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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs  My major problem with Saving Private Ryan is the lull between the first and final battles when, and this is possibly intentional to reflect the monotony of war, it becomes very dull. Of the two Second World War films released that year, The Thin Red Line is superior in just about every respect. |
It's the most boring war film i've ever seen, battle scenes apart. When you compare the two in the way you have
The Thin Red Line is by far the slowest. Critics may have been bowled over by Malick's film twenty years after his last, but that's how long it seemed to take watching it in an Orlando cinema.