Not the Next 2001!

Rating: 1/10 (11 February 1999)

Just because a lot of people didn't like THE THIN RED LINE, and just because it is non-Hollywood and long, doesn't mean it will be the next 2001. The similarities end there. Explain why critics love TRL while they once mocked 2001.
2001 was groundbreaking and went in a bold, original new direction. Who would have thought to do what Kubrick did with science fiction? But narrating crappy philosophy over top of an inaccurate war movie? Is that bold? Perhaps. Original? No. The only originality that exists is that such an amateurish movie convinced so many people to worship it. Now, I don't think that has ever been done in movie history before. Perhaps Independence Day. Yes, TRL and ID4... there we go... both suck, and both have hordes of mindless cult followers, only one camp chants "Action!" while the other chants "Art!", (dont forget that if you like an art movie you're an advanced being).
In the end, it's no 2001. 2001 has layers. It is deep, and its complexities can be analyzed. TRL, on the other hand, can be taken only at face value, which says "war=bad". Whoopee!!! I rank TRL up there with such classics as "G.I. Executioner" and "Sgt. Kubukiman, N.Y.P.D.".