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To summarize my feelings of this Malick movie: You can take it or leave it. HOWEVER, may take the challenge and re-watch to see if lone-viewing opinion from turn of the millennium [ ] holds.
As I said, to me, it became a great movie once I watched it a second time, far more probing and deep than most movies dare to go. It's true that the movie does not just "take sides" and tell you "this is the lead", "this is the good guy", "this is the terrible Sergeant". There are so many stars in this movie (since they all wanted to work with Terrence Malick), but on second viewing, it worked very well. On first viewing it was a lot "oh, look, there's Woody Harrelson", "oh, look, there's George Clooney"... but on second viewing that did not matter anymore. Because all the characters were somehow important, and all the characters were somehow unimportant as well... they are in this world and fade, some appreciate the beauty of it more than others, some do their duty, some consider it a duty to question their duty, some are on the fence... whatever, the movie has an immense scope and the beauty of the movie is a big, big part of its point, it's not gratuitous. It's almost up to the viewer to decide whose story interests them. As far as WWII movie are concerned, I like Saving Private Ryan, but The Thin Red Line is in a class of its own. (Though it isn't any more a WWII movie really than Apocalypse Now is a Vietnam War movie, the wars are just backdrops.) And whereas the jungle world in Apocalypse Now became an increasingly nightmarish hellhole, the world in The Thin Red Line is Paradise... (as in Paradise Lost, because man can't help but kill each other, no matter how beautiful everything is).
But it's definitely a movie to watch on the big (TV) screen in full HD.
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To summarize my feelings of this Malick movie: You can take it or leave it. HOWEVER, may take the challenge and re-watch to see if lone-viewing opinion from turn of the millennium [] holds.
. On first viewing it was a lot "oh, look, there's Woody Harrelson", "oh, look, there's George Clooney"... but on second viewing that did not matter anymore.
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Exactly!
Also, on first viewing i
was preoccupied with figuring out who was doing the narration.
On second viewing i didn't obsess
bro
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I am pretty sure the film never mentions Guadalcanal.
i love that!
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why you say it will never happen?
maybe it will...we don know.
It's my favorite Zimmer score... a true holly grail for me, and I'm sure for other too.
Maybe if Zimmer himself gets involved. He loves this score, by interviews I perceive it is his most transcendent score for him.
Listening to the You Tube music linked above you can also hear a symphonic transcription of the Faure piece heard at the beginning.
release this!!!
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Bumped for commcommiserating
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Heads up for fans of.the film- and Malick fans in general.
A new book TERRENCE MALICK: Rehearsing the Unexpected is now available.
Don't be fooled by the title; this is NOT a dull academic treatise ( sorry, Thor and Marky  .
Rather it is.mostly an oral history of his life and films ( sans TM of course) as told by his collaborators.
Tons of fascinating material on TRL. Didn't know the whole ' Witt with Melanesians' was an invention of the screenwriter.
Check it out!
Bruce
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Welsh: this is the only world you got.
With: You're wr I wrong. I seen another world.
To me that is the key dialog in the film and underlines the main theme of the.film.
Brilliant.
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