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zeke said:
The movie's entire theme was about the illogic and heroism of a mission risking a bunch of lives to go find one soldier to bring him back for his mother's sake.

Nothing like this ever happened.

"Ordering Home Private Ryan" wouldnt be much of movie, obviously.
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You’re crazy. It was an epic, epic film.

The premise was awesome.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
And if a movie can't make me care about it or its characters then it has failed.
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…for you, which is perfectly valid.

WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
But I didn't care about anyone in the story so all of that was wasted.
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As is this….doesn’t mean Malick failed tho, when so many others did connect with it.

…he may have failed you, and that’s a valid reason to not like it or give it another moments thought.

For many of us (Tree of Life in particular for me) he delivered a transcendent ethereal experience…that’s as good as any I’ve experience with film.
 
I'm too lazy to look-up, but from my recollections of 1998 there some some true story about a platoon that had to bring a soldier home due to multiple losses in his family.
Based on Niland bros as per my crack research.
 
zeke said:
Scorcese's list by the way:

1. The Horse Thief (china - actually an 80s movie that came to america in the 90s)
2. The Thin Red Line
3. A Borrowed Life (Taiwan)
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. Bad Lieutenant
6. Breaking the Waves
7. Bottle Rocket
8. Crash (the good one)
9. Fargo
10. Tie between Heat and Malcolm X
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Love you too Marty. ✊🏼
 
Soldiers were sent home for that.

But nobody ever sent out a search party risking their lives to go find one.
 
zeke said:
Scorcese's list by the way:

1. The Horse Thief (china - actually an 80s movie that came to america in the 90s)
2. The Thin Red Line
3. A Borrowed Life (Taiwan)
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. Bad Lieutenant
6. Breaking the Waves
7. Bottle Rocket
8. Crash (the good one)
9. Fargo
10. Tie between Heat and Malcolm X
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So Scorcese doesn't like his own movies? Because Goodfellas and Casino are better than nearly all of that list.

You would also get an argument from JG Ballard fans as to which Crash was actually "the good one".
 
zeke said:
Scorcese's list by the way:

1. The Horse Thief (china - actually an 80s movie that came to america in the 90s)
2. The Thin Red Line
3. A Borrowed Life (Taiwan)
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. Bad Lieutenant
6. Breaking the Waves
7. Bottle Rocket
8. Crash (the good one)
9. Fargo
10. Tie between Heat and Malcolm X
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You're not too bad, Marty
 
zeke said:
The movie's entire theme was about the illogic and heroism of a mission risking a bunch of lives to go find one soldier to bring him back for his mother's sake.

Nothing like this ever happened.

"Ordering Home Private Ryan" wouldnt be much of movie, obviously.
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And I doubt that many grunts on Guadalcanal spent their time pondering the meaning of life while being shot at by the Japanese army, either.
 
JackBurton said:
I'm too lazy to look-up, but from my recollections of 1998 there some some true story about a platoon that had to bring a soldier home due to multiple losses in his family.
Based on Niland bros as per my crack research.
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Yes loosely based. There were 4 Niland brothers, 2 of whom died in Normandy, one on D-Day itself and another on D-Day +1. A third brother was shot down over Burma and taken prisoner. He survived the war but at the time was presumed dead. The fourth brother was pulled from the line and rotated back to the US where he served as an MP until the end of the war. The family was from Tonawanda NY, near Buffalo, not the midwestern farming area depicted in SPR. But the Niland's weren't the only family who had multiple sons serving and dying nor were they the only ones who the Army tried to spare.
 
if it was the Niland brothers story then right after reading those letters, the General would have just radio'd his base and ordered him home, end of movie.
 
zeke said:
well, the grunt that wrote that book called...what was it again? oh yeah...."The Thin Red Line" seems to have.
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He must have been the only one. Either that, or he wrote that years after the fact when he had the luxury of being able to spend time ruminating on it.

Guadalcanal Diary was also a book written by someone who was there and it was published while the blood of the Marines who died there was still wet. Nothing about trees or birds, however.

 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
He must have been the only one. Either that, or he wrote that years after the fact when he had the luxury of being able to spend time ruminating on it.

Guadalcanal Diary was also a book written by someone who was there and it was published while the blood of the Marines who died there was still wet. Nothing about trees or birds, however.

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that definitely proves that no soldiers speculated about the meaning of life while fighting in a war.
 
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