Advantages: Visually beautiful; emotionally raw and deep; stunning battle sequences; reflective and poetic Disadvantages: An acquired taste
Nature and philosophy is the trademark of Terrence Malick. He artfully presented it in his two films of the 70s, Badlands and Days of Heavens, but retreated from the directing scene to go on a sabbatical which would last for twenty years. The Thin Red Line emerged in 1999, more visceral than any of Malick's previous work, presenting audiences with an artfully crafted, beautiful film. This was Malick taking his films to a more ambitious scale, taking ...
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Advantages: The film is presented in usch a way that I really can't explain it. Just take my word for it and go and watch it now. Disadvantages: I think audiences will find it that bit too slow to start with, just bear with it and you will love it.
...later, Terrence Malick returns to the big screen with this with this visually, emotionally and outstanding film which looks down at Saving Private Ryan with a big grin on it’s face and dumps on it’s head.
Due to the terrorising ways of Hollywood and the huge competition, The Thin Red Line and Saving Private Ryan were released at around the same time, which unfortunately didn’t get this little beauty noticed and give it the attention that it deserved.
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Advantages: Well acted, moving, powerful, well filmed, original Disadvantages: A bit too long for some (although not for me)
...I thought I'd go throught the main characters
Nick Nolte - Colonel Tall, the highest ranked character who plays a main role, he gives a very good performance, as the person who gives the orders but doesn't fight himself, performance 9/10
Elias Koteas - Captain Staros, takes his orders from Colonel Tall, he's the Greek commanding officer of Charlie Company, and is at odds when he refuses to obey Tall's orders. he gets relieved of his position ...
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Advantages: moving and beautiful Disadvantages: some find it boring
...we are about to see. The usual aspects that are now practically standard are: young impressionable soldiers clearly horrified by the ferocity of war, despicable soldiers getting their comeuppance, and of course no war film would be complete without a blood spattered sequence with classical music in the background.
War films tend to fall into two categories, either they show the horror of war or they show the psychological effects of the fighting ...
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thoughtful Review ofThe Thin Red Line (Wide Screen)by
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Advantages: stunning photography, makes you think Disadvantages: poor extras, too long for some people
The Thin Red Line was the other war movie that came around the same time as Saving private Ryan and as a result wasn't as widely recieved. This is a shame as it's actually in many ways a better film.
It centres around soldiers at the conflict of Guadalcanal but is more about the personal struggles of the mind rather than the harsh brutalities of war. Men reflect on what they have left behind, fearing for their lives and wondering if they'll ever ...
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Advantages: amazing locations, brilliant cast, thoughtful take on war Disadvantages: quite long?!
...'boring' and not up to the standards of 'Saving Private Ryan'. This only added to my utter disbelief at how outrageously thoughtful, well written, well filmed and beautifuly shot this picture actually is.
It has possibly the least likely start to a war film since 'Apocalypse Now', with Private Witts relationships with local tribes whilst hes AWOL beautifuly setting the scene for this film about wars effects on everybody, including those who dont ...
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Advantages: A good description of how men think and act under pressure Disadvantages: 3 hours long! Make sure got loads of snacks to keep you going!
...Private Ryan, I was wrong. The Thin Red Line is also set in the Second World War; however, this is where the similarities end. While Saving Private Ryan is basically an action film that is trying to put across an accurate depiction of war, the thin red line is a film set during the war trying to show how men under pressure think and is altogether a much more poetic film. This is the first film that shows how men think without focusing on sex and football! ...
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02.04.2001
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Advantages: Great acting Disadvantages: Ptetentious at times
...Thin Red Line". Based upon the novel of the same name by James Jones, it is a harrowing tale of a US Army platoons attempts to capture the island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese.
This was a pivotal point of the Second World War; yet this film ignores the history and politics of the event, and opts to focus upon the human emotion.
The film’s structure is simple, and nothing extraordinary happens, yet this is nothing short of a masterpiece. ...
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The Thin Red Line [1999]
One of the cinema's great disappearing acts came to a close with the release of The Thin
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Red Line in late 1998. Terrence Malick, the cryptic recluse who withdrew from Hollywood visibility after the release of his visually enthralling masterpiece Days o...
The Thin Red Line [1999]
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Red Line in late 1998. Terrence Malick, the cryptic recluse who withdrew from Hollywood visibility after the release of his visually enthralling masterpiece Days o...
THIN RED LINE
Terrence Malick returns to Hollywood after a two-decade hiatus with this adaptation of the
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classic WWII novel by James Jones. The story follows the efforts of an army platoon to capture the Japanese-controlled island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Ocean...
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