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?
shareThat's because they were a bunch of morons who had no clue what happened during this battle! One of my favorite war movies of all time! This blows away Saving Private Ryan!
shareIf you're basing your 'knowledge' of what happened on this movie, you also have no clue what actually happened during the battle.
shareEVEEEERYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!!
shareI remember going to see this with my dad in the theater. I was about a 11 and had a hard time understanding any of it. It was the only movie that we walked out of. I need to rewatch it maybe now I could enjoy it.
What about me?
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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?
I can understand why people would leave the theater especially back then when this came out after or around the time of "Saving Private Ryan". This movie is just so dreary, depressing, preachy, and self gratifying, most audience members were likely just expecting a WWII movie from the previews instead of a slow dreary mental journey between a couple of very depressing characters. Some of the action scenes were decent but the director just went too far out of his way to make the movie depressing, must have really been on his prozac and heroin then. I bought the DVD and aside from some okay battle scenes and scenery the movie was a big giant WTF were they thinking, just too dreary and depressing. I could definitely see how audience members could not take the overly preachy, overly emotional, odd movie for very long and left the theater to enjoy their lives. I saw parts of this movie with a WWII veteran and he said nobody acted like that back then and it was totally unrealistic, he said the guys were terrified at times during battle and sickened/angered by what they saw but when they were not fighting the marines/soldiers were generally in good moods and did whatever they could to have fun and enjoy themselves in their new environment, not sit there and be depressed and debate the meaning of life, they were proud of what they were doing and looking forward to getting home with their families or starting a family.
shareHmmm ... I get the impression you thought it was a depressing movie ...
Oddly, I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought it one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen. I was mesmerized the whole time, as if in a dream and when I came outside afterwards, had trouble adjusting to the dreary, humdrum, depressing reality of the city where I live ... the scenery where I live is most boring and gray, especially compared to that of a Pacific island, however hostile it may be to Man. But to each their own.
Talking about soldiers back then not being depressed, but in good moods and having fun and being ever so proud of themselves however they could: that sort of jars with the impression one gets from watching 'the Pacific'. I saw the same search for meaning and battle against depression and the dreary and terrifying life in the PTO and of combat troops in 'the Pacific'. Odd how two different productions of quality, utilize the same themes and attitudes.
In my experience, the vast mass of movie illiterates are drawn to war movies like kids are drawn to candy. It is much like picture books to those who can't read: you have a very simple good-vs-bad -plot, and you don't have to follow any plot lines, just follow the stream of explosions that empty your brains.
Thus, when a war movie takes an effort to actually.. well, say something, people get angry. They paid good money to have their brains dumbed down, and then someone starts filling their brains with some philosophical *beep* instead! ARGH!
It wouldn't be that likely to happen with the more intelligent drama movies IMO, since they are expected to be more descriptive and less explosive (literally!) in nature.
One of the most astute and constructive comments on this post. Well said Rizzyay.
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Typical delusional, insecure, retarded snob.
A person's taste in movies doesn't reflect on their intelligence. Anyone who says otherwise is a retard.
You're not intellectually superior to anyone because you like movies like The Thin Red Line. People like you are so petty, ignorant and stupid.
Go f_uck your yourself, ass_hole.
box office gross
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SavingPrivateRyan 480 million
The Thin Red Line 98 million
The same thing happened to me with Gods and Generals...& largely for the same reasons.
"Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop."
they left the theater because they came in expecting one thing and Malick gave them something completely different; something that they didn't want. The Thin Red Line is barely a war movie. Sure, it's set in a war, but there is hardly any action and the pacing is all over the place.
If this movie didn't pretend to be like a normal war movie a la Saving Private Ryan, then it wouldn't get nearly as much hate.