The Thin Red Line -vs- Saving Private Rayn

The Thin Red Line -vs- Saving Private Rayn

  • The Thin Red Line

    Votes: 19 42.2%

  • Saving Private Ryan

    Votes: 26 57.8%
  • Total voters
    45
J.R. Hudson

J.R. Hudson

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Hyperreal or sublime

Which is your preference or style ? Which film is the one you prefer ? Think hard before you choose.
 
I thought Thin Red Line was a better film, but I enjoyed Saving Private Ryan on a more visceral level. I felt intellectually stimulated watching TRL, while SPR was more like playing a video game. Make sense? Probably not...
 
Saving Private Ryan

Not that big a fan of The Thin Red Line OR Malick. My favorite movie from him is Badlands.
 
this is just plain mean LOL i'm seriously just looking at the monitor confused....tying to decide

i'll get back to this one
 
That is an EXCELLENT choice. because both show two different sides to a story. one being, right there, and right then. the other being about the life they left behind.

VERY tough choice. i went with TRL. but it was chosen almos arbitraritly. i really couldnt choose.
 
The cinematography on SPR is exceptional, in terms of technique. The Thin Red Line, on the other hand, is a work of art.
 
Tom Lowe said:
The cinematography on SPR is exceptional, in terms of technique. The Thin Red Line, on the other hand, is a work of art.
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yea i kinda feel like they are equal... but different.
 
SPR is a "war movie" that I would sit and watch with my dad...since he loves old war movies and westerns. There is an effective and major effort made to make the film feel alive with violence, and I get a physical response from it, as I do in horror movies .But to me, it feels like a movie with movie stars. Well done for what it is doing.
The Thin Red Line blows my mind. The content is poetic,existential and more of a character film. The landscape is photographed in a way that makes it feel surreal and alien. I never really knew where this was going, and that's the way I like it! I really dig how their monologues allow us to hear the inner, quieter voices that contrast against the extremely chaotic and unpredictable situation that they are in. It makes them seem more human.
Makes me wanna see it again.
 
SPR for sheer breath-stopping action. When I was watching it, it was the first time I felt like I was watching a war novel put on screen: nearly all the real brutality of war in a writer's mind displayed right there (sticky bomb's short fuse). I think I took two breaths during the entire first battle scene at the beach. You felt the bullets under water get the poor guys tearing at their heavy gear, the through-and-through that got Max Martini in the throat, the knife that slowly got Adam Goldberg. When the guys were sitting around listening to Edith Piaf's Tu es Partout, and Tom Hanks wouldn't talk about his wife's garden... to me, that was the best dramatic scene. A man holding on to just one thing, when everything else has been taken away. Some dramatic scenes were a bit cliché, accomplished very little by way of the story, but overall, made up for by realism (and Tom Hanks). Also some casting decisions made up for by excellent sound mixing.

Right after SPR, I had to go and see Normandie. Learned French, used up all my savings just to go and see the leftover cannons, pill boxes, bullet holes, etc. Then I went back 4 years later and filmed 12 soldiers going back to Normandie for the 60th Anniversary of the landings. That was quite cathartic. Airing on Discovery sometime, I hope, who knows when :undecided So SPR made an effect on my life...

TRL, I will have to agree with some posts, felt more poetic. Great drama, well-constructed characters, introspective journey. Made no effect on my life.

Private Ryan for me wins. As a war film, I think it did a better job... TRL as a better dramatic film. But I am heavily biased I think :love4:
 
I'd wager you can guess which one is my pony...

not even in the same league (it's like comparing the '39 Yankees to some third rate AA ballclub)​
 
Buick used in SPR to deliver news to Ryan's mother (Normandie, 2004):

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i was captivated by every frame of TTRL's visual and lyrical poetry.

I was captivated by SPR for the first 30 minutes. then, suffered the 50+ minutes of contrived shite, corny sentimentality, heavy-handed irony and a final 4 minutes of agonizingly pretentious saccharine.
 
Zak, your synopsis of SPR is spot on in my opinion.
TRL has a mood & atmosphere that drew me in all the way through to the end
 
Zak Forsman said:
i was captivated by every frame of TTRL's visual and lyrical poetry.

I was captivated by SPR for the first 30 minutes. then, suffered the 50+ minutes of contrived shi*e, corny sentimentality, heavy-handed irony and a final 4 minutes of agonizingly pretentious saccharine.
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agreed on SPR. Haven't seen thin red line.
 
TRL put me to sleep. Then I woke up after an hour and found I hadn't missed anything, storywise, which leads me to conclude that the story actually ends an hour before the credits roll.
 
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