Posted: 10/25/2014 8:08:10 PM EDT
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Watching this at the moment and Nick Nolte's character refers to the radio system as a Sowen Power or something, but I can't quite catch the correct name he's using.
So help please 
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Sound power
Witt has perceived Welsh's selfless aid to the dying man. They glance at one another. Stein slowly crawls back to Fife and the soundpower phone. His arm is trembling as he takes the receiver. How long can he go on? How much longer can he watch his men being killed in agony like this? His CP force and the remnants of 2nd and 3rd Platoons watch him with white eyes, as though looking to him and hoping he can in some way COL. TALL That doesn't sound much like the situation you described to me over the soundpower. STEIN It's not, sir. The situation's changed. In just the last five minutes. COL. TALL To what do you attribute the change? STEIN http://sfy.ru/pdf/thin_red_line_(1998).pdf |
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Quoted: That movie is excruciatingly awful. I've never finished it. Quoted: Quoted: Watching this at the moment and Nick Nolte's character refers to the radio system as a Sowen Power or something, but I can't quite catch the correct name he's using. So help please That movie is excruciatingly awful. I've never finished it. I'm really surprised by your response. It's one of the best war movies I've ever seen. |
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Bradders, please post a review. I think it would be interesting to get an opinion of this movie from one of our own who actually committed to watching it all the way through. Seriously...I have yet to meet anyone who has watched this movie to the very end. As for me, fuck Sean Penn to death with a fucking white hot poker. YMMV Cheers. G |
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Watching this at the moment and Nick Nolte's character refers to the radio system as a Sowen Power or something, but I can't quite catch the correct name he's using. So help please That movie is excruciatingly awful. I've never finished it. More of an art piece than a war movie, people expected more 'Saving Private Ryan' and were disappointed. |
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Quoted: More of an art piece than a war movie, people expected more 'Saving Private Ryan' and were disappointed. That's what I liked about it the most, it went away from the typical blood and guts war movie, and put a philosophical spin to it. Something a lot of war movies don't even touch on. I thought it was better than Saving Private Ryan. This scene is pretty intense.  |
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That's what I liked about it the most, it went away from the typical blood and guts war movie, and put a philosophical spin to it. Something a lot of war movies don't even touch on. I thought it was better than Saving Private Ryan. This scene is pretty intense. http://ktismatics.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/redline-capture.png Quoted:
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More of an art piece than a war movie, people expected more 'Saving Private Ryan' and were disappointed. That's what I liked about it the most, it went away from the typical blood and guts war movie, and put a philosophical spin to it. Something a lot of war movies don't even touch on. I thought it was better than Saving Private Ryan. This scene is pretty intense. http://ktismatics.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/redline-capture.png That is unfortunately the climax of the film. |
| I hated it the first time I watched it. It was so dull that I could barely keep my attention focused on the movie. The second time I tried watching it wasn't much better. But then a few years later I caught it while channel surfing and gave it another try. Somehow, I came to appreciate the movie a bit more once I started to view it as a philosophical story set in war, rather than a pure war movie. The people who start this movie expecting to see another SPR, BOB, We Were Soldiers or BHD will come away disappointed. |
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I hated it the first time I watched it. It was so dull that I could barely keep my attention focused on the movie. The second time I tried watching it wasn't much better. But then a few years later I caught it while channel surfing and gave it another try. Somehow, I came to appreciate the movie a bit more once I started to view it as a philosophical story set in war, rather than a pure war movie. The people who start this movie expecting to see another SPR, BOB, We Were Soldiers or BHD will come away disappointed. Pretty much. although the assault on the guns is intense. |
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If you thought the movie was gay, you should read the book. Whole thing was filled with dudes giving each other handy J's and worse. In the movie there is that battle when John Cusack leads the Medal of Honor attack with like six picked men to take out a hilltop bunker complex. In the book, afterwards, one of the dudes (the one who jacked the 1911 in the movie) goes on to try to rape another dude at a camp fire the next night because he's feeling horny and wants some tail.
No shit, the book is so twisted the fucking company First Sergeant, played appropriately by Sean Penn in the movie, has this one internal monologue segment where he realizes after a battle that he's horny. Horny to fuck either a goat or an old man. I'm not shitting you, the sick fuck that wrote that book all the way back when, who also wrote the book that became the celebrated movie From Here to Eternity, had a line in his great combat biopic about a character debating whether he was in the mood to have sex with either a goat or an old man. Not a hot chick or even a strapping young guy. No, a goat or an OLD MAN. 
The book ends with everyone in the company basically mutinying because their new company commander is making them shave. So long story short, its a bit different from the movie. But the movie still sucked. But the book was sickest WWII story ever. Considering the author actually fought in Guadalcanal in the same regiment of the 25th ID that the film portrays, it creeped me out. Where there really company "bitches" back then, like in prison? I've never heard of that stuff. But both his WWII books, Thin Red Line and From Here to Eternity both had them in the books. I wish my granddad was still alive so I could ask him. "Grandpa, did you and your buddies jack each other off in combat?" Either he would have beat the shit out of me or told me yes. I would prefer to get the shit kicked out of me though. |
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Watching this at the moment and Nick Nolte's character refers to the radio system as a Sowen Power or something, but I can't quite catch the correct name he's using. So help please That movie is excruciatingly awful. I've never finished it. I'm really surprised by your response. It's one of the best war movies I've ever seen. I'm with ODA_564, awful movie. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Watching this at the moment and Nick Nolte's character refers to the radio system as a Sowen Power or something, but I can't quite catch the correct name he's using. So help please That movie is excruciatingly awful. I've never finished it. I'm really surprised by your response. It's one of the best war movies I've ever seen. It may be "one of the best war movies you've ever seen" but it isn't any where near one of the best war movies ever filmed. The book was good (actually a classic). The movie is shit. |
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Quoted: More of an art piece than a war movie, people expected more 'Saving Private Ryan' and were disappointed. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Watching this at the moment and Nick Nolte's character refers to the radio system as a Sowen Power or something, but I can't quite catch the correct name he's using. So help please That movie is excruciatingly awful. I've never finished it. More of an art piece than a war movie, people expected more 'Saving Private Ryan' and were disappointed. I was expecting an adaptation of James Jones' epic novel. I got crap. |
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When a war movie is realistic and shows the psyche-crushing aspect of combat, GD hates it.
When a war movie tries really hard to be realistic, GD hates it because the Germans were wearing the wrong ammo pouches. If you want to make a war movie that GD will like, make it look like a video game. Personally, while not a great movie, I consider it to be a very good one. Only part I felt was really wrong was when the GIs captured the camp with the Japanese in it. I doubt that many of them would have been left alive by the Americans. If they were Korean, different story. |