I saw this when it first came out in the theater on it's opening weekend. The theater was a packed house. By the time the movie ended, there were only SIX people left! I've had never before,or since then, seen that many people hate a movie so much and leave in such a mass exodus. Did anyone else have an experience like that?
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shareThey left to go see Iron Man 3. Americans are a bunch of dumb asses. Anything that requires thinking or analysis eliminates 98% of the hick moviegoers. Sad.
shareThat is truly sad! Movies like this can further a person's perspectives on different matters, but these days the minds of the majority of people is filled with shallow entertainment and consumerism craps.
shareThis film was made by Americans you retard lol Btw i'm American and this is my favorite war film of all time.
shareThey left to go see Iron Man 3. Americans are a bunch of dumb asses. Anything that requires thinking or analysis eliminates 98% of the hick moviegoers. Sad.
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totally agree, this movie is a work of art, to walk out is showing some really shallow understanding of film.
As a non-American who lives in America, I can say Americans are no worse than anywhere else. It just seems most people in general don't dig this kind of movie.
shareThat doesn't even make sense.
And you say everyone else is a dumbass?
Give him a gun and he's superman. Give him two and he thinks he's a god.
Scorsese, your reply about IM 3 is the worst reply I've read in years, and stupid, besides, as these two movies came out years apart. You are not as brilliant as you imagine yourself to be.
BOHICA America!
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It requires certain emotions, silly Hollywood escapist crap kills effectively certain feelings it seems. The days of MIDNIGHT COWBOY drawing crowds are over - but not for us, right?
shareI saw this in the theater and no one walked out. But when I saw Les Miz in the theater some old couple walked out when they got to the part with the selling teeth and prostitution. It surprises me that everyone walked out. Maybe there was a fire alarm and the 6 of you just didn't hear it because you were too engrossed?
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Wow, you're cool! I wanna be just like you......got any tats?
Audiences are revoltingly stupid when it comes to Malick.
shareMaybe it's just Malick and his pretentious "followers" who are disgustingly stupid.
shareMaybe it's Malick-disciples who are revoltingly stupid
Shallow, cliche voice-over and dialogue, pretty cinematography and extended shots of scenery that artistically mean nothing, does not a good movie make
hmm, would be valid if you were right. the movie is the first war film I have ever seen that makes it more like a nat geo documentary on nature, and that really accentuates the monologue about being one family torn apart by invisible force. what makes us evil when we are all humans, the same. Hence the inclusion of seeing the villagers at the begging, seeing the brotherly suffering of loss amongst the japs and americans. It is in some way a sermon. And has a voice, a voice you might not like, but it definitely has a reason
shareI think a lot of that had to do with marketing and Saving Private Ryan. A lot of people into the theaters expecting the film to be something it wasn't.
shareIt was advertised as something similar to Saving Private Ryan. All star cast of actors who signed up because they heard the buzz with the Spielberg movie and wanted in on something with a supposedly well respected director.
Malick can be such a mess of a director to work with. Considering the actors who signed up for the lead roles ended up having most of their stuff cut because during editing the director decided to make a film about one of the supporting actors.
He's very heavy with the allegory and metaphysics and a whole host of buzzwords the self-titled intellectuals like to use. Not that it makes for a bad film, but certainly not one for everybody and definitely not a summer blockbuster.
The studio knew they had a problem selling it so they went with the WWII action flick "its like Private Ryan in the south pacific!!!"
'All star cast of actors who signed up because they heard the buzz with the Spielberg movie and wanted in on something with a supposedly well respected director'.
WTF are you on about? The actors in this movie signed on to make the movie because TERRENCE MALICK, the greatest 'artist' making movies still alive was making his long overdue return to filmmaking after a 20 year absence. 'Supposedly', my arse.
Another armchair (wanna be) critic. There's a thing called 'Google', try using it to establish a few things, called 'facts', before posting idiotic comments like that in future. There's no excuse.
Don't even get me going on the 'mess of a director' thing. I think this mouth breather read an article on this movie in his TV guide awhile back and started to regurgitate it on this board, trying to sound like he has an idea of what cinema is, or can be.
I can understand liking someone's work, but to put that person on such a high pedestal, and act to protect them from all criticism is silly and best left for the meek zealots.
Malick is respected, but many in the industry agree he's far from perfect. For some that's what attracts them, the fact that he does whatever he feels like. For others, they want a story, they want to be moved, they don't want to dissect every nuance in every scene in order to understand something (just a point, not specific to Red Line).
Now, to presume anyone who dislikes Malick and his type, as somehow less intelligent, is not just ignorant, its self-serving.
Lastly, you quoted something I said, then went on a tangent about the perceived insult I made in another part. Part of your only response to that is actually correct. Malick came back to make a war movie, that doesn't make me wrong.
I stand by what I said.
"For others, they want a story".
Malick gives them a story, in all of his works - and that story shouldn't even be difficult to follow (The Tree Of Life may be a bit of an exception, but it ain't really that radical, either).
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
ghost hunter clearly doesn't have a clue,his inability to even google the simplest facts of the films,or use the rest of IMDB is horrific
shareGood God, you sound pretentious. You're literally everything that's wrong with cinephiles.
It's okay with me.
Pinky, I don't know you so I won't call you a liar. But, I highly doubt this happened. Too bad we're not allowed to vote up and down on posts because I am sure yours would be voted down in huge numbers. What I can do is ignore posters which I will do to you!
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