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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: mojovonio on May 09, 2008, 12:42:43 AM

Title: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: mojovonio on May 09, 2008, 12:42:43 AM
Every fucking 20 seconds, throughout a 3 hour movie, there is a 10 second shot of a random anima / insect / tree / piece of grass.

Then you get them whispering rhetorical questions to themselves with cuts to other pointless flashbacks or whatever.

"What is this? Who are we?"

What a pretentious piece of shit.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 09, 2008, 12:59:02 AM
i've never seen it, but this thread has made me think about what is the worst war movie I've ever seen. Damn I'm going to have to think about this.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 09, 2008, 01:04:38 AM
TVC will kill me and rape the corpse if I admit the first film that came to mind
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 09, 2008, 01:04:56 AM
Tears of the Sun is the worst war movie I've ever seen. Monica Bellucci's cleavage was the only positive aspect about it.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: TVC15 on May 09, 2008, 01:08:53 AM
TVC will kill me and rape the corpse if I admit the first film that came to mind

What are you thinking of?  I dun like too many war movies.  If it's FMJ, I don't have a very high opinion of that movie, either.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 09, 2008, 01:12:34 AM
I've never seen The Thin Red Line. All I know is that if you say you don't like it, there's a small contingent of people who get off on Terrence Malick and will jump all over your ass and accuse you of "just not getting it." So apparently there's at least some people that like it, whereas I find it hard to believe there's anyone who could like Tears of the Sun.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on May 09, 2008, 01:15:21 AM
I've only seen The New World, which was great.  This probably is too.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 09, 2008, 01:17:22 AM
TVC will kill me and rape the corpse if I admit the first film that came to mind

What are you thinking of?  I dun like too many war movies.  If it's FMJ, I don't have a very high opinion of that movie, either.

it's not FMJ
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: TVC15 on May 09, 2008, 01:18:40 AM
TVC will kill me and rape the corpse if I admit the first film that came to mind

What are you thinking of?  I dun like too many war movies.  If it's FMJ, I don't have a very high opinion of that movie, either.

it's not FMJ

Platoon?
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on May 09, 2008, 01:19:15 AM
APOCALYPSE NOW
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: huckleberry on May 09, 2008, 01:20:44 AM
I've never seen The Thin Red Line. All I know is that if you say you don't like it, there's a small contingent of people who get off on Terrence Malick and will jump all over your ass and accuse you of "just not getting it." So apparently there's at least some people that like it, whereas I find it hard to believe there's anyone who could like Tears of the Sun.


Count me in as one of the people who liked The Thin Red Line.



The movies is good, and I am much too tired right now to argue as to why.



Maybe you would like Starship Troopers? 
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 09, 2008, 01:21:04 AM
nope nope - I have Platoon on DVD, and Apocalypse Now is one of my favorite movies
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 09, 2008, 01:21:04 AM
APOCALYPSE NOW

Oh, it better fucking not be.  :maf
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: CajoleJuice on May 09, 2008, 01:21:12 AM
Tears of the Sun is the worst war movie I've ever seen. Monica Bellucci's cleavage was the only positive aspect about it.

I'll go with this. Well, Bruce was a positive too...but the movie was godawful.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: TVC15 on May 09, 2008, 01:22:07 AM
nope nope - I have Platoon on DVD, and Apocalypse Now is one of my favorite movies

Just spill it, dude!
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: huckleberry on May 09, 2008, 01:24:25 AM
Quote

Lol, wow.

You make a statement, bail out of backing it up, then try to discredit my taste?




This isn't GAF dude...I don't have to back up shit. 



I like the movie.    You don't.


I liked Starship Troopers too (giant insects ftw).


Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 09, 2008, 01:25:25 AM
nope nope - I have Platoon on DVD, and Apocalypse Now is one of my favorite movies

Just spill it, dude!

i'm having flashbacks to a certain cocktease thread you did not to long ago. you'll have to WAIT

1. i reviewed it before
2. you will throw a fit
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: huckleberry on May 09, 2008, 01:28:35 AM
LOL



Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: TVC15 on May 09, 2008, 01:38:28 AM
nope nope - I have Platoon on DVD, and Apocalypse Now is one of my favorite movies

Just spill it, dude!

i'm having flashbacks to a certain cocktease thread you did not to long ago. you'll have to WAIT

1. i reviewed it before
2. you will throw a fit

At least give me a clue!  I can't even think of many war movies I like.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 09, 2008, 01:45:28 AM
it's black and white
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 09, 2008, 01:50:42 AM
Paths of Glory?
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 09, 2008, 01:51:25 AM
Paths of Glory?

Give this man a prize

*falls back to bunker*
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: TVC15 on May 09, 2008, 02:46:02 AM
Paths of Glory?

Give this man a prize

*falls back to bunker*

That doesn't even make sense.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: ToxicAdam on May 09, 2008, 07:13:57 AM
Bad war movies >>> great horror movies (after 2000).



Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Eric P on May 09, 2008, 09:04:33 AM
i'd like to take the time to state that war movies really don't do much for me.

black hawk down, saving private ryan, none of that really appeals to me


stuff like The Story of GI Joe, Come and See, and Grave of the Fireflies which deals with war in an ancillary fashion instead of the fetishisation of the armed forces interests me far more.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Eel O'Brian on May 09, 2008, 09:26:36 AM
The Story of GI Joe is a fantastic movie.  For a film released in 1945 before the war actually ended, it is surprisingly frank and adult.  One of Robert Mitchum's best performances, and if you only know Burgess Meredith through the Rocky movies and the 60s Batman TV show, you need to see what a great actor he really was (also check out Of Mice and Men).

William Goldman wrote an article in Premiere magazine pretty much shitting all over Saving Private Ryan when it came out (it's collected in his book The Big Picture), and I agree with everything he said, but I still think the battle scenes are fuck awesome.  Band of Brothers turned out to be everything SPR wanted to be - can't wait for that to hit Blu Ray this year (so goes the rumor).

If you haven't seen it, They Were Expendable is another good war flick filmed during the war which takes a pretty realistic approach for the time.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Eric P on May 09, 2008, 09:52:54 AM
i've seen it but it was so long ago.

Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: T-Short on May 09, 2008, 10:57:16 AM
Maybe you would like Starship Troopers? 

Who doesn't like Starship Troopers?
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on May 09, 2008, 11:02:43 AM
If any of you fucks think the worst war movie is Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, or Patton, I will fly out and kick your fucking asses, Jay and Silent Bob style.

I'd say Stop/Loss was one of the worst war movies I've seen.  A female friend dragged me to the dollar theater to see it.  I went with her because she offered to pay my dollar ticket.  There was nothing in that film that was good about it.  It was basically throwing the latest Hollywood eye candy in a movie with a hackneyed, broken anti-war plot.  It was so vile, I almost became a raging Republican because of how shitty it was.
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Tauntaun on May 09, 2008, 04:29:24 PM
My grandpa was on Guadalcanal.  :american
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: demi on May 09, 2008, 04:47:27 PM
Band of Brothers :bow
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Smooth Groove on May 09, 2008, 04:51:46 PM
Wilco just hates Apocalypse Now because it didn't have enough Jews. 

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Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Vizzys on May 09, 2008, 05:03:06 PM
so was we were soldiers really that bad

all I remember is that napalm scene
Title: Re: The Thin Red Line is the worst war movie I have ever seen.
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 09, 2008, 06:14:22 PM
so was we were soldiers really that bad

all I remember is that napalm scene

It was so-so. I didn't think it was bad, but it certainly wasn't great either.