Page 1 of Thin Red Line..Oh Dear.

Taped it the other night and wasted 3 hours watching it, was it the deep thinkers regiment or what.

Thank god for world at war and saving private ryan,suppose it could have been worse I could have bought it!

Oscar Wallace.

Smurf.
Great film , great atmosphere, better than saving private ryan coz spielberg just can`t do good endings anymore. AI would have been better if they`d stopped at the blue fairy

The Thin Red Line is one of my favourite War films (Black Hawk Down being my fav :D ).

It`s a beautiful film (helped along by Hans Zimmer`s brilliant score). I like Saving Private Ryan as well, but I believe The Thin Red Line to be a superior film. I would have liked to have seen the original cut of the film (6 hours long), which included a lot more stars (Billy Bob Thornton had a fairly large role, but was cut out completely). But I`m happy enough with the existing version.

I really hated The Thin Red Line, incredibly dull and pretentious.

Saving Private Ryan and Zulu are the two best war films ever IMO.

Rich

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AI would have been better if they`d stopped at the blue fairy

Isn`t that a B&B in Blackpool?

Nick

I`m with the wookie on this one!

Thin Red Line is a masterpiece and Terence Malick is a f*cking genius!

Have you seen Badlands chewie?

Yup, another great film. Shame that Malick is a lazy bastard though ;)

I know!

3 films in 30 years!

He makes Stanley Kubrick look like a workaholic! :D

I almost walked out of the cinema on Thin Red Line... How on earth is that a good film!?!?

It`s a pretty extraordinary film, but it`s certainly not for all dispositions, and a lot of the realism from the book has been abandoned in favor of pictorial expression. As for Billy Bob Thornton, I don`t think he was ever actually in the film, but he recorded a significant amount of voice-over that was then re-dubbed by the remaining actors. Adrien Brody, John C. Reilly and George Clooney however, were definitely shafted by Mallick`s indecisiveness.

--Mike