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Summary: AWESOME
Review: The Movie sends chills down my spine. With the exception of The Band of Brothers DVD collection, nothing can compare to the feel you get from Saving Private Ryan. With a cast full of talented actors on the verge of breaking-out, and led by the man himself (Tom Hanks), you cant help but feel like your in the middle of the action. Barry Pepper was unbelievable in his role as the sniper Jackson, and Giovanni Ribisi was good too. Even Vin Diesal gave a good performance.
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Summary: WON OF THE BEST WWII ALONG WITH B.O.B.
Review: THIS MOVIE IS SURE TO BLOW YOU AWAY IT HAS ALL THE GREAT EFFECTS LOTS OF ACTION AND DRAMA AND IT'S OF COURSE A TRUE STORY WHEN I GOT TO SEE IT I DIDN'T THING IT WOULD BE THAT GREAT BUT IT WAS AWSOME THE BEGGINING IS EXTREMLY GOREY AND BLOODY BUT THEN IT MOVES ALONG. IF YOU LIKE WWII THEN YOU SHOULD DEFFINETLY SEE THIS MOVIE...
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Summary: Combat sets this movie apart.
Review: The combat footage in this movie is what truly makes it stand out. War is bloody, chaotic business, and Speilberg got that point across in the merciless opening scene, and the following combat scenes. It's not the retelling of the D-day landings, just a movie about a group of men who happened to be there. It's a shocking beginning to the movie, and really the part that sticks with you once it is over.I was disappointed with the way the Germans were portrayed, simply a bunch of faceless automatons dressed in grey who either killed and died quietly or cried for mercy when surrounded. They might have been Nazis, and not very nice people, but they were also human; the fighting Germans were given all the depth of the stormtroopers in Star Wars. I would have expected more. The attempt to make an emotional, philosophical movie really dies here, when you realize that in this film, the Americans were the only people who suffered, and that the Germans were simply killing machines. There are certainly some mistakes made in the filmmaking--no soldier in his right mind would walk along the top of a hill, backlit by the sun--but the depiction of what was going on in Normandy in the days after the landings is pretty true to the accounts of what actually went on, especially the confusion and disorganization of the airborne troops. While most of the characters are pretty generic (there's even a guy from Brooklyn, for crying out loud), Tom Hanks's character really stands out. Hanks has a knack for playing everyman, and does so once again here with terrific skill. While the plot wasn't the greatest and the characters are not really too deep (Uppum, along with Hanks's and Giovanni Ribisi's characters excepted), the combat footage in this movie is without peer, and that reason alone makes it one of the great war movies ever made.
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Summary: Excellent war film!
Review: I don't like talking too much good stuff about people who get alot of good things in life and don't deserve it but this film is full of those people. Saving Private Ryan is an all time war classic in which you probably have seen a copy of in most DVD libraries. Spielberg had good pace in this war film and makes you forget about the numbness in you ... as you sit still in amazement of the war scenes and the brutality he tries to capture that engulfed all personalities that fought in the war. It's a good view, with a little bit of gore but overall an outstanding effort.
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Summary: great war flick (body count - 206)
Review: Spielberg hasn't been the great director he was in his youth for quite some time (not to say that he doesn't rake in tons of cash), but Saving Private Ryan is a throwback to his great filmmaking days. He does such a good job here. Speilberg gives what, by all accounts I've heard, is a very accurate depiction of the war. He doesn't spare us gore, he doesn't spare us emotion, and he doesn't spare us time (runs almost 3 hours). He gives us a good show. Tom Hanks gives a spectacular performance. As does Matt Damon, Vin Diesel (in a role that requires actual acting), and Barry Peppar--all early in their careers. There are also great performances by Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Ted Danson, Giovanni Ribisi, Joerg Stadler, and especially Adam Goldberg. Because of color desaturation and the cinematography, this feels more like a documentary or period piece. Great job. The dvd itself is a little weak. For a 'Special Limited Edition' it sure does lack in the extras department. Good thing it is such a good film.
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Summary: Initially impressive, ultimately unsatisfying
Review: When I first went to see Saving Private Ryan at the cinema I was impressed. Extremely impressed. It hits you with a massive initial impact which takes a long time to wear off. After repeated viewings the cracks begin to show. If you took away the film making methods and the raw grittiness of the battle scenes (ie. the first 20 minutes and the denoument) you would be left with a fairly mediocre war film. The characters are fairly weak. Make that very weak. In fairness, Hanks' character is solid (and the bit with the pool on what he does in civilian life works well). The others are largely cardboard stereotypes which touch all the bases in standard Hollywood fashion. None of this is really a reflection on the actors involved, so much as the result of a fairly weak and ultimately unadventurous script. The storyline plods along. It really does. Apart from the occassional sudden eruption of extreme violence (though arguably this is in fact a realistic reflection of most wartime experiences - 90% boredom, 10% sheer terror). In doing so it manages to work in every cliche in the book. In terms of drama and quality of story there is NOTHING that hasn't been done before. That is where the irony lies really. Saving Private Ryan features battle scenes which take the shooting of war films to a new level. In other ways it's a clear step backwards. The blood and guts and actual slugging it out may be a lot more realistic than all the various creaky 1960s and 1970s three-hour war epics, but once you get beyond that Saving Private Ryan ultimately rings far more hollow than many of its predecessors.
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Summary: VIN DIESEL
Review: THIS IS ONE SAD MOVIE. WE HAD 2 WATCH IT IN HISTORY CLASS AND IT MADE ME WONNA CRY. BUT OTHER THAN THAT THIS IS ONE GOOD MOVIE TO WATCH. IF U LIKE WATCHING MOVIES ON THE WAR THEN THIS IS A MOVIE U'LL WONNA C. IF U HAVE NT SEEN IT AND THINK THAT IT LOOK GOOD THEN U SHOULD GO AND GET IT CUS IT IS.
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Summary: Am I missing something?
Review: Speilberg deserves kudos for the stunning and moving Schindler's List, that films is his greatest masterpiece and by far out shines SPR in every criterior. What I won't to know is am I the only one who doesn't think Ryan is the greatest movie ever made? I mean seriously compared to THE DEFINETIVE D-day movie the Longest Day, SPR is stale one-sided soap opera which would rather tell a sappy sentimental fairy tale than explore a real important historic event. Every one raves about the impact of the first 20 minutes of Ryan (which are the only part worth watching) but seriously every time the camera pulled back to a wideshot there was only a handfull of GI's which totally lacks the real sense of scale of the mass invasion, captured in Longest Day's amazing invasion scenes and while SPR is more gritty than Longest Day (only because of cencorship at 1962 the time of LD's production), hey Steven I like my movies gorey and have seen alot more extreme gore in movies. Also the shear one-sided nature of this movie is hard to accept, I mean we see brave American's dying on the beach..........and that's it. Hey that did happen and I resept those people but this is no excuse for Speilberg to portray the landings like this when Allies of other countries died just as brutally on the same day a few miles away. Also the Germans are protrayed as these unseen cold blooded killers when in reality they were ordinary men desperately fighting what they knew would be a losing battle. I'm no Nazi but really in this day and age there is no need to protray Germans in this propaganda film way. In reality (convienently not told in SPR) the Germans got up in the morning to see literally thousands!!! of Allied ships which proceeded to bombard them, once again I hate Nazi's but the fact that they tried to hold their positions and not just turn around and run has got to be acknowledged. By diminishing the courage of the Germans this way Speilberg clearly paints them as 'bad guys' like in some campy Western. What proceeds after these landing scences is a sentimental and simple story. There is no depth to the plot or originality to the characters of Ryan and anyone who says there is must have had their eyes closed in the last 50 years to the 100's of other war flicks which have the 'Brave Comander from ordinary background' 'Ox the strong simpleton' 'Brooklyne the wise cracking NewYorker' and the 'weasle like coward'. Really the whole "this time the mission is a man....." or "why risk our lives...." are but simple cliched points that have being explored much better in other films and are handled with complete imcompetance by Speilberg who obviously think's this he's directing ET. For a real idea of the D-day landings watch the Longest Day, it is far superior and shows all sides in accurate detail. The only thing Ryan has going for it is the gore, if this was a horror movie critics would say it's disgusting and call for the film to be banned but when attached to a sappy flagwaving war film it becomes the 'Greatest war film ever made'. Hate to tell you but Apocalypse Now, while not realistic, is by far the greatest war film ever made and there are plenty of other films better than Ryan, Fullmetal Jacket, Tora tora tora, Platoon , and even his own Schindler's List. I mean without the gore and Speilberg's name attached to it, SPR has about as much value as Rambo or Missing in Action. Yet maybe thats what people want, a sentimental fairytale with good guys and bad guys, not a true factual examination of war. I mean Black Hawk Down is 100% genuine and has F/X technically superior to Ryan'S but that was no where near as successfull at the box office.
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Summary: A tale of brotherly love
Review: This epic story contains the ingredients of true valor integrity courage, and the perils and rigors of WWII for the freedom of French and Jewish people.I am so moved by the unselfishness displayed by the troops,and utmost concern for their fellow brothers,that I cry every time I watch it.
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Summary: Powerful Tale of Courage and Terrible Nature of War
Review: The sheer emotional power of this film makes it one of the greatest tributes ever to the soldiers who fought and often died to make our world what it is today. Saving Private Ryan is on many levels an outstanding film--from the excellent performances of a star-level cast to the brilliant special effects to the cinematic capture of the essence of the horrors of war. The story itself may be rather secondary to the imagistic power of the film. The first forty-five minutes or so focus on the Allied landing and invasion of Normandy, where one cannot help but imagine and feel the forces of chaos roiling around each and every soldier. Even the hardest viewer likely will shed a tear at the horror of combat or the bravery and valor of the soldiers called to fight. The long combat sequence may even overwhelm some viewers but is perhaps one of the truest pictures of war that any non-veteran is likely to experience. Saving Private Ryan should be required viewing for anyone advocating the use of military force to solve our problems, a primer in the dirtier aspects of combat most of us would rather ignore. So should it be required of anyone who has disparaged the honor of our armed forces, for even those reluctant to fight deserve our utmost respect when called to do so, and this film offers renewed appreciation of those soldiers who have defended our freedom through time. Overall, it is difficult to see how Saving Private Ryan did not win Best Picture--it is simply that good.
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