[guitfiddlist]

Anybody like "Thin Red Line"? Not me. Although there was some very good scenes in it, I found it pretty damn pretentious in its artsy-fartsy indulgences and pedantic philosophizing . I guess it's fair to say it was for the most part unwatchable.

I'm a big History channel nut for the real McCoys - the documentaries showing the actual events, shorne of any particular message that movies inevitably are burdened with.

[PUGACHEV]

Well, I liked The Thin Red Line very much, but I guess nobody else did so be warned. Other WWII films I liked were Das Boot, The Cruel Sea, and In Harms Way. Two films which are seldom seen but are well worth finding if you can are The Best of Enemies (1962) and a German film, The Bridge(1959). The Best of Enemies is a remarkable little comedy staring David Niven that takes place in the North African desert. Niven commands a small British unit lost in the desert which keeps bumping into a small Italian unit equally lost. The opposing units capture each other and altenate being each the prisoner of the other as they move about. In the ends the Italian commander says something very profound: "Wars are won not by the bravest, but by those who make the least mistakes." Although not strictly a WWII film, Closely Watched Trains is always worth seeing.

[Husker24]

Yea, "The Thin Red Line" sucked. As I watched it, I thought to myself, "those guys in WWII wouldnt have been thinking this crap".