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Summary: Best DvD around
Review: A story to inspire us....to remember. Fantasic Sound and visuals, by far the best DVD iv'e seen in a long while.
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Summary: I know you'll all hate me for this but...
Review: ...This is Spielberg's most over-the-top movie to date: State-of-the-art special effects give you the most accurate, body parts splattering in the camera, depiction of war in cinema history-I kept grabbing for my Browning Automatic Rifle. The story (what there is of it) is the most far-fetched, wrenching at your heart strings, schlock shoveled up by the director to date. The first time I watched it, I was thrilled. The second time I watched it, I was bored. This movie is all excitement, with no substance. Sorry! :(
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Summary: The ultimate home cinema testdisc
Review: Everybody out there who would like to have the ultimate disc for testing his home cinema equipment and have a fantastic film as well, should buy this disc. For those of you who fit this description and own a dts-system as well, get both the ac3 as well as the dts version of the disc, then you won't miss a thing. The ac3 version of the disc has a nice documentary about the times and events around the subject of the film, while the dts version will blow your system to the maximum performance of it, although the sound quality of the ac3 version also is astonishing. Get it and enjoy, this is Spielberg's most impressive masterpiece till now, and let's hope there will be more dts discs soon.
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Summary: Duty, Orders, Honor, Loyalty, Fear
Review: From the first moments of the movie, the horrible conditions, the mixture of each mans fears and emotions, and the thrust into unimaginable terror and pain of battle, grips the viewer. The story weaves together mens loyalties to each other, to duty, to self-preservation, and to that common desire to "Just get Home". When orders mean being part of something that seems insane but becomes something honorable and noble. The viewer witnesses mans struggle with self, pride, trust, and loss. This movie presents war in the most realistic examples of death and destruction I have ever seen, and at the same time shows the reasons men endure such horrible conditions to stand up and fight for things greater then ones self
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Summary: Bad Video Graphics
Review: Don't get me wrong, I love the movie but I was very disappointed to see DVD video glitches on the Omaha beach scene. For example, when you see the flames in the cement barricades (pillboxes), you see severe blurring. You can also see white, cloudy images showing up on the screen now and again. Believe me, it's NOT my equipment--I've tried my DVD on several players and it's the same thing EVERY TIME. Very disappointed. If you have had a similar experience, let me know starlitee@aol.com
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Summary: Checking for bullet holes...
Review: DTS has to be one of the freshest breaths of audio air that they could possibly have invented. Saving Private Ryan's intense first 30 minutes have to be the best sound ever laid down for a motion picture. Where else could you listen to someone barf with such clarity and definition. With every bullet that zoomed thru the air, you could almost "feel" the bullet tearing its way thru your gut. I feel sorry for my cats because they thought it was the real deal and hid for most of the movie. If you have a DTS capable DVD player and receiver, by all means, buy this movie. The only other one that would be better in DTS would have to be The Matrix, but I don't think it is available yet.
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Summary: Excellente
Review: It was very realistic for once
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Summary: "War is all hell." W.T. Sherman
Review: The realistic opening battle scene was made all the more riveting for me because my wife's uncle was killed in the D-Day landing at Normandy. Uniforms, equipment, mannerisms and "soldier speak" seem true to the period. My problem is with the "saving Ryan" mission. I know there are plenty of other army/marine veterans out there that know how lame it is to undertake a mission without a plan. How about the dopey scenes of ambling through fields in daylight or attacking a well defended position on high ground (not part of the mission). As a former Army medic, I was vicariously P.O.d at this sloppy decision. But...after all, Spielberg never served in the military. His military adviser (I believe a retired Marine officer) must have really been brow beat to allow this goofy soldiering to get by. Other than this comment, a good addition to your film library.
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Summary: Must own
Review: This is a film that must be added to your collection. Even if you don't like war, this movie is for you, it address the human spirit, and life in general. It isn't pro war or anti war, it's pro life, and shows what has to be done at times to preserve life. Tom Hanks will bring you to your knees, and the supporting cast is so good, you feel like you know each one of them. This movie should have won every award that it was nominated for, but it didn't, sometimes life isn't fair.
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Summary: Great battle sequences. Would have been great IMAX film.
Review: Great visuals, lame plot. Typical Speilbergian effort. As usual, the movie feels impersonal, as though Steve thought he was going to make a grand statement about war. What is it? War is hell? War is good if it saves a Private Ryan at the expense of a lot of others on a worthless mission? Gore looks cool? Who the heck knows? The opening sequence is great for displaying the chaos of battle, but a great technical effort doesn't exactly make for an emotionally involving scene. The ending is absolutely horrible and makes a mockery of those who died in WWII. Was Private Ryan worth it? Yes for battle scenes. As a movie, it was only average.
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