THE THIN RED LINE Clip - "Battle on the Hill" (1998) WWII Movie 

Except for the end scene in SPR. Man that was legits.

Watch the factorybattle in the 1993 movie Stalingrad. Its also a pain in the a

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war is not holywood

In episode 7 of the miniseries "The Pacific" there is a great scene of close quarters combat you should check out if you haven't already.

It tells the viewers they’ve been on the island a long time, perhaps since November. You could say the one guy even lost his shirt, or rather it rotted off.

I thought they were Australians. Never can tell with movies filmed in Australia.

Very convincing. One guy gets a MG round to the chest and speaks like nothing happens

@@CodytheHun123or he took it off cause it’s hot as fuck in those bunkers

@@God_Help_Me11 or that. Lol

There a limit to fear. Once reached, all that remains is rage. A rage so great, you no longer care if you live or you die. It is said, the difference between a brave man and a coward how much fear. they can handle.

The actor showed it well with his eyes. Fear > too much fear to handle > rage

As Lt. Speirs told Private Blythe, "you are already dead..."

That is The Thin Red Line, he no longer cared if he lived or if he died.

@@rvhill69 That's why I love this scene. You can see fight or flight battling for control in his eyes until fight finally won.

Also incredibly true to the same scene in the book. The company tries a frontal assault and gets stopped cold and pinned down on the lower slopes but then some guys find a way up to the main Japanese bunker complex on top of the hill via a covered draw. The Lt played by John Cusack uses that covered approach to get them to assault the bunkers from the top down and clear the position that way

Agree. Watched this full movie many years ago. While parts of the film seemed to drift for me, this combat scene is was special and I was remembered it.

It's the best film that carries the label 'war film' ever made next to Apocalypse Now and Come and See.

@@jakubcygan8265 I'll agree to that. All three films are complicated and somewhat hard to follow, but magnificently done.

He was writing about a real battle. The refusal to attack thing actually happened!

Isn't this movie famous as well? The only reason it's not even more famous was probably coming out the same year and awards time as Saving Private Ryan.

From what I recall, critics loved this movie. It just had the unfortunate release time as Saving Private Ryan.

I think that's why some people don't like WWII films like this, because it shatters the superhero fairytale. Force of Arms (1951) is another with this tone, although it's set in the European Theater. The main GI hero of the story, Pete, is stuck fighting in some of the worst combat of the Italian Campaign. He becomes fed up with the killing, fed up with losing friends, and fed up with seeing Italian civilians getting hurt by the Germans. He breaks down to the point where he doesn't know what he cares about anymore. Interestingly, while away from the front, he meets a young WAC officer named Ellie who similarly is screwed up mentally by the war (it's strongly implied her fiancé was killed in battle), and she is likewise heartbroken and angry. Their first meeting is not a fairytale love story, in fact it's an absolute clunker, she's cold and agitated and he's kind of insensitive. However, eventually they meet again, vent their frustrations and feelings to each other and it becomes apparent that these two might actually be exactly what each other needs. They begin to fall in love (when Pete manages to get leave), but both nearly die soon after when the Luftwaffe BRUTALLY bombs the Italian town they're staying in, destroying even an old church (which devastates Ellie). Then Pete has yet another bad battle experience where his officer is killed and he is badly wounded (by this point, he's barely staying sane). I won't reveal the full story or ending, but I will say this: It shows the heroes of World War II for what they really were: Men and women just trying to survive and remain stable-minded human beings amongst hell on earth.

​@@hawkeyeten2450mate I think you've already revealed the full story

@@diollinebranderson6553 Oh trust me, it gets much wilder. I only revealed about half of it.

insufferable meaningless film full of tedious pseudo-intellectual drivel.

The movie is just too slow man but the pacific campaing is way more interesting than europe that's why i think the pacific is superior to band of brothers

@@daniellap.stewart6839 I feel sorry for you for not understanding or rather feeling why this movie is one of the greatest movies ever done.

@@christophed4579 I'm sorry that the existantial brain masturbation of the film make it so great for you.

@@christophed4579 It isn't. It is a very good movie and a very very good war movie but the non combat scenes are very slow. I found myself not really caring about the characters because of this. JMO.

Thank you for your Service, Sir.

God bless you Aussie!

Where did you see combat?

Thank you for your service, @justanaussie2822

I’d love to know what made it so realistic? Where there any particular aspects?

I saw this in the theater as a kid and hated it. Watched it 20 years later and it is a great movie.

@@mardukistotalyawesome9371Similar. I didnt quite hate it; but it was disappointing for me. I didnt understand and appreciate it what it was as I do now.

Totally agree. When I first saw it, I didn't really get it. But probably the best war movie ever made.

I totally agree

Yup far superior to Saving Private Ryan as that is just pure hollywood.

The book is more visceral, and more disturbing, but the movie is very different from the book. For instance, the book has a part where a couple of soldiers explore their sexuality with one another, and mixes that in with the combat experiences they are having, and there's nothing like that in the movie. You might like the book.

I have not read the book but saw the movie. I loved the opening line. “The closer to Caesar the greater the fear.”. Boy is that the truth.

I read it last year, it was a good read.

It's a good book. I'm impressed you read it so young. In 4th grade I was busy reading the "Alfred Hitchcock's Three Investigators" mysteries and the Hardy Boys adventures.

this should be in trivia on the IMDB page

wow that's amazing, good that you told them to fuck off

Great story!

Did you use Privi brass or reformed and trimmed 30-06 cases? I used to make blanks using Red Dot or 700x in 06, and they were flashy and LOUD. Load 7.7x58 too and consider it a very fine cartridge, and the Type 99 rifle very underrated.

@@JF-xq6fr I was given a mixed lot of once-fired .30-06 brass and RCBS forming dies as well as primers, I have completely forgotten the powder I was provided with or its load.

For me, the first scene when they came upon the limbless corpse really established that feeling of pure evil surrounding them

I have heard it called the greatest war movie ever made.

If I throw a grenade, it will bounce off something and fall right in front of me.

i read somewhere this scene was sped up something like 12% but one thing im sure all the granades flying are CGI.. still awesome to see

@drewinsur7321...Why wouldn't they just throw inert replicas?

True and in Vietnam US Soldiers were told to use grenades if they thought there was something and they could not see since the enemy will not know which the direction you are unlike shooting.

@@chestersleezer8821 Agreed.

A grenade is the most terrifying? How about being cooked alive by a flamethrower?

@@charlesdixon552 That was mostly the Japanese soldiers though if you were toting one you would be a prime target from those Japanese soldiers. They learned to target the GI's with BAR's and Flamethrowers.

@@chestersleezer8821 Bar's were indeed nasty.....they were like a war world 2 m-60. However, as I stated, a flamethrower was the most terrifying weapon US infantrymen brought to the fight.

I think the soldiers were Army not Marines

@@trubblman You are completely right, I got mixed up. It’s about the Army 25th Division reinforcing the Marines of Guadalcanal.

this wasnt a movie about marines. these were soldiers of us army stationed in Hawaii

@@DisHappah ah thank you. Should have known from the 25th infantry patch

@@pikiwiki No problem. I guess it got my attention because I served in 25th ID myself as a mortarmen. good times.

No WAY those Japanese would have surrendered in 1941. They would have fought to the last man.

@@The_OneManCrowd to be fair they wouldn't have surrendered in 45 either

Yup and honestly probably doable the m1 is like 4lbs

IRL these guys were wounded and completely starved, most of them were near death anyways. Higher command gave the ones who could walk orders to retreat and they said nah we'll all die together up here. And that's what they did, almost to a man.

They didn't fasten them during the war either and they usually stayed on anyway. They were relatively heavy so I'm guessing it took a pretty good nudge to knocked them off.

you can actually adjust the inside liner of these helmets so they stay snug on your head, fun fact the reason they never strapped there chinstraps is because there was a rumor that artillery blast shock waves would crush your wind pipe, or snap your neck. This was sort of a soldiers wise tale that am sure had a shred of truth.

@@johnmarstonification Thanks for clearing that up. I've never worn one before but have held one and remember it being heavier than it looked.

We had the same type helmet in Vietnam, 1968. None of us buttoned the chin straps . When you ran you had to hold onto your helmet with one hand, your weapon in the other, or the helmet would bounce off.

Pvt Witt was something of a spiritual revolutionary himself. Blazes, what a film Malick crafted for us.

This was the Army bubba

There were more army soldiers fighting in the Pacific than Marines. Crazy to think but all the big battles had tons of army troops or almost all army troops. Late Guadalcanal, the rest of the Solomons campaign, Okinawa, and the Philippines, that one in particular was the biggest battle of the Pacific and it was mostly army.

Sorry bro your so called marines pulled out of the island lmao

Marines were the spearhead, first to fight during the island hopping campaign. Army had to clear the rest of the islands

Interestingly, this soldier manages to overcome his paralyzing fear and fight; unlike the Pvt Hoppel character in Saving Private Ryan, who allows one of his squad members to be stabbed by a single German while he himself cowers at the bottom of the stairs.

@@robscoggins Indeed. Great difference in portrayals and perspective.

There wasn't just one machine gun nest and have you ever heard of defilade?

Technically these are supposed to be Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division, not Marines.

"Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War" by Karl Marlantes is just about the finest book I've ever read by any author, of any genre.