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The Thin Red Line is an Academy Award-nominated 1998 war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II with the focus on the men in C Company, most notably Private Witt (James Caviezel) and his conflicted feelings about fighting in the war, Colonel Tall (Nick Nolte) and his desire to win the battle at any cost in order to get a promotion, and Private Bell (Ben Chaplin) and the dissolution of his marriage back home while he fights in the war.
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Awesome movie. Malick's best. Weird as it may sound, my favorite thing about this movie is the way Malick shoots the grass during the first battle scene. Fuck me is that gorgeous.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
my favorite thing about this movie is the way Malick shoots the grass during the first battle scene. Fuck me is that gorgeous.
yes!
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:56 am Posts: 2922 Location: In a van down by the river Gender: Male
I watched this with my wife in the theater, and didn't realize it was going to be an artsy film. I adjusted, and ended up loving it, but she didn't get it.
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What's crazy to me about this one and Malick in general is that he basically owns Hollywood. So many big name actors wanted in on this one, and he ended up cutting out Billy Bob Thornton (who had three hours of voiceover material as well), Martin Sheen, Gary Oldman, Viggo Mortensen and Mickey Rourke. George Clooney and John Travolta were relegated to basically bit parts. And then you have the actors that actually appeared in the final cut, with even a few of the guys that played smaller parts being big stars today, like John C. Reilly. Malick's got immense clout.
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I love Malick, but I'm going to have to rent this again. I was pretty bored with it the first time.
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Orpheus wrote:
Nice going c_b.
i came in here late last night and couldn't find the thread. i thought i was going nuts. this is quite an honor.
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I remember my mother when she was dyin', looked all shrunk up and gray. I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head. I was afraid to touch the death I seen in her. I couldn't find nothin' beautiful or uplifting about her goin' back to God. I heard of people talk about immortality, but I ain't seen it. I wondered how it'd be like when I died, what it'd be like to know this breath now was the last one you was ever gonna draw. I just hope I can meet it the same way she did, with the same... calm. 'Cause that's where it's hidden -- the immortality I hadn't seen.
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I really wish Malick wouldn't do voice-over so much, though. This movie would be so much better without it. It'd also be better without that silly wife-leaving-soldier subplot.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:47 am Posts: 46000 Location: Reasonville
didn't this come out soon after saving private ryan? two different movies, and if you saw ryan in theaters and then saw this hoping for another war flick, this is quite different.
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