dbmottle

I saw that Circuitcity has the dvd for $4.99 this week, and I thought I might pick it up. Is it a good movie? I usually like war movies but have heard mixed things about his one.

alessandro

The Thin Red Line is a thinking man's war film so decide for yourself.

al_bundy

i fell asleep in the theater

how do you fall asleep in a war movie?

Travis66

Some think its poetic in what its trying to say about war, others think its pretentious and boring. I loved it, as I love anything by Malick. I thought it was the best picture of 1998, but a more PC Saving Private Ryan got more attention. Anyway, 4.99 is not a big gamble, I say buy it you might like it.

RyoHazuki

How is SPR more politically correct?

Rivero

Not sure...but considering The Thin Red Line is not a 'war movie' your falling asleep is a moot point.

Rivero

Yes, it is a very good movie. The most beautiful and haunting movie of 1998 to be exact. But it's definitely not for everyone. For proof, some people claim it to be one of the worst films they've ever seen. Martin Scorsese, maker of Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, named it the best movie of the 90's. You get my point.

Mopower

It sucks. Just take a 3 hour nap instead.

FiveO

Loved it....but its slow at times.

As previously stated...its a thinking mans film.

al_bundy

neither is SPR or Windtalkers by your logic

Rival11

I love it and never did understand all the hatred towards it but to each their own. $4.99? Just buy it.

Brain Stew

It's boring. It's not a "thinking man's movie", it's just a boring movie. I understood that they were trying to show the horror of war and the internal struggle that every man faces in battle; but I was able to figure that out 20 minutes into the movie! The rest of the picture was beating that into my head.

Jazzbutcher

I consider myself a "thinking man". I thought it sucked nuts.

Josh H

I loved it. I abolutely hate Saving Private Ryan. Thin Red Line was much better as it was more character driven and showed you how war affects the soldiers, the people they leave back home, etc. Where as SPR was just a gory, jingoistic, overly patriotic war movie with a bunch of characters I couldnt' care less if they lived or died.

Geofferson

I thought The Thin Red Line was a great film. Glorious all around (though I feel I am in the minority on this one).

inri222

Rivero

No, SPR and Windtalkers are definitely war films.

Coral

It's a masterpiece.

Not merely a "war film" but a film about the nature of man. Very philisophical and beautiful (on many levels).

MSD

I didn't like it much at all. Great cast but such a dull movie. It took me awhile to finish it.

al_bundy

it was supposed to be all philosophical about how someone gets thrown into war and all, but that's the story of the USA. Sometimes people are called from their homes to fight a war in a foreign land they can't pronounce. WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Middle East, Bosnia you name it.

It's the story behind LOTR. The hobbits are small because they represent the common man of the time on a farm far away from the cities where all the important decisions are supposedly made by "taller" men. Only difference is that Frodo aspired to something more than life in the Shire.

Eplicon

I couldn't get into the movie at all, so I've only seen it once. It felt overlong at times and all those voiceovers got to be a little grating for me after awhile to the point where I lost track of who was thinking what. And I also felt the movie was a series of glorified cameos.

Corvin

So let me get this straight. You're seriously going to argue that The Thin Red Line is not a war movie?? I mean, seriously? It may not be action packed like some war flicks (Black Hawk Down, for example), but it's a war movie nonetheless.

Kal-El

What Mopower and Brain Stew said. I wouldn't spend a penny on it.

Cygnet74

i don't know what political correctness has to do with either of these films. perhaps the poster was referring to SPR's easy-to-digest, by-the-numbers dramatic elements. whereas Thin Red Line asks the viewer to engage and be mindful of the film's meditation on war and nature. many viewers are turned off, i believe, because the film asks questions that may not have an answer. also, another poster claimed this was not a "war movie". perhaps, he was simply saying that Thin Red Line is not a movie of conventional war clichés.

al_bundy

I was in the army when SPR came out on a small base. the commanding general paid money out of his pocket for everyone to see the movie and made it a requirement unless you had some duty that you needed to be there. That day the entire base pretty much closed for the afternoon.

Before the movie he made a speech for people to look for things and what kind of questions the movie asks that soldiers face in wartime. he even said that it doesn't answer the questions that it asks.

people walked out of SPR in the first 30 minutes because they couldn't take the reality that it showed. I heard a lot of WW2 veterans couldn't take it either. I don't see how that is PC.