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.

“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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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..

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

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.

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

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 👏

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

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

Remains the most profound war film I've watched.

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.

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

Best war movie ever made!!!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Music mixing is just perfect, as the rest.

Astonishing. A sad lovely masterpiece.

Know other War Film like this Masterpiece !

Great movie! Powerful scene .

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

This is for you uncle Bud. not forgotten

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

Wow. this was so good.

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

Great

A great movie

Just a brillant scene .

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.

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

1998 🤪 the same year as Saving Private Ryan !

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.

Truth to every one

Some of those Guys went on to have a acting careers

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

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.

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.

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

Let's see the 5 hour version please

Hot ,and very Humid in jungle fighting😢

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.

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.

I thought it was much more realistic than SPR!

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

Only the young ever fight and die🥲

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.

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

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

1:41 whats the actors name?

L129 HMAS Tarakan.

Honestly it's way better than saving private Ryan

Greatest anti-war film inside a war film

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.

Make an island for yourself..

These guys are to clean

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

no captions, no like

The horror the horror?😜 Jman

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.

2:38

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.

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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!

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

Love this movie.

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.

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

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.'"

US war criminsls

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

Boring....

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.

Bello

Movie was lowkey a snooze fest they were showing to much emotion to this, it was awesome they had a bunch of good actors in this.

Dull pretentious waste of two hours.....not as bad as American Beauty or Dune but close.