I don't know if I would call The Thin Red Line "beautiful" but I think it's a great (anti-)war movie.

I wouldn't call it anti-war per se. It's a deeply spiritual movie, against the backdrop of war.

Seeing it in a packed theater with a bunch of teenagers on a Friday night ruined it for me the first time. They were expecting another “Saving Private Ryan” and got something totally different, so decided to entertain themselves through obnoxious behavior and mockery.

I think I would call it cinematographically beautiful, and parts of it were meant to be really be visually beautiful. But it all had to be contrasted with carnage, death, fear, and all the ugliness of war.