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Summary: Oh, so it was just America against Germany was it?
Review: While I think this is a very well done film by Spielberg, it is also very annoying to watch for us non-Americans. Historical fact - there were more British soldiers involved on the beaches, yet the only mention for "Monty" is that he's overrated - how insulting. America joined later in the war, only when Peral Harbour was bombed. Yet another case of Hollywood disrespecting history, and painting USA out as being the only country involved in the war.
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Summary: Remarkable!!
Review: The shortest 2-hour, 49-minute motion picture I've ever seen! Didn't seem that long at all. Mr. Spielberg has created an amazing portrait of World War 2 here. This film leaves you nearly speechless. It's a powerful and moving film. You'll be wrung out as you watch the closing credits roll. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Boring and pretentious
Review: Yes, the opening scene at Omaha Beach is riveting. The problem is, they put it at the beginning of the movie, and it's all downhill from there. The rest of the movie is mostly a mishmash of contrived dialogue, forced acting, and cornball speeches. I find its depiction of war quite inaccurate, with its apparent message that war ennobles its participants and brings out the best in soldiers (and includes lots of moving oratory by guys like Tom Hanks). Quite simply, that isn't true. I found "Platoon" and "Full Metal Jacket" to be much more accurate portrayals of the psychological impact of war. And while the opening battle scene is good, if I want a ton of violence, I'll watch the far more entertaining "Commando."
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Summary: The best film ever made!!!
Review: Yes people, this is the best film EVER made. I have never had a movie change my life, but when I watched Saving Private Ryan, my life changed. Not only did Memorial Day have a new outlook on my life, but the entire military gained a lot more respect from me. People just do not realize what life was like back in WW2. Steven Spielberg brought this to our attention. The first half hour of this movie is the most intense filming you will ever see on the big screen. It was just amazing. I remember sitting in the theatre watching it and seeing grown men shedding tears from their eyes. And when the movie was over there was just a feeling in the theatre like I have never experienced before. To this day, I hold a grudge against the academy for not making this the best picture 1999. Can you tell I feel this is the best picture ever made???
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Summary: Good War Flick
Review: Not much else can be said from all the other reviews. It is a good WWII film. An excellent begining to the film with scenes depecting Omaha Beach and the tragic lose of life by the American troops for France (the ungrateful bastards). A good story of honor and commitment by WWII soldiers and the irony of war and the value of life. Good acting and excellent combat scenes. Enjoy and remember what our forefathers have sacrificed.
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Summary: "OVERRATED AT IT'S BEST!"
Review:
1.THE ACTING: Damon, Farina, Ted Danson? Nice try, but no cigar!
2.THE MOVIE: The 60% color subtract? Was there only 40% color during combat in WWII?
3.THE PLOT: The gore and violence seems to be the main plot! And the search for one soldier(PLEASE)! This was not D-DAY!
4.CHARACTER STUDY: Where is it? No character study! I could go on and on!
Please watch THE THIN RED LINE and you will see a cinematic masterpiece unfold before your very eyes! The color of nature and horrors of the soul, the music, the character study, the emotions, the psycological study, the true meaning of war!
"THE CLOSER YOU ARE TO CAESAR, THE GREATER THE FEAR!" Kevin
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Summary: Wow!
Review: Spielberg goes to war in this dynamite film about a group of soldiers who are looking for Private Ryan. They attempt to rescue him and to inform him that all of his brothers were killed in combat. Everyone talks about the film's breathtaking first 20 minutes, but the performances--from Tom Hanks, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, and Matt Damon--are also of high calibre. As with all of his movies, Speilberg dulls this film a little bit by adding a few sappy touches, and the overwhelming score by John Williams doesn't help, either. It's as though Williams uses his music to tell us what we should feel and when we should feel it. Those gripes aside, this is a magnificent film that fully captures the essence and brutality of war. Take that, Michael Bay! Your "Pearl Harbor" has nothing on "Saving Private Ryan!"
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Summary: Propaganda for hatred and intolerance
Review: The only reason I give this movie so high a rating is because it was well-made and had good acting/actors, but in fact I am repulsed by this simplistic, closed-minded glorification of war. Good and evil are black and white, as are entire nations of people, or so this movie would have you believe. If you want to see a more humanistic film that portrays war as a terrible thing, regardless of losing or winning, go see the beautiful "The Thin Red Line," in which 'the bad guys' are also human, not deceitful monsters, and the 'good guys' are not simply personifications of bravery, nationalism, and intolerance.
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Summary: Fabulous film, except for fatal flaw.
Review: Yes, it's gung-ho American. True, the premise is shakey (risk 8 to save 1 private)--but they explain this quite eloquently in the movie, reading the Lincoln letter: tear-rendering. But in every other way this is a taut, visually stunning film that everyone will acknowledge as in whole or at least in part(s) is the definitive war epic against which all subsequent will be compared. However. . . Just as he did in Schindler's List, Spielberg insists on bracketing the film with a kitschy feel-good mise-en-scene. In Schindler, it's the former Listees paying tribute to Schindler by placing stones on his memorial. Pure schmaltz, but marginally acceptable. The whole adult-Private-Ryan "*Am* I a good man, I ask you, my dear wife?" bracketing (visiting the graves in Normandy)--was a total waste. And why does the old Ryan have bright blue eyes--much like Tom Hanks but unlike, however, the younger Ryan (Matt Damon)? Spielberg could have done everything better and saved 20 minutes by just having an old man standing observing the Normandy gravesites and SAYING NOTHING.
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Summary: Bravo, my sweet Soviet friend
Review: If Spielberg would work in Stalin's vicinity he would surely have been life-appointed as Chief State Director. His movies are superb totalitarian craftsmanship that goes far beyond its Soviet founders. I think propagandistic themes have never been so smoothly explored before Spielberg. For example, let's watch some footage with German troopers: they are... and what's most important not personalized at all. Personalization is one sure way toward deviationism, because it would give the no matter how unlikely possibility of watchers to sympathize. The German in Spielberg movies he's unlike any German you now, as Jews in Nazi portrayals. They are objective enemies, whose crime is possibility of offence not offence itself. These people are faceless, simple masses to be disposed of because they don't fit in with present ideology. Depersonalization (the Fritz in this case, Capitalist or Bourgeois to Communists, Jew to Nazis) is of course one of most immediate demands in completing this task. On the other hand, the "good" Allies are faceless, soulless and linear as well. They have no particular feelings, except some violent outbursts and commercial memory of their idyllic lives at home (probably one of his compromises to make money from). In fact, both enemy and ally could easily be interchanged with no loss at all. As Stalin said: "You might never know where the next deviationist will appear from!"... The keenness of avoiding ideological deviations is something quite rare if not masterful compared to the large segment of propaganda movie productions today on the market. Another unusual quality struck me: the art of making people feel they actually reasoned during watching just through the simple technique of putting the questions whose (mostly incorrect) answers are already known by heart through state sponsored indoctrination.
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