What is it about The Thin Red Line that puts itself head over shoulders above Dunkirk?

What is it about The Thin Red Line that puts itself head over shoulders above Dunkirk?
I just can't put my finger on it, What I watched invoked a similar feeling to when I first saw TTRL, but I can't say for certain why.
All I know is that TTRL does just about everything better than Dunkirk, but I can't quantify how or why.

Dunkirk is about cowards trying to flee the advancing Germans.

Thin Red Line is about the most brutal combat in the rainforests of Guadalcanal surrounded by beautiful nature, yet hidden dangers.

My honest problem with Dunkirk was the historical irrelevance of it. Brits love pretending how it was a miracle etc and the moment they "won the war", but its an anecdote in the European theatre, when the real war was yet to begin a year later.

The US sending inexperienced 18 year old marines into combat against veteran Japanese soldiers (China war) was the only thing stopping the Japanese navy from cutting off the Australian continent from US support. If Australia fell, British colonies would have been done and the US would have been much more hard pressed to win in Midway.

tl:dr

>Guadalcanal was a turning point in a brutal and unopposed Japanese onslaught (beating US and Britain in the region previously)

>Dunkirk was a bunch of inexperienced and irrelevant troops losing a 6 week conquest of France not really changing anything in the outcome of the war.

>My honest problem with Dunkirk was the historical irrelevance of it.
Yeah, what prevented Germany from attempting a landing on the British coast wasn't poorly equipped troops, it was the RAF and Royal Navy. Even if the brits had been wiped out on that shitty beach it wouldn't have changed the course of the war.

Samefag

I understand the contexts are different, I was more alluding to a war backdrop, without it being the focus, much like a Theater Play.

It's a big thing I noted in Dunkirk, how at any given time there are at max a dozen characters with dialogue, and every dogfight is between 4 or less planes.

Even the quintessential beach shots don't nearly capture the 400,000 troops stranded, nor the hundreds of vessels sent to pick them up.

The entire thing felt scaled down

You know there is a poster counter right?

It's the grass mate

that reminders, why the fuck was the sand so foamy and light, it didn't seem like sand at all

Thin red line was shit. I didn't like it's pacing or character development. I read the book beforehand so had far higher expectations.

its called sea foam lad

You know changing your IP is as hard as opening Clover on your phone right?

It has a story. It has characters. It has dialogue. It has sincere feelings and authentic feeling violence.

Its significantly better.

Dunkirk is a hollywood PG War movie. Its very well executed but it has nothing to say. Its 100% focused only on a gritty experience.

The simple yet effective crescendoing theme song in Thin Red Line

BTFO Nolan's literal ticking clock

For what purpose? Not everybody is as autistic as you.

I'm not even the guy you were originally replying to. Relax. It's not that serious. You said something dumb and I informed you why it was invalid. That's all.

I'm not that other guy either. What I said about autism and purpose is valid enough though.

I guarantee nobody ITT was alive to see the Thin Red Line when it first came out in theaters. It was a huge flop and people were pretty upset about it

SPR was more appealing to me back then because muh firefights but even as a dumb teenager I enjoyed the thin red line a lot

Why does it matter though? What's wrong with telling a story from the war that doesn't necessarily have relevance to the outcome of the War? Doesn't really change the fact that it's a good story.

>Brits love pretending how it was a miracle etc and the moment they "won the war"

Maybe that's true for British people but the movie certainly didn't say that. Hell, the last line of dialogue was from Churchill's speech when he basically said now we have enough men to hold the line until America comes to our rescue.

TTRL was made by a competent director

It's a bit upsetting because even if the film doesn't say it, it's being repeated ad nauseam by the advertising around it. "The event that shaped history" and all that tripe.

TTRL was so fucking boring
Just bunch of shitty pretentious poetry narrated by actors reading their lines over some pretty nature shots.
Of course dumbfucks on Sup Forums will pretend it's some high art and call it kino to sound smart and intelligent.

the thin red line was around about the greatest movie ever - if u cannot apreciate its greatness u are plebian.

>war movie
>zero blood

i'll pass thanks

Because based Terry is a good director and Nolan is a hack

>not really changing anything in the outcome of the war.

he's a retard
With BEF lost, UK would sue for peace, USA wouldn't be dragged into war and Germans would defeat SU

>UK would sue for peace

>Churchill
>Sue for peace
>Over a measly few 100k soldiers

Top fucking kek