I rewatched this one recently. I didn't like it as much I thought I would.
sharethis site rated it the third best war movie of all time.
https://www.vulture.com/article/best-war-movies-ever-made.html
One of the great films of the 90s for me, but it took me a second viewing to truly fall in love with it.
shareI re watched this reccently and liked more than I remembered.
sharesame here. I used to hate the last third but it's much easier to sit through upon rewatch
sharei must watch it again. it is long.
shareit's under 3 hours. not that much longer than Saving Private Ryan really
shareYeah but once they take the Jap base it lacks any clear narrative drive and there’s still almost half the film to go, it’s hard work watching Jim Caviezel’s musings over nice music and shots of nature for hours.
I can understand why Mickey Rourke was pissed off that his role was replaced with shots of a parrot, Bill Pullman swapped out for a snake, Billy Bob Thornton ditched for a bat. Malick shoots miles of film then trashes most of it when he ‘finds the film in the edit’ - he needs to use his imagination to plan his films better.
They’re good movies but the bloated efforts are rather pretentious. His spiritual ramblings feel constrained by Christianity and I don’t think they’re profound enough to warrant that much wastage.
Nor me, which was disappointing after waiting years for Malick to make another film. The book is very good but I thought he wandered away from it's story.
shareI liked upon my first viewing when it was released. It flows just like Terrence Malik's two previous films from the 70s.
I knew my peers would hate it because of the Spielberg rush they got from "Saving Private Ryan" but I thought SPR was just another hamfisted exercise in Baby Boomer guilt about the sacrifices of their fathers and mothers during World War 2. It's not a bad film as it checks all the WW2 Movie trope boxes, but it was so obvious in its delivery for me.
TTRL isn't about the War as it is about the destructive nature of it and its consequences on the human soul as portrayed by each character in this movie. It also has some of the best photography for a movie in the 90s that it even rivals movies from today.
I did watch it the second time and thought it was pretty good. I loved the Nick Nolte character.
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