That young soldier in the end trying to convince himself that things can only get better has got to be one of the saddest and most realistic depiction of men in combat in WW2. Guadalcanal was only one of the first objective, there will be more islands to capture and 3 more years of hard fighting where thousands of troops like that young man will die or be physically and mentally shattered for life. Saving Pvt. Ryan is great and pure Hollywood as far as entertainment goes, but Thin Red Line is on a different league on its own. They are both excellent films.

@commandingjudgedredd1841

Жыл бұрын

If only they had the ability to see into future events and witness the conflicts to come. Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, Desert Storm. (Short list, I know, but I cannot list every single conflict that was to follow)

@MetalsirenIXI

Жыл бұрын

SPR imo was dumb after the D-Day scene

@burnbobquist8999

Жыл бұрын

The Thin Red Line is unfortunately overlooked so much because of Saving Private Ryan, even if it's a very different take on WW2.

@tileux

11 ай бұрын

Try the last episode of the tv series, Gallipoli, called The Earth Abides.

@Britishwolf89

11 ай бұрын

@@tileux Yep Gallipoli is amazing. I watch it at least once a year now. Same with Band of Brothers.

“They want you dead or in their lie.” This quote is a testament to how this movie was more philosophical than your average “shoot ‘em up” war movie. It was an underrated gem.

@douglascampbell66

9 ай бұрын

I would say that this film is a Masterpiece and as powerful, for me, as any work of art ever created.

@Nik-xi2ri

8 ай бұрын

They want you dead or in their lie. The closer you are to Caesar, the greater the fear.

@blumpkinspicelatte4580

5 ай бұрын

You do know this was based on the book right?

@johncollins3952

5 ай бұрын

Read the book! Then watch the movie again.

@ymiecapach6679

2 ай бұрын

You do realise that that phrase is all about the government control that has brainwashed you in the day to day life that your living

I can't judge what other people think, but, as a vet, I felt that "The Thin Red Line" was one of the most hauntingly thoughtful films I'd ever seen. It spoke some things that I feel and will never forget.

@TRockett55IRISH

Жыл бұрын

Well said you are so right .

@danrobinson8380

Жыл бұрын

@seamusoreilly804 as a fellow vet I feel very much the same. As a youth and prior to any deployments 'Saving Private Ryan' was a powerful film to me. Some of the themes in the "Thin Red Line' I didn't understand and/or found disturbing as I didn't want to see war and the military in the way it was presented here. But now, having been through the 'thin and the thick of it' myself, those themes resonate powerfully. Beautiful film and close to the mark in it's own way.

@PavewayJDAM

10 ай бұрын

100%

@regularguyprepper2993

10 ай бұрын

100%. Saw this as a kid and didn't get it. I get it now.

@andymason1324

10 ай бұрын

Roger that , never forget and never tell, because we could never put those feelings into words brother ,resonated for me too .

It is quite an impressive, deep movie... It's philosophical and lyrical at the same time, without renouncing to all the violence and realism that a war movie should have. Along with 'Private Ryan', it's possible one of the best war movies I've ever seen. In this last scene, the swinging, erratic movement of the camera and the faces of the exhausted soldiers, who do not seem to pay any attention to the camera, make us think that the spirit of Private Witt is inadvertently moving around them ("who are you, who were my brother, my friend....?") without the soldiers realizing that their dead comrade is leaving the island with them. And that's the point; isn't it? The dead were forever living in the minds of the ones who survived, long after the war ended.

@takaorobinson8719

7 ай бұрын

Very well put. It is a deep movie.

This movie always puts me in some kind of special perfect mental trance. A special feeling that I feel only after watching this movie and no more. Terrence Malick 👏

I have never watched this film completely through twice, it's too much to take in.... it is immeasurably sad and deep

My grandfather was put in prison for almost 3 years during WW2. My father and his siblings, all born in Gilroy, had to leave everything behind and move to junction Colorado by themselves. The oldest was 18. Those who could enlist had to fight to prove they were Americans. One uncle liberated Dachau prisoners on a death march. Another rescued the Lost Battalion. When they returned everything they had worked so hard to obtain now belonged to somebody else. The 442 infantry regiment is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry ( Nisei) who fought in World War II. They deserved to have their story be told from their perspective. But they’re all gone now.

"What difference do you think you can make? One single man in aII this madness."

Watched this movie many times over. One of the best if not the best WW2 movies

@Canadianvoice

5 ай бұрын

Letters of iwo jima

My grandpa fought through guadalcanal,pelilu and okinowa its amazing how hard these men were

By far my favorite Malick film and one of my top ten favorite films in of all time. I particularly love his style and sensitivity, while also achieving immersion like few other directors outside Kubrick. And the OST on this film is good enough to listen alone and probs also ranks in my top ten or five.

What I loved about this movie was how it came at the whole issue from the perspective of how we would question our existence in this situation. Saving private ryan was great, and so was this. It is the same topic from different angles. I don't think I'd have been brave in war, and I'd have questioned my existence. Much like this movie shows.

My dad was WWII vet of the pacific, when told at age 60 he had terminal cancer his response was " Hell I never thought Id see 22 everyday since the war has been gravy"

I think for a lot of WWII veterans, their decisions are encapsulated in the notion that after what they saw the worst was over and things had no choice but to get better. THey had been to hell. Nothing could beat that or beat them, and so they knew something the rest of us may never learn- that you can overcome anything. And so they did, becoming the Greatest Generation. Love and miss you both Grandpa John and Grandpa Cal.

@takaorobinson8719

7 ай бұрын

Very well put.

This movie is a masterpiece. One of the best movies of all time.

That piece of dialogue starting at 1:45 was the thing that I always took away from this movie. It’s so real, it probably sums up what GI’s took away from the war.

@busterdog321

Жыл бұрын

You know, that's how many men looked at it in the time they were there. But the second voice that picks up after that young...19..20 years old who "lived plenty of life" that quote "where is it that we were we together?" That's what lingers well after, trying to remember all the times you spent talking about what you were gonna do after. Now you're trying to remember what to do.

A sleeper..dang good flick though..saw it at a budget showing and later found it on blu ray in a budget pile..the smoke and fog scene facing the Japanese has to be one of the best combat scenes ever filmed..

I first caught this on video sometime back in 00-02 timeframe when I was in college…and I bought it and watched it Sooooo many times. Such a great film.

Brilliant film, a masterpiece really, unfortunate some of the film ended up destroyed on the cutting room floor, never to be seen again, can only wonder what masterful scenes were cut from this marvelous movie.

A more philosophical film than Saving Private Ryan. Both were excellent in their own adaptations. I liked Sean Penn in particular.

We were blessed in 1998 with two of the finest war films 🎥 ever made. One in Europe and this one covering the Pacific theatre. Both were fantastic 👏

@roelmartinvandervelde9407

2 ай бұрын

And then there's the 2 miniseries BoB and Pacific, plus Clint Eastwood's two movies on Iwo Jima, all great material.

Seeing this in the theatre was a treat, especially for the sfx and music.

If you die, it'll be for nothing. If you live, it'll be for less.

@DAH55100

Ай бұрын

Can you truly say that the allied soldiers who died in the Pacific theatre.....died for nothing? Not in my opinion.

The Greatest film ever made , watch it a few times to get the real meaning . So many hidden truths and magnificent acting .

@andrewgreen1940

Жыл бұрын

Bwaaaaaah. Two hours of watching the grass blow around. Absolute cack.

@Andor2022

9 ай бұрын

@@andrewgreen1940gosh 🙈

@richardbarcaricchio

4 ай бұрын

Everytime I watch it, I learn something new about filmmaking. A true masterpiece.

This was a really great movie… really ‘cerebral’. As an Australian I appreciate the importance of this campaign, and I’ve been to the Solomons, seen the landscape, the wrecks.

If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack…a glance from your eyes, and my life will be yours. 🤯😭

@crimsonchin9632

20 күн бұрын

I have this quote tattoed on my left arm with a male and female sleeping cherub on either side. Still hits me every time I watch it, best line ever.

Music mixing is just perfect, as the rest.

I read all three books in this series, they were all so different but great in their own way!

@utbmullany

5 ай бұрын

I also read all three books after watching this - would not recommend Whistle - but the other two are awesome

Astonishing. A sad lovely masterpiece.

Know other War Film like this Masterpiece !

Remains the most profound war film I've watched.

It was great that we got this as well as saving private ryan. Private Ryan is my favorite war film but I’d put this movie at a very close second

Best war movie ever made!!!

Depicts the inner struggle these men have just been through, witnessing the randomness of lucky near-miss versus unlucky death. The disturbing realisation that plenty of 'next times' lay ahead for testing that luck, shortening their likelihood of survival.

Masterful. The book is just a great, give it a read

This is for you uncle Bud. not forgotten

Some of the same locations in Far North Queensland would later be used in The Pacific.

Most movies are visual novels. This one's a poem.

Great movie! Powerful scene .

This movie is poetry..................Saving Private Ryan is prose......I've always preferred this one.............

@ssalerno9200

Ай бұрын

Exactly.

Throughout the movie, we see the war between humans and nature. The savageness of what humans do to each other and the results on nature. Then, the last scene is that small coconut tree on the shoreline growing out of the shell. A new beginning in all the chaos. What a brilliant movie.

Wow. this was so good.

I was the original Thin Red Line in B&W with my father in a theater, most likely in Burlington NC. It was written more closely adhering to James Jones book and part of the trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, & Whistle. James Jones said that these three were all he had to say about the war. It is hard to find the original movie for reasons I do not understand. Maybe the print was burned in the fire of the store rooms that destroyed so many great films. You will do well by yourself to read the trilogy.

Fucking best war movie ever. Didn’t appreciate it until I came home But understand it now

My only criticism is that the graveyard full of fresh graves has no upturned dirt mounds, but just crosses stuck in the ground.

When the plane lifted off leaving VN, I thought there would be jubilation……..there was not. Everyone had their heads down.

A great movie

I wonder how many soldiers were on these islands and never had to fire a shot. I would assume a very few.

Just a brillant scene .

Great

I wish this movie came out the year before or after S.P.R. just so it didn't have to compete with it. Apocalypse Now vibes in T.T.R.L.

Some of those Guys went on to have a acting careers

1998 🤪 the same year as Saving Private Ryan !

Truth to every one

Terrence Malik is the GOAT

One of my favorite movies of all time, and this sequence is the most impactful part, just wish the clip started a few seconds earlier. Sean Penn's monologue as the men, weary and worn by combat, having survived hell, walk past the graves of their comrades as they get on the ship to get tossed back into the meat grinder of war. Penn talks of the bad leadership we have, that all say the same thing, but do the same by just treating us all as pieces on a chessboard to move or remove. We're forced to agree with the lies of those more powerful than we are who only set out to use us. It's inexplicable to these men to see the beauty God has created in this world only to pit man against man to destroy all of it.

They all have the 1000 yard stare. Walking around like zombies.

A real jewel. They dont made movies like that anymore. Saw it like 6 times. While i like the poetry in it i always noticed the spiritual approach in all his movies , like we are all watched by a greater power. Is a deep, religious meaning in all his movies or spiritual at least. That part is strange , as in the rest the movie puts accent on how deeply flawed human nature is. Is like the movie is made of two parts , one putting accent on human flawed nature, their struggles and choices and the other is the greater good , something out of this world. In many aspects the soldier who sacrifice himself is not understood and he dies in the end is exactly like Jesus. Deeply disturbing . I am not even a religious person.

Hot ,and very Humid in jungle fighting😢

They look badass asf too bad there still more battles to come for this division

The bare reality of life and death only a split second from a full scale of consecutive seconds is revealed in this movie. Only a fraction of humans have experienced this remote reality of truth and consequences of man.

Let's see the 5 hour version please

Only the young ever fight and die🥲

Is that james purefoy on the right at 2:59?

I thought it was much more realistic than SPR!

..en este "paraíso"..el diablo manipula y triunfa🔥🔥😎

cool ending looks like those boys made it and are going home

@michaelwong6050

7 ай бұрын

They are not. The new captain before this scene mentioned "This war isn't going to be over by next Christmas". They are being deployed so they can die somewhere else. Rinse and repeat.

Colonel hesitated to provide water for his men, while dead in a cemetery get plenty of it

Honestly it's way better than saving private Ryan

@Andor2022

Жыл бұрын

So true ❤

@delrey874

Жыл бұрын

It's not, but this film is great too.

@johnadams4951

Жыл бұрын

Can’t compare them. Two very different films.

@puppethound

Жыл бұрын

Way better? Nah, it's not even a little better. It's a decent movie, but SPR was epic.

@batmanonsteroids

Жыл бұрын

​@@puppethoundspr was full of bs

My problem with the movie is too many of the cast looked similar adding confusion. Also, it had a defeatist feel to it….like a Vietnam War movie.

@frankezane583

Жыл бұрын

Agree seems to have a lot of cast and so difficult to get really invested, I mean just had a brief scene with Micky Rourke. Not sure about the defeatist bit, I guess it just shows how miserable life was for the grunt. But least the US won this war, obviously lost Vietnam

@777giorgos

10 ай бұрын

I think it was deliberate choice. You can't have a no-name or B-actor sell you a dramatic death or intense moments (such the one on the ridge) or deliver these great lines.

@blockmasterscott

8 ай бұрын

I felt the same too, it felt to me that it was trying too hard to be like Platoon. I love the book though, awesome read.

@paulholbrook7315

7 ай бұрын

I've always thought that this movie was more about Vietnam then WWII.........

I get the feeling, lovers of Saving Private Ryan just don't get The Thin Red Line, and lovers of The Thin Red Line just don't get Saving Private Ryan. ........I just don't get Saving Private Ryan.

1:41 whats the actors name?

L129 HMAS Tarakan.

This movie might be "ok" for those who have never read James Jones Novels, I'd bet good money that none of the actors read "The Thin Red Line," much less "From Here To Eternity." The reason I mention From here to Eternity is because the script of this movie tried to "cram in" parts of the dialogues from the earlier novel.

@danwilliams5867

Жыл бұрын

I read all three, Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line and Whistle. As detailed as all the novels are(you relive James Jones pain in them all) they would have to be a mini series 10-12 episodes long at 2 hours a piece

@Skipjack7814

Жыл бұрын

@@danwilliams5867 now THERES an idea! I agree that the movie couldnt possibly deal with all the nuances, complexities of feelings, much less the novel "Whistle" in 2 hours, but a series... But man, who, which actor could do justice to 1st Sgt Warden? That guy was my hero as a young man ("Alright, alright, calm down, its only a war!") Even Welsh with his "Property, all for property" was larger than life.. Great post!

@timdaniels3776

Жыл бұрын

No yeah, a bunch of the principal actors did, in fact, read The Thin Red Line. At the very least that book. I'm unsure if any of the others read any of the others but I'd bet good money (against you? : p ) that they did.

@Skipjack7814

Жыл бұрын

@@timdaniels3776 i dont know, maybe some of them read the novels, but being actors, maybe they interpreted the thing/ tried to express it- in their own way. But you'll never convince me that the movies (notice I wont say "Film") version of Pvt. Witt was remotely well done, much less necessary. I did think the actors look worked great, and the fact that Witt was a Bantam Weight boxer really doesnt matter. Jim Caviezel (sp?) Did well.

@blockmasterscott

8 ай бұрын

The only one I read was The Thin Red Line. It was actually really good.

Greatest anti-war film inside a war film

These guys are to clean

I firmly believe that there will be a day when all wars will have come to an end. The only question is.... Who will be there to see that day?

@paulholbrook7315

7 ай бұрын

"Only the dead have seen the end of war".......Plato.........I think.......

Make an island for yourself..

Yeah, but it's not 'Dude, where's my car?' is it?

@danielmoran9902

9 ай бұрын

Or 'Hot Tub Time Machine'.

SPR was good for the DDay scene, Thin Red Line was much better overall. Way better storyline and acting and not an infinite amount of Hollywood chichés that usually come with american made ww2 movies.

@timothylee2772

11 ай бұрын

In SPR that ending battle scene in the city was also epic. I disagree in that the acting SPR was also great, maybe better than Thin Red Line.

@agagqbq

11 ай бұрын

@@timothylee2772 SPR ending battle was typical Hollywood trash

2:38

This here is when America was just and rigtheous. All the way!

Not a great movie, yet it depicts how personal mood can determine a soldier’s fate.

Lol this film is likely why Penn thinks he's an advisor to Ukraine 😅

The horror the horror?😜 Jman

Great movie but where are their bandoliers of extra mags you see this all the time in movies I would be carrying all that I could

@B2091

Жыл бұрын

You do see them earlier in the film. When they attack the machine gun nest. Some of them have bandoliers a couple of others have used rifle belts as improvised bandoliers. I guess here they are leaving so may have ditched excess ammo on the island and only taken essentials back to the troop ship

@nomadmarauder-dw9re

Жыл бұрын

@@B2091 correct. All live ammo would be turned in, except for officers and senior NCOs.

Love this movie.

Before this scene was the 3 whole minutes that George Clooney was in this movie. wtf! There's a good story in here somewhere but the movie is padded out with too many pointless scenes.

no captions, no like

👌🇺🇸😁

*I thank God this was the generation to undertake the greatest sacrifice....todays generation would surely end in defeat for America.*

@modenasolone

Жыл бұрын

Yawn. Every generation has some pog saying the same thing

@frankezane583

Жыл бұрын

As your still alive, then you too are part of the problem with the US…..you need to do more

@nomadmarauder-dw9re

Жыл бұрын

@@modenasolone and our enemies.

@blockmasterscott

8 ай бұрын

Sorry, cannot agree. From what I read, the WW1 generation said the same thing about the ones in WW2.

US war criminsls

None of those guys are wearing the camo helmets and also none of them have any colour. It's like people didn't get tanned back then. There are other glaring issues but great flick ntl.

Not really underrated. Just not that good. They wanted to talk more about the “horrors” of war instead of showing the combat and brothers-in-arms. Too much peacenik stuff. Pale to Band of Brothers by a long shot!

@timothylee2772

11 ай бұрын

I agree. Band of Brothers was better.

@andymason1324

10 ай бұрын

there is no band of brothers in prolonged combat, just a serious of horrific and tragic events that historians string together and call ops and battles warfare is actually extemely personal beneath the banter and gallows humour, this movie captures the boredom, mindgames you play with yourself and above all, the fear and dread of what you know too well is coming. resonated with me very strongly but can appreciate its not for everyone . PS nothing wrong with peace once you've tasted the alternative brother .

Boring....

Praise Jesus(Matthew26:61)-And said, "This fellow said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"

Sawn Penn pretending to be soilger is hilarious. What a contradiction.

@Metsfan1975

9 ай бұрын

Your idea of putting a sentence together is my idea of comedy 😂

A well made and well acted but horribly pretentious movie that seems to think we didnt already know that war is bad.

Saw this when it came out in the theater. For a WW2 movie it sucked. We wanted to leave early but stayed to see the Movie which came after this dog. Sorry but not gonna sugar coat it.

So this movie looked & sounded good......But I thought it was awful. Snooze fest.