Tom DeFranco
Member
Way too much introspection.
The movie was too filled with characters talking to themselves. Also, it seemed more about the ravages of war to nature than about man trying to survive in a stinking disease infested jungle that happened to have strategic import because of an already built airfield. Thus seems to be the way of Terence Malick's direction - the movie about migrant farmworkers in the 1930s or 1940s was much the same - a lot of needless silliloquy.
BTW, what's with "the Pacific Theater, yawn"? The Pacific Theater suffers only because it has not had the attention paid to it that it deserves. There are many worthy events from the Solomons through Okinawa which never received the attention commensurate with its legacy to history.
The movie was too filled with characters talking to themselves. Also, it seemed more about the ravages of war to nature than about man trying to survive in a stinking disease infested jungle that happened to have strategic import because of an already built airfield. Thus seems to be the way of Terence Malick's direction - the movie about migrant farmworkers in the 1930s or 1940s was much the same - a lot of needless silliloquy.
BTW, what's with "the Pacific Theater, yawn"? The Pacific Theater suffers only because it has not had the attention paid to it that it deserves. There are many worthy events from the Solomons through Okinawa which never received the attention commensurate with its legacy to history.