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The Thin Red Line
Directed by Terrence Malick
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived. From TMDB
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The Thin Red Line is a 1998 drama history war film, directed by Terrence Malick, starring Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte and Sean Penn.
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60 of 229 · most liked firstTerrence Malick is 82. I showed The Thin Red Line to my A Level Film students in 1998. After a brief silence at the end, a boy said loudly ‘that was bollocks!’ Two weeks later, he came to apologise, saying that he’d bought the video as ‘it’s stayed in my head since.’
positive · AI labelView post →You live inside me now I'll carry you wherever I go. Movie: The Thin Red Line (1998) Director: Terrence Malick Dates tree 🌴 🍀 🍃 (Photo by Kirpal)
neutral · AI labelView post →Saving Private Ryan took home most of the accolades in 1998, but Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line is the superior film about war. Malick made a haunting meditation on humanity itself.
positive · AI labelView post →The Thin Red Line (novel and film) are radically different works so I bet the vibes were not in fact right
neutral · AI labelView post →Terrence Malick is 81. I showed The Thin Red Line to my A Level Film students in 1998. After it ended, a boy said loudly ‘that was bollocks!’ Two weeks later, he came to apologise, saying that he’d bought the video as ‘it’s stayed in my head since.’
positive · AI labelView post →Watched WINDTALKERS (2002) which is John Woo's 100 million dollar World War II film that becomes striking by feeling exactly like a Chinese Action movie. A sort of pulp-kitsch version of The Thin Red Line where Nicholas Cage is subject to soulful dissolves and you come away thinking humans are good.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just realised this game reminds me of that war movie “The Thin Red Line” - a big-budget production where you tune in expecting big drama, and then…nothing really happens
neutral · AI labelView post →Saving Private Ryan, a widely misunderstood film, deserved Best Picture over Shakespeare in Love, and maybe even The Thin Red Line
neutral · AI labelView post →New episode of The Malick Hour considers his third film The Thin Red Line with @jeremyarnold.bsky.social @filmstoriespodnet.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5b4w...
neutral · AI labelView post →This was the first film I saw Elias Koteas in and 34 years later I still shout out "it's Casey Jones" when he shows up in movies. The Thin Red Line: "I've lived with these men sir for two and a half years and I will not order them all to their deaths." Me: YOU TELL 'EM CASEY JONES!
neutral · AI labelView post →In his score for Terrence Malick's 1998 film THE THIN RED LINE, Hans Zimmer #BOTD wrote what is now known as "the forbidden cue." So called, because it has been used countless times in trailers, TV ads, and anywhere a dramatic cue is needed. It is indeed a powerful piece ... 6/ #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →The Thin Red Line. Set in Guadalcanal. Partway through they focused on a lizard endemic to North Queensland. Couldn’t take the movie seriously after that.
negative · AI labelView post →What would you say if someone asked you the impossible question, "What's your favorite film, but just one?" We would probably respond with THE THIN RED LINE. Happy 81st birthday to the legendary Terrence Malick! Enjoy our article. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/the-thin-red...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Thin Red Line is probably the only like... good war movie to come out of the US that actually has a more philosophical point. Upon further views, Saving Private Ryan comes across as extremely jingoistic.
positive · AI labelView post →When I was younger, I didn't appreciate a lot of movies. The Thin Red Line, a WWII film set in the Pacific theatre, is one of those movies. When I was younger and dramatically less experienced, the film went way over my head. It wasn't "right", especially as a WWII movie. I get it now.
positive · AI labelView post →Our secondary school had an annual charity week where a lot of teachers would let us watch a film instead of class for a donation but the teachers would pick the film so some things I remember watching on this include Remember The Titans, The Thin Red Line, and Kevin Smith’s Dogma
neutral · AI labelView post →“Property. The whole fucking thing's about property.” — First Sergeant Edward Welsh, the film “The Thin Red Line” by Terrance Malick (1998)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Thin Red Line is a far superior film in almost every respect, but doesn't get remembered the way it should be because it was released six months after Saving Private Ryan.
positive · AI labelView post →Director Terrence Malick (BADLANDS, THE THIN RED LINE) pushes the coming-of-age story into transcendental territory with THE TREE OF LIFE. Don’t miss Malick’s 2011 drama, screening on 35mm as part of Big & Loud. Get tickets: paristheaternyc.com/film/the-tre...
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowseated for The Thin Red Line @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social.
neutral · AI labelView post →Created my first movie analysis video for "The Thin Red Line" (1998). It's a very rough demo, so bear with me. Still working on optimizing video and audio but I wanted to get something out there so folks will know what I'm trying to do. youtu.be/Z76Q6aSkfdE
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, speaking of such things, THE THIN RED LINE directed by Terence Malick is a powerful film, based on the novel by James Jones but what Malick's film omits are the novel's several sex scenes between the soldiers. Seriously. Dudes fucking other dudes in the foxholes and pup tents.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie years project Year 1998 (58/122) Now Watching 📽️ #12/17 The Thin Red Line dir. Terrence Malick rec'd by @chriswordnerd.bsky.social, @vailalamadness.bsky.social, @stewbiedoo.bsky.social, @stephenage.bsky.social, @jwfreebird.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →plan tonight is to watch my favorite John C. Reilly movie, The Thin Red Line
positive · AI labelView post →Mine was The Thin Red Line. Which is actually a pretty good movie, but not when you’re 13 and you’re expecting the beach scene from Saving Private Ryan and instead you get 2 hours of existential monologues.
neutral · AI labelView post →Your opinion is sought. Which film do you like better, and why? Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’ cinephiliabeyond.org/the-thin-red... vs. Steven Spielberg’s ‘Saving Private Ryan’ cinephiliabeyond.org/saving-priva...
neutral · AI labelView post →This Friday evening, I'll be watching Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line with some wine. It's a deeply layered film that requires many re-watches to understand the poetic undertones.
positive · AI labelView post →Terrence Malick's film "The Thin Red Line," released in 1998, is now 26 years old.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched THE THIN RED LINE (1998). I wasn't entirely sure what this film was trying to say, and from what I read about how this film was edited, I don't think Terrence Malick was sure either. Still, it was worth watching as it's really going to help me out the next time I play Framed.
neutral · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky 20. A movie about man vs. nature. The Thin Red Line (1998)
neutral · AI labelView post →Well, that was something. Half of it reminded me of Malick's The Thin Red Line, both visually and through voiceover and flashes to memory, and the other half is a relentless B-movie cacophony. 103 minutes of endless gunfire and war horror, but heightened by every choice Cornel Wilde makes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hoop Dreams, Raising Arizona, Fargo, Young Frankenstein, Princess Bride, Unforgiven, Do the Right Thing, The Thin Red Line. I'll just stop there. Notice I didn't say Labyrinth, which is my favorite movie of all time!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Thin Red Line is a super disturbing movie but on the flip side Terrence Malick's obsession with giant undulating fields of grass makes it quite pleasing to look at sometimes
neutral · AI labelView post →How…tactical? The Thin Red Line is a fantastic war movie imo, maybe not as gritty or detailed as the Savings Private Ryan or Hurts Locker.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching Mallick's THE THIN RED LINE for the first time. Jesus, it's an all star powerhouse of a film ain't it?
positive · AI labelView post →Fave American film for each year of the 1990s 1990: Presumed Innocent 1991: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1992: The Last of the Mohicans 1993: The Age of Innocence 1994: The Crow 1995: Heat 1996: Fargo 1997: Good Will Hunting 1998: The Thin Red Line 1999: The Straight Story #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Was watching The Thin Red Line. Early in the film I thought “man, every white guy in Hollywood of 1998 is in this except George Clooney.” Not 10 minutes from the end, George Clooney appears.
neutral · AI labelView post →add food to a movie: CROISSANT OF A WOMAN THE LAST EMPANADA THE BIG CHILI THE THIN RED LINE OF FROSTING GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD POT LUCK FIVE GREASY PIECES M*A*S*H* (P*O*T*A*T*O*E*S*) THE MAN WHO WOULD BE CHICKEN A LA KING
neutral · AI labelView post →List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep. 1. The 6 Forms of Voice Over and their Functions in any genre of film. 2. The voice overs in Terrence Malick's 'The Thin Red Line'. 3. The location and names of the streets and lanes of Broken Hill, NSW.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Thin Red Line or any other Terrance Malick film
neutral · AI labelView post →The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick (1998) Epic film with an all-star cast.
neutral · AI labelView post →"a lot of time was, apparently, wasted" is also what happened with terrence malick's The Thin Red Line (1998) which imho is partly why it's one of the greatest late-modernist (war) film. iirc there is statistically more ambient film time of jungles, atoll beaches/ocean than there is actual combat.
positive · AI labelView post →The closest thing to a critical examination of the American soldier in WWII was the 1998 film adaptation of James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. A film which, for all its flaws, does a fine job representing the author’s depictions of his fellow GI’s on Guadalcanal.
neutral · AI labelView post →The author admits the AI doesn't have the actual text so " The vibes can be right while the details are wrong. After I read James Jones' "The Thin Red Line," AI confused Captain Stein with Captain Staros, the corresponding character in the movie adaptation."
neutral · AI labelView post →THE THIN RED LINE (1998): I had forgotten how much of this movie is just action sequences. It's much less dreamy than Malick's later works or DAYS OF HEAVEN for that matter, although heavy with references to Homer. What the film is, however, is detached. It captures the randomness of conflict and...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Thin Red Line. As we were leaving one of our party said "the only way that movie could have been worse is if professional wrestlers had walked through the audience kicking us in the crotch every 20 minutes". Most bait and switch war film ever. testify @aeka.bsky.social
negative · AI labelView post →I don't think I've posted this before, but I'm obsessed with this, it makes THE THIN RED LINE look like the best fucking movie ever made, and maybe it is, it might be, I need to watch it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiSl...
positive · AI labelView post →What's the best movie about each war? (not my favorite genre, but I'll play) #FilmSky 📽️ WWI: Legends of the Fall WWII: The Thin Red Line Vietnam: The Deer Hunter Desert Storm: Three Kings Wild Card: Jarhead
neutral · AI labelView post →You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? THE THIN RED LINE (1998) and BURNT BY THE SUN (1994)
neutral · AI labelView post →Elias Koteas - 📽️ The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998) There are five or six actors in this sprawling ensemble who get especially spotlighted throughout. The best for me are Koteas and Nick Nolte in their interactions together. Koteas’ “soft” compassion is essential to Malick’s pacifist vision.
neutral · AI labelView post →150th film of the year. #NowWatching: The Thin Red Line (1998)
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a reference to the very fun fact that Brody signed on to star in The Thin Red Line but was almost entirely cut out of the film in editing, and he only found out about it when doing press junkets.
neutral · AI labelView post →Reviewing Mallick lately, and after watching all his latest stuff, its so much clearer that his groundbreaking new style didn’t begin with Tree of Life, but rather unfolded into that film beginning with The Thin Red Line. From that point, his entire filmography feels like a single, wonderful essay.
positive · AI labelView post →NEW EPISODE! @ajblack.bsky.social & @steelbookbluray.com are joined by @www.johnbleasdale.com to discuss the one and only 90s Terrence Malick movie, 1998’s THE THIN RED LINE. 🎧 & subscribe on Spotify & all pod players. open.spotify.com/episode/5kdz...
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowwatching The Thin Red Line.
neutral · AI labelView post →Notable film scores could have used instead: -True Romance -Crimson Tide -The Rock -The Prince of Egypt -The Thin Red Line -Gladiator -Black Hawk Down -The Dark Knight trilogy -The Simpsons Movie -Sherlock Holmes -Inception -Rango -Interstellar -Dunkirk -Dune Part One and Two
neutral · AI labelView post →There is a lot of The Thin Red Line in there (he's talked about the movie for decades), but Malick makes meditative tone poems that, while yes, are non-linear and sometimes barely have a narrative, don't try to be condescending for nearly three hours.
neutral · AI labelView post →You see so much Malick influence (every movie has exposition cut like The Thin Red Line), but he just ain't much of a poet
neutral · AI labelView post →SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE has a terrific, playful, literate script co-written by Tom Stoppard. And yes, PRIVATE RYAN. Terrific beginning, of course - but then it turns into a standard, if great, WW2 war movie with some real issues in the presentation of the enemy. I much preferred THE THIN RED LINE.
positive · AI labelView post →Picking a favourite war movie is difficult, but I'm always tempted to say The Thin Red Line. There's just something about it. But is it better than Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket....? Maybe not. Tough call. #Filmsky #Moviesky #warmovies
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