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Summary: he did it again
Review: Aside from the hypnotic battle scenes, I don't think this film broke any new ground. The dialouge is recycled and predictable, the characters way oversimplified and oozing with setiment. Under all the so-called heady realism of this movie is a plot from the Muppets. Spielburg should take a break from kissing the audiences' butts--telling it like it was involves more than just an intricate set--the characters need to be developed as well. In my opinion, this movie is all about humanity, but not human beings.
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Summary: EXCELLENT WAR MOVIE!
Review: THIS MOVIE SHOWS TONS OF BLOOD AND GUN ACTION.THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST WAR MOVIES EVER IN MY LIFE TIME.BUY THIS RIGHT HERE AND NOW.
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Summary: War Memories
Review: Steven Spielberg continues to make movie magic with the breathtaking war drama "Saving Private Ryan". After the historic D-Day invasion, Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) and his men embark across enemy lines to find Private James Ryan whose three brothers have been killed in combat. "Saving Private Ryan" is an astonishing, edge-of-your-seat war spectacle of courage and triumph over incredible odds. The movie opens with an intense and thrilling recreation of D-Day that could best be described as "the most realistic and stunning war sequence in film history". Director Steven Spielberg combines amazing visual images and powerful human emotions to create such a moving masterpiece. The movie includes fine performance by Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Tom Sizemore and Tom Hanks in another oscar-winning role. The visual effects, action sequences and realistic backgrounds elevates the film's excitement and sheer intensity.Spielberg's award-winning war drama gets a grand look for DVD. Presented in an anamorphic widescreen format. The Picture quality is spectalar with superb detail and clarity. The Dolby Digital sound is amazing and gives your sound system a riveting work-out. The DVD features a behind-the-scene featurette, theatrical trailers and cast and filmakers' bios. Overall, this DVD earns an "A".
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Summary: Achtung! Hail Speilberg!
Review: Spielberg sees all and knows all ! His moral and spiritual fiber has ripped the skin off men! Bow before him or face the wrath of Spielberg's vast array of schmaltz, it has vaporized pure steel.
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Summary: EARN IT ...
Review: I beleive this is one of the best movies I have ever seen , probably I will never forget Hanks' EARN IT phrase to Damon . It really touched me , stunning . Tom Hanks once again showed he was not a star but an ACTOR and deserved the Oscar last year . The rest of the cast was exceptionally good . I have probably seen this movie at least 4 times with the same taste every time .
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Summary: Sorry Steve & Tom
Review: For realiality, I give it a 5 star, watchablility a two star. Had to fast forward through much of the beginning of the movie, for it was too stressful for me and I can imagine how it must have been for those who had gone through the experience in person. The beginning would have been accepted better later in the movie as a flash back. Couldn't finish the movie, for was just too "REAL". I can accept that but made me so stressed there were people who had to go through the experience in real life. My heart goes out to them and their families.
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Summary: One of the best films of all time
Review: First, I want to say that for some reason some people are confused as to what films Steven Spielberg has made. People in this column seem to believe that Spielberg has made Star Wars, Forrest Gump, and the Goonies. Well they need to get their information right. Saving Private Ryan has a realistic story due to the fact that it was based on real life incidents. Some people believe that it was over patriotic and made the Germans look ignorant. I disagree, the Germans were more than conpetent, you can tell from the opening scenes were the Germans slaughtered 2,500 Americans at Omaha. The sound and the visual effects are extremely impressive and at times I felt like I was in the middle of it all. The acting was not academy award winning performance but it was convincing enough. This movie was cheated out of the best picture of the year award, needless to say I feel that it was one of the best pictures of all time, and should become a classic.
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Summary: GREAT FOR ALL YOU SUB-MORONS OUT THERE....
Review: As has been mentioned countless times, yes, the picture quality and color are wonderful in this movie. That is about it. Although Spielberg does an excellent job of replicating a wartime scenario, he does not utilize it as a vehicle to promote understanding an any way. By endeavoring to create a "War" move, whatever that means, it is the director's responsibility to treat it with care and maturity. With the inconsistent directing style and wooden performances of the actors, the only thing that seems to be spent on this movie is a lot of money (as upposed to time and thought.) If you wish for a better understanding of human nature and intellectualism in the Wartime setting, try Apocalypse Now, The Thin Red Line, or perhaps the first half of Full Metal Jacket, made by directors that know what they are doing.
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Summary: A FLAWAED MASTERPIECE
Review: After repeated viewings of this film, I've come to the conclusion that this film is really two films in one. The first film is a thoughtful, powerful and grim view of US Infantrymen in WWII. Here soldiers fight and die with a speed and, even more powerfully, a casualness that I don't think has ever duplicated in film history since the original, 1931 version of AQOTWF. These scenes of men at war have all the more impact, since there is none of the stupid gratuitousness of the "60's" and "70's" in the graphicness at work here,i.e. slow motion blood spurts, etc. Though the overall premiss of this film is a streching of history, the strength of the men who make up the Infantry Squad make it seem believable, most of time. The second film is as phoney and artifical a depiction of war that hasn't been seen by a US audience since John Wayne's THE GREEN BERETS. Here men talk aloud while scouting behind enemy lines, stack arms and cache their weapons although they are cut-off for days by enemy troops, and officers condemn the decisions of their superiors while standing in front of enlistedmen. What a shame a man with all the billions at his disposal as Spielberg felt it was nescessary to include so many "WWII" movie contrivancies while paying tribute to the "WWII" generation. The one only gives insult to the many sacfifices made by the other. It would seem a line from Shakespeare would do well here:"...THOU HAS CUT MY HEART IN TWAIN...THROW AWAY THE WOSER HALF AND LIVE ALL THE BETTER WITH THE OTHER". Even with these and other flaws, seeing this film in a theatre, during its intial release, was probably the most power film experience I've had since my teen years. The tragedy of this film is that,with Spielberg's finances,it could have been the greatest film about war ever made instead of merely a great war film.
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Summary: War!
Review: The first 30minutes are the best warscenes in history. After that you can relax, this is not the masterpiece you thuoght it was.
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