EDT
[#40]
Crap
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:21:28 PM EDT
[#41]
There one cool battle scene. That’s about it lol
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:22:28 PM EDT
[#42]
Saw it in a theater as a new release.
Pretentious and painfully symbolic. And I say this a somebody who used to teach literary symbolism on a college level. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:23:50 PM EDT
[#43]
To die. In the rain.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:25:01 PM EDT
[#44]
Shit
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:26:32 PM EDT
[#45]
I’ll buck the trend.
I thought it was about an introvert going through a war and witnessing the dichotomy of man in all its serenity and destruction. It’s beauty and horror. It’s bravery and tragedy. It’s not Apocalypse Now, but it sort of leads itself in that direction It wasn’t meant to be an action movie. So yeah, I thought it was pretty good. Maybe 4/5 stars(ish?) |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:26:54 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If you can get past Sean Penn and other liberal twats that are in it, it's one of the best philosophical war movies ever made. This. The book is very good as well. |
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:27:53 PM EDT
[#47]
It's more an art movie than a war movie. War movie fans really seem to hate it.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:28:41 PM EDT
[#48]
Sean penn is a douchebag
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:28:59 PM EDT
[#49]
I never watched it because everyone I asked (Who had seen it) said it sucked. From the comments here it looks like they were right.
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Posted: 7/31/2020 11:29:45 PM EDT
[#50]
Good scenery, but boring and I didn't give a fuck about any of the characters after a while.
Woody Harrelson character was out of place and didn't fit with the movie. 2/10 but if you are sick and need to kill an afternoon it's OK. |
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