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Summary: One of the best war movies
Review: I know many people might not agree or like this since some people seem to have an aversion to Spielberg. As a film and just looking at it and seeing the story it is a great one. It looks excellent. The accuracy is for the most part dead on with a few exceptions like putting the captain's bars on Tom Hanks' helmet. This is a "Hollywood" thing so that he stand out even more as the leader kinda thing. Real officers would not distinguish themselves in war time as they would be more likely to be pointed out and killed. I thought it was amazing that this is inspired on a true story (Niland Brothers) and I really enjoyed this amongst modern war movies since there aren't any good ones lately like the old classics.
Rating:
Summary: One of the best war movies
Review: I know many people might not agree or like this since some people seem to have an aversion to Spielberg. As a film and just looking at it and seeing the story it is a great one. It looks excellent. The accuracy is for the most part dead on with a few exceptions like putting the captain's bars on Tom Hanks' helmet. This is a "Hollywood" thing so that he stand out even more as the leader kinda thing. Real officers would not distinguish themselves in war time as they would be more likely to be pointed out and killed. I thought it was amazing that this is inspired on a true story (Niland Brothers) and I really enjoyed this amongst modern war movies since there aren't any good ones lately like the old classics.
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Summary: Asolutely incredible, moving and powerful set.
Review: June 6th, 1944 D-Day the largest military campaign of the 20th century , 60 years ago from Sunday June 6th, 2004 to the day
thousands of allied forces along with the most miltary equipment
in the history of mankind for one purpose to liberate France from
German occupation , the single most defining battle of World War
2, it would be a success but not with out it's price the ultimate
price for allied forces and americans of our greatist generation
would be the highest price.For those that survived they would see
things that most of us would never see and some things that they
would never want to see again , but some would go to continue to fight in the pacific and other battles of World War 2.It is the
courage and bravery of these men that will stand the test of time and be rememberd for many generations from both the D-Day
and World War 2 memoreals.It is also these men who would inspire
Steven Speilberg to make his 1998 masterpeice Saving Private Ryan where it's amazing first 28 minutes of the film alone is
a living tribute to the men who fought on the beaches of Normandy that fateful day.The violence may be extreme but this
is the closest to the real thing that your going to get.Tom Hanks
is Capt.Miller him and his platoon have orders to secure the beach for the rest of the forces.When he does the miltary soon finds out that 3 brothers have died in combat and Pvt.James
Ryan is the 4th brother who is missing Capt.Miller is given orders to find him and get him out of the war when loosing
some of his men under his command , when loosing these men
he feels that all of this may not be worth the trouble.When
they finally do find him , him and his men are angry and
weary from battle , Pvt.Ryan(Matt Damon) is told and refuses
to go with Capt.Miller and instead plans to secure a bridge
that must be taken to stop the Germans, Capt Miller and
his men see that there is no choice but to stay and fight
along side Ryan , and Capt.Miller and his men beging to
realize that Pvt.Ryan is also someones son and also is
worth much more then what they came there to do in this
stirring tribute to the men that fought in World War 2. This set includes Saving Private Ryan:60 th Annaversary
Edition in Dts as well as two documentarys , Price For Peace
and Shooting War two absolutely brillant documentarys from
the team of Steven Speilberg,Steven Ambrose,and Tom Hanks to
give you an actual veiw of World War 2,these are great companion
peices to a brillant film and the best World War 2 film of all time now the men of World War 2 will live on when you watch this
as they were ment to be in this greatist sacrifice of a generation.A wonderful set.
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Summary: Of course I have yet to see this set personally, but....
Review: Oh my God. This collection looks absolutely incredible. Saving Private Ryan is my favorite film of all time, so naturally when it came out on DVD, I reluctantly bought it. I say reluctantly because the DVD was completely devoid of all special features (except for a documentary and an introduction by God... I mean Speilberg). This Saving Private Ryan DVD is completely worth every penny from what I read. The special features are going to be incredible in themselves. THe two films coming along with this (Price For Peace and Shooting War) are both great documentaries. They are two of the best documentaries for WW2 buffs. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks teaming up with the late Stephen Ambrose always created great WW2 material. The fact that this is coming out made me immediately happy. I'll be the first to buy it.
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Summary: good movie, not perfect
Review: Private ryan was a decent war flick, but was it the best? I wouldn't go that far. It was bloody and all, but it didn't have very good writing. Tom hanks is also overrated in this movie. This film doesn't compare to movies like "das boot", "the thin red line", or "cross of iron". The reviewer down below should take a chill pill, you don't prove your case by using tons of exclamation points and by calling people names. We all have opinions, and they should be respected.
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Summary: Send 8 Men To Save 1 - A DVD Collection Worth Buying
Review: Saving Private Ryan is not just any war movie. Its THE MOVIE that will take you places, an extra-ordinary journey of 8 men embark on a mission to save 1. And the meaning of what they believe in what they are fighting for. Watching this movie was an experience. I enjoyed a lot of how Steven Spielberg did his research well and how he directs a mood that is so real as if it had happen during WWII. I have no complains about this collection set. Saving Private Ryan: D-Day Edition had both DTS & normal 5.1 Stereo in it. With the bonus disc feature on short documentaries during the filming of SPR, it wasn't much but yet simple. Then there is 2 other DVDs short documentaries about WWII which I have yet to delve myself into. Still, its worth it when you get this collection boxset. I can guarantee you that if you enjoy Saving Private Ryan movie alone, you will enjoy the bonus discs and the featurettes included with this set. Better buy it fast before it runs out.
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Summary: Great war flick
Review: Saving Private Ryan set the standard for what we, the public, expect in a war flick. The combination of special effects, grusome reality, well placed action, well scripted acting. SPR doesn't shouldn't be mistaken, as others have suggested, as to what war is really like, but to let you see through the memories of what war veterans look back upon. The comradery, the loss of friends, the carnage and brutality of war. This isn't for the tea-sippin' sissy college student who think they have the answer to life but yet to get one, so, in other words, this isn't for a person who likes "the thin red line". If you want anti-war and anti-patriotic flicks, see "All's Quiet on the Western Front" Saving Private Ryan is successful at showing us what AMERICANS had to go through during the Normandy campaign. Not British, Russian, or cheese-eating frenchies, but AMERICAN. We made this movie, CYRUS, so if you want to see a movie about the russians in WWII, why don't you ask them to make one. Hollywood is in America, they make movies for AMERICANS, because we want them and will pay alot of money to see them.
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Summary: War In Close-Up.
Review: Spielberg's inability to tackle adult material had long been a source of consternation for a director who truly wanted to be a film-maker and not just a movie-maker. That he persisted in following his ambitions is a credit to the man. That he succeeded in realizing them is a credit to Janusz Kaminski, the cinematographer whose innovative and, in this film, visceral style allowed Spielberg to grow-up and play with the serious film-makers. Kaminski's contribution to the success of this film is inestimable. Similarly, his harrowing compositions for "Schindler's List" provided the necessary counterpoint to Spielberg's tendency to sentimentalize. Simply put, Kaminski prevents Spielberg from making everything seem all right, from making a story the lead-in to an inevitable happy ending. Where Spielberg might have turned guts into glory, Kaminski's camera prevents any such notion from finding a foothold in the films he shoots (barring a largely unnecessary and rather sugary "framing device" which Spieberg employs to structure his narrative). By so doing, Kaminiski allows the film to avoid cliches and to focus on the actuality of the events as experienced by the characters. To say that the first twenty minutes of "Private Ryan" make difficult viewing would be an understatement. This is war in close-up. It isn't pretty and it doesn't have a happy ending - how could it? War never has a happy ending.
The only other film in modern times to dive into the heat of battle and attempt to show the audience just what it's like to be there, in the midst of the carnage and terror, would be Scott's excellent "Blackhawk Down." To make comparisons between "The Thin Red Line" and "Saving Private Ryan" would be somewhat redundant. They have very different intentions and are composed on entirely different canvases. Each represents a superb piece of film-making. "The Thin Red Line" is certainly the more intellectual of the two, but that fact should not detract from the achievement of "Ryan." And, more importanty. the achievement of Kaminski.
In summary, if you want to know what it means to go into battle, watch "Saving Private Ryan" and "Blackhawk Down." If you want to know what it means to be a human being, watch "The Thin Red Line." Each of these works is profoundly affecting and should be compulsory viewing for all adults.
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Summary: CYRUS ...STICK TO REVEIWING Italian Porn Flicks..Ya twit!
Review: The MOVIE is just that "A MOVIE!!!!" Does the majority agree that its a good movie......um....YES!!! Normandy (June,6 1944) - EASTERN FRONT Operation Bagration (June 22, 1944)-WESTERN FRONT Had Stalin decided not to go through with Operation Bagration
The D-day Invasion(Operation Overlord) still would have been successful. BIGGEST TURNING POINT OF WWII....D-DAY Invasion!!!!
Does the movie give the viewer the look and feel of what
that might have been like?....YES!!!!! Saving Privet Ryan ...Greatest War Flick yet Made?.....YES!!!! Can you believe this MORON Cyrus..Comparing Operation Bagration
to the Invasion of Normandy.....:< (...)
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Summary: saving private schmaltz
Review: There is a very ever present core of movie goers, who have a fairly big aversion to hollywood's attempted potrayals of war. They see hollywood as being mainly subserviant to a fairly uneducated populus, who would rather see big explosions and giant waving flags, accompanied by sappy patriotic hyms that give some type of gruesome forced finality to all the carnage. Guess what, i'm not one of these reptilian brained individuals. Sure i've watched a couple good italian porn flicks, but i can't always be civilized... Saving private ryan, with its almost nonexistent script, and buckets of gore, peppered with terrible historical innacuracies, is yet another vestige of the cancer of hollywood war movies. There is a difference between a combat movie, and a war movie. Combat movies i.e. "missing in action" or "rambo III", are mindless, popcorn fares that give you a thrill that also temporarily unlock your more basic primate fascination toward death and destruction. Hell, i used to love chuck norris films too. But when combat movies are dressed up and presented as "war" movies, then someone, somewhere, has overstepped a bound. A successful war film shows combat of course. But more importantly, a truly great war film conveys the mental horrors of the institution of war, not simply plenty of bad guys getting blown away to the glee of the wide eyed audience. Tough men should be torn to pieces, quiet and gentle men turned into raving psychopaths. And lastly, the way comradery, and unlikely friendships are formed should be another great theme. But guess what? Most hollywood fares, private ryan included, rarely venture into this forbidden territory. Maybe a trace of it is found, here and there, as in a couple brief moments in "saving private ryan", but the whole point is mainly missed. Instead, we have the not so coincidental nationalist propaganda stuffed in, extolling how great america is, and how everyone should drown out the blood soaked realities of the world we live in to stand up and give the pledge of allegiance. And this is to one of the previous reviewers who said D-day was the most crucial battle of the second world war. Just to clarify things, the d-day invasion wasn't nearly as deciding a factor in the war, as a little offensive known as "operation bagration", the code name for the june 22nd soviet summer offensive near novgorod. Over 6,000 aircraft, 3,000 tanks, 24,000 artillery pieces, and probably over a million men were involved. This final push which cost the german army group center more men than the battle of stalingrad, tore a path for the russian army through eastern europe, and finally into berlin. Read your history. peace.
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