Ahhh - I seem to be the only ones who preferred The Thin Red Line to Speilbergs HIGHLY commercial Saving Private Ryan. For me TTRL had more "meat" to it than the easily forgettable SPR. SPR isnt a bad movie, its just the same kind of popcorn flick Speilberg has been doing for SOOOOOOO long. TTRL (which I believe is that line between human being and animal that the film was trying to show us; check out Apocalypse Now if you want a better understanding of that and a better film than both), tried to not go for the "easy answer" with violence and gore (although it had alot of it), and actually tell a good story.