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In Reply to: Re: Has anyone seen Thin Red Line Yet? posted by Robert on July 13, 1999 at 13:04:21:
I refer to the "repetitive" island dream sequence. My reaction was "What is the point??" I accept the dreams about his wife, but the island stuff was just dumb and more importantly destroyed the impact of the rest of the film in my mind. I thought that it had potential to be much better than SPR, but because someone thought they were Bergman or Fellini, they stuck dream sequences in the middle of battle sences. Give me a break! This ruined the Thin Red Line for me.I don't think something is a cliche if it actually happened. Yes Hollywood over uses cliches to the point where you see them coming like a frieght train. But I agree that they made a point in SPR in the first half hour of the film. According to the vets I know, the wounded are left until the fighting stops, so the "man on a wire" is a movie device.
In my view movies like "Glory" and "Stalingrad" did a much better job.
Estes,Perhaps you were in a hurry in your reply, or possibly you had another problem with TRL... Are you aware that Witt (Jim Caviezel) was the narrator, and Bell(Ben Chaplin) was the married guy? Some people couldn't tell them apart...
To wrap it up, we had a split vote on TRL. Estes felt he'd watched a hazy war film rendered incomprehensible by National Geographic footage and Robert thought it was impressive for a studio film. Another split decision on SPR, Estes thought the D-Day invasion delivered it's message and Robert felt that the great 30 minutes at the beginning did not make up for the cartoonish rest of the film.
The video pick of the week is "Glory."
Well that's it for now, Estes and Robert will be back next week with reviews of "The Runaway Cliche` Film Freight Train" and "Barney: Too Hot For TV."
Add me to the list that can't tell them apart. Now I am really confused.The last paragraph should read, while Estes agreed with Robert that SPR the frist 30 minutes worked, and that there were times where the cartoonish elements were a bit much, overall it was an OK, but not Great movie. Robert thought the first 30 minutes were OK, but the rest was crap.
Next week, our special guest reviewer, Jerry Falwell will review Teletubbies, is a Triple X rating enough?? ;-)
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