Thin Red Line

[Keith Heitmann]

I finally rented and watch this one last night. My first comment is that is a rather long slow moving movie.

I made the mistake of watching this when I was tired and had to fight to stay away for the last 90 minutes of the movie.

The combat sequences were nicely done, it was just all too psychological in the sections between and there were too many of those and not enough combat.

Having lived long enough to have seen the original Thin Red Line (1964) with Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, and Aldo Ray. The only problem is that the original movie had much the same problem. Good battle sequences but the story didn't quite come together.

I'd still have to say I like the original movie very much more than this remake.

[VisMajorX]

"I finally rented and watch this one last night. My first comment is that is a rather long slow moving movie.

I made the mistake of watching this when I was tired and had to fight to stay away for the last 90 minutes of the movie."

I have NEVER made it though this film once. I always always always manage to fall asleep at some point usually quite early on.

Although it is beautifull, well written charictors and script, there is something about it, perhaps all the quiet introspection by the main charictor and huge pauses in the action to show the audience the beautifull sceneary just puts me right out. Its a seditive. But I can not say it is a 'bad' film, it is one of my friends (an amature film maker) favoriete movies of all time (perhaps his most favoriete).

"The combat sequences were nicely done, it was just all too psychological in the sections between and there were too many of those and not enough combat."

Well, this is an anti-war film.. it isn't about the combat.. it isn't a documentary about the fight.. it is a film about the charictor and how he feels about what man is doing to man.. in fact it is said that this is THE anti-war film.. so to expect huge combat sequences... that was never the point of the film.

And I didn't know that this was a remake... but if the two films have the same 'problem' perhaps this was intentional and not a 'problem' but a 'feature'? I'm sure it is.. like I said.. the point was not to glorify battle, but to show what horror war is in the minds of innocent and gentel men... who would never dream of killing anything.

Or at least.. this was what I got from it, having only seen the film completely by rewatching the sceens I've slept through.

VMX

[Lito]

It lacked a plot as well. You had to really pay close attention the first time seeing it to know that it was taking place on Guadalcanal. If I had my way, the next great war film would take place on that island. That or Okinawa.

[PUFF88]

i hated this movie, if maybe i knew it was going to be like that, i would cut it some slack, but whoever was in charge of the previews did not seem to know what it was about either. Some of it looked nice, but i will never watch it again, might take a shot at the original but never this movie. One of the few i wanted to walk out of the theater on, and almost everyone who saw it then, did not like it either.