What is The Thin Red Line ?!

Rating: 1/10 (4 August 2007)

I'm sick of all of this celebration for a bad film which imagines how great it is, and more than this, you also have some fools who had no brain, no culture, and no conscience, thinking that this movie or its likes is: Beautiful, Superb, Emotive, Staggering, Genius, Influential, Unique, Moving, Extraordinary, Epic, Masterpiece, and Perfect Poem! OH GOD, please forgive them all, they do not know what they are saying. To all of them: Being different doesn't necessarily mean being great. NO, sometimes - like this time - it's only different!
Mr. Malick thought that he was making a great anti-war film about repression, torture, and doom of the human being who's killed by the very hands of the human or himself. Yes, yes, we got it. But you know what? We got it very well done in other movies, which didn't have any allegation, any false greatness. And I want to say something, No.. scream my head off TO ALL THE FILMMAKERS: If you want to make a great work, and want it to be immortal, so please HAVE THE AUDIENCE first. Not to be that high in the sky, down to earth a little. Because if you became that high, making no enjoyable work in the same time, nobody would care. Nobody would bother to understand what in the world you were saying!!
I know, you must be different, and make whatever you want, as a writer and director, especially when you plan to make something not like any of the usual war films, but an anti-propaganda kind of work. However, it turned out to be a film which was too boring to fallow, too scrappy to present a DRAMA that could affect you or lead your emotion, therefore in more than 1000 comments you'll never find the warning "This comment may contain spoilers" at all, so ask yourself why!
Further than that, when you have all of those stars to do little things or to do nothing at all (Remember George Clooney!!), then surely your viewer will feel disappointed and deceived. Actually the trauma is bigger when you know how this movie was the only creation of its director after 20 years of isolation, so he came back to explain the human behavior by concepts which are so close to Manichean, but anyway.. who am I to tell MR. Malick, or any other artist, what to make?! I'm just the poor man, the humble viewer who watch this, and say that it's a real pure absolute nonsense, which was nominated for 7 Oscars to get nothing, and it's one of a very very few times that I find myself shouting "Long Live The Academy!!".
For being objective, I loved Nick Nolte's character and performance. That's it.
At last, I have 2 flaming questions: What is the meaning of "The Thin Red Line" anyway?! Because our dear FILM didn't give us any guide or whatsoever to understand the title. And just why is that EXACTLY?! That's my second flaming question!