What the corpus says about The Thin Red Line (1998)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Thin Red Line (1998) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Thin Red Line (1998) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:40:07 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] The Thin Red Line ⇒ Pearl Harbor (the host's read) · craft · Disney used the Thin Red Line score in the Pearl Harbor trailer without permission, and Malick later cashed that in. · "Disney uses the score for the thin red line, um, when they, uh, when they do the Pearl Harbor trailer."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:59:33 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Saving Private Ryan ⇒ The Thin Red Line (the host's read) · industry · Ryan spearheaded a WWII revival that included The Thin Red Line and others. · "It also spearheaded Hollywood's World War II revival."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:39:34 · David Sims (0.40)] Hans Zimmer ↔ The Thin Red Line · craft · The Thin Red Line score should have won the Oscar even though it is unusually deployed in the film. · "Hans Stimmer should have won for the thin red line, although I think that score is sort of oddly deployed in the movie."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:41:09 · Bilge Ebiri (0.50)] Randy Newman ↔ The Thin Red Line · contrast · Randy Newman's Pleasantville score is rated better than the Thin Red Line score and the likelier winner that year. · "is better, I think, than Red Line is probably your actual winner there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:36:56 · unknown (0.30)] Jack Fisk ↔ The Thin Red Line · career · After years away, Terrence Malick brought Fisk back for The Thin Red Line. · "And then it's like, he's gone until Malik resuscitates him for a thin red line."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read) · lineage · Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary. · "By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:19:11 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Empire of the Sun · theme · Bilge finds Saving Private Ryan like Empire: incredible first 30-40 minutes, then merely liked. · "is actually not dissimilar to some people's response to Empire of the Sun"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:22:08 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Saving Private Ryan · theme · Saving Private Ryan is a parallel to Paths of Glory: both turn on an absurd mission and the question of what heroism means. · "Saving Private Ryan, I think, is an incredible parallel to paths of glory because it's also about a very absurd mission"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:11:16 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · The Normandy sequence is compared to the longest virtuoso stretches in film, like the openings of 2001 and There Will Be Blood. · "The opening of 2001, the opening of there will be blood."
[speaker] Bilge Ebiri · latest sketch, Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · Loves grand, earned cinematic spectacle and big epics (The Last Emperor, Passage to India's shots), Bertolucci, John Williams, Malkovich, Christian Bale and Raising Arizona. Defends movies that made him laugh despite critical consensus (That's My Boy, Vacation remake). Cannot stand critics who enjoy a film in the room and then trash it for reasons of consensus; wary of Hollywood's sanitized history. · stances: Empire of the Sun is excellent and underrated; Spielberg's early films are the child's view, later ones the parent's; Hook is the pivot; Spielberg is secretly a horror filmmaker at heart; Horizon chapter 2 is great
[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Thin Red Line (1998); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Thin Red Line (1998) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.