Greatest war movie ever? Flawed masterpiece? Meandering, pretentious crap? What's it gonna be.



And what do y'all think of the French Plantation scene in the Redux.

i'm going to a screening of the special features on tuesday and ford coppola is gonna be speaking bout it... i'll tell ya after that

blasphemy

Now you have to sell "Redux" and buy "The Complete Dossier."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FS ... ance&n=130

I don't think it is; I fall firmly in the first camp. I love this movie, but I'm curious to hear from those who don't.

The Thin Red Line--now that was pretentious meandering crap.

platoon was better

The french palntation scene? I thought it was fucking horrible and worthless.

I loved the plantation scene. Added several more dimensions (political and historical) to the story, and the human interactions between Willard and the widowed woman fleshed out his character a bit more. The encounter with the French also helped account for his changing perspective. It was a nice bit of pacing, to slow the movie down and stabilize it before the climax, too.

this movie is fuckin baddass

why? because he tried something different than tradtional war movies? i'll take that kind of pretentious crap anyday...

i remember seeing the thin red line shortly after saving private ryan and wanting to walk out of the theatre. i was so disappointed in the movie. i felt like the whole thing just dragged.

upon second viewing, it changed. you can't go in expecting the normal war movie. it's different. it's not about shoot-em-up. it's about how the shoot-em-up fucks you up.

Best movie ever to me!!! But i want to see the "normal" version, i can only find the redux here.

I have no problem with untraditional war movies (ie: kurtz's compound in apocalypse now), but there must have been a good hour of The Thin Red Line that consisted only of ambiguous voice-over ramblings on top of nature shots. At least in Apocalypse Now they make you believe what Kurtz is saying, half of The Thin Red Line it was like a poetry soundtrack set to a Discovery channel show about the rainforest (I exaggerate, but I'm making a point).

How do they not include the Heart of Darkness documentary?! This Complete Dossier version isn't worth six cents without it.

I thought the Redux is great except for the plantation scene. It slows everything down to a crawl.

I think they way the movie originally ran was fine, too.

I prefer the original to the Redux. The only way the movie could have been improved is more "Hopper on drugs". Damn that guy makes me laugh.

Agreed, the need to include that one soon. You'd think at least one of the editions would have it, but no.

I thought was overtly pretentious and utterly useless and shoved the whole message of the movie down the throats of the audience.

I don't see a single message coming out of that scene (and if one did, then the ending makes it a lot more ambiguous). And what about it was pretentious? It was people talking politics around a dinner table.

I like the plantation scene but i agree is a bit weird for being very normal in a very surreal movie.