Sometimes its best to leave things alone
Added 1/25/2010
I always liked this film and felt that it did a good job showing how things might have been. But it turns out that the writer/director couldn't leave well enough alone and had to go back and add a bunch of things that were cut from the original. All he did was make it longer and harder to watch. I would rather see this on tv than sit thru this long boring re-do. Too bad the original was pretty good. If you can find it buy the non re-vamped version you will like it a lot better
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A "Must-have"!!!
Added 11/3/2009
This is one of the best motion pictures ever made! Accurate and realistic. This extended version gives the linkage that the original version needed to be considered "Perfect"!
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Reconstruction wonderful, movie so-so
Added 9/7/2009
From a technical point-of-view, the reconstruction of 'The Big Red One' was very, very well done. It's hard to see technical faults.
If you like combat, there is a lot of it in this film. However, the film still shows the unusual continuity of the original.
Overall, he film as a whole does not flow from one battle scene to another like a 'normal' film does. It start with scenes in North Africa, but it jumps from one battle to another, then you are suddenly on another ship going somewhere. There is nothing to hold the film as a whole together. I understand from the extras that this is what Sam Fuller, a WWII combat veteran and director of this film, experienced. But unlike this film, while he may not have known where he was going when he boarded a ship for an invasion, he knew that two months passed since the last battle and that he had been recuperating in XYZ for those 2 months. We weren't there and didn't experience it, so to me, the film jumps from one battle scene or even from one continent to another with little to tie the bits together.
And to be honest, some of the battle scenes seem kind-of corny.
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3 stars out of 4
Added 1/1/2009
Though The Big Red One should not be mistaken for a realistic movie (the platoon somehow is involved in every single campaign of the war), the film moves very quickly for an 150+ minute movie and is consistently engaging; it's not a great movie, but it will stay with you.
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A true masterpiece!
Added 11/16/2008
No need to rehash plot points, but suffice it to say that The Big Red One - in all it's restored glory as Fuller intended - is a true masterpiece. One of the best WWII films ever made, with heartfelt performances and great action. Watching Mark Hammill empty a clip into the german soldier who took cover in the oven towards the end is one of the most chilling scenes in movie history - showing the reality of war and how brutal an affair it always is.
Disregard the idiotic complaints here...they are obviously written by kids with no appreciation for real film making. "Too long?" laughable. And for those who didn't find it believable, reality often is stranger than fiction - everything in the film is based on Fuller's own experiences.
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Sometimes its best to leave things alone
Added 1/25/2010
I always liked this film and felt that it did a good job showing how things might have been. But it turns out that the writer/director couldn't leave well enough alone and had to go back and add a bunch of things that were cut from the original. All he did was make it longer and harder to watch. I would rather see this on tv than sit thru this long boring re-do. Too bad the original was pretty good. If you can find it buy the non re-vamped version you will like it a lot better
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A "Must-have"!!!
Added 11/3/2009
This is one of the best motion pictures ever made! Accurate and realistic. This extended version gives the linkage that the original version needed to be considered "Perfect"!
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Reconstruction wonderful, movie so-so
Added 9/7/2009
From a technical point-of-view, the reconstruction of 'The Big Red One' was very, very well done. It's hard to see technical faults.
If you like combat, there is a lot of it in this film. However, the film still shows the unusual continuity of the original.
Overall, he film as a whole does not flow from one battle scene to another like a 'normal' film does. It start with scenes in North Africa, but it jumps from one battle to another, then you are suddenly on another ship going somewhere. There is nothing to hold the film as a whole together. I understand from the extras that this is what Sam Fuller, a WWII combat veteran and director of this film, experienced. But unlike this film, while he may not have known where he was going when he boarded a ship for an invasion, he knew that two months passed since the last battle and that he had been recuperating in XYZ for those 2 months. We weren't there and didn't experience it, so to me, the film jumps from one battle scene or even from one continent to another with little to tie the bits together.
And to be honest, some of the battle scenes seem kind-of corny.
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