I think Kevin Bacon's character knew Sean Penn's character was wrong and felt remorse and kept quiet. I also don't think he had hard enough evidence and didn't want to lose a childhood friend (even though I doubt they were still close). That's just what I thought...I'm probably wrong.
I'm far from a movie snob as I like just about any genre of film out there. Thin Red Line is one of the best war films I've ever seen. It doesn't have the violent war scenes that Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down have (both favorites of mine), but does dive far deeper into the minds of the soldiers than either of those two films did...and if you knew what the movie was about beforehand you probably wouldn't have near as a problem with it. I can understand how some people might be bored with it; as I said it's long and slow. But I found myself pretty deeply connected to everyone of those characters in different ways...and Jim Caviezel...well I definitely started looking out for him after this film; he was so good in a subtle way.
Mentioned by others but 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick is hard to get, especially at the end.. if you're still awake. I love, and own, the movie... but mostly because it broke ground in the sci-fi and special effects genre...
he was the best one. The next was Easy then Dre. I'm happy to see Cube make that far without selling out! West-Siiiide!
I also loved both of those, as well as Band of Brothers, and I have all of them on DVD. That is true, but only because I never would have seen it. Long and slow does not generally make for an entertaining movie. Outside of a psychological thriller where the slow pace is used to build tension, a slow pace is death for a movie. I mostly wanted Caviezel to die so they could stop focusing on the deserter and start focusing on one of the blodiest battles of WWII. No such luck. Characters can be developed without slowing the movie to a crawl, just look at Hoot in BHD. In fact, BHD is probably my favorite feature length war movie (BoB was better, but that is a miniseries). Oh well, like I have said many times before, art is subjective. The Thin Red Line is neither good nor bad, it is up to the viewer to decide if they like it.
I rented this movie a few years back because it was on Ebert and Roeper's top ten list - 2001. This movie made no sense. It just ended and i was like wtf. There were some girl on girl action but thats all i can remember now I looked it up now and quit reading the synopsis cuz i realized again that i hate this movie. heres the link if anyone thats seen it and wants to know what actually happened
The thing about Deja Vu that I didn't understand was that it seemed to contradict itself. The movie seemed to be saying that you can't change the past. Everything that happened supported this idea that the past is gone and it can't be changed. And then the ending comes and completely obliterates that idea. My feeling is that some executive told Marsilli and Rossio that they had to change the ending to make it "up", even though it went against what was set-up in the story to that point. I have no proof that's what actually happened, though. On a different note, I like "The Lake House" and "Wonderboys" (people mentioned not liking them earlier), both of which were kind of surprising since I had very much enjoyed "Il Mare", as well as the "Wonderboys" book (usually if I've read the book and liked it, I don't like the movie, and I tend to not like remakes if I like the original movie). I'm with you on the idea that I don't usually like to have to watch a movie several times to understand it, but I enjoyed "Primer" even if I still don't really understand all of it (and there are parts I never would've gotten had I not read about it). It worked as a movie for me, even without my understanding a good bit of what was going on.
