The Big Red One 1980

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1. H

   harrylime66 2026年8月22日

   For years, I wore on my jacket a pin with the American and the Italian flags together to represent the act of sharing hopes and trust…the immovable belief in a world grounded in democracy, tolerance, mutual help; the childish certainty that the sequence of “The Big Red One”, where the French soldiers presiding over the North African shore and the American ones, who have just gone ashore, throw their weapons away and embrace to face the enemy, was not a rhetorical invention, but a reality that was about to come. I removed my pin and placed it in a drawer of my desk; sometimes, when I read or use my computer, I hold it in my hand, thinking that, nowadays,…

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2. A

   Amy Hensarling 2026年8月22日

   The movie is very simple. It’s a series of combat experiences, and the times of waiting in between. Lee Marvin plays a carpenter of death. The sergeants of this world have been dealing death to young men for 10,000 years. He’s a symbol of all those years and all those sergeants, no matter what their names were or what they called their rank in other languages. That’s why he has no name in the movie. The movie deals with death in a way that might be unfamiliar to people who know nothing of war except what they learned in war movies. I believe that fear doesn’t delay death, and so it is fruitless. A guy is hit. So, he’s hit.…

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   Paul Elliott 2026年8月22日

   The Big Red One, written and directed by Samuel Fuller, is an epic war movie full of living and breathing characters. Most of them founded on personalities Fuller encountered between 1942 and 1945, and it’s a movie which contains plenty of moments that are comprehensively too distinctive to be entirely fictional. Featuring an ensemble cast including Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill; it’s a movie soaked with vignettes that demonstrate how men behave in various horrendous situations that are imposed on them, where all that matters is the state of continual existence.

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4. 📀

   📀 Cammmalot 📀 2026年8月22日

   ”Don’t panic, live people are watching us…It’s a bushwhack.” War, horror and humor are all brought together in this powerful series of war stories as seen through the eyes of a battalion led by the marvelous Lee Marvin. It’s not a perfect film, but it’s easy to see that a lot of perfect films were hugely influenced by this Big Red One. ”Killing insane people is not good for public relations.” “Killing sane people is okay?” “That’s right.” Cinematic Time Capsule – 1980 Ranked Roger Ebert’s The Great Movies Volume III

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5. H

   HalloweenH 2026年8月22日

   A true behemoth of a film. Arguably, Lee Marvin’s finest performance.

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6. S

   Sofa Sinema 2026年8月22日

   So The Empire Strikes Back wasn’t the only great film to co-star Mark Hamill in 1980. Talk about confronting your dark side. Fuller is adept at details and ideas without being heavy handed or abstractly poetic. Therefore, I found this superior to both Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line. Lee Marvin is a master at the close-up reaction shot and totally believable as the commander who’s fought to the bitter end of two world wars. David Ayer’s recent Fury (which I liked) owes a great debt to this one. I watched the original cut, but greatly look forward to sitting down for the reconstructed version some day.

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7. S

   Swartacus 2026年8月22日

   An absolutely elite war film that reads like a hangout movie interspersed with inconvenient battle interludes. It doesn’t seem like there is really much of a plot to this. But is there really a plot to war? Samuel Fuller tries to conjure one with the brilliant “Oops I did it again” bookends of Lee Marvin being haunted by a dilapidated wooden crucifix in both 1918 and 1945. The four horsemen grunts of the apocalypse follow Marvin on an epic journey. Can we see the whites of their eyes? Hell no, they are too damn bloodshot, as red as the water at Normandy rushing back and forth over a dead soldier’s wristwatch. The replacement guys that keep trying to join the…

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8. R

   Rick Burin 2026年8月22日

   What doesn’t this war movie have? – Big speeches – Monologues about ‘back home’ – Emotional death scenes – Acts of heroism – Anyone with special skills besides a few words of German or Italian Sam Fuller’s masterpiece, released in butchered form in 1980 then ‘reconstructed’ 24 years later according to his original shooting script, is a war movie like no other: the episodic, wryly fatalistic story of four dogfaces, dubbed ‘the four horsemen of the apocalypse’ who fight the battles that the writer-director had in World War Two: in North Africa, France, Belgium, Germany and Czechslovakia, under the wing of a taciturn, decent and unsentimental sergeant (Lee Marvin, himself a veteran of the conflict). Fuller himself is immortalised as…

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   Sally Jane Black 2026年8月22日

   I know there’s someone out there that watches this and sees glory and excitement, but I can’t imagine what they must be like. Almost every soldier I’ve ever spoken to has mentioned how unrealistic war movies are, but that hardly means the movies don’t adequately convey some sense of horror and pain. They present effective characters and we empathize with them, and even if what is shown is both less terrifying than the real thing and more condensed, deeply edited, completely limited as compared to the real thing, even if that is the case, it is none-the-less a depiction of nothing I can fathom wanting to be a part of. This film (and note that I watched the 2.75 hour…

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    Neil Bahadur 2026年8月22日

    “By now we’d come to look at all the replacements as dead men who temporarily had the use of their arms and legs. They came and went so fast and so regular that sometimes we didn’t even get to know their names. Truth is, after a while, we sort of avoided getting to know them.” (note: I watched the 2004 restoration, which evidently will never be available in HD quality, but is the superior version of the film) A set of borderline unrelated sequences and vignettes that resemble less a narrative and more a private diary, while anchored by Marvin’s excellent performance, there’s really no thematic thread to speak of – or that the thematic thread is merely that: war.…

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    Karsten 2026年8月22日

    classic fuller experience in that it was slightly off-putting from front to back but still enjoyable. lee marvin is tailor-made for this role. poussez joke worked better than it should

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    matt lynch 2026年8月22日

    [Reconstruction Version] You’d think this longer cut would have enough room for the Hellfish Bonanza story but no.

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13. M

    Mathew Bonta 2026年8月14日

    Kind of disjointed storytelling. None of the characters are particularly likeable, so I kind of felt distanced from the material. Didn’t seem like there was much to work with for the actors, even Lee Marvin seemed to struggle to find something interesting to do. By 1980 they seemed to have stopped making movies about world War 2 and started making movies about Vietnam. Not until Saving Private Ryan did Hollywood start mining ww2 again for mass consumption.

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14. R

    rottenstigs 2026年8月14日

    Really good. A movie about the line between killing and murdering. Some amazing sound design.

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    SergioMelville 2026年8月13日

    How many cinematic passion projects actually succeed? How many indie auteurs get to make a wartime epic?* How cool of a human being is Lee Marvin? Just some of the questions that might cross your mind while you watch this miracle of a film. *I am bummed Fuller didn’t live long enough to see the release of the Reconstruction.

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16. C

    comegatocanalla 2026年8月12日

    Tal vez en el conjunto no quede muy bien amalgamada, de hecho tuvo problemas en la edición en cuanto a la duración final, pero está compuesta de escenas construidas con mano firme y experiencia por parte de Fuller. Lee Msrvin era complicado en el set, pero que presencia, amigo.

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    WilsonLNU 2026年8月12日

    This is *the* World War II film. Writer-director Fuller was there, from North Africa to a Nazi death camp, and it shows. Treat yourself to the 2002 restoration instead of the theatrical cut. Perfect in every way except (1) the budget just wasn’t there for Omaha to look like a real battlefield and (2) the bluray has the same MPEG file of the restoration as the DVD.

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    Natxo Torné 2026年8月9日

    Una meravella de Sam Fuller.

19. R

    retch23 2026年8月9日

    I would have just stayed in Sicily

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20. A

    Angus 2026年8月6日

    This film really surprised me. I went into this film expecting a boring 80s war film, which I thought was about to happen at the beginning, but this film opened up into an immersive and enjoyable film. This film really did get better the further in I watched, and the group of five where very interesting, with the coming and going of side characters being a good aspect as well. I liked the different settings throughout the film, and the different combat scenes and aspects to them. Overall good film, with a mid soundtrack.

21. D

    David 2026年8月5日

    “You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.”

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22. A

    ALee762 2026年8月4日

    so many big red dick jokes

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23. K

    kschnell 2026年8月3日

    Run of the mill war movie. Interesting perspective on soldier mentality dealing with orders, loss, and the horrors of war. The story line progressed linearly with focuses on specific major invasions/battles. Minimal plot development with a bit of character development for the Sgt and Griff. I thought it was a powerful comparison for how the characters reacted to death of fellow soldiers vs death of Jews in the concentration camp. War tends to dehumanize the enemy to make the…

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    odomam 2026年8月3日

    An interesting yet fast-paced telling of an allied unit in their various campaigns throughout WW2. Although the narrator of the film seemed mostly irrelevant, the story he drove focused on Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill’s characters, which was odd by the end of it but not a dealbreaker. Starting with Hamill’s character, it was odd to see him as anything but Luke Skywalker. Hard to judge in 1980 how type casted he would become, but odd nonetheless. Regardless, his progression…

25. C

    cardenasj 2026年8月2日

    Domingo tarde 34 grados, pelicula de titulo estraño….posible siesta Pero no, tras este titulo de pelicula de serie Z, se esconde una buena pelicula, la guerra desde el punto de vista del soldado, recorre toda la guerra en europa, desde argelia a alemsnia Predecesora en enfoque y argumento, a series como Bands of brother, the liberator. . Y de peliculas belicas posteriores como Salvar al soldado ryan. Lo peor el titulo.

26. B

    Benjamin Herebst 2026年7月31日

    a bit off putting but still super enyoyable

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27. Y

    yberturk 2026年7月30日

    bunlardan kaç tane var ki

28. C

    Christopher Moran 2026年7月29日

    I NEED to see the director’s cut, because I kinda adored this. Reminded me of the best kind of war movie: Squad Warfare. Saving Private Ryan, Battlefield Bad Company, Three Kings, Overlord, or Fury, I love a film where it’s brothers forged by war, and who are usually on a journey. I loved how globe-trotting this was, and the ending absolutely gutted me.

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    Mike McCollum 2026年7月29日

    I’d watch Lee Marvin do just about anything.

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    Levi 13 2026年7月26日

    A series of incidents across a variety of countries during WW2. Based on Samuel Fuller’s own experiences in the war, it doesn’t valorize or glorify anyone. These are just men trying to get to the next day and hoping to help their friends do the same. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes tragic, never boring. A war movie without any flag-waving bullshit that isn’t preachy and yet isn’t trying recruit new fodder for the grinder either. Lee Marvin was born to…

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    Kyle Fish 2026年7月25日

    “ Those Sicilian women cooked us a terrific meal. I’ts too bad they were all over fifty. We were more horny than we were hungry…”

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    Jeremie Richard 2026年7月23日

    “The Big Red One” was writer/ director Sam Fuller’s account of his time spent serving in World War II as a member of the 1st Infantry Division aka The Big Red One. Robert Carradine plays Fuller’s POV character who also narrates the film while Lee Marvin plays the division’s grizzled sergeant who previously served in World War I. Mark Hamill plays a Private in the division who’s a skilled sharpshooter. The film chronicles their time overseas starting in November 1942…

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    Joseph ✡️🇵🇸🚩 Friedman 2026年7月19日

    Pretty damn great. Eager to watch the extended cut

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    Mike McD 2026年7月18日

    Fuller never oversells anything, so we shouldn’t either. Except to say that *The Big Red One* (the reconstructed version) is a great movie disguised as a small one. More than anything else, it’s honest and authentic (like most of Fuller’s movies). You don’t get much interiority, moving backstories, or great speeches about why we fight, for the simple reason that you cannot do that and remain honest within a war movie. The “war is hell” message isn’t even stated. You…

35. N

    Notabowl69 2026年7月17日

    I love this movie but i was gas’s lighted, the original version I watched on AMC way back as a kid had many scenes of that weren’t there when I saw the movie again on modern amc, prime, and even mgm streaming. So, I went to eBay and got the directors cut. I’ve been holding off on watching but I’ve created a list of scenes I thought I saw; Free French Calvary take down a tank Belgian woman shoots a…

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36. R

    RaspingJoker 2026年7月16日

    What a journey.

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37. R

    Ryan Beaupit 2026年7月14日

    Poignant, but a little too uneven. That’s always the risk when your film is structured this way. It helps that it’s not completely different squads and such as the film progresses, though. Loved Lee Marvin. He had the most challenging role and played it very well.

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    KIRK STEVEN THORLEY 2026年7月13日

    The Big Red One is a very enjoyable, influential war movie and character study taken from the perspective of a squad of infantry men that works against the grain in terms of the conventional Hollywood war movie mould. I can think of one or two movies that clearly borrow from this 1980’s offering. I think it’s a tonally uneven film, with a sense of humour, but this is, in part, due to Fuller’s offbeat sensibilities; besides, it is an honest, original, and enjoyable film that is worth checking out.

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    Lolly 2026年7月12日

    I was kinda hoping for a little more from this and I probably shouldn’t have watched the theatrical version (which apparently was heavily edited from Fuller’s original vision) but I’ll never pass up an opportunity to watch Lee Marvin in anything. Supposedly this came from Fuller’s experiences fighting in WW2. Fucking crazy. This disc came with the reconstructed version so someday I’ll rewatch this the right way.

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40. A

    ajungherr 2026年7月11日

    Watched the original release (shortened). Great image quality, but very episodic.

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    LewisWild93 2026年7月7日

    Reconstruction cut

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    GazzKing 2026年7月6日

    “To hell it is Griff, you don’t murder animals, you kill ‘em!” The fact that other than the main four characters, only one survives to the end just shows how harrowing war truly is. For a long stretch, while it’s very far from a comedy, it’s rather pleasant to watch and laugh along. A surprising amount of condoms then what you would expect from a film like that. Everything builds up to the final twenty minutes. It’s such an eerie…

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43. A

    AndrewC 2026年7月6日

    I have to say that I expected The Big Red One to be somewhat different of a war film than it ended up being, since it’s not really a broader message movie about the nature of warfare or any theme like that. Instead, Samuel Fuller’s film is moreso a slice-of-life pic that works as an unflashy and serious depiction of the lives of its soldiers. It almost functions as a series of vignettes without much of an overarching story besides…

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    pjthekick 2026年6月6日

    137/365 Had some good moments (and a fresh off the press Mark Hamill.) But definitely, definitely written with an only-male audience in mind.

45. R

    Roger Ebert Archives 1980年1月1日

    Some of them happened to Fuller himself, he tells us, and there’s a kid in the movie who’s obviously supposed to be young Sam. Other scenes are based on things Fuller heard about. Some of them are brutal and painful, some of them are romantic, a lot of them are corny. The movie takes no position on any of them: This movie is resolutely nonpolitical, is neither pro- nor anti-war, is deliberately just a record of five dogfaces who found…