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 enlarge | Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Kirk Acevedo, Penelope Allen, Benjamin Green, Simon Billig, Mark Boone Junior
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  907 reviews
Sales Rank: 6322
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 170
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D2003000D
UPC: 024543030003
EAN: 0024543030003
ASIN: B00005PJ8T
Theatrical Release Date: January 8, 1999
Release Date: May 21, 2002
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 Turn on your brain--the movie's much better when you do August 19, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am amazed by how many people don't like this because it's "too long," "doesn't have enough action," or (I love this one) "it's soooo lame." One of the many redeeming aspects of this film is how the movie does not force feed you. It doesn't barrage you with speeches, action, dramatic music, more action, action with dramatic music, and yet more hyperbolic action/music--doing all the thinking for you. If you have a short attention span, or are uncomfortable interpreting for yourself what you are watching, this movie is not for you. Go watch Saving Private Ryan, Patton, Guns of Navarone, anything but this. But if you want lucid cinematography, deep internal monologue, and spoken lines beyond "Let's get them Japs," and time to digest what you are watching, then get this movie.
It is the only war movie I would say is beautiful. There's no didactive hawk/dove preaching, chest thumping or flag waving, rather a complex portrayal of regular people, just like us, thrust into a hellish situation, and what goes on in their minds as they endure the everyday brutality of warfare.
Like a good poem that may only contain a couple dozen words, many lines and ideas in this movie demand you sit and think, to concentrate very very hard--to try to get to the marrow of the deeper meaning--something that takes lots of introspection and time.
For the people who were looking at their watches, or complaining it was too long, here's a hint: during the long sequences of silence or "inaction," there's a reason for it: something pithy has just ben served to you, or is about to be. If you still don't get it, go ahead and one-star this movie, and go get any of those other sugar-coated cookie cutter war movies that don't want you to do much thinking.
This is the best war movie I have seen.
GUADALCANAL July 23, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
My uncle was at Guadalcanal as a very young Marine. He was no square. His account was very close to the tenor of this film. I am sorry for those who did not feel adequately entertained. His company were reduced from 100 to 5. The art of this film is the inference of violence vs the explicit incidence. Inference is a more powerful tool in explaining the terror of real violence. I think violence is entertaining mainly to those who have never experienced it.
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 "War Turns Men Into Dogs"....... July 13, 2007
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
...and this movie is a big, steaming pile of dog shtuff.
This movie had such potential. But it goes absolutely nowhere. A pitiful attempt at being profound, resulting only in bombast. The "finished work" is simply a swollen collage of beautifully filmed vignettes (complete with irrelevant and saccharine flashbacks) stitched together in a clumsy attempt to trick the viewer into believing that there is a point. There is none!
I can understand the concept and argument that The Thin Red Line was not intended to be a "WAR FILM". But it's not anything else either - NOTHING!! This DOG was so boring, so pointless, so morose, it inspired me to write my first ever film review in an attempt to spare others the disappointment of sitting through it!
The apologists for this celluloid sleeping pill use words like contemplative, poignant, philosophical, introspective, etc. The only thing I took away from this lugubrious piece of cinematic blathering, was utter contempt for the self-absorbed turds responsible for its production.
This film is a waste of time and clearly a product of the narcissistic Hollywood Boomer generation. Rather than honor our fathers and grandfathers who sacrificed so much to secure freedom and security for the generations to follow, it serves only to insult them.
Bought for husband, he loves it July 12, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't like movies about war and death but my husband does and he loves this movie and has watched it several times since I bought it.
Quite different angle on a war movie May 20, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I watched this movie late in the evening, after coming home from my son's 14th birthday party. My festive mood quickly turned responsive and contemplative. My son watched part of it too but fell asleep due to exhaustion. Thin Red Line is a fascinating view on a dark and cruel chapter of WWII, the bitter, relentless fight over Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of war. What struck me most about this film is the fact that man's conflict is set against the overwhelming background of nature and the elements. Although the fighting is intense and without mercy, nature is in large part undisturbed by it and uninterested in the outcome. The fighting scenes are intersparsed by scenes of tranquility and peacefulness. American GI's and Japanses Imperial troops are both depicted as accidental heroes and victims. There are exiting vistas and images of nature, animals, sunsets and sundowns, clouds and the omnipresent jungle. You hear the rustling of the wind in the grass and the trees. Like it must have been for the soldiers most of the time. Although there are parallels with Saving Private Ryan, it is an altogether different approach. The acting is great. Especially Jim Caviezel's and Sean Penn's. The actors doing a cameo (John Travolta, Nick Nolte)in my view are far less convincing.
I recommend this movie to anyone who is bored by the average run of the mill war flick with brainless heroes who rampage through the movie shooting everything that moves without being hit or hampered by remorse. Mr Terence Malick did an excellent job. I look forward to his next movie, whatever that may be. An intelligent, philosophical and artful anti war-movie depicting the cruelty of man and the senselessness of human conflict in all its degrading details. I was truly impressed by it.
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