Current Events > The Thin Red Line is one of the most pretentious terrible war movies of all time

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This came out in the same year as saving private Ryan and its crazy how much better spr is especially by comparison.

This hackneyed, heavy-handed, downright hokey film about "war bad" has a bizarre 80% rt rating by audiences, did we watch the same movie

I pretty much detest all war movies. With that being said the best war movie of 1998 is When Trumpets Fade.

Detest the material being depicted or the concept of war movies itself?

Detest is an overly strong word. It's more like I generally dislike and it is just because I dislike that period of US history. I loved World History in school but hated US History. I'll take a a movie about Greece or Rome or something like that with war all day long but anything to do with WWI, WWII, or Vietnam I just generally don't find very interesting.

I have seen a lot of War movies but I generally never watch them more than once and often don't like them that much. It's the actual war part I just don't really enjoy. For instance Full Metal Jacket is one of my favorite movies when they are in boot camp. Once boot camp ends I generally stop watching the movie as I don't much care for the rest of it.

If it deals with the characters and the military itself I often like many of them. It i just the actual war part I dislike, but again only when dealing with the US military. It's hard to explain why and I'm sure it makes little sense to you or anyone else.

Ironically one of my favorite book series is Brotherhood of War by W.E.B. Griffin. An excellent book series about many different people in the army and their spouses and how their lives all intertwine over the course of their military careers and it deals with war at times.

I know I can't explain it accurately.

insanely curious to see if youd enjoy generation kill on HBO

Don't know. But I can say I have watched damn near every mini series or show HBO has put out since I was a kid and one of the only shows I never watched or had an interest in was Generation Kill and Band of Brothers. Never watched either one and I have had a ton of people absolutely rave about Band of Brothers to me.

I suppose what I was asking was how youd feel about something like Schindlers List, which I guess isnt even really a war movie.

Yeah I have no issues with it. To me it doesn't come off like a WWII war movie. That's different.

Ah, so were talking the Murica! style of WW2 movie. Its the last war where the US could unequivocally be considered the good guys so it tends to be glorified. Video games are obsessed with it too.

I remember when everyone used to say TRL was better

It insists upon itself.

anyone who says that is just trying to be a hipster and thinks they are the smartest person in the room wherever they go

I pretty much detest all war movies. With that being said the best war movie of 1998 is When Trumpets Fade.

or they just like it better

I think for me it just boils down to watching guns, grenades, and modern military weapons doesn't do much for me. I'm not big on action movies with heavy gun usage like battles with the Cartel either. But if you show me some sword and shield fighting I dig it.

And when you watch WWI, WWII, and Vietnam, or even a modern movie dealing with Iraq or something it tends to be that type of warm fighting I don't like. Automatic weapons, air strikes, grenades, mortars, not really my thing. Just never liked it.

So typically I will only watch something like that once, where as fights like on Braveheart or Troy I have watched 100 times. That should probably make more sense.

The only time I ever ever truly enjoyed a WWII movie with fighting was Enemy at the Gates where it was this cat and mouse game between two snipers. That I enjoyed.

"It's pretentious and the dialogue is terrible, but it looks beautiful" can be used for every Terrence Malick film.

This came out in the same year as saving private Ryan and its crazy how much better spr is especially by comparison.

This hackneyed, heavy-handed, downright hokey film about "war bad" has a bizarre 80% rt rating by audiences, did we watch the same movie

This came out in the same year as saving private Ryan and its crazy how much better spr is especially by comparison.

I have seen a lot of War movies but I generally never watch them more than once and often don't like them that much.

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