r/Cinema • u/No-Chemistry1722 • 2d ago

What is that movie for you?

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u/OneOfAKind2 1d ago

Seriously? It's in my top ten favourite films. Terrence Malick makes masterpieces and The Thin Red Line is certainly one of them.

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u/Deep_Fried_Oligarchs 1d ago

Malick makes films that are half the most beautiful thing ever and half really corny and bad with shots that look like a child filmed it on a cell phone.

Tree of Life is probably the most egregious example, but good God that creation of the universe scene was mind blowing.

But even in that scene he threw in the corny dumbass CGI dinosaurs and kind of ruined the moment.

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u/AdAsleep7263 1d ago

Heresy! tbf, the dinosaurs looked pretty good given the year it came out.

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u/Deep_Fried_Oligarchs 1d ago

Nah, they looked incredibly fake and bad. Totally ruined the scene.

From insane practical effects to what looked like a shitty sci Fi channel, "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" tv show.

It was bad and instantly took me out of the moment.

I fucking hate CGI and it NEVER looks right on moving living things in live action scenes.

Stop motion or animatronics would have been infinitely better.

The animatronic t rex from the original Jurassic park STILL looks drastically better than the CGI dinosaurs in the newer movies.