the most horribly boring movie ever.

Rating: 4/10 (12 December 2000)

This is one of those movies that just makes you sit back and think... about how much you'd rather be getting your teeth drilled than sitting through this. Terence Malick is easily the most overblown filmmaker ever, confusing "style" with endless shots of plants and animals in some vain effort to say some point about the horrors of war... blah.
Unfortunately, I remember I paid the full amount to watch this in the theater and hence had to watch the whole thing through, hoping that at one point it would actually improve. Much to my dismay, the film gets more and more pointless as it goes along, with soldiers sitting around and philosophizing more than actually fighting and defending the country. I may be mistaken but the last time I checked, soldiers were enlisted during WW2 to fight a war, not to hang around a village wondering why humans feel the need to fight. What's the point of all this? It's not like America is going to completely change its view on the human anguish of war because of a bunch of random musings by dirty G.I.'s and once-great actors making vintage cameo appearances.
If you want to see a decent war flick, stick with Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, or Platoon. Skip The Thin Red Line unless you really, really need something to help with insomnia... ZZzzzzzzz