Title: Editor's Day Off?
Product review: I guess Terrence Malik really has been away a long time. Maybe he didn't realize how many great actors he had assembled. Nolte would have had some academy award hardware coming his way had this dog not limped along for nearly 3 hours, when 2 hours, or 90 minutes should have done the trick. Malik could have taken a lesson from Curtis Hanson's work on LA Confidential. His guys took a novel and whittled it down to a movie screenplay that was manageable; while at the same time exploiting the talents of every actor hired. With 30 minutes left in "Thin Red Line" I was warming up the car ready to return it to the rental shop. It didn't have to be that way. It was fragmented. Too many stories going on at once. You just can't bring out the esoteric inner brainworkings of 20 characters in one movie the way you can in a novel. If I was Clooney, Harrelson, and a few others, I'm angry for ever getting involved.
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