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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:  929 reviews
Sales Rank: 5501
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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 Rent this movie before you buy it. February 24, 2007
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
I know that everyone wants to hear how great a movie is. Well, I can't say The Thin Red Line is a great movie. On a scale of 1-5 I gave it a 2.
Maybe my expectations were too high. After all, I bought this movie after watching Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, and A Bridge Too Far. So, I was expecting The Thin Red Line to be on that level. After all, with 7 Academy Award Nominations including Best Picture, a cast that includes many of the top names in Hollywood, and a huge budget, the bar was set pretty high.
And I guess if you're into artsy, "message" films The Thin Red Line will be what you're looking for. But, if you're looking for a "war" movie you can forget it. Buy When Trumpets Fade or Saving Private Ryan if you're looking for action. Or better yet, splurge for the Band of Brothers set. You'll seldom make such a wise investment if you're really interested in knowing what happened. I'm just not interested in watching a World War 2 movie that appears more interested in all this sort of introspective business. Save that for Dr. Phil.
I've warned you. If you're into history and World War 2 in particular, rent this before you buy it. Seriously.
 not just a war movie February 20, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
you may have already realized this, but this is not just a movie about war. It is a movie about the struggle to survive, the fact that conflict exists in every moment of our existence. Personally, I rate a movie based on how it holds up over time. I saw this movie when it was released in the theaters and loved it, and I just watched it again years later and loved it even more. This movie takes it's time. I get the feeling that massive amounts of film were shot and massive amounts of flim were chopped to get this movie. whoever did the chopping did a damn fine job. I can watch this one throughout my life and see something relevant.
"There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad." February 11, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the only movie that you will probably ever see that is the most realistic and moving as this one is. This movie shows everything from the compassion, courage and pain of the soldiers to the beauty of the land that they were in, including the pictures of the wildlife to the uglyness of the war in itself. The narriation of the soldiers was excellent and was there to show the feelings and the compassion for each other on the battlefield. This movie is a must see to everyone especially to those that think that war is "glory and victory". Highly recommended!!!!
 Thin, yes.. Good, no.. January 16, 2007
8 out of 26 found this review helpful
Simply not an enjoyable film. Nick Nolte's performance was poor and monotonous, as were most the actors within the film. As a member of the US Army, I've seen my share of battles, both in the theatre and upon the battlefield, yet this movie however lived up to neither. A long list of names does not equal a meaningful film.
The Thin Red Line January 9, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
The Thin Red Line elevates James Jones' 1960's novel in that rare way some motion pictures do when they exceed the quality of the original material.
This is a slow-moving film that places many demands on the time and awareness of a viewer---it glides along a bit too long at the last and seems unable to decide on when to end---but with its cerebral story wedded to supremely violent imagery, The Thin Red Line blew me away (no pun intended) when I first saw it at the theater with my grandfather in the late 1990's. It's true the small screen is not the ideal venue upon which to see this visually-oriented masterpiece, but even within the confines of a home theater system, the brilliance of Malick's work should be apparent, and this DVD makes the best of unavoidable limitations.
Telling the sometimes brutal and often intensely introspective story of the men of a US Army company in the thick of the fight in the Guadalcanal campaign, The Thin Red Line is mostly told within the interior monologues of its primary participants. Though several big-name stars have roles here (often extremely short roles) there is little glamour, and with the way Malick has spread out the opportunities for nearly each man of the cast to have at least one featured moment, there really is no single transcendent performance in the movie. The narrative technique allows the story itself to be the real star of The Thin Red Line rather than those who act within it, and this rare achievement is integral to what raises this film above so many others both within the war genre and outside it. As with all Terrence Malick productions that I've seen, the pace of the unfolding plot allows time for the setting to manifest with at least equal importance to the story or the human actors. Here we view such startling sights as the wind whispering through tall, ocean-like expanses of grasses, swaying with great beauty, heedless of the horrors of the battle being waged in its midst. We see sunlight streaming through ferns and palm fronds, made all the lovelier by the gunpowder smoke lingering in the air. And we watch a doomed baby bird knocked from its nest by the conflict, struggling pathetically on the wound-shattered ground.
Additionally, the music in The Thin Red Line also stuns with its glorious power. Sometimes used as a deliberate point of contrast to what is going on in a particular scene, the sounds of a Polynesian chorus singing a cappella during a moment of perhaps shatteringly sad death dispels the complacency of even the most post-modern of viewers, long-since hardened by the sight of thousands of previous on-screen fatalities.
The Thin Red Line is a war movie for those who say they revile war films. It is also a straightforward story of the reaction of humans separated from those they have known in their familiar lives, now facing the threat of direct extinction, which imposes states of hyper-reality and introspection upon them. It is unlike anything else done in American cinema in the 1990's, and it is a true achievement in excellence.
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