The Thin Red Line was a good but not great movie. Malick ditching substance for style is alleviated by the battle scenes in the film and the characters are good enough to keep me invested when they aren't fighting the Japanese.

The New World, which you didn't mention, is one of the most bland and boring films I have ever seen. It took me multiple sittings to push through it.

The man fancies himself an artist and many of his fans buy into the hype. Not me.

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Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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Posted on 1/22/16 at 1:38 am to RollTide1987

You actually make a good point.

If you take out the war scenes in A Thin Red Line - and he's not filming a war movie...what is that movie?

It's To the Wonder...with the dialogue of a Tree of Life. His subject matter probably saved him...but I did love that movie...and now his subject matter is banality or existentialism because he's writing his own stuff.

And Badlands is still great regardless of anything...because like Thin Red Line, it's based on events in history (Starkweather murders) so Malick didn't have free reign...

And to think (Badlands) was him at his most restraint...and it had such a great balance of story-telling and visuals and poetry and restrained acting.

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Posted by Jack Ruby

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Posted on 1/22/16 at 1:38 am to RollTide1987

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The man fancies himself an artist and many of his fans buy into the hype. Not me.

This is the perfect sentence for his last 4 or 5 movies. Christopher Plummer said it better than anyone. Plummer: "I'll Never Work With Him Again."

He has become too in love with his own visuals. I don't know how anyone funds his movies or any actors work with him because of the final product being so strange and unflattering to the actor. I remember watching a Texas Longhorn football game in Sept or October of 2012, yes 2012, and the broadcast showed Natalie Portman and Fassbender watching the game from the concourse. That movie still hasn't fricking come out yet!!! It was 3 1/2 yrs ago! The announcers didn't even recognize Fassbender because he wasn't a big star yet, and Portman had just come off her Black Swan ride!
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I remember this because I've kept waiting to see trailers for this movie and it never happened. Recently I looked on Malick's IMDB and it hasn't even been finished! LINK The cast is incredible, but it will probably be so nuts it's unwatchable.

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Posted by Josh Fenderman

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Posted on 1/22/16 at 9:16 am to RollTide1987

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The New World, which you didn't mention, is one of the most bland and boring films I have ever seen. It took me multiple sittings to push through it.

A thousand times this.

Granted, I've only seen this one and Tree of Life (Tree of Life only because I remember threads here singing it's praises), but both of those were 2-2 1/2 hour movies that felt like 4. Not falling for that shite again.

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