What Saving Private Ryan does to expose the inhumanity of war and determination of US soldiers, this film gives us the Peyton Place of war. A place where, instead of a war story, we just find a bunch of character flaws in every GI and lamely put them under a microscope. It leads to...well, nowhere. The proof is in the pudding, I say. You'll see SPR has a place among the greatest, if not THE greatest, war films of all time. TRL continues to be ignored by both networks and the DVD buying public. Even Pearl Harbor, a love story with sfx, will surpass TRL. And rightfully so... a neighbor of mine served in the pacific, losing an arm to a Japanese bullet, and he frowned on this film as any kind of accurate representation of that theatre of war.
Review of The Thin Red Line
