Title: Beatiful to Watch . . . But Much Less than was expected.
Product review: I went into the theatre knowing that The Thin Red Line was going to be "unconventional" and "different." What it was was three hours of some of the most beautiful cinematography I have ever seen, but not much beyond that. The collection of vigneittes did not hold together, and the character's were archetypes. Some might call their narrations "deep" or "poetry" but it is really shallow BS.And FYI, juxtaposing images of war and nature is not new, original, or any of the other adjectives used to describe the film. It is cliche and hackneyed.Another reviewer compared this movie to Apocolypse Now and 2001, two of my favorite films. This film is far from those two masterpieces. It is just Malick spitting out some "art" and people being spoonfed it and exiting thinking they are all smart because they got the message: WAR IS BAD.
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