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Summary: Overwhelming impact, right to the heart and soul
Review: As a retired Army combat officer, I had never experienced a flashback until I saw Saving Private Ryan. After the movie, I just sat in my seat and cried like a baby. My wife had to drive us home. I was just empty. War really is hell, and this movie shows that, but it also shows the paradox that some of the finest characteristics human beings can exhibit are brought out in the crucible of battle. This movie should be shown in every high school class in the country.
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Summary: A Should Have Been BEST PICTURE
Review: This movie is one of the best war movies ever made. This isn't the usual "one man killing the whole German army by himself, without reloading. This is the most realistic war movie ever made. This can be seen as one of the few that doesn't glorify war, but shows how war really is, "hell." Shakespear in Love was good, but Saving Private Ryan should have won.
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Summary: Mind-blowing
Review: I put Saving Private Ryan into the VCR expecting to see just another war movie....was I ever wrong. When they landed on Omaha Beach to the very end (you all know what happens) I was on the edge of my seat. Everything about the movie was great, it was all very realistic.....my only complaint.....Shakespear in Love for best picture? WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Ed Burns and the rest of the cast were all superb...and many, many memorable scenes....This is definetly THE #1 movie of the decade, if not, this half the century.....
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Summary: Good movie, has some flaws, but very intense and emotional
Review: Saving Private Ryan is a very good war movie, despite it's obvious flaws (the bookends being the worse of those). It is beatifully shot, has solid acting that prevails over a somewhat weak story, and the action is exteremely visceral and intense. It was after my second viewing of the movie that I realized just how good Saving Private Ryan is... that even after knowing what would happen, even after noticing the flaws, I just sat there stunned afterwards. I don't know why the movie is so good... I just know that it hit me like a fist in the stomach, and that I thought about it for days afterwards.I don't think it is THE best war movie ever made, although I think it ranks up there with the best. Saving Private Ryan does not pretend to offer deep, philosohpical or poetic musings about life and death. It is instead an unblinking and straigtforward presentation of war and its soldiers. And, most of the reviewers who have given this movie two and one star reviews... those reviewers who think the artsy and pretentious The Thin Red Line is a "classic"... grandiose doodle and nature footage do not a great war movie make. Ask any veteran of WWI, WWII and Vietnam what they were thinking about in the trenches... and I'll guarantee that they weren't sitting around thinking "What's this war at the heart of nature? Why does nature vie with itself? Is there an avenging power in nature? '' or other such second-rate philosophical baloney. The Thin Red Line had a few great moments, but it was far from the substantial mediation on the meaning of life that it desperately wanted to be.
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Summary: Best Movie I have ever seen!
Review: Once this movie was on the play, it draws my attention immediately. Because just got retired from the military, I felt much more sense of scence of war. So realistic yet not too drama-like. I had to pay my whole respect with not only the people in the movie, but all the people who fought for the Freedom. This is a must seen movie.
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Summary: Visual OK, but where is the content
Review: It is Typical of Steven Spielberg's later films, that provide stunning visuals but fall short on casting and storyline. The best part of the film is the D-Day scene, then I fell asleep for the remainder of the film. He should have used a cast that was unrecognizable. I just cant believe Hanks was cast in this movie. He was not believable in his role, neither was Ryan (Matt Damon). The same problem holds true for Jurassic Park 2?, Did anyone see this load of garbage, all effects but no content
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Summary: Movie was excellent
Review: Offer full screen as well as widescreen, I refuse to purchase any widescreen DVD's. Give the public a choice.
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Summary: Video images sub par
Review: I was dissapointed with washed out colors. Even the scenes in the fields of France were dull. It may have been the DVD itself. Please advise me if the color is good in other copies.
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Summary: The only DVD I will ever need
Review: this dvd comes the closest to a theater experience than any other dvd that i have. Speilberg has created a true masterpiece, with unforgettable images of the atrocities of war, BUT, basically this is a human spirit tale told expertly. It is difficult for today's audience to understand the impact of WWII on this country: women joined the work force fully, mothers DID have childcren dying in far away places, brides waited years to see their husbands return safely home. But, spielberg's film is not about the homefront, he takes us to the battlefields of France (actully filmed in Ireland) and it is a remarkable journey. i urge every man and woman to see and feel this film the way it was meant to be seen, but if you can't get to see it on a theater screen: this dvd incarnation will make you think you had.
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Summary: Another Spielberg Anti-German Overdone FX Movie
Review: This movie is nothing without the special effects. It's yet another movie which attempts to make people believe that the odds in Normandy were against the Allied Air, Sea and Land Machine. The Germans didn't have more than one plane over the Normandy beaches during the entire invasion. Even if the Germans had quicker panzer support it is hard to believe that the invasion would have had a different outcome. At least the movie does show that the allies were just as brutal as the axis when it came to war...But here too, Spielberg trys to make it acceptable for the allies to murder prisoners, but a war crime for the Germans to do the same. The Nazi Ministry of Propaganda under Goebbels was never as capable as Hollywood under Spielberg. See Stalingrad or the Winter War instead. I'm really tired of Spielberg getting rich off of German bashing.
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