The Movie: This movie was nominated for seven Academy Awards, but it didn't win any of them, and personally, I didn't really like it that much. But that being said, this was one of the most beautiful looking movies I've seen in a long while. I definitely gotta give props to cinematographer John Toll. But the movie... it didn't have a very strong plot, and by that I don't mean that it had a weak (ie. sucky) plot, but I mean there wasn't a very strong motivating factor in this movie that kept a story line moving along.

I mean, I wasn't bored, as it explores a lot of powerful issues, like love, respect, duty, and (not surprising, for a war movie) death... but it just didn't have a defined storyline to draw me in and keep me really interested in what happened to the people in this movie. And maybe that was also partly because of the fact that there were just so many damn people in this movie.

I mean, are there any known male actors that weren't in this movie? There was John Travolta, John Cusack, Sean Penn, Jared Leto, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson, George Clooney... yeah. Everyone was in this movie...

So yeah. It was definitely a very beautiful looking movie, but I'm not sure I can say that The Thin Red Line really moved me.

The DVD: The video transfer on this DVD is fantastic. It was extremely clean, but not so clean that they removed all the grain and stuff to the point where it doesn't look like film anymore, and the colors were bold and brilliant. There were really no compression artifacts to speak of. I was especially impressed with the fact that there were no problems with gradient stepping anywhere in this movie, which is impressive because there were so many parts of the movie with smoke, or fog, or similar visuals that are typically some of the hardest to encode.

The 5.1 surround audio was also quite impressive, with crisp sound, and wonderful use of the surround channels for smooth surround effects and also immersive sonic ambience. Special features are lacking however, with the only extras you'll get are audio tracks of Melanesian songs used in this film. You'd think with a film that got so much critical acclaim that there would be a little more depth to the extras, but on the other hand, without going to a 2-disc set, you wouldn't be able to add much more to a movie of this length (almost 3 hours) without sacrificing on the video quality.